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<coverTitle style="font-size:larger;"><b>THE <br />STATUTES AT LARGE</b></coverTitle>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">OF THE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">FROM</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">APRIL, 1917, TO MARCH, 1919</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">RECENT TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">PROCLAMATIONS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>VOL. XL</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">IN TWO PARTS</p>
<p style="font-size:normal;"><inline class="smallCaps bold">Part</inline> <b>1—Public Acts and Resolutions</b></p>
<p style="font-size:normal;"><inline class="smallCaps bold">Part</inline> <b>2—Private Acts and Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions, Treaties, Proclamations, and Amendment to the Constitution</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>PART 1</b></p>
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<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">WASHINGTON</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">1919</p>
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<page>iii</page>
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<p class="centered bold">PUBLIC LAWS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered bold">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">passed by the</p>
<p class="centered">SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered bold">1917–1919.</p>
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<page>v</page>
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<heading class="centered">LIST</heading>
<subheading class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></subheading>
<subheading class="centered">PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS</subheading>
<subheading class="centered">CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.</subheading>
<subheading class="centered smallCaps">Laws of the Sixty-fifth Congress of the United States.</subheading>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE I.—1917.</label>	
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<target>Page.</target>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>War with Germany.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1917</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Congressional.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1917</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1917</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Liberty bonds, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purpooses.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1917</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Fleet Reserve.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to the Fleet Naval Reserve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1917</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy enlistments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the extension of minority enlistments in the naval service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1917</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hydrographic Office.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the detail of additional officers to the Hydrographic Office.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1917</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, midshipmen.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy until September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1917</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Reserve officers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the age limit for persons appointed as officers in the Naval Reserve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1917</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Odd Fellows Hall.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and entitled “An Act to authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1917</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Enlistment of aliens.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section ten of chapter two of the Criminal Code.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1917</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Army.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 12, 1917</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Enemy vessels.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of any vessel within its jurisdiction which at the time of coming therein was owned in whole of in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war, or was under register of any such nation, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 12, 1917</label> <target>75</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army emergency increase.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1917</label> <target>76</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the county of Morrison, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>83</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the city of Bemidji, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near that place.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>83</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Reserve Force, insular possessions.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to enrollments in the Naval Reserve Force.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>84</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Wabash River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting consent to Ernest B. Denison, A. J. Barchfield, and Ethan I. Dodds to construct a bridge across the Wabash River within or near the city limits of the city of Vincennes, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>84</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy increase.</i></designator> <label>An Act To temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>84<page>vi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Red Cross buildings, D. C.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To grant authority for the erection of temporary buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1917</label> <target>90</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Military Academy.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1917</label> <target>90</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Railroad car service.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” as amended, in respect of car service, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1917</label> <target>101</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pneumatic mail-tube service.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making immediately available moneys appropriated for the investigation of the pneumatic mail-tube service in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 1, 1917</label> <target>102</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Smithsonian grounds, D.C., temporary buildings.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to permit the Secretary of War to erect temporary buildings in the Smithsonian Grounds.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 9, 1917</label> <target>102</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, crews, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1917</label> <target>102</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, sundry civil expenses.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1917</label> <target>105</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Home guards, arming, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of home guards.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1917</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, urgent deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1917</label> <target>182</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Espionage, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1917</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Engineer Corps.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Relating to the service of certain retired officers of the Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1917</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Federal Reserve Act amendments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, known as the Federal Reserve Act, as amended by the Acts of August fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 21, 1917</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Panama Canal, pay of Governor.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution to correct an error in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 21, 1917</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Niagara River, water diversion.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Extending the time within which the “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River” shall remain in effect.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1917</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Condemning lands for military uses.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1917</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Quarter dollar Coin.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the modification of the designs of the current quarter dollar.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1917</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Health officers, war service.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To fix the status and rights of officers of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, the Army, or the Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1917</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Congressional employees.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 17, 1917</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, mining assessments.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 17, 1917</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Signal Corps aviation, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, manufacture, maintain, repair, and operate airships, and to make appropriations therefor, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 24, 1917</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Arkansas River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Sebastian bridge district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1917</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Aviation site, San Diego Bay, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the President to take possession, on behalf of the United States, for use as sites for permanent aviation stations for the Army and Navy and for aviation school purposes, of the whole of North Island in the harbor of San Diego, California, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1917</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, homestead residence, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the relief of homestead entrymen or settlers who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 28, 1917</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Wabash River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the county of Cass, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 28, 1917</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Macon.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, to construct a bridge across Bayou Macon, in Louisiana, at a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 28, 1917</label> <target>249<page>vii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Little River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 3, 1917</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, desert-land entries.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 7, 1917</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, rivers and harbors.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 8, 1917</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interstate Commerce Commission.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 9, 1917</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interstate commerce, preferential shipments, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 10, 1917</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Food survey, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 10, 1917</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Food, fuel, etc., conservation.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 10, 1917</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Mermentau River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize and empower the Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association, of the State of Louisiana, to construct a lock and dam in Mermentau River, in the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 19, 1917</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Willapa Harbor and River, Wash.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 19, 1917</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Second Liberty Bonds, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 24, 1917</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Arkansas River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 25, 1917</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Treasury Department, D. C., building.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 27, 1917</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tug Fork, Big Sandy River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia, authorized by an Act approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 28, 1917</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Saline River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saline River, at or near Suttons Ferry, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 1, 1917</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Aircraft Board.</i></designator> <label>An Act To create the Aircraft Board and provide for its maintenance.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 1, 1917</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, potassium deposits.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 2, 1917</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Revenue Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 3, 1917</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mobile Bay.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Gulf Ports Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, to construct a bridge over and across the headwaters of Mobile Bay and such navigable channels as are between the east side of the Bay and Blakely Island, in Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Gainesville Red River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across Red River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, For River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Elgin, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River at Elgin.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Logan Township, State of Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repatriation.</i></designator> <label>An Act Defining the status of citizens of the United States who have entered the military or naval services of certain countries during the existing war in Europe.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Port Angeles, Wash., land transfer.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the county of Clallam, in the State of Washington, to convey to the city of Port Angeles certain lands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River between said counties.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the counties of Itasca and Cass, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said counties.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Arkansas River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Webbers Falls Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, between the towns of Webbers Falls and Gore, in the State of Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Waccamaw River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to The Whiteville Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Waccamaw River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National bank notes.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the laws relating to the denominations of circulating notes by national banks and to permit the issuance of notes of small denominations, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>342<page>viii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Publis lands, mining assessments.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional employees’ salaries, October, 1917.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of October salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment of the present session.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1917</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, air station site.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Little Kanawha River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company to construct a bridge across the Little Kanawha River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, urgent deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Northgate, N. Dale.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the establishment of Northgate, in the State of North Dakota, as a port of entry for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>384</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, pay allotments.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making further provision for the allotment of pay of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>384</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Little River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at or near the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township eleven north, range six east.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Explosives.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Flint River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across Flint River, in the State of Georgia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, lost property.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States for property lost or destroyed in such service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, affidavits.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public building, Durant, Okla.</i></designator> <label>An Act Amending the Act to increase the limit of the cost of certain public buildings, and so forth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Coastwise trade, foreign registry vessels, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter, except the coastwise trade with Alaska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, gratuity to retired list.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mahoning River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns., to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, staff officers, Reserve Corps, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, liquor, etc., prohibition at camps.</i></designator> <label>An Act To promote the efficiency of the United States Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy courts martial.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the service of officers of auxiliary naval forces on naval courts.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, chaplains.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing appointment of chaplains at large for the United States Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents, withholding issue, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prevent the publication of inventions by the grant of patents that might be detrimental to the public safety or convey useful information to the enemy, to stimulate invention, and provide adequate protection to owners of patents, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tug River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress, to the Wolf Creek Lumber Company to maintain a bridge already constructed across Tug River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judicial Code, State workmen’s compensation laws.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend sections twenty-four and two hundred and fifty-six of the Judicial Code, relating to the jurisdiction of the district courts, so as to save to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, North Carolina.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the State of North Carolina two brass cannon, with carriage.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Arkansas River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>396<page>ix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rio Grande.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of El Paso, Texas, to construct a bridge across the Rio Grande River within or near the city limits of El Paso, Texas, such construction to be made with the consent and cooperation of the Republic of Mexico.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Medical and Dental Corps, etc,.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy ration.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, ratings, artificer branch.</i></designator> <label>An Act To establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, provisional use of Cavalry.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, Army and Navy.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Trading with the enemy.</i></designator> <label>An Act To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Irrigation, Rio Grande project, N. Mex and Tex.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs, distilled spirits imports.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses under bond, conditioned for the export of such distilled spirits to some foreign country within one year from the date of entry into the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, lands for Ordnance Department.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 6, 1917</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1917–1918.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>War with Austria-Hungary.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and the people of the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 7, 1917</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 15, 1917</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional employees’ salaries, December, 1917.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 18, 1917</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Academy, midshipmen.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 20, 1917</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, homestead settlers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 20, 1917</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pneumatic-tube mail investigation.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Extending the commission provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with the same authorities, Bowers, and provisions until on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 26, 1917</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Antitrust Act, 1914, officers of corporations, etc.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Extending until January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the effective date of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 12, 1918</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Farm loan bonds.</i></designator> <label>An Act Amending section thirty-two, Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 18, 1918</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 26, 1918</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Islands, militia, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 26, 1918</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Choctaw and Chickasaw, coal and asphalt deposits.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the sale of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 8, 1918</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>“Garabed.”.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution For the purpose of promoting efficiency, for the utilization of the resources and industries of the United States, for lessening the expenses of the war, and restoring the loss caused by the war by providing for the employment of a discovery or invention called the “Garabed,” claiming to make possible the utilization of free energy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 8, 1918</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, by the city of Saint Louis, within the States of Illinois and Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1918</label> <target>436<page>x</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dominican Republic, Navy and Marine Corps detail.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1918</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Yuma, Ariz., reclamation project.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project, Arizona.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1918</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War-Risk insurance.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Granting to certain persons in the active war service an extension of time within which application for insurance may be made under section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War-Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 12, 1918</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Housing shipyard employees.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1918</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Soldiers’ and sailors’ civil relief.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 8, 1918</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Colville Indian Reservation ceded lands.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries within the former Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 11, 1918</label> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Fox River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee to construct a bridge across the Fox River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 13, 1918</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, furloughs to enlisted men.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant furloughs without pay and allowances to enlisted men of the Army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1918</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Daylight saving.</i></designator> <label>An Act To save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1918</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Federal railroad control.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 21, 1918</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, desert land entries.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 21, 1918</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Civil service examinations.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil-service examinations.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1918</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, deficiencies for war expenses, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1918</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Secretary of the Interior, assistant to.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution Authorizing the assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1918</label> <target>499</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Petroleum on passenger steamers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To permit the use of certain refined products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1918</label> <target>499</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, effects of deceased persons.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1918</label> <target>499</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, firemen.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1918</label> <target>499</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, gun pointers and captains.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1918</label> <target>500</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Memorial to Civil War religious sisters as nurses.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection of a memorial in Washington to the memory and in honor of the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, and on floating hospitals during the Civil War.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1918</label> <target>500</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Scouts.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the appointment of officers of the Philippine Scouts as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces of the Philippine Islands drafted into the service of the United States, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 30, 1918</label> <target>500</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, reenlisting enlisted men.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for restoration to their former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 30, 1918</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy and Marine Corps, officers dropped from rolls.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to drop from the rolls any naval or Marine Corps officer absent without leave for three months, or who has been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary by the civil authorities, and prohibiting such officer’s reappointment.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1918</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Academy, course reduced.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to reduce temporarily the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1918</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, applications.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the granting of insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on application by a person other than the person to be insured.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1918</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>“A. T. Kinney,” steamer.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the change of name of the steamship Caldera to A. T. Kinney.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1918</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Port Angeles, Wash., town lots.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the disposal of certain lands in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1918</label> <target>502<page>xi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Third Liberty Bond Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1918</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Finance Corporation.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1918</label> <target>506</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Department, three Assistant Secretaries.</i></designator> <label>An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1918</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbia River boundary waters.</i></designator> <label>An Act To ratify the compact and agreement between the States of Oregon and Washington regarding concurrent jurisdiction over the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries in connection with regulating, protecting, and preserving fish.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 8, 1918</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, White River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 8, 1918</label> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, warrant officers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 10, 1918</label> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Export trade promotion.</i></designator> <label>An Act To promote export trade, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 10, 1918</label> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for military uses, nitrate plants.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1918</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, diplomatic and, consular.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1918</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, commutation of quarters, officers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1918</label> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Clark Fork River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Ronner County, Idaho, to construct a bridge across the Clark Fork River in Bonner County, Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1918</label> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alien enemy women.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1918</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of An Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1918</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages by American forces abroad.</i></designator> <label>An Act To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1918</label> <target>532</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Carrier pigeons.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prevent interference with the use of homing pigeons by the United States, to provide a penalty for such interference, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 19, 1918</label> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Destroying war materials, etc., sabotage.</i></designator> <label>An Act To punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1918</label> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, travel, enlisted men.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1918</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, filling emergency vacancies.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1918</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Street railroads for shipyard employees.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1918</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Silver bullion, sale, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To conserve the gold supply of the United States; to permit the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States; to provide silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use; to assist foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States; and for the above purposes to stabilize the price and encourage the production of silver.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1918</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, ordnance proving ground.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1918</label> <target>537</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, railroad siding.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the extension of a spur track or siding from the existing lines of railroad in the District of Columbia across First Street Northeast, between L and M Streets, to the buildings occupied by the field medical supply depot of the Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1918</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Seward, Alaska, bonds.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the incorporated town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25, 000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other works to confine the waters of Lowell Creek for the protection of said town.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1918</label> <target>539</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, garbage, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 6, 1918</label> <target>539</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, House of Representatives.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making an appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 6, 1918</label> <target>542<page>xii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration, admission of aliens serving in armed forces, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 9, 1918</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sale of war materials, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the President during the existing emergency to sell supplies, materials, equipment, or other property, heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States, in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1918</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Aeroplane postage.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing postage rates on aeroplane mail.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1918</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steam vessels, crew, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1918</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Academy, age admission.</i></designator> <label>An Act To fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1918</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Housing for war workers.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1918</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Espionage offenses.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section three, title one, of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1918</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army emergency increase, draft quota.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled, “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1918</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk insurance, attorneys’ fees.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1918</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Consolidation of executive bureaus, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1918</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army emergency increase, draft of June 5, 1918.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing for the registration for military service of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1918</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National banks, Red Cross subscriptions.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing national banks to subscribe to the American National Red Cross.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1918</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Foreign travel restrictions.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1918</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, podiatry.</i></designator> <label>An Act To regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1918</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, alley dwellings.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1918</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaii, prohibition.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prohibit the sale, manufacture, and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii during the period of the war, except as hereinafter provided.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1918</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, chaplains.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section fifteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1918</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Indian Department.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1918</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Bartholomew.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley County, Wilmot Township, State of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1918</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fort Hall Indian Reservation, townsite.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1918</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oregon-California railroad grant lands.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1918</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, rent profiteering.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1918</label> <target>593<page>xiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Illinois centennial half dollar.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commenoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 1, 1918</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, deficiencies for war expenses, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1918</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shipping, undocumented vessels.</i></designator> <label>An Act To require numbering and recording of undocumented vessels.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1918</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steamboat Inspection, appeals from local boards.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of vessels, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1918</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions, Civil War services, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1918</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaii, female suffrage.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii additional powers relative to elections and qualifications of electors.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1918</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Oklahoma.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section one hundred and one of the Judicial Code.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1918</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Michigan western judicial district marshal.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the salary of the United States marshal for the western district of Michigan.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1918</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Virginia.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section one hundred and eleven of the Judicial Code.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1918</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Five Civilized Tribes, heirship, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for a determination of heirship in cases of deceased members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, conferring jurisdiction upon district courts to partition lands belonging to full-blood heirs of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1918</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Little Peedee River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Marion and Horry Counties, South Carolina, to construct a bridge across Little Peedee River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1918</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Aids to Navigation, lighthouse keepers, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Lighthouse Sendee, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 20, 1918</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, family allotments, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1918</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Safe locomotive boilers, salaries of inspectors.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1918</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Flathead Indian Reservation, G. H. Beckwith.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a deed to G. H. Beckwith for certain land within the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1918</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vocational rehabilitation.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1918</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Military Academy.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1918</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>James Buchanan statue, D. C.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a statue of James Buchanan, a former President of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1918</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska, homestead entries.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1918</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Niagara River, diversion of water.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue permits for the diversion of water from the Niagara River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 29, 1918</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration, readmission of aliens serving in armed forces.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">June 29, 1918</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, sundry civil expenses.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1918</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, naval service.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1918</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steamboat Inspection Service, officials.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend sections forty-four hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1918</label> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, pensions.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1918</label> <target>741</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, postal service.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1918</label> <target>742<page>xiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Academy, Aurelio Collazo.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Aurelio Collazo, a citizen of Cuba.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1918</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Migratory Bird Treaty Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1918</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridges, Big Sandy River, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, a corporation, to construct bridges across the branches and tributaries of the Big Sandy and their tributaries, in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, in the State of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1918</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, legislative, executive, and judicial.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1918</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, fortifications.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 8, 1918</label> <target>815</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Uniform of friendly nations.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the protection of the uniform of friendly nations, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 8, 1918</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriation, deficiencies for war expenses, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 8, 1918</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Annual appropriations extended, etc.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia for the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 8, 1918</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fourth Liberty Bond Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1918</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Army.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1918</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Atlanta, Ga., Penitentiary, manufacture of supplies.</i></designator> <label>An Act To equip the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, for the manufacture of supplies for the use of the Government, for the compensation of prisoners for their labor, and for other purposes</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 10, 1918</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, friendly vessels, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the war-risk insurance Act.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 11, 1918</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mahoning River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Trumbull County, Ohio, to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 12, 1918</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Nobel peace prize.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing for the disposition of moneys represented in the Alfred Bernard Nobel peace prize, awarded in nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 12, 1918</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tug River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the P. M. C. Coal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Tug River, connecting Pike County, Kentucky, and Mingo County, West Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 15, 1918</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shipping Act, 1916, amendments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries, to regulate carriers by water in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 15, 1918</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions, widows of volunteers, War with Spain, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To pension widows and minor children of officers and enlisted men who served in the War with Spain, Philippine insurrection, or in China.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 16, 1918</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Federal control of telegraph, telephone, etc., systems.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To authorize the President, in time of war, to supervise or take possession and assume control of any telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems or any part thereof and to operate the same in such manner as may be needful or desirable for the duration of the war, and to provide just compensation therefor.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 16, 1918</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, rivers and harbors.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 18, 1918</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Screw threads standardization.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the appointment of a commission to stanardize screw threads.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 18, 1918</label> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shipping charters, control, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To confer on the President power to prescribe charter rates and freight rates and to requisition vessels, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 18, 1918</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Oswego, N. Y.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the establishment of Oswego, in the State of New York, as a port of entry, for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1918</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Bar Harbor, Me.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the establishment of Bar Harbor, in the State of Maine, as a port of entry and delivery for the immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1918</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Red Lake Indian Reservation entries.</i></designator> <label>An Act To validate certain public-land entries.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 25, 1918</label> <target>917<page>xv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>German-American Alliance abolished.</i></designator> <label>An Act To repeal the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the National German-American Alliance,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">July 30, 1918</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>South Omaha riot damages.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the payment of indemnities to the Government of Greece for injuries inflicted on its nationals during riots occurring in South Omaha, Nebraska, February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 30, 1918</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 31, 1918</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>American Red Cross, free entries.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the importation without the payment of duty of sundry articles for the American National Red Cross to be donated or used by it solely to or for the benefit of the land or naval forces of the United States or its allies, or for the relief of the civilian population of the United States or of its allies.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 31, 1918</label> <target>954</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army emergency increase, draft, 18 to 45 age limit.</i></designator> <label>An Act Amending the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 31, 1918</label> <target>955</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Annual appropriations extended.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of September, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">August 31, 1918</label> <target>957</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bozeman, Mont., building site.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to convey to the city of Bozeman, Montana, certain land for alley purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 10, 1918</label> <target>957</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 11, 1918</label> <target>958</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prohibitory liquor zones.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to establish zones in which intoxicating liquors may not be sold, manufactured, or distributed.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 12, 1918</label> <target>958</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Montana school lands.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the State of Montana to select other lands in lieu of lands in section sixteen, township two north, range thirty east, within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project and the ceded portion of Crow Indian Reservation in said State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 13, 1918</label> <target>958</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wisconsin and Minnesota boundary.</i></designator> <label>An Act To approve mutual cessions of territory by the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota and the consequent changes in the boundary line between said States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 13, 1918</label> <target>959</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, soldiers’ entries.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Amending section eight of the amendment to the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 13, 1918</label> <target>960</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, minimum-wage law.</i></designator> <label>An Act To protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 19, 1918</label> <target>960</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, resurveys.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the resurvey or retracement of lands heretofore returned as surveyed public lands of the United States under certain conditions.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 21, 1918</label> <target>965</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Supplement to Second Liberty Bond Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To supplement the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 24, 1918</label> <target>955</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Federal Reserve Act amendments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend and reenact sections four, eleven, sixteen, nineteen, and twenty-two of the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and known as the Federal reserve Act, and sections fifty-two hundred and eight and fifty-two hundred and nine, Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">September 26, 1918</label> <target>967</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Agricultural Department.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 1, 1918</label> <target>973</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Spanish influenza, etc.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To aid in combating “Spanish influenza” and other communicable diseases.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 1, 1918</label> <target>100g</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Annual appropriations for agriculture, etc., continued.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of October, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 1, 1918</label> <target>1008</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mineral products, etc., conservation.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 5, 1918</label> <target>1009</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alien anarchists exclusion.</i></designator> <label>An Act To exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 16, 1918</label> <target>1012</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional elections, bribery, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To prevent corrupt practices in the election of Senators, Representatives, or Delegates in Congress.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 16, 1918</label> <target>1013</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Boston, Mass., dry dock.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to purchase from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a large dry dock and appurtenant lands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 17, 1918</label> <target>1013</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Susquehanna River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, its lessees, successors, and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Susquehanna River from the city of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to the borough of Lemoyne, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 19, 1918</label> <target>1013<page>xvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Readmission of aliens having war service.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 19, 1918</label> <target>1014</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Sanders County, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent for certain land to school district numbered nine, of Sanders County, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 21, 1918</label> <target>1014</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oregon National Forest.</i></designator> <label>An Act To reserve as a part of the Oregon National Forest certain lands that were revested in the United States pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Oregon and California Railroad Company against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 21, 1918</label> <target>1015</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public building, Eatonton, Ga.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to exchange the present Federal building site at Eatonton, Georgia, for another site on the public square in said city.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 22, 1918</label> <target>1015</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Criminal Code, embezzlement, etc., public property.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section thirty-five of the Criminal Code of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 23, 1918</label> <target>1015</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, stock raising homesteads.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section three of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for stock-raising homesteads, and for other purposes,” approved December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 25, 1918</label> <target>1016</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Health Service reserve.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To establish a reserve of the Public Health Service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 27, 1918</label> <target>1017</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Telephone and telegraph offenses.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the protection of the users of the telephone and telegraph service and the properties and funds belonging thereto during Government operation and control.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 29, 1918</label> <target>1017</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Washington, D. C., Public Health Service building.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the construction of a building for the Public Health Service in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">October 30, 1918</label> <target>1018</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations for food production continued.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government for the month of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 1, 1918</label> <target>1019</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National Guard, D. C.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for enlistments in the National Guard of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 4, 1918</label> <target>1019</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 4, 1918</label> <target>1020</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Guthrie, Okla., United States jail.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the conveyance of the United States jail and land on which the same is located at Guthrie, Oklahoma, to Logan County, Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 5, 1918</label> <target>1041</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dike, Depot Slough, Oreg.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction and maintenance of a dike on Depot Slough, Lincoln County, Oregon.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1041</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Pearl River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across Pearl River, between Pearl River County, Mississippi, and Washington Parish, Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1041</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rock River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Winnebago, in the State of Illinois, and the town of Rockford, in said county and State, to construct a bridge across Rock River, at or near Camp Grant.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1042</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Little Calumet River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Little Calumet River, in Cook County, State of Illinois, at or near the village of Riverdale, in said county.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1042</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hampton, Va., Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.</i></designator> <label>An Act Transferring jurisdiction and control for the period of the war over the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers from the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Secretary of War for use for Army hospital purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1042</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National banks, consolidation.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the consolidation of national banking associations.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 7, 1918</label> <target>1043</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public building, Nogales, Ariz.</i></designator> <label>An Act Amending the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, providing for the purchase of a site for a public building at Nogales, Arizona.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 21, 1918</label> <target>1044</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tennessee River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the county of Loudon, in the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River near Loudon, Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 21, 1918</label> <target>1044</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Food stimulation, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the purposes of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">November 21, 1918</label> <target>1045</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prohibition.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States Deposited in the Department of State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 19, 1917</label> <target>1050<page>xvii</page></target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE III.—1918–19.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Minor coinage.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section thirty-five hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 2, 1918</label> <target>1051</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Arkansas River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 1, 1919</label> <target>1051</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional employees salaries, December, 1918.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of the salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 1, 1919</label> <target>1052</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War workers, D. C., transportation home.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the transportation from the District of Columbia of governmental employees whose services no longer are required.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 7, 1919</label> <target>1052</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands to school district numbered twenty-eight, of Missoula County, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 7, 1919</label> <target>1053</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Smithsonian Institution, Regent.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 7, 1919</label> <target>1053</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Marine Corps, officers’ Army service.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the temporary promotion of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps serving with the Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 12, 1919</label> <target>1054</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy and Marine Corps, etc., uniforms.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the purchase of uniforms, accouterments, and equipment by officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and midshipmen at the Naval Academy from the Government at cost.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 12, 1919</label> <target>1054</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red River of the North.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Norman County, Minnesota, and Traill County, North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North on the boundary line between said States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 13, 1919</label> <target>1054</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Commerce and navigation statistics.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section three hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the annual report on the statistics of commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign countries.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 25, 1919</label> <target>1055</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Chalmers G. Hall.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the President to reappoint Major Chalmers G. Hall, retired, to the active list of the Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 25, 1919</label> <target>1055</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska, mining assessment work.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To amend Senate joint resolution numbered seventy-eight, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution to suspend requirements of the annual assessment work on mining claims during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 25, 1919</label> <target>1055</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chippewa ceded lands, Minn.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the sale of isolated tracts of the public domain in Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1919</label> <target>1055</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Medals of honor, etc., Navy.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1919</label> <target>1056</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Revenue Act of 1918.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide revenue, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1919</label> <target>1057</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Madison National Forest, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the sale of certain lands at or near Yellowstone, Montana, for hotel and other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wyoming National Forest.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Wyoming National Forest.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, absence allowed entrymen.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for a leave of absence for homestead entrymen in one or two periods, and for longer times.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oregon-California Railroad grant lands.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the purchase by the city of McMinnville, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lignite coals and peat.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make investigations, through the Bureau of Mines, of lignite coals and peat, to determine the practicability of their utilization as a fuel and in producing commercial products.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1154</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Eureka, Utah, public building.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the public-building Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1154</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Delaware River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Delaware River authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Yonkers, N. Y., public building.</i></designator> <label>An Act Increasing the limit of cost for the acquisition of a public building site at Yonkers, New York.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Princeton, Ind., public building.</i></designator> <label>An Act To convey a strip of land on the site of the Federal building at Princeton, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Pearl River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Great Southern Lumber Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, doing business in the State of Mississippi, to construct a bridge across Pearl River, at or near the north line of section twenty-two, township eight north, range twenty-one west, west of the basis meridian, in the land district east of Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judicial Code, salaries of judges.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>El Dorado, Kans., public building.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the cost of the public building at El Dorado, Kansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1158<page>xviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge Mahoning River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mahoning River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for construction of a bridge and for the maintenance of a pontoon and pile bridge by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company across the Missouri River at or near Chamberlain, South Dakota, and providing additional requirements for the bridge to be constructed.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, or for the construction of a tunnel or tunnels under said river in lieu of said bridge.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red River of the North.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Red River of the North, between Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War-risk insurance, allotments of soldiers, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, extension of soldiers’ homestead privileges.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the United States who have served or will have served with the Mexican border operations or during the war between the United States and Germany and her allies.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriation for relief of European populations.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the relief of such populations in Europe, and countries contiguous thereto, outside of Germany, German-Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as may be determined upon by the President as necessary.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Second deficiency appropriation act, 1919.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, pensions.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Volunteer Soldiers’ Home, managers.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution For the appointment of four members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1919</label> <target>1175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz.</i></designator> <label>An Act To establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lafayette National Park, Me.</i></designator> <label>An Act To establish the Lafayette National Park in the State of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1178</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vocational rehabilitation, use of fund extended.</i></designator> <label>An Act Extending the use of the special fund for vocational education provided by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1179</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands, Oreg.</i></designator> <label>An Act To accept from the Southern Oregon Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oregon, a reconveyance of the lands granted to the State of Oregon by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “An Act granting lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in said State,” commonly known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant, to provide for the disposition of said lands, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1179</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, new trials.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section two hundred and sixty-nine of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.”.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, clerks’ salaries, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To fix the salaries of the clerks of the United States district courts and to provide for their office expenses, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1182</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Texas northern judicial district, additional judge.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern judicial district of the State of Texas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Connecticut judicial district, district attorney.</i></designator> <label>An Act To increase the salary of the United States district attorney for the district of Connecticut.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Smithsonian Institution, Regent.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance Bureau, disbursing clerk.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow credit to the disbursing clerk of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in certain cases.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oklahoma eastern judicial district, term of court, Hugo.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Providing that one term of the United States District Court for the Eastern Judicial District of Oklahoma shall be held annually at Hugo, Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1919</label> <target>1184<page>xix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the counties of Morton and Burleigh, in the State of North Dakota, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River near Bismarck, North Dakota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rock, River.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the construction of a bridge across Rock River at or near South Jackson Street in the city of Janesville, Wisconsin.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Columbia River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Wenatchee-Beebe Orchard Company to construct a bridge across the Columbia River at or within four miles northerly from the town of Chelan Falls, in the State of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tug River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Fall Branch Coal Company to construct a bridge across Tug River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Niagara River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to Oliver Cabana, junior, Myron S. Hall, E. G. Connette, William F. MacGlashan, John H. Bradley, and M. A. Hurt to construct a bridge across Niagara River within or near the city limits of Buffalo, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Roanoke River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Martin and Bertie, in the State of North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Roanoke River at or near Williamston, North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, etc., Mahoning River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company to construct, maintain, and operate a combined bridge and dam across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Connecticut River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River between Springfield and West Springfield, in Hampden County, Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of South Sioux City, in the State of Nebraska, to construct a bridge across the Missouri River between the States of Nebraska and Iowa,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River, at or near the borough of Wilson, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Ohio River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near McKees Rocks Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Allegheny River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Millvale Borough, in the county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Allegheny River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Sixteenth Street, in the city of Pittsburgh, county of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tombigbee River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of supervisors of Itawamba County, Mississippi, to construct a bridge across the Tombigbee River at or near Barr’s Ferry, in said county.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1919</label> <target>1189</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, postal service.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1189</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharged soldiers, etc., uniforms and transportation allowed.</i></designator> <label>An Act Permitting any person who has served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in the present war to retain his uniform and personal equipment, and to wear the same under certain conditions.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont., stock-watering reservations.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for stock-watering privileges on certain unallotted lands on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1203</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, settlers on Northern Pacific land grants, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the relief of settlers on certain railroad lands in Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1204</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cache National Forest, Utah.</i></designator> <label>An Act To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1204</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reclamation projects, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize an exchange of lands with the State of Montana in connection with Muddy Creek Reservoir site, Sun River project, and Nelson Reservoir site, Milk River project, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1205</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sun River irrigation project, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting lands for school purposes in lots numbered one hundred and eleven in each of the townsites of Fort Shaw and Simms, Sun River reclamation project, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>San Diego, Cal., lands granted for water supply.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting to the city of San Diego certain lands in the Cleveland National Forest and the Capitan Grande Indian Reservation for dam and reservoir purposes for the conservation of water, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cache National Forest, Utah.</i></designator> <label>An Act To consolidate certain forest lands within the Cache National Forest, Utah, and to add certain lands thereto.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Castle Peak Irrigation project, Utah.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the relief of entrymen within the Castle Peak irrigation project, in Utah.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1210<page>xx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, enlistments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the resumption of voluntary enlistment in the Regular Army, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, chief nurse’s pay.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend section four of Chapter V of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen,” approved July ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and to make said amendment retroactive.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Articles of War, remission of sentences, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the fiftieth article of war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War Risk Insurance, resumption of paying allotments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the payment of allotments out of the pay of enlisted men in certain cases in which these payments have been discontinued.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dams, Savannah River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the completion of the dams across the Savannah River by authority granted to Twin City Power Company by an Act approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by Acts approved June third, nineteen hundred and twelve, and March first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Francis Asbury memorial, D. C.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a memorial to Francis Asbury.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska mining assessment work.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution To suspend the legal requirements of assessment work on mining claims in Alaska for the years nineteen hundred and seventeen, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and nineteen hundred and nineteen, and extending to that Territory the provisions of public resolution numbered ten, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved July seventeen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and public resolution numbered twelve Sixty-fifth Congress, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 28, 1919</label> <target>1213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, legislative, executive, and judicial.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Texas northern judicial district, terms, Amarillo.</i></designator> <label>An Act To fix the time of holding comt in the Amarillo division of the northern district of Texas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo.</i></designator> <label>An Act To repeal the last proviso of section four of an Act to establish the Rocky Mountain National Park, in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes, approved January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sacramento, Calif., court rooms.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the fitting up of quarters in the post-office building of the city of Sacramento, California, for the accommodation of the district court of the northern district of California and its officers.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steubenville, Ohio, public building.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for an increase of authorization for the Federal Building at Steubenville, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red Lake River.</i></designator> <label>An Act To extend the time for the construction by Kratka Township of a bridge across the Red Lake River, in Pennington County, Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Roanoke River.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Halifax, in the State of North Carolina, to construct a bridge across the Roanoke River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1919</label> <target>1272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Gulfport, Miss.</i></designator> <label>An Act For the establishment of Gulfport, Mississippi, as a port of entry and delivery for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1919</label> <target>1272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>War contracts, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide relief in cases of contracts connected with the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1919</label> <target>1272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, rivers and harbors.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1919</label> <target>1275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Screw threads standardization.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend an Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to standardize screw threads.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fourteenth Census.</i></designator> <label>An Act To provide for the fourteenth and subsequent decennial censuses.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hospitals for discharged soldiers, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, fortifications.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Victory Liberty Loan Act.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend the Liberty Bond Acts and the War Finance Corporation Act, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Federal Reserve Act amendments.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend sections seven, ten, and eleven of the Federal Reserve Act, and section fifty-one hundred and seventy-two, Revised Statutes of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Modoc National Forest, Calif., additions.</i></designator> <label>An Act To include certain lands in the counties of Modoc and Siskiyou, California, in the Modoc National Forest, California, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cherokee Nation, interest claims.</i></designator> <label>An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, consider, and determine certain claims of the Cherokee Nation against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, grant to Olathe, Colo.</i></designator> <label>An Act To grant certain lands to the town of Olathe, Colorado, for the protection of its water supply.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1317<page>xxi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Old River, Tex.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize construction of a lock and dam in Old River, in the State of Texas, and the making of improvements enabling the passage of fresh water from a portion of Trinity River above the mouth of Old River into Old River above such lock and dam, and for the protection of rice crops against salt water.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kiowa, etc., Indians ceded lands, Okla.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the contesting and cancellation of certain homestead entries, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Minam National Forest, Oreg., additions.</i></designator> <label>An Act To add certain lands to the Minam National Forest, Oregon.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Gig Harbor Military Reservation, Wash., sale of lands.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the appraisal and sale of the Gig Harbor abandoned military reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lincoln-Douglass Sanatorium, etc., Colo., lands granted to.</i></designator> <label>An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple to the National Lincoln-Douglass Sanatorium and Consumptive Hospital Association (a corporation), of Denver, Colorado, for a certain-described tract of land.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rosebud Indian Reservation, S. Dak.</i></designator> <label>An Act Authorizing the sale of certain lands in South Dakota for cemetery purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Malheur County, Oreg., timber from Idaho.</i></designator> <label>An Act To grant to citizens of Malheur County, Oregon, the right to cut timber in the State of Idaho for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove such timber to Malheur County, Oregon.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prisoners of war, allowance to others than soldiers, etc.</i></designator> <label>An Act Granting to members of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and Navy Nurse Corps (female), Army field clerks, field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and civil employees of the Army pay and allowances during any period of involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, ceded lands.</i></designator> <label>An Act To validate and confirm certain erroneously allowed entries in the State of Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Oregon.</i></designator> <label>An Act Providing for the extension of time for the reclamation of certain lands in the State of Oregon under the Carey Act.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Modoc County, Calif., timber from Nevada.</i></designator> <label>An Act To grant to citizens of Modoc County, California, the right to cut timber in the State of Nevada for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove such timber to Modoc County, California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Perry’s Victory Memorial Commission.</i></designator> <label>An Act Creating a commission for the maintenance, control, care, and so forth, of the Perry’s Victory memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Representatives, compensation on discharge from war service.</i></designator> <label>Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the payment of the usual compensation of Representatives in Congress to those Members of the House who have been discharged from their military or naval duties.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1919</label> <target>1324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, probation system.</i></designator> <label>An Act To amend and reenact an Act for the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1919</label> <target>1324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, diplomatic and consular.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1919</label> <target>1325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Military Academy.</i></designator> <label>An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1919</label> <target>1336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wheat stabilization.</i></designator> <label>An Act To enable the President to carry out the price guaranties made to producers of wheat of the crops of nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1919</label> <target>1348</target></referenceItem>
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<p class="centered">PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of April, 1917, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the sixth day of October, 1917</i>.
<inline class="smallCaps">Woodrow Wilson</inline>, President; Thomas R. <inline class="smallCaps">Marshall</inline>, Vice President; <inline class="smallCaps">Willard Saulsbury</inline>, President of the Senate <i>pro tempore</i>; <inline class="smallCaps">Champ Clark</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</enrolledDateline>
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<dc:title>Chap. 1: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.</dc:title>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>1.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-06">April 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/1">S. J. Res. 1</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/1">Pub. Res., No. 1</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="indent0 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas the Imperial German Government has committed repeated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote>acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it</recital>
</preamble>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>, </resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the state of war <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War with Germany. Declaration of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1650.</p></sidenote>between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President authorized to use Army, Navy, etc., to prosecute.</p></sidenote>directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 6, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
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<dc:title>Chap. 2: Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 1</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-11</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>2.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-11">April 11, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/1">H. R. 122</ref>]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/1">Public, No. 1</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations tor first session Sixty-fifth Congress.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading class="centered">LEGISLATIVE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriations for mileage of Senators, Members of the House <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage tor Congress immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, pp. 1070,1073.</p></sidenote>of Representatives, and Delegates from the Territories, and expenses of Resident Commissioners, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, are made immediately available and authorized to be paid<page identifier="/us/stat/40/2">2</page>to Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from the Territories, and Resident Commissioners, for attendance on the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading class="centered"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote>HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, at $125 each, for the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees until June 30, 1917.</p></sidenote>For the following employees during the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress but not longer than until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>For forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post office messengers.</p></sidenote>to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; nine messengers in the post office at the rate of $100 per month each; in all, $13,020, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 11, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 3: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 2</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>3.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-17">April 17, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12">H. R. 12</ref>]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/2">Public, No. 2</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote><section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote>EXECUTIVE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>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, $2,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote>SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International exchanges.</p></sidenote>For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $3,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Trade Commission.</p></sidenote>FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special attorneys, etc.</p></sidenote>For compensation, travel expense, and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rate of $4, of such special attorneys, special experts, special examiners, special agents, clerks, and other employees as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work of said commission; no salary shall be paid hereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum: $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Johannes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote>The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of George Johannes, special disbursing agent, Federal Trade Commission, the sum of $94.65, representing amounts paid by him for subscriptions to periodicals and publications of the nature of books of reference disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/3">3</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COMMISSION ON STANDARD WORKDAY OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad Workday Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional expenses of the Eight-Hour Commission, created by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ex censes. Vol. 39, p. 721.</p></sidenote>the Act of September third and fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to complete the work of the commission and to enable it to make the report called for by the said Act, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Efficiency Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Bureau of Efficiency to make the investigations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 1080,1122.</p></sidenote>required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>exceeding $4,000 per annum.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief, etc., of American citizens in Europe.</p></sidenote>in connection with or growing out of the existing political disturbance in Europe, $250,000, to be expended at the discretion of the President and to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That American citizens to whom relief is extended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>or transportation is furnished hereunder shall pay to or reimburse the United States all reasonable expenses so incurred, respectively, on their account, if financially able to do so.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A detailed statement of all expenditures hereunder and of all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of expend itures.</p></sidenote>amounts reimbursed to the United States of such expenditures shall be made to Congress on or before the beginning of its next regular session.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second Pan American Scientific Congress: The amount which may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan American Scientific Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for salaries increased.</p></sidenote>be expended for salaries from the appropriation of $42,000 for preparation and printing of the reports, proceedings, and papers of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, contained in the general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 802.</p></sidenote>deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased from $3,300 to $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>and offices, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote>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, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>internal revenue.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal revenue.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of taxes.</p></sidenote>into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 325.</p></sidenote> and eight, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to regulation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency taxes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption of stamps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 745.</p></sidenote>prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, may make allowance for or redeem stamps, issued under authority of the Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes,” <page identifier="/us/stat/40/4">4</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 2.</p></sidenote>and the joint resolution approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “Joint resolution extending the provisions of the Act entitled ‘An Act to increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes,’ approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen,” to denote the payment of internal revenue tax, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>which have not been used, if presented prior to January first, nine-teen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income, excess profits, etc., taxes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment and collection expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1000.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Income tax, excess-profits tax, and so forth:</inline> For expenses of the assessment and collection of the taxes provided by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 756.</p></sidenote>of fortifications, and for other purposes,” and by the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the employment of agents, inspectors, attorneys, deputy collectors, experts, clerks, messengers, and janitors, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, telegraph and telephone service, and rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, fiscal year nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services, etc., in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>and eighteen, $2,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $175,000 of this sum may be used for personal services, supplies, equipment, and mechanical devices in the District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>That not to exceed $10,000 (which shall be available immediately) may be used for rent of quarters in the District of Columbia for such bureaus or divisions of the Treasury Department as the Secretary may determine to move out of the Treasury Building to accommodate the Bureau of Internal Revenue.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. H. Baldwin.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote>For payment to W. H. Baldwin for damages done to his automobile while it was being used by officers of the Internal-Revenue Service in raiding illicit distilleries, $500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous objects.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3653/p719">R.S., sec. 3653, p. 719</ref>.</p></sidenote>Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoinage of minor coins.</p></sidenote>Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive paper for securities.</p></sidenote>Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, twenty-one million nine hundred thousand sheets, including transportation, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, salaries of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $96,579.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John Brodie</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1471.</p></sidenote>For payment to John Brodie, of San Francisco, California, in accordance with private Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-eight, approved February eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on account of personal injuries received by him while loading the United States Army transport Sherman, $1,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/5">5</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mount Clemens, Michigan, post office: Authority is granted to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Clemens, Mich.</p></sidenote>pay Frank N. Vannater the sum of $4.50 out of any moneys hereto ore appropriated and remaining unexpended on the books of the Treasury Department for the construction of the post-office building at Mount Clemens, Michigan, the same representing an expense incurred by him prior to the abrogation of his contract by the Government.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Haven, Connecticut, Post Office: For completion under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Haven, Corm.</p></sidenote>limit of cost established in the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200,000, or so much thereof, together with the sum of $100,000 appropriated in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as may be realized from the sale of the old post office and customhouse building and the site thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tampa Bay, Florida, quarantine station: For removal of old <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tampa Bay, Fla., quarantine station.</p></sidenote>ballast dock at the United States quarantine station, Tampa Bay, Florida, $416: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the work shall be performed under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision.</p></sidenote>the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woodstock, Illinois, post office: For continuation (site), $5,000.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woodstock, Ill.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating supplies.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast guard.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures.</p></sidenote>work of the Coast Guard, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.</p></sidenote>officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, not exceeding twenty-one cadets and cadet engineers and one civilian instructor, $94,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, petty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations.</p></sidenote>officers, and other enlisted men, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits, stores, etc.</p></sidenote>$40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote>of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation for special services, $1,800;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special services.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $167,800.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to cutters.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $25,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and printing.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional work authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 275, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 348.</p></sidenote>year nineteen hundred and seventeen as to the number of delivered sheets of United States currency to be executed is increased from ninety million to ninety-eight million and of internal-revenue stamps from eighty-four million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six to eighty-eight million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/6">6</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>For salaries of all necessary employees other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $60,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote>For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $183,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote>For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $208,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote>public health service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>For fuel, light, and water, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside treatment, etc.</p></sidenote>For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine service.</p></sidenote>Quarantine Service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fumigation, etc., Charges.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the cost of fumigation and disinfection shall be charged vessels from foreign ports at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote>minst and assay offices.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans. La.</p></sidenote>New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: For incidental and contingent expenses, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York assay office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">New York Assay Office:</inline>For wages of workmen and other employees, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $25,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District Building.</p></sidenote>District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor, not to exceed $3,500, and miscellaneous supplies, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant assessors.</p></sidenote>Assessor’s office: Assistant assessors, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy coroner.</p></sidenote>Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner during the absence of the coroner, $110.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Utilities Commission.</p></sidenote>Public Utilities Commission: For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Library.</p></sidenote>Public Library: For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $1,430.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, and so forth, including the same <page identifier="/us/stat/40/7">7</page> objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for maintenance, care, and repair of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>automobiles, motor cycles, and motor trucks, acquired for the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise provided for in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen as the commissioners shall in writing specially order, $2,645.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle tags.</p></sidenote>tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $775.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of field party and incidental expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vault surveys.</p></sidenote>in making survey and computation relative to vault privileges, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benning Road and viaduct: For an additional amount for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benning Road via duct.</p></sidenote>objects set forth in the appropriation contained in the District of 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1141.</p></sidenote>Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for constructing a suitable viaduct and bridge to carry Benning Road over the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 350.</p></sidenote>Railroad Company, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation for Benning Road viaduct and bridge, contained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p></sidenote>in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is continued available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bridges: The sum of $11,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">M Street Bridge.</p></sidenote>of the appropriation for the replacement of two trusses and floor of the M Street Bridge across Rock Creek, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for repairs to the east abutment, the placing of new handrails, and the renewal of the wood flooring of said bridge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Electrical Department: For an additional amount for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-alarm boxes,etc.</p></sidenote> and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public schools:</inline> For allowance to principals, including the same <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principals.</p></sidenote>objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For longevity pay, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote>head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $115.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $64,608.50.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the construction of an eight-room addition, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petworth School.</p></sidenote>including assembly hall, to the Petworth School, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the construction and equipment of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Me Kinley Manual Training School.</p></sidenote>foundry at the McKinley Manual Training School, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Columbia Institution for the Deaf:</inline> For expenses attending the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaf and dumb instruction.</p></sidenote>instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec4864/p942">R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942</ref>.</p></sidenote>provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 844.</p></sidenote>one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $2,175, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Metropolitan Police, Harbor Patrol: For fuel, construction, maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbor patrol.</p></sidenote>repairs, and incidentals, $550.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fire department: For fuel, $4,625.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Health department: The limitation on the amount to be expended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p></sidenote>for personal services from the appropriation for preventing the spread <page identifier="/us/stat/40/8">8</page>of contagious diseases for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is increased from $12,000 to $17,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle.</p></sidenote>For additional amount for maintenance of one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food inspection service, $150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court.</p></sidenote>Police court: For miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $715.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal court.</p></sidenote>Municipal court: For expenses of moving from present quarters and for complete equipment of new quarters, including furniture and fixtures, and for such other expenses as may be authorized by the judges of the court and approved by the commissioners, $4,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to Treasury from District credits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme court fines.</p></sidenote>Court fines: The sum of $24,300.76, representing fines in United States cases collected on judgments of the criminal division of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, during the period from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia, shall be transferred from the credit of the District of Columbia to the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court fines.</p></sidenote>The sum of $211,450.12, representing fines in United States cases collected on judgments of the police court of the District of Columbia, during the period from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to January first, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia, shall be transferred from the credit of the District of Columbia to the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of prisoners.</p></sidenote>Support of convicts: For support of convicts, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asylum and jail.</p></sidenote>Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles, and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jail prisoners.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $3,250.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and Infirm.</p></sidenote>Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles, and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Girls.</p></sidenote>National Training School for Girls: For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garfield Hospital.</p></sidenote>Garfield Hospital: For isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, maintenance, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital for Women.</p></sidenote>Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $684.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Hospital.</p></sidenote>Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Dispensary.</p></sidenote>Eastern Dispensary: For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/9">9</page>or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis Hospital.</p></sidenote>vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-minded <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Feeble-minded children.</p></sidenote>children (white and colored), $4,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of children.</p></sidenote>of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, $23,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase to sectarian institutions.</p></sidenote>heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $3,600 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial School for Colored Children.</p></sidenote> including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including purchase and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School.</p></sidenote>care of horse, wagon, and harness, $3,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indigent insane.</p></sidenote>of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Writs of lunacy: For writs of lunacy, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lunacy writs.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Workhouse: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Workhouse.</p></sidenote>clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Small parks: For the condemnation of small park areas at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small parks.</p></sidenote>intersection of streets outside the limits of the original city of Washington, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Temporary services: The limitation on the amount to be expended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary services.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 714.</p></sidenote>for personal services authorized by section two of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is increased from $74,000 to $78,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reformatory: For construction of roads, grading of sites, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatory.</p></sidenote>development work, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote>the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Two thousand and twenty-nine of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>session, except the judgments with interest and costs in favor of Samuel T. Kalbfus and Edward S. Wood, $6,877.95, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington Aqueduct: For operation, including salaries of all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Aqueduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From water revenues.</p></sidenote>necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the Water Department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/10">10</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $7,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National parks.</p></sidenote>national military parks.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg, Pa.</p></sidenote>Gettysburg National Park: For building and properly preparing a roadway or avenue from the Confederate Avenue around the Virginia Memorial within the limits of the Gettysburg National Park, $927.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Engineers.</p></sidenote>office of chief of engineers.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskingum River, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of rentals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 637.</p></sidenote>For refund of rentals to certain lessees of land and water power on the Muskingum River, Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $653.72.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Squares 612,613,D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearing titles.</p></sidenote>For extinguishing adverse private claims of title in and to squares six hundred and twelve and six hundred and thirteen, so called, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, $6,060, one half to be paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one half out of the United States Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount paid for any one lot shall not exceed the proportion of the whole amount that the area of said lot bears to the whole area of said squares:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Added to park system.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That the lands acquired hereunder shall become a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army,</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River and harbor work.</p></sidenote>river and harbor work.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damage claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 676.</p></sidenote>To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two thousand and forty of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $363.70.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote>quartersmaster corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except mileage, specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $647,833.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>For mileage to commissioned officers, including officers of the National Guard, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>Subsistence: For subsistence of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,735,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies.</p></sidenote>Regular supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,061,149.68. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote>Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $739,520.96.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/11">11</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under tills head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $11,415,770.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing, and camp <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage</p></sidenote>.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 seventeen, $13,057,972.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote>same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,295,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Water and sewers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water and sewers.</p></sidenote>at military posts: For water and sewers at military posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $107,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting, etc.</p></sidenote>titles “Subsistence of the Army,” “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps,” “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” and “Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage,” shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support of dependent families of enlisted men, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of families of enlisted men, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 649, 801.</p></sidenote>same objects and under the same limitations specified in the appropriations for this purpose in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen as amended by section nine hundred and one of the Act, entitled “ An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provision in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications to be made not later than June 30, 1917</p></sidenote>.Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by section nine hundred and one of the Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the Federal support of families of enlisted men shall, with respect to enlisted men belonging to organizations of the Organized Militia or National Guard which entered the service of the United States under the calls of the President of May ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and enlisted men of the Regular Army who by the provisions of Acts above cited are beneficiaries thereof only during the time the Organized Militia or National Guard continue in the service of the United States under said calls, apply only to applications stated in the form prescribed by the Secretary of War which are received in the office of the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Department, including the same objects specified wider this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc., ordnance.</p></sidenote>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 equipment, including horse equipment for Cavalry and Artillery, $1,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national guard.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of horses.</p></sidenote>To provide for the procurement of forage, bedding, shoeing, veterinary service, and supplies for horses and mules that may be owned by or issued to organizations of the National Guard, $455,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of enlisted men for care, etc.</p></sidenote>To provide for the compensation of competent help for the care of matériel, animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details, etc.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of War may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the men to be compensated, not to exceed five for each battery, troop, or company, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the battery, troop, or company commander under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, $306,790.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, military supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>For providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, camp equipage, and all other military supplies for issue to the National Guard; for the promotion of rifle practice, including the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and equipment of shooting galleries and suitable target ranges; for the hire of horses and draft animals for the use of mounted troops, batteries, and wagons; for forage for the same; and for such other incidental expenses in connection with lawfully authorized encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction as the Secretary of War may deem necessary; and for such other expenses pertaining to the National Guard as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel of Federal officers, for Inspection,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 206.</p></sidenote>For travel of Federal officers in carrying out the provisions of section ninety-three of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant inspectors.</p></sidenote>For travel of inspector instructors and sergeant instructors, joining at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armory instruction.</p></sidenote>For travel of inspector instructors in making visits of instruction to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>armories, $20,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said inspector instructors traveling shall not receive more than their actual expenses out of these appropriations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting supplies.</p></sidenote>For transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals bought for the use of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Signal companies, Engineer companies, ambulance companies, and other mounted units) of the National Guard, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, sergeant instructors.</p></sidenote>For expenses of sergeant instructors on duty with the National Guard, including quarters, fuel, light, medicines, and medical attendance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offices.</p></sidenote>$30,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever practicable inspector instructors shall use the State armories for offices.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting, etc.</p></sidenote>All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, and training the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as such and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, etc., for field service.</p></sidenote>Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, National Guard: To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery material, engineer, signal, and sanitary material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, including public animals, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $1,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p></sidenote>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 seventeen, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton, Va.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Vans</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $22,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $8,000;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Monica, Cal.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, 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 seventeen, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $17,000;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlon, Ind.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, 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 seventeen, $15,000;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, 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 seventeen, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $4,000;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For subsistence, 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 seventeen, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $4,000;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, S. Dak</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For subsistence, 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 seventeen, $4,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $1 ,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, 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 seventeen, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote>Clothing for all branches: For clothing for all branches, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $248,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote>hydrographic office.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of equipment for storage of charts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 95,1099.</p></sidenote>The appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and nineteen hundred and eighteen are made available for the purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydro graphic Office charts and publications, and the appropriations for the seal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is made available for the payment of whatever outstanding contracts there may be for such equipment.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote>bureau of yards and docks.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for technical services increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 97, 1101.</p></sidenote>The limitations specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen on expenditures for skilled draftsmen and other technical services from appropriations and allotments under the Bureau of Yards and Docks are increased by the sums of $70,000 and $75,000, respectively.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy collision claims.</p></sidenote>claims for damages.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 607.</p></sidenote>For the payment of the claim adjusted and settled in accordance with naval appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), and certified to Congress during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Two thousand one hundred and four, $128.18.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay, miscellaneous.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $124,180.73.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote>bureau of navigation.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Home.</p></sidenote>Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/15">15</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $315,000; and the limitation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for chemists, etc., increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 563.</p></sidenote>specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines is increased by the sum of $25,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $432,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>and preservation at navy yards and stations, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $314,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of medicine and surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries, etc.</p></sidenote>navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $7,011.91.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting remains.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $686.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For contingent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of the Navy: For pay of the Navy, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,621,475.04.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $624,861.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for chemists, etc., increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 604.</p></sidenote>specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, on expenditures from the appropriation </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for pay of chemists and clerical, inspection, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices, is increased by the sum of $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $264,908.37.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fuel and transportation: For fuel and transportation, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $934,059.40.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General account of advances.</p></sidenote>general account of advances.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 167.</p></sidenote>To reimburse “General account of advances” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several approfiliations named hereunder m excess of the sums appropriated there-or for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years nineteen Hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen amounts as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,871.99;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training station, R.I.</p></sidenote>Naval training station, Rhode Island, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $81.31;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote>Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $28.46;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>Medical Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $420.70;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>Pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $103,303.88;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote>Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6,862.45;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal, etc.</p></sidenote>Coal and transportation, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,327.38;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, general account of advances, $116,896.17.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote>bureau of construction and repair.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair.</p></sidenote>Construction and repair of vessels: For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,715,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote>bureau of steam engineering.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 605.</p></sidenote>Engineering: For engineering, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., allowance increased.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,668,840; and the limitation specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation “Engineering” for pay of clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material, is increased by the sum of $56,210.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">naval academy.</p></sidenote>naval academy.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote>Current and miscellaneous expenses: For current and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,200.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote>marine corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>For pay, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote>For clothing, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $676,318.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>Contingent: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/17">17</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Capitol Building: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>thereof, including the same objects specified under tms head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For overhauling the elevator machinery in the Senate wing of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate elevators.</p></sidenote>Capitol and installation of new control boards, fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,360, and the $3,000 appropriated for said purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby made available for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 817.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For labor and material for the protection of the Capitol Building <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc., of buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote>and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies and for each and every item incident thereto, $23,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interior Department Building (new): Assistant superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Department office building. Salaries.</p></sidenote>$2,000 ; foreman of laborers, $1,000 ; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—twenty-seven at $660 each, seventeen at $600 each, fourteen at $540 each, one $480; six female laborers at $400 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; general machinist, $1,500; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; eighteen watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $83,640 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building, $152,545.75;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For labor, equipment, and materials required for the laboratories of the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines ; for steel and wood filing furniture, including bookcase sections, transfer storage boxes, and card index sections; for special steel and wood furniture, including map cases, specimen cases, and drafting tables; for office furniture, including desks, chairs, tables, wardrobes, rugs, mirrors, and clocks; and for such other furniture and furnishings as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the use and accommodation of the several bureaus and offices in the building, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For every expenditure, including personal services of mechanics and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of removal from old locations, etc.</p></sidenote> laborers, requisite for and incident to the removal of the furniture, equipment, effects, the taking down, removal, and fixing in place of printing, lithographic, and other presses, photographic and laboratory equipment, and other machinery of all kinds, of the various bureaus and offices of the Interior Department, Washington, District of Columbia, from their present locations to the new Interior Department offices, including readjustment of files and records of the Patent Office, Pension Office, and Bureau of Education, $40,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $293,045.75, to continue available during the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continued available, 1918.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to expend such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional furniture, etc., from present appropriations.</p></sidenote>additional sums, not exceeding $50,000, as in his judgment may be necessary for the purchase of furniture and laboratory equipment that may be required by the Geological Survey, Bureau of Mines, General Land Office, Office of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service, in the new Interior Department Building in Washington, District of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/18">18</page>Columbia, the cost of these purchases to be paid from appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of funds.</p></sidenote>Geological Survey: For topographic surveys, for geologic surveys, for investigation of mineral resources of Alaska, for chemical and physical researches, for preparation of illustrations, for preparation of report on mineral resources, for gauging streams, for purchase of necessary books for the library, for engraving and printing geologic maps, and for topographic surveys of national forests. Bureau of Mines; General expenses, for investigating mine accidents, for testing fuel, for mineral mining investigations, for investigations of petroleum and natural gas, for purchase, equipment, and operating of mine rescue cars, for expenses mining experiment stations. Office of Indian Affairs: Surveying and allotting Indian reservations, and for irrigation, Indian reservations. General Land Office: Surveying the public lands, for depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and so forth, for contingent expenses of land offices.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelving for patents.</p></sidenote>General Land Office Building: For dismantling and rebuilding wooden shelving for the storage of patents, including necessary labor and material, $5,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courthouse, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary quarters.</p></sidenote>Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount to provide temporary quarters by rental or otherwise for the courts, judges, and officials connected therewith, and for other offices, officials, and employees of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, pending the reconstruction of the said courthouse, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, one-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Court of Claims Building: For labor, materials, furniture, and for general repairs, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>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 offices in the field service under the General Land Office and the Office of Indian Affairs, $40,150.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote>general land office.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing up arrears of work.</p></sidenote>Of the unexpended balance of the current appropriation of $700,000 for surveying the public lands there is made available to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, not to exceed the sum of $12,500 for the hire of clerks to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors general’s offices upon returns of surveys filed therein, and not to exceed the further sum of $10,000 for the salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Pacific grant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for classifying lands, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 817.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $2,055.67, authorized in the deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the completion during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 13, p. 367.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 683.</p></sidenote>under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), is made <page identifier="/us/stat/40/19">19</page>available until expended, to meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of George Watkin Evans for services as surveyor <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Watkin Evans.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote>for the inspection of mineral deposits in Alaska, from July fifteenth to twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September twenty-first to twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at $8.50 per day, $102; and from September twenty-sixth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the rate of $175 per month, $29.17; in all, $131.17.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon and California railroad lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 218.</p></sidenote>Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to continue the classification of lands involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit, as authorized and directed by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $90,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an amount supplemental and additional to the amount heretofore <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corbett tunnel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying certified claims</p></sidenote>appropriated to pay the certified claims on account of labor, supplies, material furnished and used in the construction of the Corbett tunnel and spillway, $3,556.96.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>territory of alaska.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, not to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from townsite sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use Cor public utilities. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 307.</p></sidenote>exceed fifty per centum of the moneys received from the sale of lots or tracts within any town site or town sites heretofore or hereafter sold pursuant to the provisions of the Act of March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be set apart and expended within the respective town sites in which such lots or tracts are sold, for the purpose of preparing the land for occupancy, the construction, installation, and maintenance of public utilities and improvements, and the construction of public school buildings, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the moneys so set apart and designated are appropriated for the purpose of carrying these provisions into effect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of former payments.</p></sidenote>moneys as may have been heretofore or may hereafter be expended for such purposes under and by authority of the Alaskan Engineering Commission from the funds at its disposal shall be reimbursed from the amount designated for the purposes herein provided:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,That a report of the expenditures hereunder shall be made <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote>to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><inline class="smallCaps">saint elizabeth’s hospital.</inline>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Elizabeth s Hospital.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rental for a system of telephones connecting the superintendent’s, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone rental.</p></sidenote>physicians’, and employees’ quarters at the hospital with other locations on the hospital grounds may be paid hereafter from the appropriations for the support of the hospital; and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing agent the amounts of payments made by him for this purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/20">20</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Park Service.</p></sidenote>national park service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of employees.</p></sidenote>For employees from April fifteenth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $3,666.67, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be in lieu of salaries, during such period, of the Superintendent of National Parks and four other persons authorized to be employed in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 309, 535.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p></sidenote>PENSIONS.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy.</p></sidenote>Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy from Navy funds.</p></sidenote>$5,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose:</proviso><proviso><i>Provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separate accounts.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library stacks.</p></sidenote>For purchase of library stacks, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opinions of Attorney General.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparing Volume 30.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1765/p314">R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 120.</p></sidenote>Opinions of the Attorneys General: To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and the provisions of section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume thirty of the Opinions of the Attorney General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec383/p63">R. S., sec. 383, p. 63</ref>.</p></sidenote>of section three hundred and eighty-three, Revised Statutes, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection, etc., of crimes.</p></sidenote>Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and including not to exceed $6,000 additional for necessary employees at the seat of government, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert S. Judge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote>Authority is granted for the payment of $660 from the appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to Robert S. Judge, special agent of the Department . of Justice, for services rendered while on leave from the military service of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote>Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote>paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $35,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/21">21</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDICIAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>united states courts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salary of the additional United States district judge in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District Judge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas western district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 938.</p></sidenote>State of Texas, to be appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salary of the United States district judge for the district of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 965.</p></sidenote>Porto Rico from March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $5,000 per annum, $1,652.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salary of the clerk of the United States district court for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk.</p></sidenote>district of Porto Rico from March second, nineteen hundred, and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $3,000 per annum, $991.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p></sidenote>deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $255,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of prisoners.</p></sidenote>and medical aid, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The use for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 315.</p></sidenote>carrying vehicles of not exceeding $125 of the amount appropriated for this institution under the head “Miscellaneous expenditures” in the sundry civil appropriation Act of July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to give <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thomas W. Morgan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote>credit to Thomas W. Morgan, warden and special disbursing officer, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, under the appropriation “Clothing and transportation” for said institution for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen in the amount of $228.38, covering expenses attempting to transport prisoner Frederick McGuire from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Portland, Oregon, in pursuance of a warrant of removal issued by the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p></sidenote> 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 seventeen, $10,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/22">22</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the game objects specified under this head for the Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, 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 seventeen, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash.</p></sidenote>McNeil Island, Washington, 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 seventeen, and for supplies for guards, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventeen, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, 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 seventeen, $6,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New equipment shops.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, removal from location, etc.</p></sidenote>For the purchase of window shades, shelving, and racks, lumber, automatic platform scales, ulterior telephones, clocks, and the miscellaneous equipment necessary to equip and furnish the new Post Office Department equipment shops, Fifth and W Streets northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, including the construction of a railroad siding, and for the expense of removal thereto of offices, equipment, machinery, material, and other property of the Post Office Department from the leased buildings at First and K Streets northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote>POSTAL SERVICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading><inline class="smallCaps">Out of the Postal Revenues.</inline></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster General.</p></sidenote>office of the postmaster general.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rewards, etc.</p></sidenote>For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,175.12.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Post-master General.</p></sidenote>office of first assistant postmaster general.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary clerk hire, etc.</p></sidenote>For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger service.</p></sidenote>For mail messenger service, $60,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/23">23</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of second assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $16,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska star routes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by railroad routes, $2,500,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad routes.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of third assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Post-master General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps.</p></sidenote>stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, $120,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes,</p></sidenote>$350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of postal cards, $80,000.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal cards.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity, lost mail matter.</p></sidenote>registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $16,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of fourth assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>printed and engraved matter, binding and carbon paper, and other miscellaneous items for the money-order and registry systems; also the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of pamphlet containing general postal information, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For facing slips, plain and printed, card slide labels, intaglio seals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facing slips, etc.</p></sidenote>tags, linen labels,. blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping paper, $8,000.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wrapping paper.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmarking, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote>plates and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>lighthouse service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Claims for damages: To pay the claims for damages which have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collision damage claims.</p></sidenote>been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collision damage claims.</p></sidenote> ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and seventy, $56.88.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast and geodetic survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office expenses: For office expenses, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,097.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charts: For materials, supplies, and equipment for printing charts, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night printing force, etc.</p></sidenote>including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be needed for the additional work required and to operate the printing plant on one night shift, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and other equipment in the outfitting of the steamer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Surveyor,” steamer.</p></sidenote>Surveyor, $7,356.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of fisheries.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Albatross,” repairs.</p></sidenote>For necessary and urgent repairs to the steamer Albatross, $10,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboat-Inspection Service.</p></sidenote>steamboat-inspection service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,400.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $4,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of immigration.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 874.</p></sidenote>For additional expenses for the enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States made necessary by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States,” $400,000, to continue available during <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government maintenance of station privileges forbidden.</p></sidenote>the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 894.</p></sidenote>the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>Ellis Island, New York, Immigration Station: For completion of repairs to the immigration station at Ellis Island, rendered necessary by explosions on July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $246,995.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s Bureau.</p></sidenote>children’s bureau.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Child Labor Division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of establishing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, p.675.</p></sidenote>Child Labor Division: To enable the Secretary of Labor to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes,” in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including a preliminary survey, for which purpose the sum of $50,000 shall be made immediately available, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay limit.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen, $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote>LEGISLATIVE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>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, $6,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: To carry <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint Committee on Commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 387.</p></sidenote>out the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, creating a joint subcommittee from the membership of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to investigate the conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce, and the necessity of further legislation relating thereto, and defining the Sowers and duties of such subcommittee, as extended by Public Resolution Numbered Forty-four, Sixty-fourth Congress, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $3,000.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statement of appropriations: The statement of appropriations, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of appropriations, 2d sess., 64th Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts of present session to be included in.</p></sidenote>and so forth, for the last session of the Sixty-fourth Congress shall include the Army, general deficiency, Military Academy, river and harbor, and sundry civil appropriation Acts as passed at the extraordinary session of the Sixty-fifth Congress; and all other appropriations made at the latter session shall be compiled and published with the statement to be prepared of the appropriation Acts for the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol power plant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, oil, etc.</p></sidenote>which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $24,900. This and the two foregoing appropriations shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases not restricted to supply committee.</p></sidenote>be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1365.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p></sidenote>March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Capitol <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote>power plant for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Sallie M. Clarke, widow of Honorable James P. Clarke, late <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James P. Clarke.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>of the Senate for expenses incurred from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dennis M. Kerr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote>the Committee on Pensions during the second session of the Sixty-fourth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile for Vice President.</p></sidenote>President, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $300.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: Sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, from April second to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>hundred and sixteen, $1,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance to Senators.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for nineteen hundred and seventeen for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others, the following clerks, assistant clerks, and messengers to Senators not chairmen of committees, to-wit: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sam E. Conner.</p></sidenote>Sam E. Conner, clerk to Senator Fernald from September twelfth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John F. Hayes.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; John F. Haves clerk to Senator Watson from November eighth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grady Hays.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles W. Hall, jr.</p></sidenote>fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Grady Hays, clerk to Senator Kirby from November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Charles W. Hall, junior, clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilson C. Hefner.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen; Wilson C. Hefner, clerk to Senator-Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Russell.</p></sidenote>Samuel Russell, clerk to Senator King from March fourth to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James A. Norton.</p></sidenote>twelfth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James L. Wolcott.</p></sidenote>seventeen; James A. Norton, clerk to Senator Hale from March <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amos W. W. Woodcook.</p></sidenote>fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James L. Wolcott, clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Amos W. W. Woodcock, clerk to Senator France from March fourth to twelfth. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edward Albright.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen; Edward Albright, clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph C. O’Mahoney.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frederick E. Schortemeier.</p></sidenote>Joseph C. O’Mahoney, clerk to Senator Kendrick from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Frederick E. Schortemeier, clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $2,000 per annum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John H. Ericksen. C. B. Smith.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lorenzo Richards.</p></sidenote>each; John H. Ericksen, assistant clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; C. B. Smith, assistant clerk to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Lorenzo Richards, assistant clerk to Senator King from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edw. C. Wrede.</p></sidenote>seventeen; Edw. C. Wrede, assistant clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wallace Williams.</p></sidenote>Wallace Williams, assistant clerk to Senator France from March <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Coates.</p></sidenote>fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James Coates, assistant clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert L, Stancill.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen; Robert L. Stancill, assistant clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hunched <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gertrude O’Connell.</p></sidenote>and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each; Gertrude O’Connell, messenger to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walter P. Scott.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen ; Walter P. Scott, messenger to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agnes E. Locke.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen; Agnes E. Locke, messenger to Senator Hale from March fourth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Margaret B. Buchanan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert J. Twyman.</p></sidenote>Margaret B. Buchanan, messenger to Senator Kendrick from March tenth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Robert J. Twyman, messenger to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michael F. Conry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>To pay the widow of Michael F. Conry, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">David E. Finley.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>To pay the widow of David E. Finley, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cyrus Adams Sulloway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to daughter.</p></sidenote>To pay H. Belle Sulloway, a daughter of Cyrus Adams Sulloway, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel J. Tribble.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>To pay the widow of Samuel J. Tribble, late a Representative from the State of Georgia, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Luis Munoz Rivera.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>To pay the widow of Luis Munoz Rivera, late a Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, $7,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contested-election expenses.</p></sidenote>expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One, Two, and Three:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">C. William Beales, $1,055.07;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. William Beales.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lathrop Brown, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lathrop Brown.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jacob A. Cantor, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jacob A. Cantor.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frederick C. Hicks, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frederick C. Hicks.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Siegel, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isaac Siegel.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">E. J. Hill, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. J. Hill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Donovan, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jeremiah Donovan.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard S. Whaley, $536;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richard S. Whaley.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron P. Prioleau, $100;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aaron P. Priolean.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">William R. Gaylord, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William R. Gaylord.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $15,691.07.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procurement of an oil portrait of Joseph G. Cannon, former <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portrait of former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.</p></sidenote>Speaker of the House of Representatives, to be paid on the approval of James L. Slayden, chairman of the Committee on the Library in the Sixty-fourth Congress, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Trimble.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compiling contested election cases documents.</p></sidenote>amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading proof, indexing of testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervising the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election cases of the Sixty-fourth Congress (eight in number), as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 445.</p></sidenote>March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of $1,723.12; and an additional sum of $1,120 to such poisons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said South Trimble and in such proportions as he may doom just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $2,843.12.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items and expenses of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items, etc.</p></sidenote>special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding materials.</p></sidenote>and other necessary materials for folding, for uso of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 624.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-five, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for driving, maintenance, and operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile for Speaker.</p></sidenote>of automobile for the Speaker, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional compensation to the enrolling clerk of the House of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enrolling clerk.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p></sidenote>Representatives, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered Five hundred and one of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,325.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of nine messengers, at $100 per month <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post office messengers.</p></sidenote>each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April first to November thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That after the passage of this Act the members of the Committee <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee on District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation expenses.</p></sidenote>on the District of Columbia, or a subcommittee thereof appointed by the present chairman of said committee, be, and are hereby, authorized to continue the investigation directed by House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and twenty-nine of the Sixty-fourth Congress and to expend for the purpose and as provided in House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and fifty-six of the Sixty-fourth Congress, out of the contingent fund of the House, a sum not exceeding $7,500, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount heretofore authorized.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote>For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $3,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor truck for folding room.</p></sidenote>For the purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor truck for the use of the folding room, $2,000, to continue available during the fiscal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doorkeeper.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, etc., hire repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 71.</p></sidenote>year nineteen hundred and eighteen; and the appropriation of $1,200 for hire of horses and wagons and repairs of same for the office of the Doorkeeper for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters and stenographers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>To reimburse the Official Reporters of Debates $350 each, and the Official Stenographers to Committees $400 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,700.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote>government printing office.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holidays.</p></sidenote>Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $40,267.93.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.</p></sidenote>To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>printing and binding.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For Congress.</p></sidenote>For public printing, public binding, and for paper for public printing and binding, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $520,937.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the War Department, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Interior Department, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Office.</p></sidenote>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, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New accounting system.</p></sidenote>Indian Service: For printing and binding, including loose-leaf binders, necessary to test and install a new system of bookkeeping and accounting for the Indian Service prepared by the Bureau of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 159.</p></sidenote>Efficiency in accordance with section twenty-eight of the Indian appropriation Act, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $15,978.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote>panama canal.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire control.</p></sidenote>For the fortification of the Panama Canal as follows: For the operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, under the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, $5,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National defense.</p></sidenote>national defense.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At discretion of the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 429.</p></sidenote>For the national security and defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, and to be immediately available and to remain available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000,000.</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>of suits, winch have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 505.</p></sidenote>to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-one, and which have not been appealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Treasury Department, $1,879.68.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, $8,005.15.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $9,884.83, together with such additional sum as may be necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Court of Claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Two thousand and thirty-one and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-two, namely:</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, $92,106.27;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, $52,165.91;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Post Office Department, $12,036.88;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Department of Justice, $5,881.41;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $162,190.47.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two thousand and thirty and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $46,927.50; said judgments to be paid after the deductions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 863.</p></sidenote>required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote>shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">None of the judgments contained in this Act shall he paid until <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of appeal.</p></sidenote> the right of appeal shall have expired.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AUDITED CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Audited claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote>be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/30">30</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81, p. 110.</p></sidenote>Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote>under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two thousand and twenty-eight, reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>For collecting the revenues from customs, $6.81.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $527.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 45 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, Public Health Service, $6.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding internal-revenue collections, $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, $232,556.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, $137.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $18.81.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $41,265.27.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $26.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Mint at New Orleans, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $58.14.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, assay office at New York, $19.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operating supplies for public buildings, $18.53.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $2.72.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $106.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses of public buildings, $1.18.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $7,632.48.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $1,886.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Signal Service of the Army, $43.43.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $140.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Army, $21.37.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $29.69.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Department, $3,056.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,754.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water and sewers at military posts, $22.22.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $11.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical and hospital department, $3.58.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, $11.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $69.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses, California Débris Commission, 13 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, $10.50.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor Navy Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $327.89. For pay, miscellaneous, $61.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, $1,018.68.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">or transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $130.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, $94.46.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Naval Academy, $5.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $205.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $10.72.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $5.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Navigation, $19.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $549.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $6.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen to nineteen hundred and sixteen, $46.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $4,954.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $90,762.39.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $77.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For coal and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $991.13.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $307.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $349.72.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, Naval Service, $2,551.77.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $37.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For education of natives of Alaska, $5.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of school and home gardening, Bureau of Education, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $24.38. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, $8.81.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigating mine accidents, $3.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $46.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian schools, support, $1,234.86.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school buildings, $169.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school and agency buildings, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,860.02.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $52,398.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $525.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $552.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For buildings at agencies and repairs, $39.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian police, 60 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of judges, Indian courts, $7.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Indian Service, $2.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $726.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $14.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $257.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian School, Greenville, California, $9.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $24.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidentals in Montana, $7.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $14.11.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians of Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, 18 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $46.21.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $3,981.91.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, 53 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $14.58.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 611.</p></sidenote>For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $8,660.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 806.</p></sidenote>For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $79.59.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, Consular Service, $116.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $1.91.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preservation of collections, National Museum, $13.51.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of convicts, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $9,352.93.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of bailiffs, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $58.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For library, Department of Agriculture, $52.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $362.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $33.09.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Forest Service, $63.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $22.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology, $379.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For drainage investigations, 25 cents</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For International Dry-Land Congress at Lethbridge, Canada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, 92 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $4.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses Bureau of Standard, $2.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 45 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $220.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tender for inspector, Eighth Lighthouse District, $2.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Oconto Harbor lights, Wisconsin, $70.01.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $9.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor. $18.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of regulating immigration, $20.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For naturalization of aliens, 32 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, $56.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, books for department library, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, books for department library, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, $25.82.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defending suits in claims against the United States, $17.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For detection and prosecution of crimes, $5.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $50.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $1,556.88.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, $710.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $273.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $241.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, United States courts, $12.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $109.80.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $14.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for United States courts, 38 cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnities, international registered mail, $320.28.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For parcel-post insurance, $3.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, 65 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shipment of supplies, $66.63.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star-route service, $6.51.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $879.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to assistant postmasters, $350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, first and second class post offices, $188.56.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, third-class post offices, $104.12.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $33.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $332.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, contract stations, $37.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $93.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $14.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel, $298.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For office appliances, $3.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For canceling machines, $29.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, services and purchases, $61.16.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AUDITED CLAIMS.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<content>That for the payment of the following claims, certified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional claims.</p></sidenote>to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote>of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-nine, reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, $29,187.65.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, $226.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $159,733,40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $399.68.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operating supplies for public buildings, 95 cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $2,888.23.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $512.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $185.85.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $866.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.56.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, $24.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, $252.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $56.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Naval Academy, $32.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $2,923.56.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $6,076.21.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p, 962.</p></sidenote>For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $3,747.24.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $53.30.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote>For surveying the public lands, $31.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, 45 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,550.59.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $26.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $462.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $129.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians of Klamath Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $50.82.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $135.57.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 611.</p></sidenote>For idemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $2,585.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 806.</p></sidenote>For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $58.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $138.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $37.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $3.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 50 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, $72.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $97.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $600.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>For shipment of supplies, 36 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $318.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, first and second class post offices, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $45.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $36.90.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 17, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 4: To authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>4</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 35</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-24</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/35">35</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>4.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-24">April 24, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/1">H. R. 2762</ref>]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/3">Public, No. 3</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States securities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue authorized to borrow money for national security, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post, pp. 288, 503, 844,1309.</p></sidenote>Treasury, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United States for the purposes of this Act, and to meet expenditures authorized for the national security and defense and other public purposes authorized by law not exceeding in the aggregate $5,000,000,000, exclusive of the sums authorized by section four of this Act, and to issue therefor <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 36.</p></sidenote>bonds of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The bonds herein authorized shall be in such form and subject <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form, terms, etc., of bonds.</p></sidenote>to such terms and conditions of issue, conversion, redemption, maturities, payment, and rate and time of payment of interest, not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>three and one-half per centum per annum, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The principal and interest thereof shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable in gold.</p></sidenote>payable in United States gold coin of the present standard of value and shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest, from all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from taxes, except estate or inheritance.</p></sidenote>taxation, except estate or inheritance taxes, imposed by authority of the United States, or its possessions, or by any State or local taxing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No circulation privilege.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offer as popular loan.</p></sidenote>authority; but such bonds shall not bear the circulation privilege.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The bonds herein authorized shall first be offered at not less than par as a popular loan, under such regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury as will give all citizens of the United States an equal opportunity to participate therein; and any portion of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of portion unsubscribed for.</p></sidenote>bonds so offered and not subscribed for may be otherwise disposed of at not less than par by the Secretary of the Treasury ; but no commissions shall be allowed or paid on any bonds issued under authority of this Act.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of more effectually providing for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of obligations of foreign governments at war with United States enemies.</p></sidenote>the national security and defense and prosecuting the war by establishing credits in the United States for foreign governments, the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized, on behalf of the United States, to purchase, at par, from such foreign governments then engaged in war with the enemies of the United States, their obligations hereafter issued, bearing the same rate of interest and containing in their essentials the same terms and conditions as those of the United States issued under authority of this Act; to enter into such arrangements as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to be established. etc.</p></sidenote>be necessary or desirable for establishing such credits and for purchasing such obligations of foreign governments and for the subsequent payment thereof before maturity, but such arrangements <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for higher interest rate.</p></sidenote>provide that if any of the bonds of the United States issued and used for the purchase of such foreign obligations shall thereafter be converted into other bonds of the United States bearing a higher rate of interest than three and one-half per centum per annum under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 36.</p></sidenote>provisions of section five of this Act, then and in that event the obligations of such foreign governments held by the United States shall be, by such foreign governments, converted in like manner and extent into obligations bearing the same rate of interest as the bonds of the United States issued under the provisions of section five of this Act. For the purposes of this section there is appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 504, 844.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,000,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the authority granted by this section to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to cease at end of war with German Government.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds from foreign governments, as aforesaid, shall cease upon the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, under such terms and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from payments and sales to redeem bonds issued hereunder.</p></sidenote> conditions as he may prescribe, is hereby authorized to receive on or before maturity payment for any obligations of such foreign <page identifier="/us/stat/40/36">36</page>governments purchased on behalf of the United States, and to sell at not less than the purchase price any of such obligations and to apply the proceeds thereof, and any payments made by foreign governments on account of their said obligations to the redemption or purchase at not more than par and accrued interest of any bonds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other outstanding obligations.</p></sidenote>of the United States issued under authority of this Act; and if such bonds are not available for this purpose the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem or purchase any other outstanding interest-bearing obligations of the United States which may at such time be subject to call or which may be purchased at not more than par and accrued interest.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of previously authorized bonds not yet issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 117.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 292.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to issue the bonds not already issued heretofore authorized by section thirty-nine of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 215</p></sidenote>. and for other purposes”; section one hundred and twenty-four of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 732.</p></sidenote>national defense, and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special preparedness bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1002.</p></sidenote>other purposes”; section thirteen of the Act of September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled“An Act to establish a United States shipping board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and a naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries, to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States, and for other purposes”; section four hundred of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions of fortifications, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval emergency bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1201.</p></sidenote>and for other purposes”; and the public resolution approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution to expedite the delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions and to secure more expeditious construction of ships,” in the manner and under the terms and conditions prescribed in section one of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional issue tor redemption of 3 per cent loan.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the United States from time to time, in addition to the sum authorized in section one of this Act, such additional amount, not exceeding $63,945,460 as may be necessary to redeem the three per cent loan of nineteen hundred and eight to nineteen hundred and eighteen, maturing August first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote>to issue therefor bonds of the United States in the manner and under the terms and conditions prescribed in section one of this Act.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion into bonds higher interest rate if such be issued prior to end of war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any series of bonds issued under authority of sections one and four of this Act may, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, be convertible into bonds bearing a higher rate of interest than the rate at which the same were issued if any subsequent series of bonds shall be issued at a higher rate of interest before the termination of the war between the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proclamation to fix date.</p>
</sidenote>States and the Imperial German Government, the date of such termination to be fixed by a proclamation of the President of the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of indebtedness.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to borrow money and issue, therefor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 290.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"> That in addition to the bonds authorized by sections one and four of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to borrow from time to time, on the credit of the United States, for the purposes of this Act and to meet public expenditures authorized by law, such sum or sums as, in his judgment, may be necessary, and to issue therefor certificates of indebtedness at not less than par in such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>form and subject to such terms and conditions and at such rate of<page identifier="/us/stat/40/37">37</page>
interest, not exceeding three and one-half per centum per annum, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable within one year.</p></sidenote>as he may prescribe; and each certificate so issued shall be payable, with the interest accrued thereon, at such time, not exceeding one year from the date of its issue, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Certificates of indebtedness herein authorized shall not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No circulation privilege.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount limited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 291, 504, 1311.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from taxes, except estate or inheritance.</p></sidenote>bear the circulation privilege, and the sum of such certificates outstanding shall at no time exceed in the aggregate $2,000,000,000, and such certificates shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest, from all taxation, except estate or inheritance taxes, imposed by authority of the United States, or its possessions, or by any State or local taxing authority.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds in banks and trust companies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"> pp. 291, 504.</p></sidenote>is hereby authorized to deposit in such banks and trust companies as he may designate the proceeds, or any part thereof, arising from the sale of the bonds and certificates of indebtedness authorized by this Act, or the bonds previously authorized as described in section four <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 36.</p></sidenote>of this Act, and such deposits may bear such rate of interest and be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest, etc.</p></sidenote>subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe:<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount so deposited shall not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">. Limitation.</p></sidenote>in any case exceed the amount withdrawn from any such bank or trust company and invested in such bonds or certificates of indebtedness plus the amount so invested by such bank or trust company, and such deposits shall be secured in the manner required for other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Security required.</p> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec5153/p996">R. S., sec. 5153. p. 996</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1290.</p></sidenote>deposits by section fifty-one hundred and fifty-three, Revised Statutes, and amendments thereto:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserves at depositaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.,sec.5191, p. 1004.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 682.</p></sidenote> of section fifty-one hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Federal Reserve Act and the amendments thereof, with reference to the reserves required to be kept by national banking associations and other member banks of the Federal Reserve System, shall not apply to deposits of public moneys by the United States in designated depositaries.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num>
<content class="inline">That in order to pay all necessary expenses, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote>rent, connected with any operations under this Act, a sum not exceeding one-tenth of one per centum of the amount of bonds and one-tenth of one per centum of the amount of certificates of indebtedness herein authorized is hereby appropriated, or as much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, in addition to the reports now required by law, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional statement of expenditures.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, transmit to the Congress a detailed statement of all expenditures under this 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 506.</p></sidenote>Act.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 24, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 5: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to the Fleet Naval Reserve.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>5</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 37</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-25</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>5.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to the Fleet Naval Reserve.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-25">April 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/1771">H. R. 1771</ref>]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/4">Public, No. 4</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the clause in the Act entitled “An Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fleet Naval Reserve.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service training modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 590, amended.</p></sidenote>making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” which reads as follows: “The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to assign any member of the Fleet Naval Reserve to active duty for training on board ship, upon the application of such member,” and so forth, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking therefrom the words “on board ship.”</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 25, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 6: To provide for the extension of minority enlistments in the naval service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-25</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/38">38</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>6.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the extension of minority enlistments in the naval service.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-25">April 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2008">H. R. 2008</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/5">Public, No. 5</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of minority enlistments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 330, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter any enlistment for minority in the Navy or Marine Corps may be extended as is provided by law for extending an enlistment for a term of four years, under similar conditions and with like rights, privileges, benefits, and obligations.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 25, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 7: To authorize the detail of additional officers to the Hydrographic Office.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 38</citableAs>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>7.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the detail of additional officers to the Hydrographic Office.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-25">April 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2338">H. R. 2338</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/1">Public, No. 6</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle><enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by (he Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Additional detail of officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1172.</p>
</sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to detail such naval officers as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office during the continuance of the present war.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 25, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 8: To increase the number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy until September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>8.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy until September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-25">April 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/1">H. R. 2339</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/1">Public, No. 7</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional midshipmen allowed for Members of Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 9.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That, in addition to the number of midshipmen now authorized by law, there shall be appointed during the period from the date of passage of this Act until September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, one additional midshipman <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nominations.</p></sidenote>for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress. Nominations shall be made for these vacancies by the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates concerned for any regular or special examination that may be ordered before that date.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 25, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 9: To increase the age limit for persons appointed as officers in the Naval Reserve.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-25</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>9.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the age limit for persons appointed as officers in the Naval Reserve.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-25">April 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2340">H. R. 2340</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/8">Public, No. 8</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ age limit increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 591, amended.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the maximum limit of age for officers of the Naval Reserve of the Naval Reserve Force on first appointment as such therein be, and it is hereby, increased from thirty-five to fifty years.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 25, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 10: To amend an Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and entitled “An Act to authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>10</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-04-30</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>10.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>AN ACT</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and entitled “An Act to authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate.”</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-04-30">April 30, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1800">S. 1800</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/1">Public, No. 9</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Odd Fellows Hall.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 614, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to authorize the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia to sell, hold, and convey certain real estate,” be amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Lodge of Independent Order of</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Odd Fellows may sell etc., real estate of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 30.</p></sidenote>That the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia, a corporation created under and by virtue of an Act of Congress approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and<page identifier="/us/stat/40/39">39</page>sixty, be, and hereby is, authorized to sell and convey for, or to borrow and secure by deed of trust thereon, such sum or sums as may be satisfactory to the several organizations hereinafter named as owners, those parcels of ground in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, known and designated on the plat of said city as lot <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description of property.</p></sidenote>numbered eleven and part of lot numbered ten in square numbered four hundred and fifty-seven, together with the buddings thereon, known as Odd Fellows’ Hall, the title to which property is now held <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owners of<i>.</i></p></sidenote>in trust by the said corporation for the following organizations, owners thereof, namely: The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the District of Columbia; Columbian Encampment Numbered One, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Central Lodge Numbered One, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Washington Lodge Numbered Six, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Columbia Lodge Numbered Ten, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Beacon Lodge Numbered Fifteen, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Excelsior Lodge Numbered Seventeen, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and Eastern Lodge Numbered Seven, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the consent of each of said several organizations being evidenced by a written instrument bearing the seal and the signature of its executive officers; the proceeds of said sale or loan may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds.</p></sidenote>applied to the payment and liquidation of any debt on said property or toward the purchase of other ground and the erection thereon <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for new building, etc.</p></sidenote>of a building or buildings for like purposes as those for which the above described property has been held, or to the erection of a new building, or to repairing or rebuilding on the ground now held, said property to be held in trust for said above-mentioned organizations according to their respective interests therein, and for such other organizations of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as may hereafter contribute to the cost of such property, according to the amount respectively contributed by each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any purchaser or purchasers of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasers relieved of responsibility.</p></sidenote>such property shall not be required to see to the proper application of the money paid therefor.</proviso></p>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content class="inline">That the said corporation shall be authorized and capable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum property holdings increased.</p></sidenote>of taking and holding real and personal property in trust for said organizations to any value not exceeding the sum of $1,000,000, and shall have full power and authority, upon a resolution or resolutions of each of said beneficiary organizations, to, from time to time, encumber any ground and the improvements thereon so held in trust for said organizations, or any part thereof, in such manner, for such purpose, and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by said resolution or resolutions.”</content></section>
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</chapeau></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
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<dc:title>Chap. 11: To amend section ten of chapter two of the Criminal Code.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>11</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 39</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-07</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>11.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section ten of chapter two of the Criminal Code.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-07">May 7, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2893">H. R. 2893</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/10">Public, No. 10</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That section 10 of chapter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Criminal Code.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neutrality offenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1089, amended.</p></sidenote>two of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be amended so as to read as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 10.</num>
<content> Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisting, etc., in foreign service within United States.</p></sidenote>United States, enlists or enters himself, or hires or retains another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, State, colony, district, or people as a soldier or as a marine or seaman on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer shall be fined not more than $1,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote>and imprisoned not more than three years: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/40/40">40</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aliens may enlist in service of country at war with country with which United States is at war.</p></sidenote>section shall not apply to citizens or subjects of any country engaged in war with a country with which the United States is at war, unless such citizen or subject of such foreign country shall hire or solicit a citizen of the United States to enlist or go beyond the jurisdiction of the United States with intent to enlist or enter the service of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote>foreign country. Enlistments under this proviso shall be under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War.”</proviso></content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 7, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 12: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>12</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>12.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-12">May 12, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/13">[H. R. 13</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/11">Public, No. 11</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money hi the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies.</p></sidenote>Contingencies of the Army:</inline> For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies, etc.</p></sidenote>military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $50,000.</p>
</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office, Chief of Staff.</p></sidenote>office of the chief of staff.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Army War College:</inline> For expenses of the Army War College, being for the purchase of the necessary stationery; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks; books of reference; scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, military information section.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps:</inline> For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3648/p718">R. S., sec.3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote>to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $11,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Observing war operations abroad.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of military observers abroad:</inline> For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $15,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/41">41</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United States service schools: To</inline> provide means for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School, at Fort <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p></sidenote>Riley, Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Sill, Okla.</p></sidenote>School of Musketry, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service. Not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Translator.</p></sidenote>$100 per month may be used for the payment of one translator, to be appointed by the commandant of the Army service schools with the approval of the Secretary of War, $35,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That officers in the grade of second lieutenant in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment for Field Artillery instruction.</p></sidenote>Field Artillery may be assigned, for the period of one year, to batteries stationed at the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for the purpose of pursuing courses of practical instruction in field artillery.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>the adjutant general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies at headquarters.</p></sidenote>Districts, and Tactical Commands:</inline> For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, pavanent for which may be made in advance, and police utensils to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $7,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chief of coast artillery.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia:</inline> For incidental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.</p></sidenote> expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote>instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, $7,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering and mine defense.</p></sidenote>instruments, special apparatus and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $5,500;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/42">42</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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; in all, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Typewriting machines.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, to be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote>office of the chief signal officer.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Service of the Army:</inline> For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War balloons, airships, etc.</p></sidenote>office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote>(exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $11,800,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation section.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc., under.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 187,245,355.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That not more than $10,800,000 of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment and personnel, and other accessories necessary in the Aviation Section; and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles which may be necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p></sidenote>for the Aviation Section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying Reserves in service.</p></sidenote>That of the sum last above mentioned so much thereof as may be necessary will be available for paying and otherwise providing for such officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and such enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as may be called into <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation motor.</p></sidenote>active service; for the payment of all expenses in connection with the development of a suitable type of aviation motor, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe; for the cost of investigations to be made by and technical instruction of commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the said section.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites for aviation schools, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 246.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase, donation, or by condemnation, such land sites throughout the United States as are immediately necessary for the permanent establishment of aviation schools, aviation posts, and experimental aviation stations and proving grounds for the United States Army.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That in order to carry this legislation into effect the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to use such portion as may be necessary of the $13,281,666 appropriated for the Signal Service <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 622.</p></sidenote>of the Army in the Act making appropriations for the support of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen: <i>Provided, however</i>, That not more than $4,500,000 shall be made available for this purpose: <i>Provided further</i>, That the funds <page identifier="/us/stat/40/43">43</page>thus authorized for use in the purchase of land sites may also be used <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures specified.</p></sidenote>for the improvement and preparation of land and waters contiguous thereto ; for the construction, maintenance, and repair of permanent barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote>buildings, hangars, sheds, shops, garages, and other permanent buildings necessary for the shelter of aviation troops, public animals, stores and equipment, and for administration purposes; for the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Installation, equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>of all equipment and material necessary for the installation, operation, and repair of all water, sewer, electric-light and electric-power systems; for the construction of roads, walks, and wharves; or the disposal of drainage; for the clearing, grading, rolling, seeding, dredging, and otherwise improving and preparing land and water sites; for rental and lease of grounds for aviation fields, camp sites, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases.</p></sidenote>and other military aviation purposes ; for rental and lease of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by aviation troops, and for use as storehouses, offices, shops, garages, and for other military aviation purposes; for the purchase of office furniture and office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of office supplies,etc.</p></sidenote>equipment; for the purchase and installation of special equipment, supplies, and accessories necessary for the establishment of experimental stations and proving grounds, aviation schools, and aviation posts; for the purchase of such textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction in all experimental stations and proving grounds and aviation schools and aviation posts:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the funds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available until expended.</p></sidenote>thus authorized for these purposes shall be available until expended:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That not more than $600,000 of the foregoing
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land purchases limited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases, it practicable.</p></sidenote> sum shall be used for the purchase of land:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of aviation fields if it is found practicable to lease suitable sites for such purposes on more favorable terms.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter motor-propelled vehicles, aeroplanes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment exchanges.</p></sidenote>engines, and parts thereof may be exchanged in part payment for new equipment of the same or similar character, to be used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter nothing in section twenty-five of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Detached Officers’ List.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 183.</p></sidenote>the National Defense Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be held to prevent the detail of an officer in the aviation section of the Signal Corps.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That mileage to officers in the aviation section, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of mileage.</p></sidenote>Signal Corps, traveling on duty in connection with aviation service shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the establishment and maintenance by the Weather Bureau of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aerological stations.</p></sidenote>additional aerological stations, for observing, measuring and investigating atmospheric phenomena in the aid of aeronautics, including salaries, travel and other expenses in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $100,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System:</inline><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington-Alaska cable, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ex lensions, etc.</p></sidenote>For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operation, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, from tho receipts of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System which have been covered into the Treasury of tho United States, the extent of such extensions and betterments and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Signal Corps, in its operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charges for messages over commercial lines.</p></sidenote>of military telegraph lines, cables, or radio stations, is authorized, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, to collect forwarding charges due <page identifier="/us/stat/40/44">44</page>connecting commercial telegraph or radio companies for the transmission of Government radiograms or telegrams over their lines, and to this end, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, it can present vouchers to disbursing officers for payment or file claims with auditors of the Treasury Department for the amount of such forwarding charges.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone service for Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts: </inline>For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $8,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of the Army.</p></sidenote>PAY OF THE ARMY.</heading>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster Corps.</inline></p></sidenote>Quartermaster Corps.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers of the line.</p></sidenote>officers of the line.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>For pay of officers of the fine, $12,500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid to any officer of the line of the Army who shall be appointed or promoted in violation of any of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers limited to increase of enlistment increments.</p></sidenote>terms next hereinafter specified: That of the whole number of officers of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, Infantry, and of Engineers serving with the enlisted force of the Corps of Engineers necessary to fill vacancies created or caused in said aims of the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 182.</p></sidenote>service by reason of the second increment, authorized in said arms by Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, not more than one-fourth shall be appointed or promoted until, exclusive of enlisted men belonging to said arms on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, at least one-fourth of the second increment of enlisted men authorized for said arms by said Act shall have been enlisted; not more than one-half of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least one-half of said increment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dates of promotions.</p></sidenote>of enlisted men shall have been enlisted; and not more than three-fourths of said whole number of officers shall be appointed or promoted until at least three-fourths of said increment of enlisted men shall have been enlisted. And all officers promoted in accordance with the terms of this proviso shall take rank, respectively, from the dates on which their promotions shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Defense Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 182, amended.</p></sidenote>have become lawful under the terms of this proviso. Additional pay to officers for length of service, $2,000,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the first part of the second paragraph of section twenty-four of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, down to the first proviso in said paragraph, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second lieutenants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Order of filling vacancies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 890.</p></sidenote>“Vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant created or caused by the increases due to this Act, in any fiscal year shall be filled by appointment in the following order: (First) Of cadets graduated from the United States Military Academy during the preceding fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>for whom vacancies did not become available during the fiscal year in which they graduated; (second) under the provisions of existing law of enlisted men, including officers of Philippine Scouts, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years, whose fitness for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia in service.</p></sidenote>promotion shall have been determined by competitive examination; and of members, including officers, of the Organized Militia, the National Guard, or Naval Militia, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-four years who have had at least ninety days actual Federal military service under any call of the President during the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and whose fitness for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps, etc.</p></sidenote>promotion shall have been determined by examination; (third) of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps between the ages of twenty-<page identifier="/us/stat/40/45">45</page>one and twenty-seven years, of distinguished colleges as are now or may hereafter be entitled to preference by general orders of the War Department; and (sixth) of candidates from civil life between the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil life.</p></sidenote>ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years; and the President is authorized to make the necessary rules and regulations to carry these provisions into effect.”</p>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of members of Officers’ Reserve Corps, $3,090,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to small arms inspectors.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers, National Guard, including staff corps, $3,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for the purpose shall be available to pay inspectors and assistant inspectors of small-arms practice of the Organized Militia and National Guard who responded to the call of the President of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the pay and allowances appropriate to their grade from the dates they would have been entitled to pay had their services been authorized to the dates on which they were mustered out or their services were otherwise terminated; and the proper <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits authorized.</p></sidenote>accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to allow credit for any such payments which have heretofore been made to such officers from the appropriation from which made.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>enlisted men of the line.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $29,000,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That that paragraph of the Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marksmen, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 110, amended.</p></sidenote>and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ten), which provides for additional pay of marksmen, and so forth, is amended to read as follows:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New ratings established.</p></sidenote>as marksmen shall receive $2 per month; as sharpshooters, $3 per month; as expert riflemen, $5 per month; as second-class gunners, $2 per month; as first-class gunners, $3 per month; as expert first-class gunners, Field Artillery, $5 per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second-class, chief planters, and chief loaders, $7 per month; as plotters, observers first-class, casemate electricians, and coxswains, $9 per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section.”</p>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service of enlisted men of the line, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote>$3,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, $290,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army Reserve.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted Reserve Corps.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, National Guard, $10,000,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard.</p></sidenote></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $383,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $185,996.16.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $2,437,272.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $300,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>signal corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $1,070,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $325,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/46">46</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief of Stall.</p></sidenote>clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote>One chief clerk, at $2,250 per annum, $2,250;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $6,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Six clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $10,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve clerks, at $1,490 each per annum, $16,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventeen clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $20,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One captain of the watch, at $900 per annum. $900;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Six watchmen, at $720 each per annum, $4,320;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One gardener, at $720 per annum, $720;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One packer, at $840 per annum, $840;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief messenger, at $1,000 per annum, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three messengers, at $840 each per annum, $2,520:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen messengers, at $720 each per annum, $10,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two laborers, at $720 each per annum, $1,440;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One laborer, at $600 per annum, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five charwomen, at $240 each per annum, $1,200; in all, $104,590.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters of departments, etc.</p></sidenote>clerks and messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote>Seven clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $14,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eleven clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $19,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fourteen clerks at $1,600 each per annum, $22,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-two clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $44,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifty-seven clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $68,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty-nine clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $49,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-nine messengers, at $720 each per annum, $28,080;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $246,480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign service.</p></sidenote>Additional pay while on foreign service, $7,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote>For commutation of quarters and of heat and light, $53,742.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote>For commutation of quarters and of heat and light for field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service assignments.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty in Department forbidden.</p></sidenote>in which they are to servo:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau in the War Department.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Staff Corps.</p></sidenote>general staff corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions amended during emergency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 167, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank and precedence of Chief.</p></sidenote>For pay of officers of the General Staff Corps, $132,600: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the first paragraph of section five of the National Defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended for the period of the existing emergency to read as follows:</proviso></p>
<quotedContent>
<section class="inline"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5 </num>
<content class="inline">The General Staff Corps.—The General Staff Corps shall consist of one Chief of Staff, who shall be a general officer of the line and who shall take rank and precedence over all other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other officers.</p></sidenote>officers of the Army; two assistants to the Chief of Staff, who shall be general officers of the line, one of whom shall be the president of the Army War College; ten colonels; twelve lieutenant colonels; thirty-two majors; and thirty-four captains, to be detailed from corresponding grades in the Army as in this section hereinafter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tour of details.</p></sidenote>provided. All officers detailed in the General Staff Corps shall be detailed therein for a period of four years, unless sooner relieved. While serving in the General Staff Corps, officers may be temporarily <page identifier="/us/stat/40/47">47</page>assigned to duty with any branch of the Army. Upon being relieved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redetails limited.</p></sidenote>from duty in the General Staff Corns, officers shall return to the branch of the Army in which they hold permanent commissions, and no officer shall be eligible to a further detail in the General Staff Corps until he shall have served two years with the branch of the Army in which commissioned, except in time of actual or threatened hostilities. Section twenty-seven of the Act of Congress approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling vacancies made by details.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 755.</p></sidenote>February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall apply to each position vacated by officers below the grade of general officer detailed in the General Staff Corps.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $38,480.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>adjutant general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of The Adjutant General’s Department, $115,500. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $33,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>inspector general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Inspector General’s Department, 875,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $21,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>corps of engineers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $482,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $96,455.41.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $289,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section twenty-four of the national-defense Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate increase authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 182, amended.</p></sidenote>approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is so amended as to authorize the President to organize immediately the whole of the increase in the Ordnance Department authorized by section twelve of said Act, or such part thereof as he may deem necessary.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $63,518.23.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, $771,200. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $230,443.12.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Medical Department, $2,225,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $286,043.85.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve veterinarians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract surgeons.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurse Corps.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty reserve veterinarians at $1,700 each per annum, $68,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contract surgeons, at not exceeding $150 each per month, $24,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One superintendent, Nurse Corps, at $1,800 per annum, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nurses (female), $160,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>judge advocate general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge Advocate General ’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $75,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $13,420.</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Codification of military laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 627.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paying the expenses of clerical hire and printing and other expenses incident to the making of the revision and codification hereto fore directed, not to exceed $5,000, to be expended upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary therefor of the military laws of the United States, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote>signal corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $500,000. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $76,733.34.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of insular affairs.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $2,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p></sidenote>retired officers.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments as acting quartermasters.</p></sidenote>For pay of officers on the retired list, $2,700,000: <i>Provided</i>, That assignments which have been, or may hereafter be made, of retired officers of the Army to active duty as acting quartermasters shall be 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 264.</p></sidenote>regarded as assignments to staff duties not involving service with troops within the meaning of the Act of Congress, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity credit for active duty service.</p></sidenote><i>Provided, further</i>, That hereafter any retired officer of the Army who has been detailed to active duty, and who has since his retirement, served on active detail shall be entitled to increases of longevity pay, to be computed as provided by existing statute for the computation of longevity pay, for the time of his service before retirement and on active detail since his retirement.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote>Additional pay for length of service, $467,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Scout officers.</p></sidenote>Forty-three Philippine Scout officers, $1,040.40 each per annum, $44,737.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veterinarians.</p></sidenote>Three retired veterinarians, $5,355.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay clerks.</p></sidenote>Thirteen retired pay clerks, $21,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active duty pay.</p></sidenote>Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $145,275.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $46,225.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p></sidenote>retired enlisted men.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>>For pay of four thousand four hundred retired enlisted men, $3,100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On active duty.</p></sidenote>For pay and allowances of one hundred and fifty retired enlisted men on active duty, $21,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservists.</p></sidenote>For pay and allowances of one hundred Regular Army reservists on active duty, $54,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital matrons.</p></sidenote>Thirty hospital matrons, at $120 each per annum, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts martial, etc.</p></sidenote>For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C.</p></sidenote>>For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, etc.</p></sidenote>For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $1,100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on deposits.</p></sidenote>For interest on soldiers’ deposits, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expert accountant.</p></sidenote>For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, seacoast fortifications.</p></sidenote>For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods of not less than ten days in the offices of coast defense artillery engineers and coast defense ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators at seacoast fortifications, $16,263.80.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switch-board <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Switchboard opera tors, interior posts.</p></sidenote>operators at each interior post of the Army, $15,968.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska cable, etc., service.</p></sidenote>enlisted men of the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, and of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system for periods of not less than ten days at the rate of 35 cents per day, $30,660.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote>Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $740,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount appropriated for mileage to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for field clerks, 1916, 1917.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 629.</p></sidenote>commissioned officers, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for the payment of the mileage of Army field clerks, and field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, foreign service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>service, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted men on foreign service, $800,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one computer for Artillery Board, $2,500.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computer.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss by exchange.</p></sidenote>countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First reenlistments.</p></sidenote>the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, $150,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six months’ pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death from wounds, etc.</p></sidenote>who die while on active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one year’s pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation accidents.</p></sidenote>die as the result of aviation accidents, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers furnishing mounts.</p></sidenote>be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to make monthly payments to Jennie Carroll, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jennie Carroll.</p></sidenote>widow of James Carroll, late major, United States Army, $1,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harriet C. Carroll, mother of Maj. James Carroll.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to pay to Harriet C. Carroll, mother of the late Major James Carroll, United States Army, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $600 per annum, payable monthly.</proviso> </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to make monthly payments to Mabel H. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mabel H. Lazear.</p></sidenote>Lazear, widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to make monthly payments of $100 to John <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John R. Kissinger.</p></sidenote>R. Kissinger, late of Company D, One hundred and fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, also late of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, $1,200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>philippine scouts.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Scouts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifty-two captains, at $2,400 each per annum, $124,800.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixty-five first lieutenants, at $2,000 each per annum, $130,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixty-five second lieutenants, at $1,700 each per annum, $110,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of thirteen majors in addition to pay as captain, at $600 each per annum, $7,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $98,612.32.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men, $620,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $40,766.22.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts specified.</p></sidenote>All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corpse when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers may designate agents for disbursements, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, officers of the Quartermaster Corps accountable for public moneys may intrust such moneys to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accountability.</p></sidenote>officers to whom the moneys are intrusted, as well as the officers who intrust it to them, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence. </p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Subsistence of the Army:</inline> Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations: meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales.</p></sidenote>sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ration restrictions.</p></sidenote>rifle matches.</p></sidenote>while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors in the national rifle match:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote>period the contest is in progress shall be incurred. For payments: Of 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations, etc.</p></sidenote>commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 cents per ration ; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, at 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and general prisoners sick therein, at the rate of 40 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising;
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes for takers and cooks.</p></sidenote>for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for extraordinary <page identifier="/us/stat/40/51">51</page>expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Point cadets at Inauguration.</p></sidenote>ceremony not to exceed $4,000, which shall be immediately available; in all, $18,500,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> Regular supplies of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular quartermaster supplies.</p></sidenote>the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences ; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines authorized issues of canilles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote>authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modem batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage ; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions ; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies for schools, etc.</p></sidenote>for the post schools and libraries; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial news papers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc., for animals.</p></sidenote> mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote>orders and reports, $13,450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is <page identifier="/us/stat/40/52">52</page>impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice machines, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of products and services.</p></sidenote>purpose. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote>prescribed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the funds received rom such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants, and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra duty pay, etc.</p></sidenote>ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disciplinary bar racks guard,etc.</p></sidenote>States disciplinary barracks guard: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the extra-duty pay to the United States disciplinary barracks guard shall be at the following rates per day: Battalion sergeants major, first sergeants, mess sergeants, supply sergeants, and sergeants, 35 cents; corporals, 30 cents; cooks and mechanics, privates first class, privates, and buglers, 20 cents; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote>under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/53">53</page>officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $2,000,000.</proviso></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section eleven hundred and twenty of the Revised <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting premium repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1120/p205">R. S., sec. 1120,p.205, repealed</ref>.</p></sidenote>Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Provided further</i>, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay the account <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evening Observer, La Grande, Oreg.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote>of the La Grande Evening Observer, of La Grande, Oregon, in the sum of $51.35 for advertising and other services rendered in connection with recruitment of the Oregon National Guard, called into the Federal service by the President under date of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and ordered by Captain Lee M. Clark, Ordnance Department, Oregon National Guard, a properly detailed recruiting officer.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of the Army and its supplies:</inline> For transportation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel allowances, etc. Vol. 39, p. 217.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 902.</p></sidenote>allowance to enlisted men on discharge ; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability ; for payment of travel pay to officers of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard officers on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31 p. 902.</p></sidenote>the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one ; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diemsubsistence.</p></sidenote>those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment: of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army: for the hire of employees ; for the payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to land grant roads.</p></sidenote>of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computation.</p></sidenote>compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/54">54</page><proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full pay to excepted roads.</p></sidenote>shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of. the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals, etc.</p></sidenote>hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, etc.</p></sidenote>for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporta.</p></sidenote>and garrison purposes ; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $16,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees on harbor boats.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That $75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Point cadets at inauguration.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That of the amount herein appropriated not exceeding $15,000 may be used for extraordinary expenses of transportation of West Point cadets to Washington, District of Columbia, to attend inaugural ceremonies, and return, which sum shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, sowers, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Water and sewers at military posts:</inline> For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for m other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage:</inline> For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/55">55</page>for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for destroyed clothing.</p></sidenote>to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $28,640,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Provided</i>, That $20,100, or so much thereof as may be necessary, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jeffersonville depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery for manufacture of clothing.</p></sidenote>is hereby appropriated, in addition to the above sum, for the purchase of the necessary machinery for the manufacture of clothing in the Jeffersonville Depot of the Quartermaster Corps, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, services, and transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Combination fund constituted of moneys for.</p></sidenote>titles Subsistence of the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers:</inline> For the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p></sidenote>of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos</p>.<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open market purchases.</p></sidenote>open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standard required.</p></sidenote> no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy:</proviso> <proviso><i>And 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Polo ponies.</p></sidenote>provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such pomes shall not be used at any other place, $400,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of animals not needed.</p></sidenote>upon the approval of this Act to sell for cash at either public or private sale such horses and mules as are not needed for either the Regular Army or the National Guard and the proceeds shall be turned into the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and quarters:</inline> For barracks, quarters, stables, store-houses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/56">56</page>and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available ; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes ; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks, and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For National Guard Inservice.</p></sidenote>and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chapel at Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed the sum of $18,000 of the above amount may be used for the construction, including plumbing, heating, and lighting, of a chapel at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, to be open to the use of all denominations, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation restrictions.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote><i>And provided further</i>, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jeffersonville Depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for clothing machinery.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That $9,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, in addition to the above sum, for the purchase or alterations and additions to buildings at Jeffersonville Depot of the Quartermaster Corps, for the installation of machinery for the manufacture of clothing, to be immediately available:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Sam Houston, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of nurses’ dormitory, increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 638.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That the limit of cost of the nurses’ dormitory at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, be increased to not more than $30,000, including the heating and lighting fixtures, which sum shall be paid from the appropriation for Construction and Repair of Hospitals in the bill for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land for extending reservation, etc.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to purchase such parcels of land, not less than one thousand one hundred and eighty acres, adjoining the military reservation of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as may be needed for the uses of said post, considering present and future needs, and such as may be suitable for encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the mobile army of the United St ates or parts thereof ; and for the purposes of this Act there is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $330,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postexchanges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Military post exchanges:</inline> For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including re<page identifier="/us/stat/40/57">57</page>pairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage:</inline> For the construction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p></sidenote>and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves ; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presidio of San Francisco,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site of Palace of Fine Arts conveyed to California University,</p> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 863.</p></sidenote>in his discretion, to convey to the regents of the University of California, their successors and assigns, for art, educational, and park purposes, that portion of the military reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, in the city and county of San Francisco, California, on which the Palace of Fine Arts is located, included within metes and bounds described as follows, namely: Commencing at the point on the westerly line of Lyon Street, distant therefrom five and seventeen one-hundredths feet southerly from the northerly line of Bay Street, if extended and produced Westerly, and running thence northerly along the westerly line of Lyon Street one thousand one hundred and ninety-six and eighty one-hundredths feet; thence southwesterly on a curve to the left of six hundred and twelve feet radius, central angle one hundred and fifty-five degrees forty-seven minutes and fifty seconds, tangent to a line deflected one hundred and two degrees six minutes and five seconds to the left from the preceding course a distance of one thousand six hundred and sixty-four and thirteen one-hundredths feet to the westerly line of Lyon Street and the point of commencement, containing nine and ninety-three <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion for non user.</p></sidenote>one-hundredths acres, more or less:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if at any time in the future the property so conveyed to said regents shall cease to be used for the purposes for which conveyed, then all right and title thereto herein authorized to be granted to said regents shall revert to the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands from University in exchange.</p></sidenote> consideration of the said grant the said regents shall procure, to be conveyed to the United States, for use m connection with said military reservation, other lands situated within the city and county of San Francisco, California, located as the Secretary of War may approve and which he may deem satisfactory and useful in connection with said reservation, the title thereto to be subject to the approval of the Attorney General of the United States as required by law.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the transfer of wharf numbered two in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of wharves with Navy.</p></sidenote>city of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, now owned by the Navy Department, to the War Department, in exchange for wharf numbered one, now owned by the War Department, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend from the funds above appropriated so much thereof as may be necessary in fitting up both wharves suitable for the needs of both departments.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction, repair, and maintenance, military and post <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, bridges, and trails.</p></sidenote>roads, bridges, and trails, Alaska:</inline> For the construction, repair, and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, $500,000, to remain available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands:</inline> Continuing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote>the work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/58">58</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelter in China.</p></sidenote>post administration purposes, and for shelter and repair thereof, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on officers’ quarters.</p></sidenote>rentals for the United States troops in China, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer the sum of $8,000; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, 46,000; and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, $4,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and repair of hospitals:</inline> For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary hospitals, etc.</p></sidenote>of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified allotments.</p></sidenote>and cantonments, $750,000, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 may be used to build a modern hospital at Fort Ward, Washington; $100,000 to build a modern hospital at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; $90,000 to enlarge the Walter Reed General Hospital; $90,000 to build a modern hospital at Fort McPherson, Georgia; and $60,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost restriction.</p></sidenote>to build an officers’ infirmary at Fort Bayard, New Mexico: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no building or structure of a permanent nature, the cost of which shall exceed $30,000, shall hereafter be erected for use as an Army hospital unless by special authority of Congress.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for hospital stewards.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Quarters for hospital stewards:</inline> For construction and repair of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, $25,000.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting galleries and ranges.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Shooting galleries and ranges:</inline> For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galories to be open as far as practicable to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vancouver Barracks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target range appropriation continued available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 638.</p></sidenote>National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $45,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $100,000 appropriated for the acquisition of a target range of approximately five hundred and four acres of land situated near the city of Vancouver, and for the construction thereon of target butts, range buildings, and so forth, under “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be available <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary use.</p></sidenote>for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:</proviso> <proviso> <i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, use said appropriation or any part thereof for the purchase only, and not for the purchase and improvement of a larger tract than that mentioned above, provided only the same shall be conveniently reachable from large centers of population as well as from Vancouver, Washington.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance, Army War College:</inline> For supplying the necessary fuel for heating the Army War College building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at $1,400 per annum; and assistant engineer, at $900; four firemen, at $720 each; one elevator conductor, at $720; in all, $10,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of buildings, D. C.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Rent of buildings, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Field medical supply depot, $7,967.10;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Signal Corps test rooms, $2,100;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quartermaster stable, $2,700;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quartermaster storehouse, $4,938;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quartermaster stable and warehouse, $3,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Army Medical School, $7,920;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For attending surgeon and retiring board, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depot quartermaster office, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Garage, Quartermaster Corps, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Claims for damages to and loss of private property:</inline> For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target practice damage claims.</p></sidenote>payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, and operations of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement, etc.</p></sidenote>That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, $5,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of additional lands.</p></sidenote>directed to acquire, by purchase, for the Gettysburg National Military Park the land composing the right of way of the Gettysburg Railway Company (the rails, ties, and superstructure of same to remain the property of the Gettysburg Railway Company and to be removed by the said company as required by the Secretary of War), said right of way embracing the tracts known as the Amos Leister
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> tracts, the F. G. Pfeffer tracts, the Jacob Benner estate tract, the Simon J. Godori tract, the Jacob Masonheimer tract, the Annie E. Beecher tract, the Rosanna E. Wible tract, the James W. Timbers tract, the S. W. Crawford tracts, the William H. Tipton tract, the Calvin P. Krise tract, the George Bushman tract, and the Peter D. Swisher tract within the limits of the battle field of Gettysburg and within the limits of the Gettysburg National Military Park for the sum of $30,000, that being the amount awarded in condemnation proceedings in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, which sum is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for such purchase.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Vocational training:</inline> For the employment of the necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational education.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of instructors, tools, etc.</p></sidenote>civilian instructors in the most important trades, for the purchase of carpenter’s, machinist’s, plumber’s, mason’s, electrician’s, and such other tools and equipment as may be required, including machines used in connection with the trades, for the purchase of material and other supplies necessary for instruction and framing purposes and the construction of such buildings needed for vocational training in agriculture for shops, storage, and shelter of machinery as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section twenty-seven of the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 186.</p></sidenote>Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in the active service, means for securing an opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations, part of this instruction to consist of vocational education either in agriculture or the mechanic arts, $250,000: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection of regiments at continental posts.</p></sidenote>War may, in his discretion, in order to carry out the last provision, select one or more and not exceeding three regiments of Infantry, Cavalry, or Field Artillery to be stationed at a regimental post within the continental limits of the United States on or before July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and may transfer from such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers of men not desiring instruction, etc.</p></sidenote> regiment to other organizations any enlisted man or men who do not desire educational or vocational training and instruction such as is <page identifier="/us/stat/40/60">60</page>contemplated by the concluding paragraph of section twenty-seven of the National Defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and may transfer thereto from other organizations a number of enlisted men to be selected under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe who do desire such instruction and training or may receive recruits thereto sufficient to bring the enlisted strength <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for military and educational training.</p></sidenote>of the regiment up to that authorized by law. During such part of the year Beginning July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter as the enlisted men of the regiment so selected shall not be engaged on field service or in field t raining they shall be under training or instruction nine hours of each day, or as near that number of hours as possible, Sundays and holidays excepted, at least three hours of each day to be devoted to military training and six hours of each day, or as nearly that as possible, to educational and vocational training and instruction such as is contemplated by the concluding paragraph of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian instructors.</p></sidenote>section twenty-seven of the National Defense Act. The educational and vocational training to be had under civilian instructors employed for that purpose under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations controlling.</p></sidenote>War shall prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That said civilian instructors, as well as the discipline of the said post, shall be under the jurisdiction of the military authorities, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing equipment for Army correspondence.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Filing equipment for the Army:</inline> For the purchase and supply of filing cases and other filing equipment for the installation in the Military Establishment of an improved system of recording and filing correspondence, to be immediately available, $45,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>medical department.</heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 597.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Medical and Hospital Department:</inline> For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation, and disinfectants, and the purchase and exchange of typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mosquito destruction.</p></sidenote>and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motorambulances.</p></sidenote>military posts in the Canal Zone:<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private treatment.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases, expenses.</p></sidenote>are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other</proviso>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/61">61</page>employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.</p></sidenote>Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $1,000,000.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons:</inline> For paying the Panama <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of troops at hospitals in.</p></sidenote>Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military authority: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence p a ymeats.</p></sidenote>That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals, $35,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army Medical Museum and Library</inline>: For Army Medical Museum,
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Museum.</p></sidenote> preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the library of the Surgeon General’s office, including the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>of the necessary books of reference and periodicals, $10,000; in all, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Care of insane Filipino soldiers:</inline> For care, maintenance, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane soldiers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote>treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformable to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page one hundred and twenty-two), $1,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of insular affairs. 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Insular Affairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Care of insane soldiers, Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry:</inline><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico.</p></sidenote>For care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, $300.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer depots:</inline> For incidental expenses for the depots, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses of depots.</p></sidenote>fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, laborers, and other employees, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers,lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for lumber and materials and for labor for packing and crating engineer supplies; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and instruments, and for unforeseen expenses, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia:</inline> Equipment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer School, Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>and maintenance of the Engineer School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase and repair of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating on military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote>hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/62">62</page>electricians, mechanics, and laborers; compensation of civilian lecturers and payment of tuition fees of student officers at civil technical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel expenses.</p></sidenote>institutions ; for unforeseen expenses ; for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Secretary of War and made for the purpose 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ini lieu of milcage, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Textbooks, etc.</p></sidenote>of instruction: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, $30,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of troops.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer equipment of troops:</inline> For pontoon material, tools, instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, to be immediately available, $1,174,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motorcycles.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That authority is granted for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation from this appropriation of not to exceed seventy-eight motorcycles, including those on hand.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian assistants.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Civilian assistants to Engineer officers:</inline> For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers, master laborers, and clerks to Engineer officers on the staffs of division, corps, and department commanders, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field operation expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer operations in the field:</inline> For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso></i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of prior appropriations,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 641.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appropriations for “Engineer operations in the field,” during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, may be used for any of the purposes covered by the appropriation “ Engineer operations in the field” in this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Engineer Department, Philippine Islands:</inline>For contingent expenses incident to the operations of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer School. etc.,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of buildings.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings, Engineer School and post, Washington, District of Columbia:</inline> For continuing construction of buildings for Engineer School and post at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $202,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military surveys and maps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Military surveys and maps:</inline> For the execution of topographic or other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, to be immediately available and remain available <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government offices to assist.</p></sidenote>until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work, and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation, $200,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence out of Washington.</p></sidenote>Where the expenses of persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty are chargeable to appropriations of the Engineer Department contained in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, a per diem rate of $4 may be allowed in lieu of subsistence.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Service:</inline> For the current expenses of the Ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office ; subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores, ammunition:</inline> Manufacture and purchase of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for small arms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture and purchase of.</p></sidenote>ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and soldiers’ and sailors’ State home, $12,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than one-half of this sum shall be expended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for purchases.</p></sidenote>in the purchase of the articles provided in this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Small-arms target practice:</inline> For manufacture and purchase of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small-arms target practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, targets, etc.</p></sidenote>ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At educational institutions.</p></sidenote>educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Manufacture of arms</inline>: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p></sidenote>and issuing arms at the national armories, $6,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than twenty per centum of this sum shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for purchases.</p></sidenote>be expended in the purchase of arms.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $200,000 of this appropriation may be used to procure gauges, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tools. etc., for manufacture by private parties.</p></sidenote>dies, jigs, tools, fixtures, and other special aids and appliances, including specifications and detailed drawings, necessary for the manufacture by private manufacturers, of arms necessary to arm the land forces likely to be required by the United States in time of war, and in the purchase of lots of arms to complete the object of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Competition modified.</p></sidenote>proviso the existing laws prescribing competition in the procurement of supplies by purchase shall not govern in orders not to exceed $50,000 in any one case.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores and supplies:</inline> For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc,, ordnance.</p></sidenote>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, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote>Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $10,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $6,000,000 of this appropriation may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for purchases.</p></sidenote>be used for the purchase of ordnance stores.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National trophy and medals for rifle contests:</inline> For the purpose <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle contests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trophy, medals, prizes, etc.</p></sidenote>of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to <page identifier="/us/stat/40/64">64</page>be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or Organized Militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, members of rifle clubs, and civilians, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice throughout the United States, including the reimbursement of necessary expenses of members of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men as instructors.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize the detail of enlisted men of the Army as temporary instructors in rifle practice to organized rifle clubs requesting such instruction.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic machine rifles.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic machine rifles:</inline> For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, to be immediately available and remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armored motor cars.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Armored motor cars:</inline> For the purchase and manufacture of armored motor cars, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 644.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the funds appropriated by the appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the procurement of armored motor cars, are hereby made available to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic machine rifles, for National Guard.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic machine rifles for National Guard:</inline> For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including them sights and equipments, for the National Guard, to be immediately available, and to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $2,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antiaircraft guns.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Antiaircraft guns:</inline> For the procurement and test of antiaircraft guns and devices, including their carriages, sights, implements, and equipments, to be immediately available and to remain available the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ammunition for antiaircraft guns:</inline> For the procurement and test of ammunition for antiaircraft guns and devices, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, to be immediately available and to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery material for.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Field artillery for National Guard:</inline> For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring field artillery material for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the maimer now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the National Guard; and the sum of $10,000,000 is hereby appropriated and made immediately available for the manufacture, procurement, and issue of the articles constituting the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery ammunition.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard: </inline>For the purpose of manufacturing and procuring reserve ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, the funds to be immediately <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tools, etc., for manufacture by private parties.</p></sidenote>available, $10,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $200,000 of this appropriation may be used to procure gauges, dies, jigs, tools, fixtures, and other special aids and appliances, including specifica<page identifier="/us/stat/40/65">65</page>tions and detailed drawings necessary for the manufacture by private manufacturers of field artillery ammunition necessary for the use of the land forces of the United States in time of war, and in the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Competition modified.</p></sidenote>of lots of ammunition to complete the object of this proviso the existing laws prescribing competition in the procurement of supplies by purchase shall not govern in orders not to exceed $50,000 in any one case.</proviso></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter any civilian employee of the Ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves of absence to civilian employees at stations abroad.</p></sidenote>Department who is a citizen of the United States and employed at any station outside the continental limits of the United States may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, after at least two years’ continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service abroad, and subject to the interests of the public service, be granted accrued leave of absence, with pay, for each year of service, and if an employee <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumulation allowed.</p></sidenote>should elect to postpone the taking of any or all of the leave to which he may be entitled in pursuance hereof such leave may be allowed to accumulate for a period of not exceeding four years, the rate of pay for accrued leave to be the rate obtaining at the time the leave is granted.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all material purchased under the appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material to be of American manufacture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>for the Ordnance Department in this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.</proviso> </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That mileage to officers of the Ordnance Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of mileage from work.</p></sidenote> traveling on duty in connection with that department shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That if during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance limitations waived during emergency.</p></sidenote>in the opinion of the President an emergency exists affecting the general welfare of the United States he may waive the limitations contained in the paragraphs relating respectively to ordnance stores, ammunition, manufacture of arms, ordnance stores and supplies, and ammunition for field artillery for the National Guard.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national guard.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard:</inline> To <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arming, equipping, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote>provide for the procurement of forage, bedding, shoeing, veterinary service and supplies for horses and pack mules that may be owned, acquired by, or issued to organizations of the National Guard, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to transfer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of draft animals from Regular Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 634.</p></sidenote>to those organizations of the National Guard entitled thereto such number of horses and pack mules purchased by the Quarter-master Corps of the Army under the provisions of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, not required for the proper equipment of organizations of the Regular Army, that can be issued to National Guard organizations under the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War, all expenses incident to such transfer to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>met from appropriations made for and on behalf of the National Guard; pack mules so transferred may be issued not to exceed six 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issues limited.</p></sidenote>to any one radio company, machine-gun troop or company, or four to any one ambulance company, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the compensation of competent help for the care <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of enlisted men for care, etc.</p></sidenote>of matériel, animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the men to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details authorized.</p></sidenote>be compensated, not to exceed five for each battery, troop, or company, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/66">66</page>battery, troop, or company commander under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, $500,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Participation in encampments, maneuvers, etc.</p></sidenote>To provide for the participation of the whole or any part of the National Guard in encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises, including outdoor target practice and field and coast defense instruction, either independently or in conjunction with any part of the Regular <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and allowances.</p></sidenote>Army, and there may be set aside from the funds apportioned for that purpose and allotted to any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia such portion of said funds as may be necessary for the payment, subsistence, transportation, and other proper expenses of such portion of the National Guard of said State, Territory, or the District of Columbia as shall participate in such encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises, including outdoor target practice and field and coast defense instruction; and the officers and enlisted men of such National Guard while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as officers and enlisted men of corresponding grades of the Regular Army are or hereafter may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction camps, conducted by Army officers.</p></sidenote>entitled to by law. To provide for camps of instruction for the instruction of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard. Such camps shall be conducted by officers of the Regular Army detailed by the Secretary of War for the purpose, and may be located either within or without the State, Territory, or District of Columbia to which the members of the National Guard designated to attend said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay for attendance, etc.</p></sidenote>camps shall belong. Officers and enlisted men attending such camps shall be entitled to pay and transportation and enlisted men to subsistence in addition at the same rates as for encampments or maneuvers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursed for encampment expenses, 1914.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1661/p290">R.S.,sec.l661,p.290</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 449.</p></sidenote>for field and coast defense instruction, $1,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That from the sum appropriated by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia, the sum of $14.409.98, proportioned to the State of Georgia for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred by said State over and above the allotments made by the Secretary of War to the State of Georgia from all appropriations therefor in connection with the joint encampment held at Augusta, Georgia, July twenty-second to thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and instructed to pay over said amount to the governor of said State of Georgia for said purpose.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursed for camp, etc., expenses, 1910,1911.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1661/p290">R. S.,sec.1661, p. 290</ref>
.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 449.</p></sidenote>That from the sum appropriated by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia, the sum of $812.60 out of the sum proportioned to the State of Oklahoma for the year nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen be, and the same is hereby, made available for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred by said State over and above the allotments made by the Secretary of War to the State of Oklahoma from all appropriations therefor in connection with the construction of the State rifle range at Chandler or the encampment held in Oklahoma in the year nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay over said amount to the governor of said State of Oklahoma for said purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of Army troops.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this sum so much thereof as may be necessary is authorized to be expended for the payment of transportation of troops of the Regular Army in connection with joint camps of instruction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard Resserves.</p></sidenote>of the National Guard:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this sum as much thereof as may be necessary is authorized to be expended for the pay, transportation, and subsistence of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard Reserve as may be authorized by the Secretary of
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/67">67</page>War under the law to attend encampments, maneuvers, or other exercises of the National Guard.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the attendance of selected officers or enlisted men of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction at Army schools.</p></sidenote>the National Guard who pursue a regular course of study at any military service school of the United States except the United States Military Academy; or to be attached to an organization of the same <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At posts.</p></sidenote>arm, corps, or department to which such officers or enlisted men shall belong, for routine practical instruction at or near an Army post during a period of field training or other outdoor exercises; and such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments for pay, etc.</p></sidenote>officers or enlisted men shall receive out of any National Guard allotment of funds available for the purpose, the same travel allowances and quarters or commutation of quarters, and the same pay, allowance, and subsistence to which officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army would be entitled for attending such school, college, or practical course of instruction under orders from proper military authority while in actual attendance at such school, college, or practical course of instruction: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in no case shall the pay and allowances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay limit.</p></sidenote>authorized herein exceed those of a captain, $150,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for pay and allowances of officers of the National Guard <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers assigned to Militia Bureau.</p></sidenote>assigned to duty in the Militia Bureau, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for pay of property and disbursing officers of the several <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property and disbursing officers.</p></sidenote>States, Territories, and District of Columbia, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, camp <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, military stores, etc., for practice, encampments, etc.</p></sidenote>equipage, and all other military supplies for issue to the National Guard; for the promotion of rifle practice, including the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and equipment of shooting galleries and suitable target ranges; for the hire of horses and draft animals for the use of mounted troops, batteries, and wagons; for forage for the same; and for such other incidental expenses in connection with lawfully authorized encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction as the Secretary of War may deem necessary; and for such other expenses pertaining to the National Guard as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law, $2,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $125,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands for Field Artillery camps, etc.</p></sidenote>of said sum shall be available for procurement by purchase or condemnation of lands in the Eastern and Western Departments for encampments and ranges for Field Artillery of the Regular Army and the National Guard.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of a rifle range for the use of the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle range tor.</p></sidenote>Columbia National Guard, upon a suitable site to be selected by the Secretary of War, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when any land which has been heretofore or may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of target ranges, etc., unavailable.</p></sidenote>be hereafter acquired by purchase for a target range for the use of the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, shall have become useless or shall be found to be unavailable for such purpose, the Secretary of War may cause the same to be sold either in whole or in two or more parts as he may deem best for the interests of the United States. In the disposal of such property, the s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisal, sale, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary of War shall cause the same to be appraised either as a whole or in two or more tracts, having due reference to the requirements of any permanent improvements made thereon; and he shall cause the property to be offered at public or private sale at not less than the appraised value. The expenses for advertising, appraisement, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of proceeds, etc.</p></sidenote>survey, and sale shall be paid from the proceeds of trie sale; and the net proceeds thereof shall be placed to the credit of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia, as additional to its allotment under section sixty-seven of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel of Army officers for inspection, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 206.</p></sidenote>Army in carrying out the provisions of section ninety-three, Act of June third, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 199.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixteen, $25,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/68">68</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors, joining at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $15,000; </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armory Inspection, etc.</p></sidenote>Travel of inspector-instructors and sergeant-instructors, in making visits of instruction and inspection to armories, $130,000:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said inspector-instructors traveling shall not receive more than their actual expenses out of these appropriations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction and joint camps.</p></sidenote>Travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with State camps of instruction and joint camps, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target, etc., inspection.</p></sidenote>Inspection of target ranges and mobilization camps for use of the National Guard, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material inspection.</p></sidenote>Inspection of material pertaining to Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, and Signal Corps in the hands of the National Guard, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting supplies.</p></sidenote>Transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals issued for the use of Cavalry, Field Artillery, signal companies, engineer companies, ambulance companies, and other mounted units) of the National Guard, $200,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant instructors, etc.</p></sidenote>Expenses of sergeant instructors on duty with the National Guard, including quarters, fuel, light, medicines, and medical attendance, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office rent and other necessary expenses of inspector-instructors, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offices.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever practicable inspector-instructors shall use the State armories or other public buildings for offices.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote>All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stair corps included in National Guard.</p></sidenote>and training the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as such and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, shall include such officers and enlisted men of the Staff Corps and Departments, corresponding to those of the Regular Army, as may be authorized by the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, etc., for field service.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, National Guard: </inline>To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery material, engineer, signal, and sanitary material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supply.</p></sidenote>kinds, including public animals, and a reserve supply of such arms, material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard in the several States, Territories, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation instruction allowance.</p></sidenote>and the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum herein appropriated $76,000, or so much thereof as may be required, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be made available for the purchase and maintenance of material and equipment necessary for the proper instruction in military aviation of such officers and enlisted men of the National Guard as may be authorized by the War Department to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for reserve supply.</p></sidenote>attend the United States Aviation School, $7,000,000:</proviso> <i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $3,000,000 out of this appropriation shall be used solely for the purpose of securing the reserve supply herein provided for.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Infantry equipment. Issue, etc., of new.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Supplying and exchanging Infantry equipment, National Guard:</inline> For the purpose of manufacturing, procuring, exchanging, and issuing model of nineteen hundred and ten equipment to the Infantry and other dismounted organizations of the National Guard <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso, </i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requisitions, etc.</p></sidenote>of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever in the opinion of the Secretary of War a sufficient number of Infantry equipment, model of nineteen hundred and ten, shall have been procured and shall be available for the purpose <page identifier="/us/stat/40/69">69</page>the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue on the requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, such numbers thereof as are required for equipping the National Guard in said States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without charging the cost or value thereof or any expenses connected therewith, against any allotments to said States,Territories, or the District of Columbia, provided that the equipment thus issued shall be receipted for and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipt, accounting, etc.</p></sidenote>shall remain the property of the United States and be annually accounted for in the manner prescribed by the Act of June third, nine-teen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, p.204.</p></sidenote>hundred and sixteen, and that each State, Territory, and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of prior issues.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia shall, upon receipt of new equipment, turn in to the Ordnance Department of the United States Army, without receiving any money credit therefor and without expense for transportation of Infantry equipment now in its possession, the property of the United States, and replaced by articles of the model of nineteen hundred and ten equipment, $1,200,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any funds appropriated under section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of former appropriations limited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1661/p290">R.S.,sec. 1661, p. 290</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 449.</p></sidenote>sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen or former years and remaining on August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to the credit of any State, the Territory of Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, shall remain available only to the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen for expenditures authorized by law.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rifle ranges for civilian instruction.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle ranges for civilians.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To establish and maintain indoor and outdoor rifle ranges for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of maintaining, etc.</p></sidenote>use of all able-bodied males capable of bearing arms, under reasonable regulations to be prescribed by the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War; for the employment of labor in connection with the establishment of outdoor ana indoor rifle ranges, including labor in operating targets; for the employment of instructors; for clerical services; for badges and other insignia ; for the transportation of employees, instructors, and civilians to engage in practice; for the purchase of materials, supplies, and services, and for expenses incidental to instruction of citizens of the United States in marksmanship, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and to remain available until expended, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For arms, ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, ammunition, etc., for target practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, p. 211.</p></sidenote>practice for issue in connection with the encouragement of rifle practice in pursuance of the provisions of section one hundred and thirteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That out of said sum of $300,000 there shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting teams.</p></sidenote>used for the payment of transportation of teams authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in the national matches not to exceed $60,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this amount shall be proportioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportion of travel expenses.</p></sidenote>among the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, according to the distance from the seat of Government to the place where the national matches are to be held:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of teams.</p></sidenote>That the governors of the States, Territories, or the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate which team or teams shall attend from their respective States, Territories, or District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>civilian military training.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian military training.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of instruction camps, etc.</p></sidenote>or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under <page identifier="/us/stat/40/70">70</page>such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection therewith, including textbooks and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments, transportation, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 194.</p></sidenote>stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly pay while training.</p></sidenote>$3,281,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized out of this appropriation to pay to persons designated by him for training as officers in the Army during the period of their training the sum of not to exceed $100 per month in addition to the allowances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>authorized by said section fifty-four:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That they shall agree to accept appointment in the Officers’ Reserve Corps in such grade as may be tendered by the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel pay to citizens attending camps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 194, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage rate allowed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That so much of section fifty-four of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as relates to the transportation of citizens who, conformably to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, attend training camps be, and the same is hereby amended so as to provide that said citizens shall be paid as traveling allowances three and one-half cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances for returning.</p></sidenote>That the payment of travel pay for the return journey may be made in advance of the actual performance of travel.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, ammunition, etc., for issue.</p></sidenote>For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps for civilians in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-four of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device over job of employee.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash rewards, etc.</p></sidenote>upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizenship.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Required of Army officers appointed in time of peace.</p></sidenote>That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any person hereafter, in time of peace, appointed an officer in the Army who is not a citizen of the United States.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council of National Defense.</p></sidenote>council of national defense</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental work, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p.649.</p></sidenote>For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies, for the employment of a director, expert and clerical expenses, for rental of quarters, and for the necessary sup<page identifier="/us/stat/40/71">71</page>plies, and for the necessary expenses of members of the council, of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies going to and attending meetings of the commission or subordinate bodies, there is hereby appropriated the unexpended balance remaining on hand June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, of the appropriation of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 650.</p></sidenote>$200,000 appropriated by the act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this appropriation there shall be available during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office rent, D. C.</p></sidenote>the current fiscal year for the rent of offices in the District of Columbia the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</proviso></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reserve corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster supplies and equipment for Reserve Officers’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of quartermaster supplies to institutions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 191.</p></sidenote>Training Corps:</inline> For the procurement and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained, such public animals, uniforms, equipment, and means of transportation as be may deem necessary, and to forage at the expense of the United States public animals so issued; for transporting said animals and other authorized equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and return of same to place of issue <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction camps.</p></sidenote>when necessary; for the maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of subsistence.</p></sidenote>the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at such rate, not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 193.</p>s<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount immediately available.</p></sidenote>authorized in the act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,385,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $1,215,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation for uniforms if supplied by Institutions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance stores and equipment.</p></sidenote>and under such regulations as he may prescribe, permit such institutions to furnish their own uniforms and receive as commutation therefor the sum allotted by the Secretary of War to such institutions for uniforms.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores and equipment for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps</inline>: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War, in his discretion, is authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts National Guard First Corps Cadets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designated in senior division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>to designate the First Corps Cadets of the National Guard of Massachusetts as a unit of the Senior Division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the First Corps Cadets shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed under the provisions of the National Defense Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or amendments thereto, relating to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the drill and instruction, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drill, etc., waived.</p></sidenote>including indoor target practice, required of the First Corps Cadets as a National Guard organization is hereby waived:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the privileges and benefits extended by existing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special organization privileges continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 198.</p></sidenote> law to National Guard organizations, including those organizations provided for in section sixty-three of the National Defense Act of one third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be continued in full force and effect.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/72">72</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leave of absence,etc., to Government employees when serving in.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all officers and employees of the United States or of the District of Columbia who shall be members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps shall be entitled to leave of absence from their respective duties, without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating, on all days during which they shall be ordered to duty with troops or at field exercises, or for instruction, for periods not to exceed fifteen days in any one calendar year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restored to positions when relieved.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps who are in the employ of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia and who are ordered to duty by proper authority shall, when relieved from duty, be restored to the positions held by them when ordered to duty.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gratuitous services by members accepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 49, not applicable.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That section three of the Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, ‘‘An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years and for other purposes, ” shall not be construed to prohibit the Secretary of War from accepting the gratuitous services of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army in the furtherance of the enrollment, organization, and training of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army or in consultation upon matters relating to the military service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of quartermaster supplies to, when in service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 195.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster supplies and equipment for Enlisted Reserve Corps:</inline> For providing, procuring, and issue to the Enlisted Reserve Corps in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-five of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, except as provided for under appropriation “Pay of the Army,” when assigned as reserves to particular organizations of the Regular Army, or organized into units or detachments of any arm, corps, or department, and when ordered to active service for purposes of instruction and training; fuel, light, forage, subsistence, including commutation of rations when traveling, rosettes, uniforms, equipage, and such other necessary supplies as may be authorized by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary of War; transporting members of said corps from homes to the places to which ordered and return to their homes; transporting supplies and equipment required; maintaining camps and providing the necessary kitchens, mess shelters, latrines, and screening; for the procurement of water and disposal of garbage and sewerage in connection with such camp, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal equipment for the Enlisted Reserve Corps:</inline> For the purchase of signal equipment for the Enlisted Reserve Corps, authorized by the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal equipment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools and colleges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster supplies for training in other.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 197.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges:</inline> For the procurement and supply as provided in section fifty-six of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of such tentage and equipment, including the transporting of same, as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training to schools and colleges other than those <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 192.</p></sidenote>provided for in section forty-seven of the Act above referred to, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 197.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges:</inline> For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $500,000:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 176, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 661.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section fifteen of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments authorized.</p></sidenote>be amended so as to read as follows: “<quotedText>The President is authorized <page identifier="/us/stat/40/73">73</page>to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, chaplains in the Army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in service, one for each regiment of Cavalry, Infantry, Field Artillery, and Engineers, and one for each one thousand two hundred officers and men of the Coast Artillery Corps, with rank, pay, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferences omitted.</p></sidenote>allowances as now authorized by law.</quotedText>”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That section twenty-four of the Act of June third, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of Army personnel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 183, amended.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” be amended so as to add the following proviso: “<quotedText>That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second lieutenants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limit waived in designated cases.</p></sidenote>the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to waive the age limit in all cases where the candidate for second lieutenant, who being within the maximum age limit at the date of examination has passed or may pass the examination, and who has become or may become ineligible on account of age before the date of his appointment; and to appoint such candidate with rank from the same date as other candidates of like class who have been or may be appointed as the result of the same examination: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such appointment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>is made within one year from the date of such examination</proviso>.</quotedText>”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any former officer of the Regular Army, the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility of former officers for appointment in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 189.</p></sidenote>Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, under the ago of sixty-four years and who has resigned or been honorably discharged from the service after a total commissioned service of not less than three years in in either the Regular Army, the Volunteer Army, the Organized Militia, or the National Guard, may, upon such examination and within such age limits as may be prescribed by the President, be appointed and commissioned, in the discretion of the President, in any appropriate arm, staff corps, department or section of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, with rank not more than one grade higher than any previously held by the officer in either of said forces, but in no case above that of lieutenant colonel.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the following language of section five of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Staff Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 167, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of details in District of Columbia may be waived during present emergency.</p></sidenote>the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” to wit: “Not more than one-half of all of the officers detailed in said corps shall at any time be stationed, or assigned to or employed upon any duty, m or near the District of Columbia,” be amended so as to authorize the President to suspend the operation of the same during the existing emergency.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That on the sale or other disposal, in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Meade”and “Crook.” To be given American registry.</p></sidenote>with law and regulations, of the United States Army transports Meade and Crook, the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized, on request of the Secretary of War, to issue to either or both of said vessels a register as a vessel of the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the second proviso of section thirty-seven of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 189, amended.</p></sidenote>the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” be amended as follows:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissions to registered colonels and lieu tenant colonels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 778.</p></sidenote>That any person who on June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, was carried as qualified and registered in the grade of colonel or lieutenant colonel pursuant to the provisions of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, or any person holding a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service in National Guard under call of 1916, added.</p></sidenote>commission as colonel or lieutenant colonel in the National Guard of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia on June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, who has served satisfactorily as such in the service of the United States under the call of May ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or that of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, may be commissioned or recommissioned in the Officers’ Reserve Corps with rank for which he had been found qualified and registered, or which he held in the National Guard on June <page identifier="/us/stat/40/74">74</page>third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or while in the service of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office to cease when vacated.</p></sidenote>United States; but when such person shall become thereafter separated from the Officers’ Reserve Corps for any reason, the vacancy so caused shall not be filled and such office shall cease and determine:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of lower grade.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That any officer of the Officers’ Reserve Corps called for service with his consent in a lower grade than that held by him in said Reserve Corps shall, subject to such physical examination as may be prescribed, be considered eligible for recommission in such lower grade.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly payment of employees, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 276, repealed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the following provision contained in the Act approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, “Hereafter all employees of the Ordnance Department whose compensation is annual shall be paid monthly,” is hereby repealed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenlistments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions under call of 1916.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the enlisted men who were discharged from the Army to accept a commission in the National Guard, or in any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, at the call of the President, June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be restored to their original status upon reenlisting in the Regular Army:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That they reenlist within three months from date of muster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credit.</p></sidenote>out of the United States Service, and that in computing service for retirement and continuous service pay, service as an officer in the National Guard, or hi any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, while in the service of the United States, be counted.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credit allowed hereafter.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter any enlisted man of the Army who shall be discharged to enable him to accept a commission in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, or in any National Guard or militia organization, or in any volunteer force that may be authorized in the future, and who shall enlist in the Army within three months after the termination of his connection as an officer with that corps. or with any organization of the National Guard or militia, or a volunteer force, or during the continuation of his connection therewith, as an officer, shall, in computing continuous service pay now authorized by-law, be entitled to créait for the period of time actually served by him prior to said discharge, and in computing service for retirement and continuous service pay, service as an officer of the National Guard, while in the service of the United States, service in any volunteer force, and service in the Officers’ Reserve Corps in active service shall be counted.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures for buildings, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter no expenditure exceeding $5,000 shall be made upon any building or military post or grounds about the same without the approval of the Secretary of War, upon detailed estimates submitted to him.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased compensation allowed to,receiving not more than $1,800 a year.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, all civilian employees in the Military Establishment, including on the lump-sum rolls only those persons who are carried thereon at the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall receive increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at a rate per annum of less than $1,200, and increased compensation at a rate of five per centum per annum to such employees who receive salaries or wages in such establishment at a rate of not more than $1,800 per annum and not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for.</p></sidenote>less than $1,200 per annum:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That so much as may be necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing and binding.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 622, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 762, amended.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That section eighty-seven of the printing and binding Act, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (volume twenty-eight, Revised Statutes, page six hundred and twenty-two), and section two of the act approved June thirtieth, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/75">75</page>nineteen hundred and six (volume thirty-four, Revised Statutes, page seven hundred and sixty-two), are hereby amended as follows:</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That in time of actual hostilities the Secretary of War may procure <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work by private establishments permitted in time of war.</p></sidenote>from commercial or other printing establishments, by contract or open market purchase, such printing and binding as may be required for the use of the Army and also for the National Guard of the several States and Territories and of the District of Columbia or other military forces while in the military service of the United States or about to be called into said service, payment for such printing and binding to be made from available appropriations.”</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Navasota Transfer Company, a copartnership <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navasota Transfer Company.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relieved from contracts for hay, etc.</p></sidenote>composed of J. T. Evans and A. J. Riesto, be, and is hereby, relieved from further performance of its several contracts with the Government for the supply of hay and bedding at various posts and places in the Southern Department during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in view of the changed conditions resulting from the call into the Federal service of the Organized Militia and the National Guard of the several States, such conditions having resulted in greatly enhancing the price of the supplies and in making the performance of the contract inequitable and a matter of exceptional hardship on the contractor; and said contracts shall be regarded as closed, final settlement being made with the contractor at the contract price for the supplies already delivered under the same.</proviso></p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 12, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 13: Authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which at the time of coming therein was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war, or was under register of any such nation, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>13</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-05-12</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>13.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which at the time of coming therein was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war, or was under register of any such nation, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-12">May 12, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/42">S. J. Res. 42</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/1">Pub. Res., No. 2</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President be, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels of alien enemies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession to be taken of, in United States Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote>he is hereby, authorized to take over to the United States the immediate possession and title of any vessel within the jurisdiction thereof, including the Canal Zone and all territories and insular possessions of the United States except the American Virgin Islands, which at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>the time of coming into such jurisdiction was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war when such vessel shall be taken, or was flying the flag of or was under register of any such nation or any political subdivision or municipality thereof; and, through the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation for Government service, etc.</p></sidenote>States Shipping Board, or any department or agency of the Government, to operate, lease, charter, and equip such vessel in any service of the United States, or in any commerce, foreign or coastwise.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content> That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of value.</p></sidenote>and directed to appoint, subject to the approval of the President, a board of survey, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the actual value of the vessel, its equipment, appurtenances, and all property contained therein, at the time of its taking, and to make a written report of their findings to the Secretary of the Navy, who shall preserve such report with the records of his department. These <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote>findings shall be considered as competent evidence in all proceedings on any claim for compensation.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 12, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 15: To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>15</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 76</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-18</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/76">76</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>15.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-18">May 18, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3545">H. R. 3545</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/12">Public, No. 12</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency increase.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That in view of the existing emergency, which demands the raising of troops in addition to those now available, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized—</chapeau>
<level class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="1">First. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum strength to be immediately raised, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 182.</p></sidenote>
<content>Immediately to raise, organize, officer, and equip all or such number of incremente of the Regular Army provided by the national defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or such parte thereof as he may deem necessary; to raise all organizations of the Regular Army, including those added by such increments, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary appointments to fill Army vacancies created thereby.</p></sidenote> the maximum enlisted strength authorized by law. Vacancies in the Regular Army created or caused by the addition of increments as herein authorized which can not be filled by promotion may be filled by temporary appointment for the period of the emergency or until<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisional appointments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 181.</p></sidenote> replaced by permanent appointments or by provisional appointments made under the provisions of section twenty-three of the national defense Act, approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of.</p></sidenote> hereafter provisional appointments under said section may be terminated whenever it is determined, in the manner prescribed by the President, that the officer has not the suitability and fitness requisite for permanent appointment.</content></level>
<level class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">Second. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard and Reserve, drafted into service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 211.</p></sidenote>
<content>To draft into the military service of the United States, organize, and officer, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and eleven of said national defense Act, so far as the provisions of said section may be applicable and not inconsistent with the terms of this Act, any or all members of the National Guard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> and of the National Guard Reserves, and said members so drafted into the military service of the United States shall serve therein for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State designations retained.</p></sidenote> the period of the existing emergency unless sooner discharged:<proviso> <i>Provided</i>, That when so drafted the organizations or unite of the National Guard shall, so far as practicable, retain the State designations of their respective organizations.</proviso></content></level>
<level class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">Third. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional 500,000 enlisted men to be raised by draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 894.</p></sidenote>
<content>To raise by draft as herein provided, organize and equip an additional force of five hundred thousand enlisted men, or such part or parts thereof as he may at any time deem necessary, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection of officers.</p></sidenote> to provide the necessary officers, line and staff, for said force and for organizations of the other forces hereby authorized, or by combining organizations of said other forces, by ordering members of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 190.</p></sidenote> the Officers’ Reserve Corps to temporary duty in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-eight of the national defense Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc.</p></sidenote> approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen; by appointment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 779.</p></sidenote> from the Regular Army, the Officers’ Reserve Corps, from those duly qualified and registered pursuant to section twenty-three of the Act of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and seventy-five), from the members of the National Guard drafted into the service of the United States, from those who have been graduated from educational institutions at which military instruction is compulsory, or from those who have had honorable service in the Regular Army, the National Guard, or in the volunteer forces, or from the country at large; by assigning retired officers of the Regular Army to active duty with such force with their rank on the retired list and the full pay and allowances of their grade; or by the appointment of retired officers and enlisted men, active or retired, of the Regular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To correspond with Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes of typical organizations authorized.</p></sidenote> Army as commissioned officers in such forces: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the organization of said force shall be the same as that of the corresponding organizations of the Regular Army:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the President is authorized to increase or decrease the number of organizations prescribed for the typical brigades, divisions, or army corps of the Regular Army, and to prescribe such new and different<page identifier="/us/stat/40/77">77</page>organizations and personnel for army corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, squadrons, companies, troops, and batteries as the efficiency of the service may require:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regimental, retained.</p></sidenote> number of organizations in a regiment shall not be increased nor shall the number of regiments be decreased:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machine-gun companies.</p></sidenote> the President in his discretion may organize, officer, and equip for each Infantry and Cavalry brigade three machine-gun companies, and for each Infantry and Cavalry division four machine-gun companies, all in addition to the machine-gun companies comprised in organizations included in such brigades and divisions:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armored motor-car companies.</p></sidenote> That the President in his discretion may organize for each division one armored motor-car machine-gun company. The machine-gun<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personnel.</p></sidenote> companies organized under this section shall consist of such commissioned and enlisted personnel and be equipped in such manner as the President may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of officers.</p></sidenote> officers with rank not above that of colonel shall be appointed by the President alone, and officers above that grade by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former officers in, may be recommissioned.</p></sidenote> That the President may in his discretion recommission in the Coast Guard persons who have heretofore held commissions in the Revenue-Cutter Service or the Coast Guard and have left the service honorably, after ascertaining that they are qualified for service physically, morally, and as to age and military fitness.</proviso></content>
</level>
<level class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">Fourth. </num>
<content>The President is further authorized, in Iris discretion and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft of additional 500,000 men for training.</p></sidenote> at such time as he may determine, to raise and begin the training of an additional force of five hundred thousand men organized, officered, and equipped, as provided for the force first mentioned in the preceding paragraph of this section.</content></level>
<level class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">Fifth. </num>
<content>To raise by draft, organize, equip, and officer, as provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruit training units.</p></sidenote> in the third paragraph of this section, in addition to and for each of the above forces, such recruit training units as he may deem necessary for the maintenance of such forces at the maximum strength.</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">Sixth. </num>
<content>To raise, organize, officer, and maintain during the emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery organizations to be raised.</p></sidenote> such number of ammunition batteries and battalions, depot batteries and battalions, and such artillery parks, with such numbers and grades of personnel as he may deem necessary. Such organizations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personnel.</p></sidenote> shall be officered in the manner provided in the third paragraph of this section, and enlisted men may be assigned to said organizations from any of the forces herein provided for or raised by selective draft as by this Act provided.</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">Seventh. </num>
<content>The President is further authorized to raise and maintain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer infantry divisions authorized.</p></sidenote> by voluntary enlistment, to organize, and equip, not to exceed four infantry divisions, the officers of which shall be selected in the manner provided by paragraph three of section one of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization.</p></sidenote> That the organization of said force shall be the same as that of the corresponding organization of the Regular Army:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistment ago.</p></sidenote> That there shall be no enlistments in said force of men under twenty-five years of age at time of enlisting:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance Limited.</p></sidenote> That no such volunteer force shall be accepted in any unit smaller than a division.</proviso></content></level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the enlisted men required to raise and maintain the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For Army and National Guard by voluntary enlistment or draft.</p></sidenote> organizations of the Regular Army and to complete and maintain the organizations embodying the members of the National Guard drafted into the service of the United States, at the maximum legal strength as by this Act provided, shall be raised by voluntary enlistment, or if and whenever the President decides that they can not effectually be so raised or maintained, then by selective draft ; and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other forces by draft.</p></sidenote> other forces hereby authorized, except as provided in the seventh paragraph of section one, shall be raised and maintained by selective draft exclusively; but this provision shall not prevent the transfer to any force of training cadres from other forces. Such draft as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 885, 955.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/78">78</page> herein provided shall be based upon liability to military, service of all male citizens, or male persons not alien enemies who have declared their intention to become citizens, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclusive, and shall take place and be maintained under such regulations as the President may prescribe not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination quotas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 884.</p></sidenote> inconsistent with the terms of this Act. Quotas for the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, or subdivisions thereof, shall be determined in proportion to the population thereof,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits allowed men in service.</p></sidenote> and credit shall be given to any State, Territory, District, or subdivision thereof, for the number of men who were in the military service of the United States as members of the National Guard on April first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who have since said date entered the military service of the United States from any such State, Territory, District, or subdivision, either as members of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forces subject Army laws, etc.</p></sidenote> Regular Army or the National Guard. All persons drafted into the service of the United States and all officers accepting commissions in the forces herein provided for shall, from the date of said draft or acceptance, be subject to the laws and regulations governing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions excepted.</p></sidenote> Regular Army, except as to promotions, so far as such laws and regulations are applicable to persons whose permanent retention in the military service on the active or retired list is not contemplated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Period of service.</p></sidenote> by existing law, and those drafted shall be required to serve for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special and technical troops.</p></sidenote> period of the existing emergency unless sooner discharged: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President is authorized to raise and maintain by voluntary enlistment or draft, as herein provided, special and technical troops as he may deem necessary, and to embody them into organizations and to officer them as provided in the third paragraph of section one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Local origin of forces to be considered.</p></sidenote> and section nine of this Act. Organizations of the forces herein provided for, except the Regular Army and the divisions authorized in the seventh paragraph of section one, shall, as far as the interests of the service permit, be composed of men who come, and of officers who are appointed from, the same State or locality.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty and substitute prohibitions.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">No bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enlist in the military service of the United States ; and no person liable to military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such service; nor shall any substitute be received, enlisted, or enrolled in the military service of the United States; and no such person shall be permitted to escape such service or to be discharged therefrom prior to the expiration of his term of service by the payment of money or any other valuable thing whatsoever as consideration for his release from military service or liability thereto.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions from draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes designated.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Vice President of the United States, the officers, legislative, executive, and judicial, of the United States and of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, regular or duly ordained ministers of religion, students who at the time of the approval of this Act are preparing for the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, and all persons in the military and naval service of the United States shall be exempt from the selective<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Religious exemptions.</p></sidenote> draft herein prescribed; and nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in any of the forces herein provided for who is found to be a member of any well-recognized religious sect or organization at present organized and existing and whose existing creed or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Noncombatant service not included.</p></sidenote> principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of said religious organizations, but no person so exempted shall be exempted from service in any capacity that the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other exclusions.</p></sidenote> shall declare to be noncombatant; and the President is hereby authorized to exclude or discharge from said selective draft and from the draft under the second paragraph of section one hereof, or to draft for partial military service only from those liable to draft as in this<page identifier="/us/stat/40/79">79</page> Act provided, persons of the following classes: County and municipal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes specified.</p></sidenote> officials; customhouse clerks; persons employed by the United States in the transmission of the mails; artificers and workmen employed in the armories, arsenals, and navy yards of the United States, and such other persons employed in the service of the United States as the President may designate; pilots; mariners actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; persons engaged in industries, including agriculture, found to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 955.</p></sidenote> necessary to the maintenance of the Military Establishment or the effective operation of the military forces or the maintenance of national interest during the emergency; those in a status with respect to persons dependent upon them for support which renders their exclusion or discharge advisable; and those found to be physically or morally deficient. No exemption or exclusion shall continue when a cause therefor no longer exists; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That notwithstanding the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quotas not diminished.</p></sidenote> exemptions enumerated herein, each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia shall be required to supply its quota in the proportion that its population bears to the total population of the United States.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to create and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Local draft boards created.</p></sidenote> establish throughout the several States and subdivisions thereof and in the Territories and the District of Columbia local boards, and where, in his discretion, practicable and desirable, there shall be created and established one such local board in each county or similar subdivision in each State, and one for approximately each thirty thousand of population in each city of thirty thousand population or over, according to the last census taken or estimates furnished by the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce. Such boards<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment from local authorities, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be appointed by the President, and shall consist of three or more members, none of whom shall be connected with the Military Establishment, to be chosen from among the local authorities of such subdivisions or from other citizens residing in the subdivision or area in which the respective boards will have jurisdiction under the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Such boards<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction as to exemptions, etc.</p></sidenote> shall have power within their respective jurisdictions to hear and determine, subject to review as hereinafter provided, all questions of exemption under this Act, and all questions of or claims for including or discharging individuals or classes of individuals from the selective<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons in exempted industries excepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Supra</i>.</p></sidenote> draft, which shall be made under rules and regulations prescribed by the President, except any and every question or claim for including or excluding or discharging persons or classes of persons from the selective draft under the provisions of this Act authorizing the President to exclude or discharge from the selective draft “ Persons engaged in industries, including agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the Military Establishment, or the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest during the emergency.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President is hereby authorized to establish additional boards,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District boards of appeals, etc.</p></sidenote> one in each Federal judicial district of the United States, consisting of such number of citizens, not connected with the Military Establishment, as the President may determine, who shall be appointed by the President. The President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to establish more than one such board in any Federal judicial district of the United States, or to establish one such board having jurisdiction of an area extending into more than one Federal judicial district.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Such district boards shall review on appeal and affirm, modify, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review of decisions of local board.</p></sidenote> reverse any decision of any local board having jurisdiction in the area in which any such district board has jurisdiction under the rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Such district boards<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Original action os to exempted industries.</p></sidenote> shall have exclusive original jurisdiction within their respective areas to hear and determine all questions or claims for including or excluding or discharging persons or classes of persons from the selective<page identifier="/us/stat/40/80">80</page> draft, under the provisions of this Act, not included within the original jurisdiction of such local boards.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Finality of decisions, etc.</p></sidenote>The decisions of such district boards shall be final except that, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, he may affirm, modify or reverse any such decision.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling vacancies in boards.</p></sidenote>Any vacancy in any such local board or district board shall be filled by the President, and any member of any such local board or district board may be removed and another appointed in his place by the President, whenever he considers that the interest of the nation demands it.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules and regulations of procedure, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote>The President shall make rules and regulations governing the organization and procedure of such local boards and district boards, and providing for and governing appeals from such local boards to such district boards, and reviews of the decisions of any local board by the district board having jurisdiction, and determining and prescribing the several areas in which the respective local boards and district boards shall have jurisdiction, and all other rules and regulations necessary to carry out the terms and provisions of this section, and shall provide for the issuance of certificates of exemption, or partial or limited exemptions, and for a system to exclude and discharge individuals from selective draft.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ages liable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presentation for, on notice given by proclamation, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1664.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 884, 855, 955.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all male persons between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, both inclusive, shall be subject to registration in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President; and upon proclamation by the President or other public notice given by him or by his direction stating the time and place of such registration it shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal notice inferred.</p></sidenote> this Act; and every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon the publication of said proclamation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for not registering.</p></sidenote> or other notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his direction; and any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precedence for trials.</p></sidenote> be duly registered: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the call of the docket precedence shall be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age extent defined.</p></sidenote> proceedings under this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That persons shall be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day set for the registration, and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to draft into<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration by mail.</p></sidenote> the forces hereby authorized, unless exempted or excused therefrom as in this Act provided:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the case of temporary absence from actual place of legal resilience of any person liable to registration as provided herein such registration may be made by mail under regulations to be prescribed by the President.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utilization of departments, officers, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the service of any or all departments and any or all officers or agents of the United States and of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, in the execution of this Act, and all officers and agents of the United States and of the several States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty compulsory.</p></sidenote> Territories, and subdivisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia, and all persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed by the President whether such appointments are made by the President himself or by the governor or other officer of any State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of this Act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the President shall order or direct,<page identifier="/us/stat/40/81">81</page> and all such officers and agents and persons so designated or appointed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority conferred.</p></sidenote> shall hereby have full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this Act by the direction of the President. Correspondence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of tranks.</p></sidenote> in the execution of this Act may be carried in penalty envelopes bearing the frank of the War Department. Any person charged as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses designated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to act.</p></sidenote> herein provided with the duty of carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations made or directions given thereunder who shall fail or neglect to perform such duty; and any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false registrations, etc.</p></sidenote> person charged with such duty or having and exercising any authority under said Act, regulations, or directions, who shall knowingly make or be a party to the making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false statements, etc.</p></sidenote> of any false or incorrect registration, physical examination, exemption, enlistment, enrollment, or muster; and any person who shall make or be a party to the making of any false statement or certificate as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other person for service under the provisions of this Act, or regulations made by the President thereunder, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this Act or of said regulations, or who, in any manner, shall fail or neglect fully<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neglect of duty, etc.</p></sidenote> to perform any duty required of him in the execution of this Act, shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment.</p></sidenote> than one year, or, if subject to military law, shall be tried by court-martial and suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the qualifications and conditions for voluntary enlistment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Voluntary enlistments.</p></sidenote> as herein provided shall be the same as those prescribed by existing law for enlistments in the Regular Army, except that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualifications, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 885.</p></sidenote> recruits must be between the ages of eighteen and forty years, both inclusive, at the time of their enlistment; and such enlistments shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Period.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistments in force continued through emergency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1211.</p></sidenote> be for the period of the emergency unless sooner discharged. All enlistments, including those in the Regular Army Reserve, which are in force on the date of the approval of this Act and which would terminate during the emergency shall continue in force during the emergency unless sooner discharged; but nothing herein con tabled shall no construed to shorten the period of any existing enlistment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all persons enlisted or drafted under any of the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geographical units.</p></sidenote> of this Act shall as far as practicable be grouped into units by States and the political subdivisions of the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharges allowed at end of emergency.</p></sidenote> That all persons who have enlisted since April first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, either in the Regular Army or in the National Guard, and all persons who have enlisted in the National Guard since June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, upon their application, shall be discharged upon the termination of the existing emergency.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President may provide for the discharge of any or all enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharges to support family.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active duty for re tired enlisted men.</p></sidenote> men whose status with respect to dependents renders such discharge advisable; and he may also authorize the employment on any active duty of retired enlisted men of the Regular Army, either with their rank on the retired list or in higher enlisted grades, and such retired enlisted men shall receive the full pay and allowances of the grades in which they are actively employed.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That the President, by and with the advice and consent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General officers for emergency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p.410.</p></sidenote> the Senate, is authorized to appoint for the period of the existing emergency such general officers of appropriate grades as may be necessary for duty with brigades, divisions, and higher units in which the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote> forces provided for herein may be organized by the President, and general officers of appropriate grade for the several Coast Artillery districts. In so far as such appointments may be made from any of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection of appointees.</p></sidenote> the forces herein provided for, the appointees may be selected irrespective of the grades held by them in such forces. Vacancies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling resulting vacancies in the Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 534.</p></sidenote> in all grades in the Regular Army resulting from the appointment of officers thereof to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular<page identifier="/us/stat/40/82">82</page> Army herein provided for shall be filled by temporary promotions and appointments in the manner prescribed for filling temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 211.</p></sidenote> vacancies by section one hundred and fourteen of the national<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent status retained.</p></sidenote> defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen; and officers appointed under the provisions of this Act to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall not vacate their permanent commissions nor be prejudiced in their relative or lineal standing in the Regular Army.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments to be for emergency period.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the appointments authorized and made as provided by the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh paragraphs of section one and by section eight of this Act, and the temporary appointments in the Regular Army authorized by the first paragraph of section one of this Act, shall be for the period of the emergency, unless sooner terminated by discharge or otherwise. The President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharges for cause.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to discharge any officer from the office held by him under such appointment for any cause which, in the judgment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination boards to act on qualifications, etc.</p></sidenote> of the President, would promote the public service; and the general commanding any division and higher tactical organization or territorial department is authorized to appoint from time to time military boards of not less than three nor more than five officers of the forces herein provided for to examine into and report upon the capacity, qualification,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharges if recommended.</p></sidenote> conduct, and efficiency of any commissioned officer within his command other than officers of the Regular Army holding permanent or provisional commissions therein. Each member of such board shall be superior in rank to the officer whoso qualifications are to be inquired into, and if the report of such board be adverse to the continuance of any such officer and be approved by the President, such officer shall be discharged from the service at the discretion of the President with one month’s pay and allowances.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equality of pay, etc., declared.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all officers and enlisted men of the forces herein provided for other than the Regular Army shall be in all respects on the same footing as to pay, allowances, and pensions as officers and en listed men of corresponding grades and length of service in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of enlisted men Increased during emergency.</p></sidenote> Regular Army; and commencing June one, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and continuing until the termination of the emergency, all enlisted men of the Army of the United States in active service whose base pay does not exceed $21 per month shall receive an increase of $15 per month; those whose base pay is $24, an increase of $12 per month ; those whose base pay is $30, $36, or $40, an increase of $8 per month; and those whose base pay is $45 or more, an increase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not credited to service pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on details, etc., suspended.</p></sidenote> of $6 per month: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the increases of pay herein authorized shall not enter into the computation of continuous-service pay.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>That all existing restrictions upon the detail, detachment, and employment of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army are hereby suspended for the period of the present emergency.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liquor prohibitions authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 393.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the Army, is authorized to make such regulations governing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps and to the officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales at posts, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote> time deem necessary or advisable: <i>Provided</i>, That no person, corporation, partnership, or association shall sell, supply, or have in his or its possession any intoxicating or spirituous liquors at any military station, cantonment, camp, fort, post, officers’ or enlisted men’s club, which is being used at the time for military purposes under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical allowance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales to men in uniform unlawful.</p></sidenote> Act, but the Secretary of War may make regulations permitting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes. It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liqour, including beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote> except as herein provided. Any person, corporation, partnership, or association violating the provisions of this section of the regulations made thereunder shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeaner and be punished<page identifier="/us/stat/40/83">83</page> by a fine of not more than 31,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, empowered,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of bawdy houses, etc., near military places.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 393, 885.</p></sidenote> and directed during the present war to do everything by deemed necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping or setting up of houses of ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within such distance as he may deem needful of any military camp, station, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobilization place, and any, person, corporation, partnership, or association receiving or permitting to be received for immoral purposes any person into any place, structure, or building used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution within such distance of said places as may be designated, or shall permit any such person to remain for immoral purposes in any such place, structure, or building as aforesaid, or who shall violate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote> any order, rule, or regulation issued to carry out the object and purpose of this section shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than 31,000, or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content class="inline">That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of conflicting laws.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby suspended during the period of this emergency.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 18, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 16: Authorizing the county of Morrison, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>16</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>16.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the county of Morrison, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said county.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1006">S. 1006</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/13">Public, No. 13</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Morrison,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morrison County, Minn., may bridge.</p></sidenote> in the State of Minnesota, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> of navigation, in section eight, township one hundred and twenty-seven north, range twenty-nine west of the fifth principal meridian, and section thirty-two, township thirty-nine north, range thirty-two west of the fourth principal meridian, in the State of Minnesota, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p.84.</p></sidenote> accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 17: Authorizing the city of Bemidji, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near that place.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>17</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 83</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>17.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the city of Bemidji, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near that place.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1007">S. 1007</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/14">Public, No. 14</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Bemidji, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bemidji, Minn., may bridge.</p></sidenote> corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation between lots one and two, section sixteen, township one hundred and forty-sixth north, range thirty-three west, fifth principal meridian, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 18: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to enrollments in the Naval Reserve Force.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>18</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 84</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-22</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/84">84</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>18.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” relative to enrollments in the Naval Reserve Force.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2337">H. R. 2337</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/15">Public, No. 15</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 587, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
That the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the proviso under the heading “Naval Reserve Force,” which reads as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote>follows:
“<i>Provided</i>, That citizens of the insular possessions of the United States may enroll in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve,” a further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enrollment of friendly aliens applying for citizenship.</p></sidenote>proviso as follows: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That such persons who are not citizens of the United States, but who have or shall have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, and who are citizens of countries which are at peace with the United States, may enroll in the Naval Reserve Force subject to the condition that they may be discharged from such enrollment at any time within the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission to citizenship without shore residence.</p></sidenote>discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, and such persons who may, under existing law, become citizens of the United States, and who render honorable service in the Naval Reserve Force in time of war for a period of not less than one year may become citizens of the United States without proof of residence on shore and without further requirement than proof of good moral character and certificate from the Secretary of the Navy that such honorable service was actually rendered.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 19: Granting consent to Ernest B. Denison, A. J. Barchfield, and Ethan I. Dodds to construct a bridge across the Wabash River within or near the city limits of the city of Vincennes, Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>19</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 84</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-22</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>19.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting consent to Ernest B. Denison, A. J. Barchfield, and Ethan I. Dodds to construct a bridge across the Wabash River within or near the city limits of the city of Vincennes, Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2343">H. R. 2343</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/16">Public, No. 16</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wabash River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ernest B. Denison and others may bridge, Vincennes, Ind.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to Ernest B. Denison, A. J. Barchfield, and Ethan I. Dodds, their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Wabash River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, within or near the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 94.</p></sidenote>city limits of Vincennes, in the county of Knox, in the State of Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,’’ approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 20: To temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>20</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 84</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-22</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>20.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3330">H. R. 3330</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/17">Public, No. 17</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted strength temporarily increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 575.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 714.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy is hereby temporarily increased from eighty-seven thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand, including four thousand additional apprentice seamen.
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted strength temporarily increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 612.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 155.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 714.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps is hereby temporarily increased from seventeen thousand four hundred to thirty thousand, this authorized strength being distributed in the various grades of the enlisted force in the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/85">85</page>same proportion as those authorized at the date of the approval of this Act.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That enlistments in the Navy and Marine Corps, during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistment period during present war.</p></sidenote> such time as the United States may be at war, shall be for four years or for such shorter period or periods as the President may prescribe, or for the period or the present war.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">Additional commissioned officers in the Navy and Marine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary appointments based upon increases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 715.</p></sidenote>Corps, based upon the temporary increases herein authorized in the number of enlisted men, shall be temporarily appointed by the President, in his discretion, with the advice and consent of the Senate, not above the grades and ranks of lieutenant in the line and staff of the Navy and major in the Marine Corps, the distribution in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of grades.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.</p></sidenote> grades and ranks to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Original appointments to be in lowest grades.</p></sidenote> That all temporary original appointments shall be made in the lowest commissioned grades of the line and staff of the Navy and Marine Corps, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, and that there shall be no permanent or temporary appointments in or permanent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions on appointments or promotions to higher grades.</p></sidenote> or temporary promotions to any grade or rank above that of lieutenant in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps by reason of the temporary appointment of officers authorized by this Act in excess of the total number of officers authorized by existing law or on account of the increase of enlisted men herein authorized:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That, during the period of the present war, the deficiency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplying existing vacancies for present war.</p></sidenote> existing prior to the passage of this Act in the total number of commissioned officers of the Navy and Marine Corps authorized by the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, may also be supplied by temporary appointments in the lowest grades and by temporary promotions to all other grades until a sufficient number of officers shall be available for regular appointment or promotion in accordance with existing law:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of retired officers, Naval Militia, reserves, etc., not abridged.</p></sidenote> herein shall be held or construed to Emit or abridge the use or service of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list or of the officers of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Naval Reserve Force and Marine Corps Reserve, as provided and authorized under existing law:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary appointments authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 404.</p></sidenote> chaplains and temporary acting chaplains in the Navy may be appointed for service during the period of the war in the proportion of the personnel of the Navy as now prescribed by existing law.</proviso>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That the additional temporary officers authorized in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility for appointments or promotions to temporary grades or ranks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 716.</p></sidenote> various grades and ranks of the Navy and Marine Corps in accordance with the next preceding section may be temporarily appointed to serve in the grades or ranks to which appointed or promoted by the temporary advancement of officers holding permanent and probationary commissions, by temporary appointment of commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Navy, and warrant officers, noncommissioned officer’s, and clerks to assistant paymasters of the Marine Corps, commissioned and warrant officers of the United States Coast Guard, citizens of the United States who have had previous naval or military service or training, and other citizens of the United States specially qualified: <i>Provided</i>, That in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum age limit</p></sidenote> making appointments authorized herein the maximum age limit shall be fifty years for commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men to ensign, enlisted men of the Navy to warrant rank, candidates for assistant surgeon, noncommissioned officers of the Marine Corps to commissioned rank, members of the Marine Corps branch of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Marine Coins Reserve, and civilians specially qualified to commissioned rank, and warrant officers of the active list of the Marine Corps appointed to commissioned rank, and temporary <page identifier="/us/stat/40/86">86</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy and warrant officers.</p></sidenote>chaplains and temporary acting chaplains: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That graduates of the Naval Academy and warrant officers duly commissioned in the Navy or Marine Corps in accordance with existing law shall not, by virtue of this Act, be required to receive temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissions to midshipmen on graduation.</p></sidenote>appointments: and the class of midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy on March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the classes to be graduated hereafter, may be commissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary warrant officers.</p></sidenote>effective from date of graduation:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary appointments as warrant officers of the Navy may be made by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Navy:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns may be considered eligible for temporary promotions to the grades of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade), respectively, without regard to length of service in grade.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computations for promotions to be made semiannually during present war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 578.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recommendations by Board.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That during the period of the present war the computations to be made by the Secretary of the Navy as prescribed by the act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be made semiannually as of July first and January first of each year and at such other times as he may deem necessary; and the Board of Rear Admirals for selection for promotion prescribed in said Act may be convened at such times as the exigencies of the service may require and shall recommend for promotion such number of officers as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe to fill vacancies in the several grades as provided by existing law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent status not affected by temporary appointments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the permanent and probationary commissions, appointments, and warrants of officers shall not be vacated by reason of their temporary advancement or appointment, nor shall said officers be prejudiced in their relative lineal rank in regard to promotion in accordance with the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, etc., of enlisted men not abridged.</p></sidenote
>hundred and sixteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the rights, benefits, privileges, and gratuities of all enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps now authorized by law shall not be lost or abridged in any respect whatever by their acceptance of temporary commissions or warrants <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of temporary appointments.</p></sidenote>hereunder:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no person who shall receive a temporary appointment shall be entitled to pay or allowances except wider such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion to prior grade, etc., on termination.</p></sidenote>temporary appointment:</proviso>
<proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon the termination of temporary appointments in a higher grade or rank as authorized by this Act the officers so advanced, including probationary second lieutenants, warrant officers, clerks to assistant paymasters, and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, commissioned and warrant officers of the United States Coast Guard, shall revert to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular promotions not affected.</p></sidenote>the grade, rank, or rating from which temporarily advanced, unless such officers or enlisted men in the meantime, in accordance with law, become entitled to promotion to a higher grade or rank in the permanent Navy or Marine Corps, in which case they shall revert to said higher grade or rank and shall, after passing the prescribed examinations, be commissioned accordingly.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of temporary appointments.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all temporary appointments or advancements authorized by this Act shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President or until Congress shall amend or repeal the authorization for the increases herein provided and not later than six months after the termination of the present war.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirements.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any officer of the permanent Navy or Marine Corps, temporarily advanced in grade or rank in accordance with the provisions of this Act, who shall be retired from active service under his permanent commission while holding such temporary rank, except for physical disability incurred in line of duty, shall be placed on the retired list with the grade or rank to which his position in the permanent Navy or Marine Corps at the date of his retirement would entitle him, and any person originally appointed temporarily, as provided in this Act, shall not be entitled to any rights of retirement, except for physical disability incurred in line of duty.
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</section>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">That, during the continuance of the present war, should<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of probationary second lieutenants.</p></sidenote> any second lieutenant of the Marine Corps holding a probationary appointment for the period of two years become eligible for promotion to a higher grade and qualify therefor before the expiration of two years from the date of original appointment, he shall receive a probationary appointment in such higher grade, which appointment shall be made permanent or shall be vacated in the manner prescribed by the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 611.</p></sidenote>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">That the appointment of thirty marine gunners, thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional marine gunners, etc., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 611.</p></sidenote> quartermaster’s clerks, and nine clerks to assistant paymasters, additional to the number now prescribed by law, and the temporary appointment of eight clerks to assistant paymasters for the war, is hereby authorized, such appointments to be made in the manner now provided by law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">That the temporary appointments and promotions herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments by the President and Senate.</p></sidenote> authorized shall be made by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">Nothing contained in this Act shall operate to reduce the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of rank, pay, etc.</p></sidenote> rank, pay, or allowances that would have been received by any person in the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard except for the passage of tins Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personnel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on number of line captains repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 579.</p></sidenote> appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which read as follows: “<quotedText><i>Provided further</i>, That the increase in the number of captains herein authorized shall be made at the rate of not more than ten captains in any one year” and “That officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of colonels as brigadier generals, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 611.</p></sidenote> the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel who shall have served faithfully for forty-five years on the active list shall, when retired, have the rank of brigadier general; and such officers who shall hereafter be retired at the age of sixty-four years before having served for forty-five years, but who shall have served faithfully on the active list until retired, shall, on the completion of forty years from their entry in the naval service, have the rank of brigadier general,</quotedText>” are hereby repealed.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">That commencing June first, nineteen hundred and seventeen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increased during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis.</p></sidenote> and continuing until not later than six months after the termination of the present war, all enlisted men of the Navy of the United States in active service whose base pay does not exceed $21 per month shall receive an increase of $15 per month; those whose base pay is over $21 and does not exceed $24 per month, an increase of $12 per month; those whose base pay is over $24 and less than $45 per month, an increase of $8 per month; and those whose base pay is $45 or more per month, an increase of $6 per month: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not credited to service pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., to correspond with Navy.</p></sidenote> That the increases of pay herein authorized shall not enter into the computation of continuous-service pay:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That during the continuance of the present war, warrant officers, petty officers and enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard shall receive the same rates of pay as are or may hereafter be prescribed for corresponding grades or ratings and length of service in the Navy.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the President is hereby authorized, whenever in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of vessels, etc., to Army or Navy.</p></sidenote> his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to transfer to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department, or of the Navy Department, such vessels, equipment, stations, and personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as he may deem to the best interest of the country, and after such transfer all expenses connected therewith shall be defrayed out of the appropriations for the department to which transfer is made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such vessels, equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return when emergency ceases.</p></sidenote> stations, and personnel shall be returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey when such national emergency ceases, in the opinion of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/88">88</page>the President, and nothing in this Act shall be construed as transferring the Coast and Geodetic Survey or any of its functions from the Department of Commerce except in time of national <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personnel subject to Army or Navy laws, etc.</p></sidenote>emergency and to the extent herein provided:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any of the personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be transferred as herein provided shall, while under the jurisdiction of the War Department or Navy Department, have proper military status and shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Army or Navy, as the case may be, in so far as the same may be applicable to persons whose retention permanently in the military service of the United States is not contemplated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offices of hydrographic and geodetic engineers created.</p></sidenote>by law:</proviso>
<proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the field officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, who are now officially designated assistants and aids, as follows: Officers now designated assistants and receiving a salary of $2,000 or more per annum shall be appointed hydrographic and geodetic engineers; officers now designated assistants and receiving a salary of $1,200 or greater but less than $2,000 per annum shall be appointed junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers; officers now designated aids shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations required, etc.</p></sidenote>appointed aids:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be appointed aid or shall be promoted from aid to junior hydrographic and geodetic engineer or from junior hydrographic and geodetic engineer to hydrographic and geodetic engineer until after passing a satisfactory mental and physical examination conducted in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, except that the President is authorized to nominate for confirmation the assistants and aids in the service on the date of the passage of this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present pay, etc., not reduced.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension benefits.</p></sidenote>Nothing in this Act shall reduce the total amount of pay and allowances they were receiving at the time of transfer. While actually employed in active service under direct orders of the War Department or of the Navy Department members of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall receive the benefit of all provisions of laws relating to disability incurred in line of duty or loss of life.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relative rank in service of Army or Navy.</p></sidenote>When serving with the Army or Navy the relative rank shall be as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic and geodetic engineers receiving $4,000 or more shall rank with and after colonels in the Army and captains in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic and geodetic engineers receiving $3,000 or more but less than $4,000 shall rank with and after lieutenant colonels in the Army and commanders in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic and geodetic engineers receiving $2,500 or more but less than $3,000 shall rank with and after majors in the Army and lieutenant commanders in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic and geodetic engineers receiving $2,000 or more but less than $2,500 shall rank with and after captains in the Army and lieutenants in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers shall rank with and after first lieutenants in the Army and lieutenants (junior grade) in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aids shall rank with and after second lieutenants in the Army and ensigns in the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay when not on military duty.</p></sidenote>And nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect or alter their rates of pay and allowances when not assigned to military duty as hereinbefore mentioned.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations governing duties, etc.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly prescribe regulations governing the duties to be performed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in time of war, and for the cooperation of that service with the War and Navy Departments in time of peace in preparation for its duties in war, which regulations shall not be effective unless approved by each of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/89">89</page>said Secretaries, and included therein may be rules and regulations for making reports and communications between the officers or bureaus of the War and Navy Departments and the Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content class="inline">That nothing contained in the Act of August twenty-ninth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Corps, Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status retained.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 577.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall operate to disturb the relative position of officers in the Medical Corps with reference to precedence or promotion, but all such officers otherwise qualified shall be advanced in rank with or ahead of officers in said corps who were their juniors on the date of said Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Command of fleets, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of admirals or vice admirals for.</p></sidenote> to designate six officers of the Navy for the command of fleets or subdivisions thereof and, after being so designated from the date of assuming such command until relinquishing thereof, not more than three of such officers shall each have the rank and pay of an admiral, and the others shall each have the rank and pay of a vice admiral; and the grades of admiral and vice admiral are Thereby authorized and continued for the purpose of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection in time of war.</p></sidenote> of war the selections under the provisions of this section shall be made from the grades of rear admiral or captain on the active list of the Navy:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the pay of an admiral shall be $10,000 and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation in time of peace.</p></sidenote> pay of a vice admiral $9,000 per annum:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in time of peace officers for the command of fleets and subdivisions thereof, as herein authorized, shall be designated from among the rear admirals on the active list of the Navy:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No vacancy created.</p></sidenote> nothing herein contained shall create any vacancy in any grade in the Navy or increase the total number of officers authorized by law:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That when an officer with the rank of admiral or vice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To return to regular rank when detached.</p></sidenote> admiral is detached from the command of a fleet or subdivision thereof, as herein authorized, he shall return to his regular rank in the list of officers of the Navy and shall thereafter receive only the pay and allowances of such rank:</proviso>
<proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status of “flag officers ” not affected.</p></sidenote> in this Act shall be held or construed as amending or repealing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1434/1463/1464/pp252/255">R. S., secs. 1434, 1463, 1464, pp. 252, 255</ref>.</p></sidenote> provisions of sections fourteen hundred and thirty-four, fourteen hundred and sixty-three, and fourteen hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the provision in the Act approved March third, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former provision repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 941.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifteen, for the designation of commanders in chief of certain fleets with the rank of admiral and for the designation of officers second in command of such fleets with the rank of vice admiral be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<content class="inline">That section forty-four of the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Criminal Code amendment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1097, amended.</p></sidenote>
codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by an Act entitled “An Act making appropriation for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and is hereby, amended by adding the following to said section:
“<quotedText><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That offenses hereunder committed within the Canal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Violating defensive sea areas regulations, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1194, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of District Court of Canal Zone over offenses.</p></sidenote> Zone or within any defensive sea areas which the President is authorized to establish by said section, shall be cognizable in the District Court of the Canal Zone, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said court to hear and determine all such cases arising under said section and to impose the penalties therein provided for the violation of any of the provisions of said section.</proviso></quotedText>”
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content class="inline">That hereafter all laws relating to the examination of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staff officers.</p></sidenote> officers of the Navy for promotion shall be construed to apply to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination for advancement to higher ranks.</p></sidenote> regular advancement of staff officers to higher ranks on the active list the same as though such advancements in rank were promotions <page identifier="/us/stat/40/90">90</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>to higher grades: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That examinations for such staff officers shall not be required except for such regular advancements in rank:</proviso>
<proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Records of examining board to be acted on by Secretary of the Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1502/p259">R. S., sec. 1502, p. 259</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct the Secretary of the Navy to take such action on the records of proceedings of naval examining boards and boards of naval surgeons for the promotion of officers of the Navy as is now required by law to be taken by the President.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra ration for deck force on night duty during present war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That during the continuance of the present war an extra allowance of one ounce of coffee or cocoa, two ounces of sugar, four ounces of hard bread or its equivalent, and four ounces of preserved meat or its equivalent shall be allowed to enlisted men of the deck force when standing night watches between eight o’clock postmeridian and eight o’clock antemeridian.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 21: To grant authority for the erection of temporary buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>21</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 90</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>21.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To grant authority for the erection of temporary buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-22">May 22, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/61">S. J. Res, 61</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/3">Pub. Res., No. 3</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memorial to Women of the Civil War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">American Red Cross allowed temporary structures on.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Commission on Memorial to Women of the Civil War to grant permission, under such conditions and restrictions as it may deem necessary, to the central committee of the American Red Cross to erect upon square numbered one hundred and seventy-two, in the city of Washington, a temporary building or buildings for the use of the American Red Cross in connection with its work in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal, etc.</p></sidenote>cooperation with the Government of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any building or buildings which may be erected under this authority shall be removed and the site or sites thereof placed in good condition within three years from the date of the approval of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense authorized.</p></sidenote>resolution, unless otherwise especially provided by Congress:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the United States shall be put to no expense of any kind by reason of the exercise of the authority hereby conferred.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 22: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>22</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 90</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>22.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-29">May 29, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/14">H. R. 14</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/18">Public, No. 18</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Academy appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:
</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent establishment.</p></sidenote>permanent establishment.</heading>
<content>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Professors, etc.</p></sidenote>For pay of seven professors, $27,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one chaplain, $2,400;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Master of the sword.</p></sidenote>For pay of the master of the sword, $3,000;</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relative rank, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the master of the sword shall have the relative rank and shall be entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a major during the active service of the present incumbent of that office.</proviso></p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadets.</p></sidenote>For pay of cadets, $540,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay to officers.</p></sidenote>For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy:<page identifier="/us/stat/40/91">91</page></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, $1,100;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one professor of law (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one professor of practical military engineering (lieutenant colonel), in addition to pay as major, $500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of twelve assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,800;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of three battalion commanders (majors), in addition to pay as captains, $1,800;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one senior assistant instructor of artillery tactics (captain), in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of twelve instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,900;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as captain or lieutenant, $600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to pay as captain, $600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one line officer, on duty in quartermasters’ department at academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> rank) for length of service, $12,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> Army service, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineering detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of one band sergeant and assistant leader, $900;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Academy band.</p></sidenote></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twelve enlisted musicians, at $45 per month, $6,480;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twelve enlisted musicians, at $36 per month, $5,184;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Sixteen enlisted musicians, at $30 per month, $5,760;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $5,124.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, $600;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field musicians.</p></sidenote></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two corporals, $504;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twenty-two privates, at $15 each per month, $3,960;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $664.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of general Army service: One first sergeant, $540;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Army service.</p></sidenote></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Forty sergeants, $14,400;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twenty corporals, $5,040;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four cooks, $1,440;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One hundred and seventy-nine privates, at $15 each per month, $32,220;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $20,907.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Extra pay of the enlisted men of the Army service detachment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster duty.</p></sidenote> Quartermaster’s Department, on extra duty at West Point, $30,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For pay of Cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, $540;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavalry detachment.</p></sidenote></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One supply sergeant, $360;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two stable sergeants, at $30 each per month, $720;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Six sergeants, $2,160;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four cooks, $1,440;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twelve corporals, $2,916;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two buglers, $360;<page identifier="/us/stat/40/92">92</page></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four horseshoers, $1,440;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two farriers, $504;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Three saddlers, $756;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two wagoners, $504;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One mechanic, at $21 a month, $252.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One hundred and ten privates, at $15 each per month, $19,800;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of mess, at $6 per month, $72;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $13,800.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery detachment.</p></sidenote>For pay of Artillery detachment: One first sergeant, $540;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One supply sergeant, $360;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two stable sergeants, $720;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One chief mechanic, $288;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Ten sergeants, $3,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One mess sergeant, at $36 a month, $432;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four cooks, $1,440;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Sixteen corporals, $4,032;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One saddler, at $21 a month, $252;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two horseshoers, at $21 each per month, $504;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Five mechanics, at $21 each per month, $1,260;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two buglers, $360;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One hundred and twenty-five privates, at $15 each per month, $22,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One electrician sergeant, $540;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One electrician sergeant, second class, $432;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One master gunner, $480;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For additional pay for expert first-class gunners, at $5 each per month, first-class gunners, at $3 each per month, and second-class gunners, at $2 each per month (increase $1,600), $5,200;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $7,932.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer detachment.</p></sidenote>For pay of Engineer detachment: One first sergeant, at $45 per month, $540;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One quartermaster sergeant, at $36 per month, $432;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Eight sergeants, at $36 each per month, $3,456;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Ten corporals, at $24 each per month, $2,880;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two cooks, at $30 each per month, $720;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two musicians, at $15 each per month, $360;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Thirty-eight privates, first class, and thirty-eight privates, $15,080;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Additional pay for length of service, $8,604.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marksmen, etc.</p></sidenote>Additional pay of marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen, $2,280.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., on discharge.</p></sidenote>Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, $2,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Clothing not drawn due enlisted men on discharge, $9,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Interest on deposits due enlisted men, $1,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay to enlisted men.</p></sidenote>For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as bugler at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80.4</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of nineteen enlisted men (cavalrymen), two teamsters, eleven laborers employed in keeping clean the equipment used <page identifier="/us/stat/40/93">93</page>by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, four specially qualified trainers engaged in training mounts used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing and sprinkling and assisting in the care of the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $1,460.48.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at 50 cents per day, $156.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 instructor of artillery tactics, and three enlisted men performing the duty of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,304.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of four teamsters (artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $511.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of eight laborers (artillerymen), employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets, at 35 cents each per day, $876.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man as messenger in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 35 cents per day, Sundays and holidays included, $127.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one battalion sergeant major, Infantry, $768.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Battalion sergeant major.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the enlisted man in the headquarters, United States Corps of Cadets, performing that duty has the rank, pay, and allowance of that grade.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of thirty-eight noncommissioned officers (artillerymen)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant artillery instructors.</p></sidenote> as assistant instructors of cadets, at 50 cents each per day, $6,935.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of civilians.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of civilians.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one teacher of music, $1,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of four clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows:</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One clerk, at $1,500; two, at $1,400 each; and one clerk and stenographer, at $1,200.</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of nine clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows:</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One chief clerk, $1,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One clerk, $1,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, $1,300; one clerk, $1,100; $5,200.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Three clerks, at $1,000 each, $3,000.</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk to treasurer, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two civilian instructors in French, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $2,000 per year each, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two civilian instructors in Spanish, at $2,000 per year each, to be employed wider rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one professional civilian instructor in gymnastics, athletics, and swimming, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one expert assistant civilian instructor in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one librarian, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of librarian’s assistant, $1 ,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of custodian of gymnasium, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief engineer of power plant, whose duties will include those of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus, $2,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant engineer of same, $1,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of eight firemen, $6,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one custodian of academy buildings, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one electrician, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief plumber, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant plumber, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one plumber’s helper, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one scavenger, at $60 a month, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of chapel organist and choirmaster, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one master mechanic, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of attendant and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, $1,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $1,040.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of three engineers for power plant, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two oilers for power plant, $1,440.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one attendant in the department of philosophy for the handling of models and materials used in the instruction of cadets, $480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $1,080.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters United States Military Academy, $1,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one charwoman, headquarters United States Military Academy, $480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one messenger for the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and clerk in the medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stenographer, etc.</p></sidenote> department and department of military hygiene, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $840.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 860.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated for the pay of the Military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote> Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Military Academy and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For current and ordinary expenses as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, $750, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p></sidenote> so much thereof as may be necessary, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and improvements.</p></sidenote> joists, wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of architect overseer and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lighting, etc.</p></sidenote> grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating and coal-conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, and repair, improvement, and maintenance of power plant, $45,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> That $5,000 of this sum shall be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage and telegrams, $375;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, steel pens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, office furniture, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, and for contingencies not otherwise provided for, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, including Pullman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> accommodations, and $3 per day or fraction thereof for subsistence and other expenses for the necessary number of days’ travel over the shortest usually traveled route, and for ferriages; for hire of camp sites for cadets on practice marches, for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battle field, for transportation of first and second class to and from Watervliet Arsenal and Sandy Hook Proving Ground or other ordnance establishments, including a visit to a steel mill, and for expenses of officers detailed to accompany cadets on these trips, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> repairs to motors and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, and contingencies, $2,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one paper-cutting machine with electric motor and installation, with permission to exchange an old machine in part payment, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one improved job press, ten by fifteen inches, complete with motor attached and all equipments, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one rotary perforator with motor attached, $375.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For various up-to-date improvements to Monotype typesetting machine, including installation, $275.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics.</p></sidenote>For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: Tan bark or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the superintendent, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For camp stools, camp and office furniture, and repairs to same; for doormats for cadet headquarters, sinks, and guardhouse; 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, $2,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the upkeep of athletic grounds, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep the same in repair, $275.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of mattresses, machines, and for replacing worn-out articles in gymnasium of Cavalry barracks, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For riding hall: Providing material and lumber for hurdles and upkeep of wings, head posts, and so forth, and for repairing and maintaining electric lights, a power clipping machine for animals stabled at the riding hall, and for repairs to disk harrow used in keeping footing in condition, and for repairing the canvas screens used to divide the hall into sections, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to cadet camp, including camp grounds, repairs to tent platforms, painting, shower baths, underground sinks, renewing plumbing, flushes and bowls in underground sinks, to be immediately available, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one hundred new tent floors for cadet camp, to be immediately available, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of obstacles on mounted drill ground and for constructing other obstacles for use in mounted instruction of cadets, and for maintenance of the track connecting same, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 stables, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, for new blades, sharpening old blades, and for spare parts and accessories for power clipping machines and saddler’s sewing machine in the Artillery stables, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material for preserving floors, rebronzing radiators, and miscellaneous expenses for cleaning Artillery barracks and stables, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of tools, machines, and repairs to same, for Artillery gun shed, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/97">97</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of one mimeograph machine with accessories and for stationery and office supplies for office of senior assistant instructor of Field Artillery tactics, $175.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material for preserving floors, rebronzing radiators, and for miscellaneous expenses for cleaning Cavalry barracks and stables, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a portable frame shed for storing tent platforms and other camp furniture, to be immediately available, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of mattresses, machines, and replacing worn-out articles in the drill hall and gymnasium pertaming to engineer barracks, and for miscellaneous expenses connected therewith, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of civil and military engineering: For models, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of civil and military engineering.</p></sidenote>maps, purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves, and cases for books and instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Additions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of natural and experimental philosophy.</p></sidenote>to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy; books of reference, scientific periodicals, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs; and for repairs to the observatory buildings and repairs to clocks, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $1,850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, books<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of mathematics.</p></sidenote> of reference, binding, and stationery; for tables of logarithms; for rulers and triangles; for purchase of geometrical drawings and models; for cases for geometrical models; for desks, chairs, book-cases, and office fittings; and for contingencies, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.</p></sidenote> chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials; rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determination of mineralogical and geological specimens: pencils and paper for practical instruction in the same branches, and or gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet; for repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus; for purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation of same; for models, maps, diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for use of instructors; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of drawing: Drawing material, instruments, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of drawing.</p></sidenote> stationery for use of instructors; repairs to models and purchase of new models; desks, stretchers, drawing boards, racks, and stands; framing drawings; books and periodicals on art, architecture, topography, and technology; binding maps, books, and so forth; repairs to stereopticon and purchase of lantern slides; photographic apparatus and material; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of new furniture and equipment necessary to fit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New drawing equipment.</p></sidenote>up the drawing department for the instruction of the larger number of cadets authorized, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of modern languages: For stationery, textbooks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of modern languages.</p></sidenote> and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and other necessary papers, and for contingencies, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of law: For stationery, textbooks, and books of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of law.</p></sidenote> reference for the use of instructors, furniture, and repairs to the same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingencies, $850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of practical military engineering: For models,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of practical military engineering.</p></sidenote> books of reference, scientific periodicals, and stationery; for purchase and repair of instruments, materials, and apparatus for use in <page identifier="/us/stat/40/98">98</page>instructing cadets in surveying, reconnoissance, signaling and field telegraphy, military field engineering, and field fortification; for photographic and lithographic apparatus and materials for field photography and map reproduction; tools and materials for maintenance of the batteries of the academy; transportation of field parties; for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers at 50 cents per day each when employed as assistants in photographic laboratory or as special skilled mechanics in the department, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and maintenance of rowboats and canoes for the instruction of cadets in rowing, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of ordnance and gunnery.</p></sidenote>For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase, manufacture, and repair of instruments, models, machinery, and apparatus; for purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, textbooks, stationery, office furniture and supplies; for services of skilled mechanic (civilian) employed in the department of ordnance and science of gunnery, and for contingencies, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of military hygiene.</p></sidenote>For department of military hygiene: For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and other expenses incidental to the print ing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular textbooks; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration; for the purchase of instruments and models; for shelves and cases for books, instruments, and models and records; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of English and history.</p></sidenote>For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, textbooks, books of reference, office furniture, maps, map fixtures, and for repairs to same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lectures.</p></sidenote>For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, $1,200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote>For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, $210.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting, plumbing, etc.</p></sidenote>For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking, and electric lamps and supplies, and for operating the gas plant, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings, $4,050.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in some, $200, to be made immediately available, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>Increase and expense of library, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, academic board.</p></sidenote>For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical supplies.</p></sidenote> of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Musical supplies.</p></sidenote> of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; all to be purchased in open market on order of superintendent, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laundry.</p></sidenote> in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet mess.</p></sidenote> furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $14,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policing.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets’ barracks, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet barracks.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining the children’s school, the Superintendent of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s school.</p></sidenote> Military Academy being authorized to employ the necessary teachers, $4,320.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $1,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire protection.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote> Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign, professional, and other newspapers and periodicals, to be paid for from any of the foregoing appropriations.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>buildings and grounds.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance museum, laboratory, etc.</p></sidenote> repairs for ordnance museum in headquarters building, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, $400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe-repairing shops, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ hospital.</p></sidenote>needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantles, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterworks.</p></sidenote>beds, reservoir, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and materials required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, and for the protection and enforcement of rules to protect the water supply, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For labor and material for construction of new cadet laundry, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New laundry.</p></sidenote>$75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet mess.</p></sidenote> and steam lines and cooking apparatus, cadet mess, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to cadet mess building, $2,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/100">100</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture, $1,029.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet hospital.</p></sidenote>For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet hospital, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, $120;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For painting all interior walls, woodwork, and ceilings, $1,000:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet barracks.</p></sidenote>Repairs to 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, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery.</p></sidenote>For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wall, roads, etc.</p></sidenote>For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>For repair of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, refrigerating and other machinery in the cadet moss, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, and gymnasium buildings, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of organ in the cadet chapel, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of mirrors in the riding hall, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and repair of cocoa matting for the aisle ways in the riding hall, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent seats for gallery at riding hall, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a shower bath, fittings, and so forth, for cadet toilet at the riding hall, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a picket line at the riding hall, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to skylights in riding hall and for stopping leaks around same, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to water pipes in the tower squad room of the riding hall, $150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of a gas cooking range in the kitchen of the Cavalry barracks, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a bayonet fencing ground, and for swinging and self-righting dummies, for head-posts, and so forth, to equip the same, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery fire-control system, including necessary exterior painting, repairs to steps, roofs, and so forth, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for repair of Field Artillery target range, clearing grounds for targets and firing positions for batteries, constructing roads and trails to firing positions and target range; and for miscellaneous expenses connected with the indoor instruction of cadets in field artillery during the winter season, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Harold Kehoe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be appointed second lieutenant of Infantry, and retired.</p></sidenote>That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint William Harold Kehoe, late a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, to the position of second lieutenant of Infantry of the Army, and to place him upon the retired list with the pay of a retired second lieutenant of Infantry.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/101">101</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clyde R. Altman.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be appointed second lieutenant of In fantry, and retired.</p></sidenote> authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Clyde R. Altman, late a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, to the position of second lieutenant of Infantry of the Army, and to place him upon the retired list with the pay of a retired second lieutenant of Infantry.</p>
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</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 23: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” as amended, in respect of car service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>23</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 101</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>23.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” as amended, in respect of car service, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-05-29">May 29, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/328">H. R. 328</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/19">Public, No. 19</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That section one of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate commerce regulations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 545, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, is further amended by adding thereto the following:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The term “car service” as used in this Act shall include the movement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Car service.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term construed.</p></sidenote> distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of cars used in the transportation of property by any carrier subject to the provisions of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">It shall be the duty of every such carrier to establish, observe, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Just and reasonable rules, etc., required for.</p></sidenote> enforce just and reasonable rules, regulations, and practices with respect to car service, and every unjust and unreasonable rule, regulation, and practice with respect to car service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing with Commission ordered.</p></sidenote> general or special orders to require all carriers subject to the provisions of the Act, or any of them, to file with it from time to time their rules and regulations with respect to car service, and the commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be incorporated in schedules.</p></sidenote> may, in its discretion, direct that the said rules and regulations shall be incorporated in their schedules showing rates, fares, and charges for transportation and be subject to any or all of the provisions of the Act relating thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The commission shall, after hearing, on a complaint or upon its own<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be established by Commission.</p></sidenote> initiative without complaint, estabfish reasonable rules, regulations, and practices with respect to car service, including the classification of cars, compensation to be paid for the use of any car not owned by any such common carrier and the penalties or other sanctions for nonobservance of such rules.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whenever the commission shall be of opinion that necessity exists<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension, etc., by Commission authorized.</p></sidenote> for immediate action with respect to the supply or use of cars for transportation of property, the commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, and with or without notice, hearing, or the making or filing of a report, according as the commission may determine, to suspend the operation of any or all rules, regulations, or practices then established with respect to car service for such time as may be determined by the commission, and also authority to make such just and reasonable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directions for service.</p></sidenote> directions with respect to car service during such time as in its opinion will best promote car service in the interest of the public and the commerce of the people.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The directions of the commission as to car service may be made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution of directions.</p></sidenote> through and by such agents or agencies as the commission shall designate and appoint for that purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In case of failure or refusal on the part of any carrier, receiver, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for noncompliance with orders.</p></sidenote> trustee to comply with any direction or order with respect to car service, such carrier, receiver, or trustee shall be liable to a penalty <page identifier="/us/stat/40/102">102</page>of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each such offense and $50 for each and every day of the continuance of such offense, which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the United States.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 24: Making immediately available moneys appropriated for the investigation of the pneumatic mail-tube service in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>24</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 102</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>24.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making immediately available moneys appropriated for the investigation of the pneumatic mail-tube service in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-01">June 1, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/66">S. J. Res. 66</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/4">Pub. Res., No. 4</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for pneumatictube investigation immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1063.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the appropriation for the investigation of the pneumatic mail-tube service, under the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 1, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 25: Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to permit the Secretary of War to erect temporary buildings in the Smithsonian Grounds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>25</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 102</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>25.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to permit the Secretary of War to erect temporary buildings in the Smithsonian Grounds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-09">June 9, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/94">H. J. Res. 94</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/5">Pub. Res., No. 5</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary structures for Army allowed in grounds of.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to grant permission, under such conditions and restrictions as they may deem necessary, to the Secretary of War to erect for the use of the War Department a temporary structure or structures in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal, etc., within three years.</p></sidenote>Smithsonian Grounds in the city of Washington: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War shall have such building or buildings removed from the said grounds and the site or sites thereof placed in as good condition as at present within three years from the date of the approval of this resolution.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 9, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 26: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department, ” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>26</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 102</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>26.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department, ” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-12">June 12, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2133">S. 2133</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/20">Public, No. 20</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 711, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, 398.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau established in Treasury Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director.</p></sidenote>“That there is established in the Treasury Department a bureau to be known as the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the director of which shall be entitled to a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 711, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section two of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To insure American vessels, etc., against war losses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the said Bureau of War Risk Insurance, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall, as soon as practicable, make provisions for the insurance by the United States of American vessels, their freight and passage moneys, cargoes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal effects of masters, etc., added.</p></sidenote>shipped or to be shipped therein, and personal effects of the masters, officers, and crews thereof against loss or damage by the risks of war, whenever it shall appear to the Secretary that American vessels, shippers or importers in American vessels, or the masters, officers, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/103">103</page>or crews of such vessels, are unable in any trade to secure adequate war-risk insurance on reasonable terms.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, subject to the general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance against loss of life, injury, etc., of crew.</p></sidenote>direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall, as soon as practicable, make provisions for the insurance by the United States, as further provided in section three a, of masters, officers, and crews of American merchant vessels against loss of life or personal injury by the risks of war, and for compensation during detention following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation during capture.</p></sidenote> capture by enemies of the United States whenever it shall appear to the Secretary that in any trade the need for such insurance exists.”</p>
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby added to such Act a new section, to be known as section two a, to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2a">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2a. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsurance of vessels, etc., of friendly nations.</p></sidenote> approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to make provisions for the reinsurance by the United States of vessels of foreign friendly flags or their cargoes, or both, when such vessels or their cargoes are insured by the Government of any country which is at war with an enemy of the United States; and, further, to reinsure<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsure American vessels with allied Governments.</p></sidenote> with the Governments of any countries which are at war with an enemy of the United States American vessels and their cargoes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 897.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 711, amended.</p></sidenote>”
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">
That section three of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies and premiums authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote> approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to adopt and publish forms of war-risk policies and to fix reasonable rates of premium for the policies which it is authorized to issue under this Act, which rates shall be subject to such change to each port and for each class as the Secretary shall find may be required by the circumstances. All proceeds of the aforesaid premium and from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds from premiums and salvage.</p></sidenote> salvage which have been or are hereafter received shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and in addition to all other appropriations made under this Act are hereby permanently appropriated for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriated for losses, etc.</p></sidenote> purpose of paying losses and return premiums accruing under this Act.”
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby added to such Act a new section, to be known as section three a, to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3a"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 3a. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owner to insure master, etc., against loss of life, etc.</p></sidenote> Treasury that the effecting of such insurance is desirable in the national interest in the case of vessels engaged in any trade, the owner of every American merchant vessel engaged in such trade shall insure the master, officers, and crew of such vessel against loss of life or personal injury from war risks as well as for compensation during detention by an enemy of the United States following capture.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Such insurance shall be effected either with the Bureau of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manner of insurance.</p></sidenote> Risk Insurance or in insurance companies, and on terms satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Such insurance shall provide, and the Bureau of War Risk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies authorized.</p></sidenote> Insurance is authorized to write policies so providing—</p>
</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“(a) </num>
<content class="inline">In case of death, permanent disability which prevents the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death, permanent disability, etc., payments.</p></sidenote> person injured from performing any and every kind of duty pertaining to his occupation, or the loss of both hands, both arras, both feet, both legs, or both eyes, or any two thereof, for the payment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of rates.</p></sidenote> an amount equivalent to one year’s earnings, or to twelve times the monthly earnings of the insured, as fixed in the articles for the voyage (hereinafter referred to as the principal sum), but in no case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> shall such amount be more than $5,000 or less than 41,500;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">In case of any of the following losses, for the payment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified disabilities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote> percentage of the principal sum indicated in the following tables:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“One hand, fifty per centum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“One arm, sixty-five per centum;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/104">104</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“One foot, fifty per centum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“One leg, sixty-five per centum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“One eye, forty-five per centum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Total destruction or hearing, fifty per centum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other losses.</p></sidenote>“That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance may include in its policy undertakings to pay specified percentages of the principal sum for other losses or disabilities; and</p>
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<num value="c">“(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates during detention after capture.</p></sidenote>
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<p class="inline">In case of detention by an enemy of the United States, following capture, for the payment during the continuance of such detention of compensation at the same rate as the earnings of the insured immediately preceding such detention, to be determined in substantially the same manner as provided in subdivision (a) of this section.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate limited.</p></sidenote>“The aggregate payments under this section in respect to any one person shall not exceed the amount of the principal sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments restricted.</p></sidenote>“Payments provided for in this section shall be made only to the master, officer, or member of the crew concerned, except that a payment for loss of fife shall be made to the estate of the insured for distribution to his family free from liability of debt, and payment on account of detention by an enemy following capture shall be made to dependents of the person detained, if designated by him.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit far presenting claims.</p></sidenote>“No claim under this section shall be valid unless made by the master, officer, or member of the crew concerned, or his estate, or a person designated under this section, within two years after the date on which the President suspends the operations of this Act in so far as it authorizes insurance by the United States.”</p>
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<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby added to such Act a new section to be known as section three b, to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3b">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3b. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance if owner neglects.</p> </sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the event of failure of the owner of any vessel to effect insurance of the master, officers, and crew of such vessel prior to sailing, in accordance with section three a of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to effect such insurance with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of owner, penalty, etc.</p></sidenote>Bureau of War Risk Insurance at the expense of the owner of such vessel, and the hitter shall be liable for such expense and, in addition, to a penalty of not exceeding $1,000. The amount of such premium, with interest and of the penalty and of all costs, shall be a lien on the vessel.”
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<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 711, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section five of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory board established.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 898.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to establish an advisory board, to consist of three members skilled in the practices of war-risk insurance, for the purpose of assisting the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in fixing rates of premium and in adjustment of claims for losses, and generally in carrying out the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote>purposes of this Act; the compensation of the members of said board to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not to exceed $20 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional members for death, etc., claims.</p></sidenote>a day each, while actually employed. He is likewise authorized to appoint two persons skilled in the practices of accident insurance for the purpose of assisting the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the adjustment of claims for death, personal injury, or detention; the compensation of the persons so appointed to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not to exceed $20 a day each, while <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of disagreements by admiralty courts.</p></sidenote>actually employed. In the event of disagreement as to the claim for losses, or amount thereof, between the said bureau and the parties to such contract of insurance, an action on the claim may be brought against the United States in the district court of the United States, sitting in admiralty, in the district in which the claimant or his agent may reside.”
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby added to such Act a new section to be known as section five a, to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5a">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5a. </num>
<content class="inline">No claim agent or attorney shall be entitled to receive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on paying for services by attorneys.</p></sidenote> any compensation whatever for services in the collection of claims against the Bureau of War Risk Insurance for death, personal injury, or detention, except when proceedings are taken in accordance with section five in a district court of the United States, in which case the judge shall, as a part of his determination and order, settle and determine the amount of compensation not to exceed ten per centum of amount recovered, to be paid by the claimant on behalf of whom such proceedings are instituted to his legal adviser or advisers, and it shall be unlawful for any lawyer or other person acting in that behalf to ask for, contract for, or receive any larger sum than the amount so fixed.”
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">That section seven of such Act is hereby amended to read<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 712, amended.</p></sidenote> as follows:
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<num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of paying losses and return premiums<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for paying losses, etc., increased.</p></sidenote> accruing under the provisions of this Act there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000,000.”
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">That section eight of such Act is hereby amended to read<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 712, amended.</p></sidenote> as follows:
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<num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for Bureau salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> defraying the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, including the payment of salaries herein authorized and other personal services, and for the purchase of necessary books of reference, periodicals, etc., that may be paid for in advance out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $250,000.”
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">That section nine of such Act is hereby amended to read<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 712, amended.</p></sidenote> as follows:
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<num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">That the President is authorized whenever in his judgment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of Act when necessity ceases.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 898.</p></sidenote> the necessity of further war insurance by the United States shall have ceased to exist to suspend the operation of the Act, in so far as it authorizes insurance by the United States against loss or damage by risks of war, which suspension shall be made, in any event, within four years after the passage of this Act, but shall not affect<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outstanding claims not affected.</p></sidenote> any insurance outstanding at the time or any claims pending adjustment. For the purpose of the final adjustment of any such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of Bureau.</p></sidenote> outstanding insurance or claims, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance may, in the discretion of the President, be continued in existence a further period not exceeding three years.”
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former amendments repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 514, 1131.</p></sidenote> ‘An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,’ approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen,” approved August eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,’ approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are hereby repealed.
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 12, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 27: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>27.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-12">June 12, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11">H. R. 11</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/21">Public, No. 21</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sundry civil expenses appropriations.</p></sidenote> appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro<page identifier="/us/stat/40/106">106</page>priated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely:</content>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote>public buildings, construction, sites, and rent.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites, construction, etc.</p></sidenote>For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aberdeen, Wash.</p></sidenote>Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For completion, $21,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Akron, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Akron, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $220,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aledo, Ill.</p></sidenote>Aledo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alexandria, La.</p></sidenote>Alexandria, Louisiana, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>Rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alliance, Nebr.</p></sidenote>Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alton, Ill.</p></sidenote>Alton, Illinois, post office: For lookouts, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altus, Okla.</p></sidenote>Altus, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amherst, Mass.</p></sidenote>Amherst, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Andalusia, Ala.</p></sidenote>Andalusia, Alabama, post office: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antigo, Wis.</p></sidenote>Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For completion $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apalachicola, Fla.</p></sidenote>Apalachicola, Florida, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashland, Ky.</p></sidenote>Ashland, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashland, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Ashland, Ohio, post office: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athens, Tenn.</p></sidenote>Athens, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attleboro, Mass.</p></sidenote>Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bad Axe, Mich.</p></sidenote>Bad Axe, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bakersfield, Cal.</p></sidenote>Bakersfield, California, post office: For completion, $27,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore, Md., immigrant station.</p></sidenote>Baltimore, Maryland, immigration station: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barbourville, Ky.</p></sidenote>Barbourville, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barnesville, Ga.</p></sidenote>Barnesville, Georgia, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bartow, Fla.</p></sidenote>Bartow, Florida, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basin, Wyo.</p></sidenote>Basin, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $44,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Batavia, Ill.</p></sidenote>Batavia, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bay City, Tex.</p></sidenote>Bay City, Texas, post office: For completion, $49,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayonne, N. J.</p></sidenote>Bayonne, New Jersey, post office: For completion,$40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beaufort, S. C.</p></sidenote>Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beaver Dam, Wis.</p></sidenote>Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $64,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beeville, Tex.</p></sidenote>Beeville, Texas, post office: For completion, $34,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellefourche, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>Bellefourche, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belton, Tex.</p></sidenote>Belton, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bemidji, Minn.</p></sidenote>Bemidji, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $65,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Berlin, N. H.</p></sidenote>Berlin, New Hampshire, post office: For completion, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Berwick, Pa.</p></sidenote>Berwick, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $68,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binghamton, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Binghamton, New York, post office and courthouse: For repair of damage resulting from fire, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Birmingham, Ala.</p></sidenote>Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For completion, $540,000. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bluffton, Ind.</p></sidenote>Bluffton, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonne Terre, Mo.</p></sidenote>Bonne Terre, Missouri, post office: For completion, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Branford, Conn.</p></sidenote>Branford, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buckhannon, W. Va.</p></sidenote>Buckhannon, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $24,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buena Vista, Va.</p></sidenote>Buena Vista, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $1,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Buffalo, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $31,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buffalo, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, N. C</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $60,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Butler, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Butler, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cambridge, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $55,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cambridge, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cameron, Texas, post office: For completion, $48,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cameron, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Caribou, Maine, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Caribou, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carroll, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carroll, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cedar Falls, Iowa, post office: For completion, $84,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cedar Falls, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Central City, Nebraska, post office; For continuation, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central City, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chadron, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chamberlain, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chamberlain, S. Dak.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chandler, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chandler, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chapel Hill, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chariton, Iowa, post office: For completion, $59,200.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlton, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles City, Iowa, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles City, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charleston, Illinois post office: For completion, $65,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles Town, West Virginia, post office: For continuation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles Town, W. Va.</p></sidenote> $25 000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlotte, Michigan, post office: For completion, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlotte, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlotte, North Carolina, post office and courthouse; For completion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlotte, N. C.</p></sidenote> $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chattanooga, Tennessee, post office and courthouse (extension): <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chattanooga, Tenn.</p></sidenote>For completion, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cheboygan, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $30,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cheboygan, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cherokee, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cherryvale, Kansas, post office: For completion, $51,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherryvale, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill., post office, etc.</p></sidenote> removal of the present roof covering of the dome and the substitution of a new copper-covered roof, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clinton, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clinton, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clinton, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clinton, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cody, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $34,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cody, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cohoes, New York, post office: For continuation, $65,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cohoes, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $154,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia, S. C.</p></sidenote> </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbus, Ohio, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $3,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Comanche, Texas, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comanche, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Commerce, Texas, post office: For completion, $49,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commerce, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cordova, Alaska, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $35,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cordova, Alaska.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Coshocton, Ohio, post office: For completion, $94,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coshocton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dawson, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dawson, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Decatur, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decatur, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">De Land, Florida, post office: For completion, $24,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">De Land, Fla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Denton, Texas, post office: For completion, $65,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denton, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Denver, Colorado, customhouse, and so forth: For remodeling, repairs, and so forth, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo., customhouse, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Des Moines, Iowa, courthouse: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Des Moines, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dickinson, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $36,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dickinson, N. Dak.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Donora, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donora, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Douglas, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Douglas, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Douglas, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Douglas, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dowagiac, Michigan, post office: For completion, $22,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dowagiac, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dubois, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $35,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dubois, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dubuque, Iowa, post office and customhouse: For lookouts, $3,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dubuque, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duluth, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $4,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Durant, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $60,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Durant, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Las Vegas. N. Mex.</p></sidenote>East Las Vegas, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Orange, N. J.</p></sidenote>East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Saint Louis, Ill.</p></sidenote>East Saint Louis, Illinois, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $95,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eldorado, Kans.</p></sidenote>Eldorado, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elkins, W. Va.</p></sidenote>Elkins, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellensburg, Wash.</p></sidenote>Ellensburg, Washington, post office: For completion, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">El Paso, Tex.</p></sidenote>El Paso, Texas, post office: For completion, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elyria, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Elyria, Ohio, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eureka Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote>Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eureka, Utah.</p></sidenote>Eureka, Utah, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairmont, Minn.</p></sidenote>Fairmont, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fallon, Nev.</p></sidenote>Fallon, Nevada, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Falls City, Nebr.</p></sidenote>Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmville, Va.</p></sidenote>Farmville, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fayette, Mo.</p></sidenote>Fayette, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fitzgerald, Ga.</p></sidenote>Fitzgerald, Georgia, post office: For completion, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fordyce, Ark.</p></sidenote>Fordyce, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $39,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Fairfield, Mo.</p></sidenote>Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Morgan, Colo.</p></sidenote>Fort Morgan, Colorado, post office: For completion, $49,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Plain, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Fort Plain, New York, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, N. H.</p></sidenote>Franklin, New Hampshire, post office: For continuation. $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, Pa.</p></sidenote>Franklin, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, Tenn.</p></sidenote>Franklin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, Va.</p></sidenote>Franklin, Virginia, post office: For completion, $34,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frederick, Md.</p></sidenote>Frederick, Maryland, post office: For completion, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fremont, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Fremont, Ohio, post office: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fresno, Cal.</p></sidenote>Fresno, California, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Front Royal, Va.</p></sidenote>Front Royal, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gallatin, Tenn.</p></sidenote>Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gallipolis, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Gallipolis, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geneseo, Ill.</p></sidenote>Geneseo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gilmer, Tex.</p></sidenote>Gilmer, Texas, post office: For continuation, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Girard, Kans.</p></sidenote>Girard, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glasgow, Ky.</p></sidenote>Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $40,000. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glenwood, Iowa.</p></sidenote>Glenwood, Iowa, post office: For completion, $44,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glenwood Springs, Colo.</p></sidenote>Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Globe, Ariz.</p></sidenote>Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Junction, Colo.</p></sidenote>Grand Junction, Colorado, post office: For completion, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grinnell, Iowa.</p></sidenote>Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For completion, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hackensack, N. J.</p></sidenote>Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hammond, La.</p></sidenote>Hammond, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $44,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harrisonville, Mo.</p></sidenote>Harrisonville, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hastings, Mich.</p></sidenote>Hastings, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hiawatha, Kans.</p></sidenote>Hiawatha, Kansas, post office: For completion, $39,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hollidaysburg, Pa.</p></sidenote>Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holly Springs, Miss.</p></sidenote>Holly Springs, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $37,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honey Grove, Tex.</p></sidenote>Honey Grove, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoopeston, Ill.</p></sidenote>Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoosick Falls, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Hoosick Falls, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hornell, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Hornell, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Houghton, Mich.</p></sidenote>Houghton, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntington, Ind.</p></sidenote>Huntington, Indiana, post office: For completion, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntington, W, Va.</p></sidenote>Huntington, West Virginia, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $125,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indiana, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $64,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indiana, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jasper, Alabama, post office: For completion, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jasper, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jerseyville, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jerseyville, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kalispell, Montana, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kalispell, Mont.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kendallville, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kendallville, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kenton, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kenton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Laconia, New Hampshire, post office: For completion, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laconia, N. H.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lakeland, Florida, post office: For completion, $64,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lakeland, Fla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lancaster, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $49,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lancaster, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lancaster, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $37,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lancaster, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lansing, Michigan, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $1,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lansing, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Las Cruces, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For completion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Las Cruces, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> $119,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lawrence, Massachusetts, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawrence, Mass.</p></sidenote> $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leesburg, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leesburg, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leominster, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leominster, Mass.</p></sidenote> $40,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lewiston, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewiston, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Liberty, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liberty, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $13,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Falls, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Rock, Arkansas, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Rock, Ark.</p></sidenote> machinery, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lock Haven, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Long Island City, New York, post office: For continuation, $75,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Long Island City, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Los Angeles, California, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Los Angeles, Cal.</p></sidenote> machinery, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Louisville, Kentucky, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisville, Ky.</p></sidenote> $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new conduit and wiring system and lighting fixtures, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lowell, Massachusetts, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lowell, Mass.</p></sidenote> $800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Madison, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $24,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Madison, S. Dak.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For completion, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maquoketa, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marianna, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marianna, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marianna, Florida, post office and courthouse: For continuation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marianna, Fla.</p></sidenote>$50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Martin, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $39,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Martin, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, post office: For completion, $70,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Martin’s Ferry, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryville, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McComb, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McComb, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McKees Rocks, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Media, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Media, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Memphis, Tennessee, sub-post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memphis, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mena, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $34,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mena, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Metropolis, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Metropolis, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Middletown, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $29,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middletown, Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Midland, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Midland, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mineral Point, Wisconsin, post office and customhouse: For continuation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral Point, Wis.</p></sidenote> $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monessen, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $68,025.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monessen, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Montclair, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $75,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montclair, N. J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montevideo, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Moultrie, Georgia, post office: For completion, $51,800.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moultrie, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mount Carmel, Illinois, post office: For completion, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Carmel, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Pleasant, Mich.</p></sidenote>Mount Pleasant, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Pleasant, Tex.</p></sidenote>Mount Pleasant, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mystic, Conn.</p></sidenote>Mystic, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashville, Tenn.</p></sidenote>Nashville, Tennessee, post office and customhouse (extension, and so forth): For completion, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neenah, Wis.</p></sidenote>Neenah, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newark, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Newark, Ohio, post office: For completion, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newburyport, Mass.</p></sidenote>Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p></sidenote>Newport, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For completion, $110,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y., assay office.</p></sidenote>New York, New York, Assay Office Building: For continuation, $75,000; and the limit of cost fixed by the Act of October twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is increased by the sum of $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post office.</p></sidenote>New York, New York, post office: For shelter over driveway, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nogales, Ariz.</p></sidenote>Nogales, Arizona, customhouse: For continuation, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Topeka, Kans.</p></sidenote>North Topeka, Kansas, branch post office: For continuation, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Vernon, Ind.</p></sidenote>North Vernon, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oconto, Wis.</p></sidenote>Oconto, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma City,Okla.</p></sidenote>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse (extension, and so forth): For completion, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olney, Ill.</p></sidenote>Olney, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olyphant, Pa.</p></sidenote>Olyphant, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orange, Tex.</p></sidenote>Orange, Texas, post office: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orlando, Fla.</p></sidenote>Orlando, Florida, post office: For completion, $24,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owego, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Owego, New York, post office: For continuation, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paris, Tex.</p></sidenote>Paris, Texas, post office: For commencement, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paterson, N. J.</p></sidenote>Paterson, New Jersey, post office: For repairs to the roof, $8,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paxton, Ill.</p></sidenote>Paxton, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenixville, Pa.</p></sidenote>Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburgh, Pa., post office, etc.</p></sidenote>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For completion, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburg, Tex.</p></sidenote>Pittsburg, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsfield, Mass., addition to site.</p></sidenote>Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post office: The unexpended balance, $278.22, of the appropriations heretofore made for the acquisition of a site and the erection of a building is reappropriated and made available, together with the further sum of $1,078.96, for the acquisition by the Secretary of the Treasury, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of the eight-foot strip of land between a portion of said site and the new street (known as Federal Street) lately opened adjacent to the southerly side of said site, at a cost not exceeding $1,357.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittston, Pa.</p></sidenote>Pittston, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland, Me.</p></sidenote>Portland, Maine, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery. $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland, Oreg.</p></sidenote>Portland, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For completion, $365,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pottstown, Pa.</p></sidenote>Pottstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pratt, Kans.</p></sidenote>Pratt, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prescott, Ark.</p></sidenote>Prescott, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pulaski, Va.</p></sidenote>Pulaski, Virginia, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Raton, N. Mex.</p></sidenote>Raton, New Mexico, post office: For continuation, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading, Mass.</p></sidenote>Reading, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $49,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Bluff, Cal.</p></sidenote>Red Bluff, California, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redfield, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhinelander, Wis.</p></sidenote>Rhinelander, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richfield, Utah.</p></sidenote>Richfield, Utah, post office: For completion, $39,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Va.</p></sidenote>Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse. For mail-conveying machinery, $3,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rochester, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochester, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock Island, Illinois, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote> $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $22,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rockville, Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rogers, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rogers, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roseburg, Oreg.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rumford, Maine, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rumford, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Russellville, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Russellville, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saco, Maine, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saco, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, post office: For continuation, $30,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johnsbury, Vt.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Peter, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Peter, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salem, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salem, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salisbury, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salisbury, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sandpoint, Idaho, post office: For commencement, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandpoint, Idaho.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sandusky, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandusky, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sanford, Florida, post office: For continuation, $50,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanford, Fla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Pedro, California, post office and customhouse: For continuation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Pedro, Cal.</p></sidenote> $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Santa Fe, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Fe, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saranac Lake, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saranac Lake, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savanna, Illinois, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savanna, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savannah, Georgia, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga.</p></sidenote>$2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sayre, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sayre, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Scranton, Pennsylvania, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scranton, Pa.</p></sidenote> $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shawnee, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $60,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shawnee, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelby, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shelbyville, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelbyville, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Skowhegan, Maine, post office: For completion, $25,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skowhegan, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Bethlehem, Pa.</p></sidenote>$15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">South Boston, Virginia, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Boston, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southbridge, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $61,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southbridge, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Spanish Fork, Utah, post office: For continuation, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spanish Fork, Utah.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stamford, Texas, post office: For completion, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamford, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">State College, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $48,815.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State College, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statesboro, Georgia, post office: For completion, $39,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statesboro, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Syracuse, New York, post office: For completion, $190,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Syracuse, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tamaqua, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For completion, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taylorville, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thibodaux, Louisiana, post office: For continuation, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thibodaux, La.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomasville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thomasville, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tomah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tomah, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Topeka, Kansas, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $2,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Topeka, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tullahoma, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tullahoma, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tulsa, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twin Falls, Idaho, post office: For completion, $35,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twin Falls, Idaho.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tyrone, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $1,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tyrone, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Valparaiso, Indiana, post office, For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valparaiso, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vancouver, Washington, post office: For completion, $30,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vancouver, Wash.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vernal, Utah, post office: For continuation, $20,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vernal, Utah.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vernon, Texas, post office: For continuation, $40,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vernon, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vineland, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $45,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vineland, N. J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vinton, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $10,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vinton, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wahoo, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $39,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wahoo, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Walden, New York, post office: For continuation, $40,060.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walden, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrenton, Va.</p></sidenote>Warrenton, Virginia, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central heating, etc., plant.</p></sidenote>Central heating, lighting, and power plant: For completion, $919,104.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplying additional buildings.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to include among the buildings to be supplied with heat, light, and power from the central heating, lighting, and power plant, the Pan American Building, the building occupied by the Civil Service Commission, and the municipal fish market, and the limit of cost of said central heating, lighting, and power plant is hereby increased in the sum of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to delay early construction.</p></sidenote>$68,000, which amount is hereby appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing buildings shall not be included among the buildings to be supplied with heat, light, and power, from the said power plant, if such inclusion shall interfere in any way with the completion of the said plant at the earliest date possible.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Butler Building.</p></sidenote>Butler Building—For remodeling toilets, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alterations, Department building.</p></sidenote>Treasury Building—For new roof and for remodeling a portion of the fourth story to enable it to be used for office purposes, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For changes in screen, new furniture, and so forth, in cash room, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Ga.</p></sidenote>Washington, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Ind.</p></sidenote>Washington, Indiana, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Iowa.</p></sidenote>Washington, Iowa, post office: For completion, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Mo.</p></sidenote>Washington, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Court House, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Washington Court House, Ohio, post office: For completion, $57,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water Valley, Miss.</p></sidenote>Water Valley, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waynesboro, Va.</p></sidenote>Waynesboro, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waynesburg, Pa.</p></sidenote>Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waynesville, N. C.</p></sidenote>Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wenatchee, Wash.</p></sidenote>Wenatchee, Washington, post office: For completion, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Point, Ga.</p></sidenote>West Point, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, N. C.</p></sidenote>Wilmington, North Carolina, customhouse and appraisers stores: For completion, $135,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Wilmington, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winchester, Mass.</p></sidenote>Winchester, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $45,000. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winnemucca, Nev.</p></sidenote>Winnemucca, Nevada, post office: For continuation, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woodbury, N. J.</p></sidenote>Woodbury, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woodward, Okla.</p></sidenote>Woodward, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyandotte, Mich.</p></sidenote>Wyandotte, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yoakum, Tex.</p></sidenote>Yoakum, Texas, post office: For completion, $25,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote>marine hospitals.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore, Md.</p></sidenote>Baltimore, Maryland, marine hospital: For roofed porches and heating system, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cincinnati, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Cincinnati, Ohio, marine hospital: For repairs to the old marine hospital and grounds, now being used as headquarters, central laboratory, and field depot for the investigations of the pollution of navigable waters, including the demolition of the dilapidated structures, and equipment of repaired buildings to make them available for public health purposes, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote>Key West, Florida, marine hospital: For three tent houses and refrigerating plant, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote>New York, New York, marine hospital (Stapleton, Staten Island): For a laundry building and for a pavilion for consumptives, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Townsend, Wash.</p></sidenote>Port Townsend, Washington, marine hospital: For three tent houses, $1,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>quarantine stations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River (Astoria, Oregon), quarantine station: For wiring<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River.</p></sidenote> and lighting equipment, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Orleans, Louisiana, Quarantine Station: For laundry building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> and equipment, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savannah, Georgia, Quarantine Station: For toilet accommodations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga.</p></sidenote> and sewerage, artesian well, tank, and equipment, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “Quarantine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of work.</p></sidenote> Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River (Astoria, Oregon), quarantine station: For boarding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding vessel.</p></sidenote>vessel, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gulf, Mississippi (Ship Island), quarantine station: For boarding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gulf, Miss.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding launch.</p></sidenote>launch, $8,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sitka, Alaska.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum herein appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.</p></sidenote> not exceeding $125,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire partitions and fly screens for same, and not exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings.</p></sidenote> Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote> services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $850,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanical equipment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, lighting, etc.</p></sidenote>equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department, acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.</p></sidenote> herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $50,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings, D. C.</p></sidenote> Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/114">114</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic tube service, New York City.</p></sidenote>changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote>street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one budding, $460,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaults and safes.</p></sidenote>Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buddings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buddings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $110,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 637.</p></sidenote>General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, Supervising Architect.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services, etc.</p></sidenote>five hundred and thirty-seven): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; architectural designer, at $6,000 per annum; foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,200 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum, the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote>stated, not to exceed $178,050; supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum not to exceed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>$278,960; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $7,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/115">115</page>annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $580,660.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Architectural competitions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of commissions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 468.</p></sidenote> to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including additional commissions accruing tinder certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially selected<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hilo, Hawaii.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1373; Vol. 37, p. 428.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings, operating expenses.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating force.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services.</p></sidenote> the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $3,250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings for which available.</p></sidenote> shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote> repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or estab<page identifier="/us/stat/40/116">116</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote>lishments of the Government, $775,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present furniture.</p></sidenote>building:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating supplies.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lights, water, etc.</p></sidenote>Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electriclight plants, meters, interior pneumaticube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse at Washington, District <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings excluded.</p></sidenote>of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas governors.</p></sidenote>$1,800,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rental.</p></sidenote>Treasury in writing: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic tube service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing steam for, to Postal Service.</p></sidenote>During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to to the amounts expended therefrom.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salamanca, N. Y.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground rent.</p></sidenote>Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Senaca Nation of Indians, begin ningFebruary nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, $7.50.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p></sidenote>coast guard.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.</p></sidenote>For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, not exceeding forty-four cadets and cadet engineers who are hereby authorized, and one civilian instructor, $4,049,286.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/117">117</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rations or commutation thereof at the rate of 45 cents per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations.</p></sidenote> ration for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $520,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to superintendents.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $900 each, $10,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>$275,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits, stores, etc.</p></sidenote> $340,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stations, houses of refuge, etc.</p></sidenote> leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $125,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of section eight of the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death allowances.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol. 35, p. 45.</p></sidenote> May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For draft animals and their maintenance, $20,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft animals.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telephone lines and care of the same, $40,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephones.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Coast Guard to bring its present telephone system of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extending system to all stations, etc.</p></sidenote> coastal communication to a high state of efficiency, to extend such system to include all Coast Guard stations not now connected, and to include the most important light stations which have at present no means of rapid communication, including personal services and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $300,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation for special services, $61,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special services.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1089.</p></sidenote> houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $5,856,086.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For establishing a Coast Guard station on the coast of Louisiana<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barataria Bay, La.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 239.</p></sidenote> in the vicinity of Barataria Bay, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $175,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to cutters.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and printing.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work authorized for the fiscal year 1918.</p></sidenote> during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen of not exceeding one hundred million delivered sheets of United States currency, ten million delivered sheets of national-bank notes and Federal reserve currency, ninety-five million four hundred thousand delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, three hundred and thirty-five thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps, and two million nine hundred and fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 506, 825.</p></sidenote> delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote>required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,470,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote> United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than <page identifier="/us/stat/40/118">118</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 45.</p></sidenote>those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote>For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,815,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote>the Treasury:
<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 45.</p></sidenote>except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote>For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internalrevenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $910,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.</p></sidenote>During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 227.</p></sidenote>receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous objects, treasury department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Napoleon B. Giddings.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to legal repesentatives of.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1470.</p></sidenote>For payment to the legal representatives of Napoleon B. Giddings, deceased, in accordance with private Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, approved February eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal Revenue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of taxes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 325.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishing violations of, laws.</p></sidenote>Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details permitted.</p></sidenote>control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other details.</p></sidenote>at any one time hereunder: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be constructed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/119">119</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Refunding United States bonds: For expenses of refunding two per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refunding 2 per cent bonds.</p></sidenote> centum bonds of the United States into one-year three per centum Treasury notes or thirty-year three per centum United States bonds,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 269.</p></sidenote> as authorized by section eighteen of trie Federal reserve Act, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses,
Independent Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote>under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examinera detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several sub treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3649/p718">R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718</ref></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints, $185,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recoinage of gold coins: For recomage of lightweight gold coins in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoinage of gold coins.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3512/p896">R. S., sec. 3512, p. 896</ref></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoinage of minor coins.</p></sidenote>to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money laundry machines.</p></sidenote> with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive paper for securities, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantity authorized.</p></sidenote>paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, one hundred and fifteen million five hundred thousand sheets, including transportation, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, salaries of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and ono skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $521,865.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consolidation of paper stock accounts.</p></sidenote>stock accounts of distinctive paper for United States currency and for national-bank and Federal Reserve Bank currency, same to be held for issue on the basis of printing authorized by Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.</p></sidenote> and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.</p></sidenote> under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, per diem in lieu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hun<page identifier="/us/stat/40/120">120</page>dred and fourteen, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protecting person of President, etc.</p></sidenote>protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote>United States, $275,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 157.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency use of employees.</p></sidenote>which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the President is authorized to direct, without reference to existing limitations, the use of the persons employed hereunder if, in his judgment, an emergency exists which requires such action.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to persons detailed forbidden.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred, except to the Department of State, from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739">R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739</ref>.</p></sidenote>United States, acquired and held under sections thirty-seven hundred and forty-nine and thirty-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs service.</p></sidenote>customs service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting revenue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1089.</p></sidenote>For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $9,850,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic scales.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 237.</p></sidenote>Scales for customs service: The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, are continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation in lieu of moieties.</p></sidenote>Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $30,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote>public health service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers.</p></sidenote>For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $745,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acting assistant surgeons.</p></sidenote>For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other employees.</p></sidenote>For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $525,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote>For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>For fuel, light, and water, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hygienic Laboratory.</p></sidenote>For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cases for study.</p></sidenote>special heads, $256,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases <page identifier="/us/stat/40/121">121</page>affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside treatment, etc.</p></sidenote> other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $170,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For journals and scientific books, $500;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $2,074,500, which shall include the amount necessary for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspecting aliens.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 885.</p></sidenote> medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote> exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Darien; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemen tal stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport; Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands including the leprosy hospital, and Porto Rico; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $170,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Key West, Florida, quarantine station: For detention hulk, repairs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla., station.</p></sidenote> and equipment, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of epidemics.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1088.</p></sidenote> threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a detailed report of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote> the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field investigations.</p></sidenote> conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate quarantine service.</p></sidenote> municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural sanitation.</p></sidenote> rural sanitation, including personal service, $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation required.</p></sidenote> That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one half the expense of such demonstration work.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pellagra studios.</p></sidenote>field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $40,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/122">122</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Viruses, serums, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulating sales, etc.</p></sidenote>Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including personal service, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote>Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $2,600; for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $12,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $15,100, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote>SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International exchanges.</p></sidenote>International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">American ethnology.</p></sidenote>American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.</p></sidenote>International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Astrophysical Observatory.</p></sidenote>Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eclipse of the sun, 1918.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of observing.</p></sidenote>For observation of the total eclipse of the sun of June eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including purchase of necessary apparatus and supplies, transportation of equipment to and from observing station, hire of temporary assistance, transportation and subsistence of observers, and miscellaneous expenses, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Museum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, fixtures, etc.</p></sidenote>National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, lighting,etc.</p></sidenote>For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $46,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving collections, etc.</p></sidenote>For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote>For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Museum, $383,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Zoological Park, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/123">123</page>subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary-employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required or official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $100,000; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Washington Memorial Building: The amount which shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Washington Memorial Building, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Initial subscription limit diminished.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 881.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 368, 1270.</p></sidenote> have been subscribed and paid into the treasury of the George Washington Memorial Association before the actual construction of said building shall be undertaken prescribed in the Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings,” and so forth, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eight hundred and eighty-one), is hereby fixed at $500,000, and the limit for beginning the erection of said building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for commencement extended.</p></sidenote> is hereby extended to March fourth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 270.</p></sidenote> $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,100,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for counsel, etc.</p></sidenote> necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $70,000 rent of buildings in the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing accounting by railroads.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.</p></sidenote> compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway safety appliances.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32. p. 943; Vol. 36 p. 298.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accidents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Block signals, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324.</p></sidenote> regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical valuation of railroads.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 701.</p></sidenote> Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issues of stocks, etc.</p></sidenote> concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved <page identifier="/us/stat/40/124">124</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not exceeding $15,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Safe locomotive boilers, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 913.</p></sidenote>For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1192.</p></sidenote>and amendment of March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, extending “ the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $225,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Mediation and Conciliation.</p></sidenote>UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 108.</p></sidenote>For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books of reference and periodicals, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the chairman of said board, $34,680; rent in the District of Columbia, $2,820; in all, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for expenses.</p></sidenote>Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Trade Commission.</p></sidenote>FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 717.</p></sidenote>For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; five clerks to commissioners, at $1,500 each; chief clerk, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, ten of class two, seventeen of class one, twenty-one at $1,000 each, twenty-one at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; general mechanic, $840; three watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; telephone operator, $720; forewoman, $300; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $172,920.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foodstuffs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of antitrust violations of production, distribution, etc., of.</p></sidenote>For all expenses necessary to carry out the order of the President of the United States to investigate within the scope of its powers and to report the facts relating to any alleged violations of the antitrust Acts by any corporation in the production, ownership, manufacture, storage, and distribution of foodstuffs and the products or byproducts arising from or in connection with their preparation and manufacture, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special attorneys, etc.</p></sidenote>For compensation, travel expense, and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rate of $4, of such special attorneys, special experts, special examiners, special agents, clerks, and other employees as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work of said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary limit.</p></sidenote>commission; no salary shall be paid hereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum, $300,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, filing cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating, freight and express charges, street car tickets, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and calculating machines, including their exchange, and for all other necessary miscellaneous supplies not otherwise provided, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rental of building or quarters, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For witness fees, and mileage, as provided in section nine of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 722.</p></sidenote> Federal Trade Commission Act, $15,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tariff Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 795.</p></sidenote> and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping Board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five commissioners at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> $42,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 728.</p></sidenote> seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating discrim inations against American vessels, etc.</p></sidenote>and shippers of the United States, $175,000, of which sum $100,000 shall be available immediately.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees’ Compensation Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses under an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 742.</p></sidenote>for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">miscellaneous expenses:</inline> For salaries of the commissioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 747.</p></sidenote> and for assistants, clerks, and other employees, traveling expenses, expenses of medical examinations, and for reasonable traveling and other expenses and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one, rent in the District of Columbia and equipment of offices, books, stationery, and other supplies, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and other necessary expenses, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Employees’ compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances under.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.</p></sidenote> fund:</inline> For the payment of compensation provided by said Act, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section nine, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections nine and eleven, $500,000, to be available until expended; and the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is continued and made available until expended.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Crook and Potomac Parkway Commission.</p></sidenote>ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring connecting lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 885.</p></sidenote>To enable the commission created by section twenty-two of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and eighty-five), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be available until expended and to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p></sidenote>States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Area limited.</p></sidenote>parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and demented in the map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the Sixty-fourth Congress, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions imposed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 282.</p></sidenote>first session:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi Centennial Exposition.</p></sidenote>MISSISSIPPI CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, transferring Government exhibit at Panama-California Exposition to.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 854.</p></sidenote>For the transfer at the close of the Panama-California International Exposition of the Government exhibit, or such portions thereof as may be determined by the President as advisable, and for its installation and maintenance during the continuance of said Mississippi Centennial Exposition until not later than June tenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and its return to Washington, $75,000, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to be immediately available.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ericsson memorial.</p></sidenote>ERICSSON MEMORIAL COMMISSION.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection in Washington D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 671.</p></sidenote>For the erection in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a suitable memorial to John Ericsson, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for erecting a suitable memorial to John Ericsson,” approved August thirty-first, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donations for.</p></sidenote>and sixteen, $35,000; and in addition to the foregoing amount, the commission is authorized to accept and to expend such ums as may be donated for the memorial.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department</p></sidenote>WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military publications.</p></sidenote>military publications.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding instruction manuals, etc.</p></sidenote>In addition to any other appropriation available for this purpose, there is hereby appropriated $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to be expended in printing and binding pubheations and manuals necessary for the organization and instruction of the land forces of the United States or such other necessary printing as the Secretary of War may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private contracts permitted.</p></sidenote>prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the printing and binding herein authorized may be executed under contract with private concerns if in the judgment of the Secretary of War the public interest requires, notwithstanding the provisions of law requiring such printing and binding to be done in the Government Planting Office.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>armories and arsenals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For increasing facilities for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p></sidenote> fire protection, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benicia, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an elevator in main storehouse, $1,700;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a fence around the lumber yard, including a shed roof for the protection of lumber, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one oil storehouse, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $5,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any unexpended balance after completing the work prescribed by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 283.</p></sidenote> the following appropriation contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, “For five magazine buildings, including necessary barriers and fences about the buildings, railroad connections, sewer lines, lighting mains, and so forth, $90,900,” shall be available for the construction of two primer dry houses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a small-arms ammunition storehouse, $72,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a primer shop and planning room, $165,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two sets of double quarters for officers, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a combination wall and picket fence along the north-side and a picket fence along the east and south sides of the arsenal reservation, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair of roads, including railroad sidings, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of high-explosive loading shop, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a paint shop, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an artillery firing range, including an explosion chamber, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a small-arms firing range, including a proof house and target, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a general storehouse, $135,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of tunnels and the installation of appropriate heating and lighting mains for transferring heat and light to the western part of the arsenal, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of instrument department building, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of artillery case shop building, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an artillery ammunition storehouse, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $732,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Picatinny, N. J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing and improving the water supply, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a magazine, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing transportation facilities, including the purchase of cars and a track scale, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to bridges and roads, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a plant for drying powder by the water-drying process, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing storage facilities for old powder, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a powder magazine, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For modification and improvement of existing magazines, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $68,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Proving ground facilities: For increasing the facilities for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providing ground facilities, buildings, land, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 352.</p></sidenote> proof and test of field artillery and its ammunition, including necessary buildings and the purchase of land, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock’ Island, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for bath and toilet room addition to barracks building, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing the facilities for the manufacture of field artillery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery manufacture, etc.</p></sidenote> matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, and for providing additional storage space and other storage facilities, either <page identifier="/us/stat/40/128">128</page>by building and equipping new storehouses or by building and equipping shops for manufacturing purposes and equipping as storehouses shops thereby vacated and made available, $2,965,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For laying a new floor on Moline Bridge, $14,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing roof and gutters of post stables, $2,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery ammunition.</p></sidenote>For completing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition at a total cost not exceeding $2,000,000, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $1,500,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for storage of sodium nitrate, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $135,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a central steam heating plant, $165,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a garage for motor trucks, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a plant for the manufacture of rifle and hand grenades, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $125,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for ice-making plant, $7,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage facilities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 810.</p></sidenote>The appropriations of $250,000 for increasing storage facilities at the Rock Island Arsenal and of $225,000 for providing facilities for a reserve supply of sodium nitrate, contained in the general deficiency appropriation act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges expenses.</p></sidenote>For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $4,971,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Hook, N. J., proving ground.</p></sidenote>Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Proving Ground:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlarging magazine at proof battery, $6,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of barracks building, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one crane, $78,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $12,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two coal bins, $3,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Antonio, Tex.</p></sidenote>San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the repair of ordnance matériel, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a magazine, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For adding two stories to storehouse, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a budding for storing artillery vehicles and machine-gun trucks, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $128,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Mass.</p></sidenote>Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $5,500 for extension of wing of milling shop <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 284.</p></sidenote>for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $4,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a new power plant for the hill shops, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing worn-out and obsolete machine tools, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $194,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, Mass.</p></sidenote>Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a locomotive crane, $14,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one storehouse and its equipment, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a fire engine, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair of roads, sidewalks, and so forth, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an oil-storage equipment for the manufacturing plant, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 284.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $5,000 made in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for a building for housing electric engine and locomotive crane is reappropriated and made available for the construction of a building for housing automobile trucks and electric engine, together with the further sum of $1,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a power tunnel between power plant and shops, $20,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 654.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving and modernizing smith shop, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a building to contain the planning room and inspector’s office, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a fire-alarm system, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing roof of building containing hardening plant, $8,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a foundry and its equipment, $800,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundry.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $1,021,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing machines.</p></sidenote> and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watervliet, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for improvement of large gun shop, $156,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $37,000 for machine-tool equipment for field<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39. p. 284.</p></sidenote> and siege gun shop for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing storage capacity for fuel oil, $2,100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving electric locomotive and the railroad track, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repainting lower shops and storehouses, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rebuilding dock and retaining wall on Hudson River front, and filling in low ground in rear thereof, $11,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $178,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $160,000, or so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery.</p></sidenote> much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For storage facilities at armories and arsenals, $1,000,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage facilities.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartering troops.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to be made on best method for, etc.</p></sidenote> on or before January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as to the most desirable method for quartering officers and enlisted men of the Army, and to submit detailed plans and estimates of cost for the carrying out of any proposed scheme or schemes, together with locations desired and m particular what existing posts shall be retained, enlarged, or discontinued.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Military post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: For completion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> construction, at a total cost not exceeding $2,077,000, of the necessary buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, required to complete permanent accommodations not already provided for two regiments of Infantry, one regiment of Cavalry, and one regiment of Field Artillery, $1,077,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Monroe, Va.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wharf.</p></sidenote> maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels. $2,430; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $3,930; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; in all, $9,180; for one-third of said suin, to be supplied by the United States, $3,060.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to roads, etc.</p></sidenote>macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170; six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each; in all, $5,050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,366.66.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewer.</p></sidenote>For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,400; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,400; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,933.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast defenses, Hawaii, etc.</p></sidenote>For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Hawaiian Islands, and for temporary cantonments for over-sea garrisons, $93,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National cemeteries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">National cemeteries:</inline> For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, $120,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote>For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headstones for soldiers’ graves.</p></sidenote>For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 17, p. 545; Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.</p></sidenote>United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 386; Vol. 34, p. 741.</p></sidenote>six; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederates.</p></sidenote>hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to roadways.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Encroachments by railroads forbidden.</p></sidenote>For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to one approach.</p></sidenote>No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C.</p></sidenote>For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sura shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antietam battle field, Md.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc.</p></sidenote>Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote>For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.</p></sidenote>Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men of the Army active list; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the em<page identifier="/us/stat/40/131">131</page>ploy of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; removal of remains from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing remains from abandoned posts, etc.</p></sidenote> abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursements to individuals.</p></sidenote> where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate Stockade, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate burial plats, care, etc.</p></sidenote> Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monuments or tablets in Cuba or China: For repairs and preservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monuments in Cuba and China.</p></sidenote> of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Rock, Ark.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial of soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.</p></sidenote> Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>national military parks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chickamauga and Chattanooga.</p></sidenote>establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $ for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $55,260.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shiloh.</p></sidenote> of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; foundations to monuments; purchase of land; building a superintendent’s residence; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $29,550.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg.</p></sidenote>Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet Dearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $42,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg.</p></sidenote>Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $33,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote>engineer department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flood control of the Mississippi, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 948.</p></sidenote>For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone Park.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements.</p></sidenote>Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements $147,500, including not to exceed $5,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including not exceeding $3,000 for purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-driven and horse-drawn, passenger-carrying vehicles to be used for inspection of roads and road work, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Snow restriction.</p></sidenote>of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurfacing belt line.</p></sidenote>For resurfacing and for finishing the belt line with oil macadam, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crater Lake Park.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, etc.</p></sidenote>Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds, I. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement and care.</p></sidenote>Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument Grounds.</p></sidenote>For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements, etc.</p></sidenote>including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horse-drawn and two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac Park.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing paths, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outdoor sports.</p></sidenote> for outdoor sports, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meridian Hill Park.</p></sidenote> Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the site of the old high-service reservoir, at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and R Street northwest, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of west<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea wall, Potomac Park.</p></sidenote> Potomac Park, $22,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field house, Potomac Park.</p></sidenote>railroad embankment, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing and erecting a wagon shed at the propagating gardens, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for an increase of fifteen per centum in the pay of park<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay to laborers.</p></sidenote> laborers, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new road pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks on the E<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judiciary Park.</p></sidenote> and F Street roadways through Judiciary Park, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving small triangles, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For planting the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new public comfort station in Willow Tree Park, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tidal Basin bathing beach:</inline> The Chief of Engineers of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tidal Basin, Potomac Park.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public bathing beach to be established on.</p></sidenote> United States Army is authorized and directed to establish and maintain at a suitable place upon the shore of the Tidal Basin, in Potomac Park, a public bathhouse, with the necessary equipment, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/134">134</page>with a sloping sandy beach in the Tidal Basin, and to install a proper equipment to purify the water entering the basin so that it will not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control, etc.</p></sidenote>endanger the health of those bathing in it. The direction and control of said public bathing facilities shall be vested in the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, who shall prescribe such regulations for their use as may be necessary to insure the greatest benefit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on fees, etc.</p></sidenote>to the public: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no charge shall be made for the use of the bathhouse or beach, except that uniform fees may be collected for the hire of bathing suits, soap, towels, and such other conveniences as may be provided upon the request of persons desiring to use them. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote>To enable the Chief of Engineers to begin construction of the bathhouse, beach, and purification plant herein provided for, $35,000, to be immediately available; and the limit of cost of such construction shall not exceed that amount.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for asphalt pavements.</p></sidenote>Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heavy traffic allowance.</p></sidenote>and with same depth of base: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds of executive departments, etc.</p></sidenote>For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 Buildings, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion grounds.</p></sidenote>For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">nursery, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer.</p></sidenote>For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc.</p></sidenote>Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extraordinary repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote>For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenhouses.</p></sidenote>For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses of the President.</p></sidenote>For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote>For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting and heating public grounds.</p></sidenote>watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $22,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $26,120, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one-half<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government telegraph.</p></sidenote> Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Monument.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance salaries.</p></sidenote> $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floora; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote>materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building where Abraham Lincoln died.</p></sidenote> repairs, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wakefield, Va.</p></sidenote> to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission of Fine Arts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 371.</p></sidenote> approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved by the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant Memorial.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 291.</p></sidenote>August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lincoln Memorial Commission: For completing the erection of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lincoln Memorial.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing construction.</p></sidenote> Lincoln Memorial in accordance with the plans and design and on the location approved by Congress, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available, $331,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aqueduct Bridge, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 163.</p></sidenote> authorized in section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $400,000,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rivers and harbors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract work.</p></sidenote>works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor<page identifier="/us/stat/40/136">136</page>propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 392, 393, 394, 401, 405.</p></sidenote>For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia to the sea.</p></sidenote>Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth superior Harbor.</p></sidenote>Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Harbor: For completing improvement, $180,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>East River, New York: For continuing improvement, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hudson River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, $375,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kahului, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>Kahului, Hawaii, Harbor: For continuing improvement, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote>Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.</p></sidenote>Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for paring, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California Débris Commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 507.</p></sidenote>California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preventing injurious deposits.</p></sidenote>Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent water of New York City:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of a new dynamo, electrical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $11,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $96,760.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>medical department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artificial limbs.</p></sidenote>Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $210,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgical appliances.</p></sidenote>Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trusses.</p></sidenote>Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1176/p211">R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211</ref>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 353.</p></sidenote>under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providence Hospital, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destitute patients.</p></sidenote>Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garfield Hospital, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destitute patients.</p></sidenote>Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
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</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repaire not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all receipts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effects of deceased members.</p></sidenote> on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $103,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence: bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $76,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For transportation of members of the home,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $60,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on new buildings</p></sidenote> That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances;
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/138">138</page>animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $23,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $573,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $62,000, of which sum $4,000 shall be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>For transportation of members of the home, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $329,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Togus, Me.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $112,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>For transportation of members of the home, $800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $308,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton, Va.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $170,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $65,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>For transportation of members of the home, $1,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $373,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, $17,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $448,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Monica, Cal.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expanses.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, $215,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $61,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $53,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $2,500;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $42,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlargement of sewage disposal plant, $10,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewage disposal plant.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $441,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlon, Ind.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, $126,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, $47,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $600;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $38,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $305,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, $178,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $68,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, $42,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $31,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $376,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $39,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $115,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $42,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>For transportation of members of the home, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $276,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, S. Dak.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch. $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>For transportation of members of the home, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $14,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $168,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing for all branches.</p></sidenote>Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of managers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $14,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $2,700; in all, $49,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on discontinuing unnecessary homes.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to Congress, not later than January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, what branch or branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, if any, can be discontinued without prejudice to the care of the persons entitled to admission to the home.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,898,900:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be .expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State or Territorial homes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 450.</p></sidenote>State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote>Volunteer Soldiers, $1,030,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold:</proviso>
<proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collections from inmates.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/141">141</page>support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>back pay and bounty.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Back pay and bounty.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of Civil War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 322.</p></sidenote> volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations.</p></sidenote> amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War with Spain, etc.</p></sidenote> and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $1,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Interior Department and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to Department buildings.</p></sidenote> Pension Buildings, and of the General Land Office Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000 of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1107.</p></sidenote>thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle: wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicle; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For painting and extraordinary repairs of the Capitol Building,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Painting, etc.</p></sidenote> including each and every item connected therewith, $38,674.07, to be available immediately.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Works of art.</p></sidenote> the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving grounds.</p></sidenote>the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reconstruction of the walls, sidewalks, tunnel, and portions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reconstructing walls, etc., cast side of grounds.</p></sidenote> the roadways on the east side of the Capitol Grounds, including each and every item connected therewith, $30,287.50, to be available immediately.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to stables, etc.</p></sidenote>and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the five foregoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p></sidenote> sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/142">142</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarging Capitol Grounds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 298.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote>public lands service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registers and receivers.</p></sidenote>Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary traveling expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures restricted.</p></sidenote>of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $400,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositing moneys.</p></sidenote>Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp and claims.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1107.</p></sidenote>Depreciations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity or swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $475,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motorcycles and a motor boat for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service pay established.</p></sidenote>exchange of same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the compensation of the chief of field service employed hereunder shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska where a compensation not to exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed:</proviso>
<proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote><i>Provided further</i>, That agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3 each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska service.</p></sidenote>fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon and California railroad lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 218.</p></sidenote>For the protection of lands involved in Oregon and California Railroad forfeiture suit: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands involved in the case of the United States versus Oregon and California Railroad Company and others, suit numbered thirty-three <page identifier="/us/stat/40/143">143</page>hundred and forty, in the district court for the district of Oregon, now pending on appeal in the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings in land entries.</p></sidenote> by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where depositions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for depositions.</p></sidenote> are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reproducing plats of surveys.</p></sidenote> General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National forests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising restoration of lands in.</p></sidenote> the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opening Indian reservations to entry.</p></sidenote> to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $15,000.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>surveying the public lands.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying.</p></sidenote>For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1107.</p></sidenote>of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in expending this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferences.</p></sidenote> appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 616.</p></sidenote> granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, fines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations. The surveys and resurveys provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of surveyors.</p></sidenote> for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervisors of surveys.</p></sidenote> of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $10 per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem in lieu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> of subsistence, not exceeding $3, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary expenses for transportation including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed here <page identifier="/us/stat/40/144">144</page>under and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurveys, etc.</p></sidenote>detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for section corners.</p></sidenote>the United States:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing up arrears of office work.</p></sidenote>wherever practicable:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors generals offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abandoned reservations.</p></sidenote>Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 103.</p></sidenote>appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casa Grande.</p></sidenote>Casa Grande, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote>united states geological survey.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, Director, etc.</p></sidenote>Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen—one $840, four at $720 each; janitor, $600; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $35,340;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scientific assistants.</p></sidenote>Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1107.</p></sidenote>General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including the purchase, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, and engineers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time proscribed by the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minor purchases of supplies.</p></sidenote>Interior, and under the following heads: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services outside the District of Columbia may be made in open market in the manner common among businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Topographic surveys.</p></sidenote>For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference for Army areas.</p></sidenote>$350,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in expending this sum preference shall be given special topographic surveys of areas selected by the War Department and in securing such extra topographic data as are requested by the War Department in these or other areas;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geologic surveys.</p></sidenote>For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States,
$350,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska mineral resources.</p></sidenote>For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $100,000, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical and physical researches.</p></sidenote>For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining <page identifier="/us/stat/40/145">145</page>geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potash salts.</p></sidenote> salts, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illustrations.</p></sidenote> $18,280;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral resources report.</p></sidenote> States, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply.</p></sidenote> United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $175,000, of which $25,000 may be used to test<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boring wells.</p></sidenote> the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring Wells;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For discovering, developing, protecting, and rendering more <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water holes, etc., on arid lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 865.</p></sidenote>accessible springs, streams, and water holes on arid public lands of the United States; for erecting and maintaining suitable and durable monuments and signboards; and for providing convenient and ready means, apparatus, and appliances by which water may be brought to the earth’s surface, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engraving and printing geologic maps, $120,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National forests surveys.</p></sidenote> have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc.</p></sidenote> determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, to be immediately available, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,550,520.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of mines.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Mines.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1107.</p></sidenote> assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $73,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating mine explosions, etc.</p></sidenote>mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the miffing industry, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $353,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing mineral fuels, etc.</p></sidenote> belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Economic use in departments.</p></sidenote> to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $135,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiries of economic conditions of mining, etc.</p></sidenote> the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the miffing, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including <page identifier="/us/stat/40/146">146</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private work forbidden.</p></sidenote>all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, and subsistence: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $100,000;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petroleum and natural gas investigations.</p></sidenote>For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services in District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for.</p></sidenote>Not exceeding twenty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization for ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and not exceeding thirty per centum of the preceding sum for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen for personal service in the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Public Health Service authorized.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining experiment Stations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 959.</p></sidenote>For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburgh experiment station.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances available.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balances of the appropriations of $57,300 and $42,700 made in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 858; Vol. 39, p. 302.</p></sidenote>years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh Mining Experiment Station and installation in the new buildings in Pittsburgh constructed under the authority contained in section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 888.</p></sidenote>twenty-six of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the employment of necessary labor; machinery, appliances, materials and supplies, furniture and office equipment, cases for apparatus, shades, awnings, and all other articles made necessary by such removal to fully equip and furnish these new buildings for laboratory and office purposes, are made available for expenditure for these purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving grounds, etc., new site.</p></sidenote>For the filling, grading, and general improvement of the grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on which the new Bureau of Mines <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental mine, Bruceton, Pa.</p></sidenote>buildings are located, and for removal to and installation on grounds of the experimental mine at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, of the machinery, apparatus, and so forth, used in the physical testing of explosives, $35,000, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional services.</p></sidenote>For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $17,220;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional rescue cars.</p></sidenote>For purchase of three additional mine rescue cars, $81,750;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment for three new mine rescue cars, $13,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation of rescue cars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 959.</p></sidenote>For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, materials and supplies, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen; to be available for expenditure on any preliminary work that may be found necessary in connection with such of the cars as are to be purchased prior to the time of their actual delivery, $98,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine inspector, Alaska.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For technical and scientific books and publications and book of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>reference, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters for rescue cars, etc.</p></sidenote> conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of lands, etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements, that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary details of field employees.</p></sidenote> eighteen in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of necessary expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per dicm, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Bureau of Mines, $1,167,070.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>reclamation service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from reclamation fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote> the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenditures.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 690.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects designated.</p></sidenote> salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent of office quarters in the city of Washington, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt River, Ariz.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $458,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma, Ariz.-Cal.</p></sidenote>Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $500,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orland, Cal.</p></sidenote>Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $43,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Valley, Colo.</p></sidenote>Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $192,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uncompahgre, Colo.</p></sidenote>Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $398,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote>Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $396,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">King Hill, Idaho.</p></sidenote>King Hill project, Idaho: For beginning construction, maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of project before using.</p></sidenote>operation, and incidental operations, $200,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have determined that the said King Hill project is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 389.</p></sidenote>practicable, as provided by section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the reclamation Act, and shall have adopted the said project under and subject to the provisions and conditions of the said reclamation Act;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minidoka, Idaho.</p></sidenote>Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $222,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garden City, Kans.</p></sidenote>Garden City project, Kansas: For maintenance, operation, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of machinery, etc.</p></sidenote>incidental operations, $1,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to sell the machinery and equipment at the Garden City, Kansas, project at not less than its appraised value and cover the proceeds of such sale into the reclamation fund;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntley, Mont.</p></sidenote>Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $171,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milk River, Mont.</p></sidenote>Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $330,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sun River, Mont.</p></sidenote>Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $128,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.</p></sidenote>Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $38,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.</p></sidenote>North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,-170,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truckee-Carson,Nev.</p></sidenote>Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $795,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlsbad, N.Mex.</p></sidenote>Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $64,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande, N. Max., Tex.</p></sidenote>Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $648,-000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use tor drainage restricted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 426.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for drainage except in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of all project investments;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota pumping.</p></sidenote>North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $54,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawton, Okla.</p></sidenote>Lawton project, Oklahoma: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $101,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Umatilla, Oreg.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $157,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath, Oreg.-Cal.</p></sidenote> continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $239,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belle Fourche, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $274,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Strawberry Valley, Utah.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $170,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Okanogan project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Okanogan, Wash.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $32,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima, Wash.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $1,144,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone, Wyo.</p></sidenote> of construction, and incidental operations, $252,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations (secondary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secondary projects.</p></sidenote> projects), $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures restricted to allotments, etc.</p></sidenote> nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interchangeable amounts.</p></sidenote> for expenditure on the reclamation projects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual reimbursement to Treasury extended, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 835, amended.</p></sidenote> Statutes, page eight hundred and thirty-five), is amended to provide that reimbursement of the moneys advanced under the provisions of that Act shall be made by transferring annually the sum of $1,000,000 from the reclamation fund to the general funds in the Treasury, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and continuing until full reimbursement has been made;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All moneys heretofore or hereafter refunded or received in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys refunded to be credited to projects.</p></sidenote> with operations under the reclamation law, except repayments of construction and operation and maintenance charges, shall be a credit to the appropriation for the project or operation from or on account of which the collection is made and shall be available for expenditure in like manner as if said sum had been specifically appropriated for said project or operation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for the Reclamation Service, $8,227,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement to fund for furnishing water to lands in.</p></sidenote> expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 604.</p></sidenote> Statutes, page six hundred and four), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and fifteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, $13,100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,110;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $21,210.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>testimony in disbarment proceedings.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbarment proceedings.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska expenses.</p></sidenote>alaska, expenses in.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska Engineering Commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of railroads.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 305.</p></sidenote>Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings, etc.</p></sidenote>purposes,” including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, and including not to exceed $6,588.92 for claims for premiums on insurance incurred prior to October thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available until expended, $7,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of supplies.</p></sidenote>Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from sales, etc., credited to construction account.</p></sidenote>During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof, also any moneys refunded in connection with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane.</p></sidenote>Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p></sidenote>Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; not exceeding $25,000 of which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>sum for the purchase of supplies and payment of freight on same, and for payment of labor and material for building and freight on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of pay.</p></sidenote>same, shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>duty:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of school expenditures.</p></sidenote>All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under <page identifier="/us/stat/40/151">151</page>the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical and sanitary relief of natives.</p></sidenote> in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; hooks and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $62,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission of pay patients.</p></sidenote> for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reindeer.</p></sidenote> instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out tire Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of game.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 102.</p></sidenote> May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “Au Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 903.</p></sidenote> intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>national parks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of National Park Service, etc.</p></sidenote> chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $17,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone.</p></sidenote>including not exceeding $600 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent in making inspections of the park, $5,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay for details of troops.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 626.</p></sidenote> That no part of this appropriation or the revenues of the Yellowstone National Park shall be used for payment of salaries for the protection of the park, authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eight-three, to be performed by the detail of troops.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procuring feed tor buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, seeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of buffalo.</p></sidenote> and fencing new meadowlands, irrigation, and so forth, $5,000, to be available immediately.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glacier.</p></sidenote> construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park, including $1,970 for the purchase and the maintenance of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the supervisor and employees in connection with general park work, $115,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donations.</p></sidenote> accept buildings, moneys, or other property winch may be useful in the betterment of the administration and affairs of the Glacier National Park under his supervision, and which may be donated for park purposes.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yosemite.</p></sidenote>Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads; including not exceeding $800 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the supervisor and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,000 for a bridge at the old Sentinel Bridge site, and not exceeding $75,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">El Portal-Yosemite Road.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power plant.</p></sidenote>for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet El Portal-Yosemite Road; also not exceeding $60,000 tor the completion of the installation of the hydroelectric power plant authorized by the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; in all, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p.308.</p></sidenote>$235,-000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for the hydroelectric power plant is made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sequoia.</p></sidenote>Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Grant.</p></sidenote>General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Rainier.</p></sidenote>Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, including not exceeding $1,250 for the purchase of a motor-driven vehicle and the maintenance and repair thereof, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Mount Ranier National Park that may be donated for park purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mesa Verde.</p></sidenote>Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $433 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Mesa Verde National Park that may be donated for park purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grandfather Mountain, N. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept for park purposes any lands and rights of way, including the Grandfather Mountain, near or adjacent to the Government forest reserve in western North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rocky Mountain.</p></sidenote>Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Rocky Mountain National Park that may be donated for park purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crater Lake.</p></sidenote>Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, and repairing and extension of roads, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated lands, etc.</p></sidenote>Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept Eatented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Crater Lake National Park that may be donated for park purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wind Cave.</p></sidenote>Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and protection, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Platt.</p></sidenote>Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, $7,180.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National monuments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc.</p></sidenote>Protection of national monuments: For the preservation, development, administration, and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $5,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/153">153</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenues from parks to be covered Into the Treasury.</p></sidenote>revenues of the national parks, except Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts; and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates required hereafter.</p></sidenote> submit, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and annually thereafter, estimates of the amounts required for the care, maintenance, and development of the said parks.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For the employment of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans for improving, to be prepared.</p></sidenote> landscape engineer and such other expenses as may be required for the preparation of a practical and comprehensive plan, together with an accurate estimate of the cost thereof, for improving the Hot Springs Reservation, there is authorized to be expended from the revenues received from the said reservation the sum of $10,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>saint elizabeths hospital.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,750; and not exceeding $8,200 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of sixteen horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business and official use of the superintendent, $300,000; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted hereafter to exchange laundry machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> and other equipment in purchasing new equipment of the same or like character.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the buildings and grounds, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $14,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 309.</p></sidenote>and seventeen for a new fence is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>columbia institution for the deaf.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Institution for the Deaf.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $71,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of typesetting and type-casting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing office installation.</p></sidenote> machinery, cylinder press, job press, stitching machine, type metal, and other necessary office fixtures and machinery for the complete equipment of a modern printing office to be used for the instruction of students and pupils of the institution, $7,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Howard University.</p></sidenote>howard university.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $65,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement of grounds and repaire of buildings, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical department.</p></sidenote>Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and light.</p></sidenote>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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $101,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmen’s Hospital.</p></sidenote>freedmen’s hospital.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $32,640. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $62,640.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $100,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall he so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shop buildings.</p></sidenote>For the erection of shop buildings or factories and their appurtenances, $82,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p></sidenote>Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $130,000, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shop buildings.</p></sidenote>For the erection of shop buildings or factories and their appurtenances, $129,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Boys, D. C.</p></sidenote>National Training School for Boys: For a quarantine annex to the hospital building, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use tor now buildings forbidden.</p></sidenote>Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/155">155</page>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>miscellaneous objects, department of justice.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduct of customs cases.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 108.</p></sidenote>assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, $36,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $26,000; in all, $73,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.</p></sidenote> before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p></sidenote> expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including not exceeding $500 for law books which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $17,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defense, Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote> defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding $6,000 for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection and prosecution of crimes.</p></sidenote> of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of the President.</p></sidenote>for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, per diem in lieu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote> of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $25,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of prisons, etc.</p></sidenote> States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; in all, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances allowed.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote> to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing antitrust laws.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 730.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for prosecuting labor, etc., organizations forbidden.</p></sidenote> laws, including not exceeding $ 15,000 for salaries of necessary employ ees at the seat of government, $200,000: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement <page identifier="/us/stat/40/156">156</page>having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Associations of farmers, etc.</p></sidenote>not in itself unlawful:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of fanners who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawn oil lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of suits affecting.</p></sidenote>Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits to set aside.</p></sidenote>Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing interstate commerce laws.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219.</p></sidenote>Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminole allotments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of suits affecting.</p></sidenote>Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought, including the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Court Reports and Digests.</p></sidenote>Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and seventy-nine copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,580.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volume 61.</p></sidenote>For fifteen copies of volume sixty-one of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $6 per volume, $90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States Reports.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of Volumes 245–248.</p></sidenote>For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes— namely, two hundred and forty-five to two hundred and forty-eight— of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific railroads suits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $50,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote>JUDICIAL.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote>united states courts.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional judge, Texas western district.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 938.</p></sidenote>For the salary of the additional judge in the State of Texas, to be appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District judge, Porto Rico.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 965.</p></sidenote>For the salary of the United States district judge for the district of Porto Rico, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk, Porto Rico district court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 965.</p></sidenote>For the salary of the clerk of the United States district court for the district of Porto Rico, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in <page identifier="/us/stat/40/157">157</page>the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $1,580,000. Advances to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote> United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or prior years.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> United States district attorneys and their régular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services during vacancies.</p></sidenote> attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $620,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States district attorney for the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, district attorney.</p></sidenote>Columbia, $33,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The United States district attorney for the District of Columbia <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>shall hereafter pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in all $15,000 per annum; also his clerical and messenger hire not exceeding $10,000; office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses not exceeding $2,500, out of the fees of his office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular assistants.</p></sidenote> appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants in special cases.</p></sidenote> attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign counsel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s366/p62">R. S., sec. 366, p. 62</ref>.</p></sidenote> in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, $215,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That courts of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’ fees.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits by seamen.</p></sidenote> States shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That for the calendar year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum pay to clerks.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter, the maximum personal compensation of clerks of United States district courts shall in no case exceed $3,500 per annum, and that single fees only shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on fees.</p></sidenote> charged by United States marshals and clerks of United States district courts against the United States and against private litigants in every judicial district.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners’, etc.,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1014/p189">R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189</ref>.</p></sidenote> acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, $1,150,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’ fees.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s850/p160">R. S., sec. 850, p. 160</ref>.</p></sidenote> actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of court rooms.</p></sidenote> $58,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bailiffs, etc.</p></sidenote> each court, except in the southern district of New York and the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/158">158</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actual attendance.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s715/p136">R. S., sec. 715, p. 136</ref>.</p></sidenote>northern district of Illinois: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., expenses of judges.</p></sidenote>order of the courts:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1161.</p></sidenote>States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury expenses.</p></sidenote>amend the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 363.</p></sidenote>same when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury commissioners.</p></sidenote>compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote>For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $37,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of prisoners.</p></sidenote>For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 or repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $725,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kas.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $110,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steamheating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/159">159</page> labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brick-yard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photo-graph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General, $80,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $6,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one $1,500, one $600; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $64,680; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $94,680;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $344,980.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $80,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $45,360; in all, $77,460;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $250,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leav enworth, Kansas, $7,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $11,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $11,500; in all, $20,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $52,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Boys, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers, and assistant teachers, $9,120; chief clerk, $1,000; storekeeper and steward, matron of school, farmer, baker, tailor, and nurse, at $600 each; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; seven matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of, and skilled helpers in, industries, $3,800; assistant fanner and assistant engineer, at $420 each; teamster and laundress, at $360 each; florist, engineer, and shoemaker, at $540 each; cook, $480; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed nine in number, $3,780; secretary and treasurer, $900; janitor, $420; in all, $35,356;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, printing, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $10,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Training School for Boys, $45,856.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.</heading>
<content>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cass Lake Indian Reservation, Minn.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest Service contribution to bridge on.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 978.</p></sidenote>For contribution to the Forest Service for construction of a bridge across the Narrows over the waters between Cass Lake and Pike Bay, in the Minnesota National Forest, Minnesota, upon condition that the local authorities, State or county, contribute $10,000 toward the building of the same, $10,000.
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouses Bureau.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aids to Navigation.</p></sidenote>lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tender, third district.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 537.</p></sidenote>Tender for third lighthouse district: For constructing, or purchasing, and equipping a lighthouse tender to replace tenders worn out in service in the third lighthouse district, or in the Lighthouse Service generally, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light vessels.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Charles, Va.</p></sidenote>Cape Charles Light Vessel, Virginia: For constructing and equipping a light vessel for station off Cape Charles, Virginia, or for general service, $130,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote>Light vessels for general Lake service: For constructing and equipping light vessels for general service on the Great Lakes, or for general service, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigation in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General depot, Staten Island, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Staten Island Lighthouse Depot, New York: For improvements of the offices and laboratory at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $21,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/161">161</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Huron, Ohio, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huron, Ohio.</p></sidenote> at Huron Harbor, Ohio, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Point Borinquen, Porto Rico, Light Station: For the removal and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Borinquen, P. R.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New station.</p></sidenote> rebuilding on another site of the light station and dwelling at or near Point Borinquen, Porto Rico, $85,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois: For completing the removing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New’ station, etc.</p></sidenote> and rebuilding Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois, and establishing lights on the new breakwater in Chicago Harbor, $88,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fairport, Ohio, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairport, Ohio.</p></sidenote> at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sand Hills, Michigan, Light Station: For establishing a light station<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sand Hills, Mich.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New station.</p></sidenote> and fog signal at or near Sand Hills, Michigan, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manitowoc Breakwater, Wisconsin, Light Station: For improving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manitowoc, Wis.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station on north breakwater.</p></sidenote> the light and fog-signal station at Manitowoc North Breakwater, Wisconsin, $21,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East River, Now York, aids to navigation: For improving the aids <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>to navigation on the East River, New York, $16,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Keweenaw waterway, Michigan, aids to navigation: For establishing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keweenaw waterway, Mich.</p></sidenote>and improving aids to navigation at or near the entrance to Keweenaw waterway harbor of refuge, Portage River, Michigan, $105,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Charles City, Virginia, aids to navigation: For improving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Charles, Va.</p></sidenote> lights and fog signals leading to Capo Charles City, Virginia, $12,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chesapeake Bay, Maryland and Virginia, aids to navigation: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chesapeake Bay, Md. and Va. eastern shore.</p></sidenote>establishing and improving aids to navigation on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, Maryland and Virginia, $29,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alaska, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigation and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> improving existing aids in Alaska, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indiana Harbor, Indiana, aids to navigation: For establishing and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indiana Harbor, Ind.</p></sidenote> improving aids to navigation at Indiana Harbor, Indiana, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Great Salt Pond Light Station, Rhode Island: For improving the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Salt Pond, R.I.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving station etc.</p></sidenote>light station, moving the fog signal, and constructing a keeper’s dwelling at Great Salt Pond Light Station, Rhode Island, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Radio installations on lighthouse tenders: For furnishing all sea going<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tenders.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Installing radio equipment on seagoing.</p></sidenote> lighthouse tenders in the Lighthouse Service with radio equipment and auxiliary power for the operation thereof, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington and Oregon, aids to navigation: For the establishment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington and Oregon.</p></sidenote>of aids to navigation and improvement of existing aids in Washington and Oregon, seventeenth lighthouse district, $35,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>lighthouse service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects specified.</p></sidenote> expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil or carbide houses.</p></sidenote> carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any oil or carbide<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost of buildings.</p></sidenote> house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations, etc.</p></sidenote> thereof for Keepers of lighthouses, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/162">162</page>above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of sites, etc.</p></sidenote>of quarters whore necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; all other contingent expenses of district offices <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and depots; and not exceeding $10,000 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $2,850,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers.</p></sidenote>Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse vessels.</p></sidenote>Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,104,650.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $380,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote>coast and geodetic survey.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote>Commerce, and under the following heads: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That advances of money under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the disbursing officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlantic and Gulf coasts.</p></sidenote>Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands wider the jurisdiction of the United States: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Island, etc., restrictions.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $115,000;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific coasts.</p></sidenote>For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $250,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical hydrography.</p></sidenote>For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $14,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offshore soundings, Coast Pilot, etc.</p></sidenote>For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, compilation of the Coast Pilot, special hydro<page identifier="/us/stat/40/163">163</page>graphic examinations, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Magnetic observations.</p></sidenote>lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic buildings; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; and for continuing gravity observations, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special surveys.</p></sidenote> or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p> </sidenote>including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and not exceeding $550 for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote> of the International Geodetic Association, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, field expenses, $487,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $56,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers and crews.</p></sidenote> professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $320,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; hydrographic and geodetic engineers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, assistants, etc.</p></sidenote> junior hydrograpliic and geodetic engineers, and aids, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That officers now designated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer to war service ranks and grades.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 88.</p></sidenote> assistants shall be transferred to the positions of hydrographic and geodetic engineers, or junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, herein submitted in lieu of assistants: hydrographic and geodetic engineers—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, one $2,800, five at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,400 each, nine at $2,200 each, twelve at $2,000 each; junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers—sixteen at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, nine at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $223,500.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office force.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> and archives, $1,800; clerk to superintendent, $1,800; clerks—three at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen.</p></sidenote> three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two coypist draftsmen, at $1,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computers.</p></sidenote>$2,500, two at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engravers.</p></sidenote> $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instrument makers, etc.</p></sidenote>Instrument makers; One $2,750, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pattern makers, etc.</p></sidenote>Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpenters and painters at $900 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing employees.</p></sidenote>Printers, electrotypers, photographers, lithographers, plate printers and their helpers, engineer, and other skilled laborers: One $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, five at $700 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote>Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and. laborers: Three at $880 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, four at $550 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, pay of office force, $220,770.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1117.</p></sidenote>Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including their exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $6,000; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $3,400 for extra labor, $67,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New machinery.</p></sidenote>For an offset attachment for a lithographic press, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one paper-cutting machine, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances restricted.</p></sidenote>Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of fisheries.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner, deputy, etc.</p></sidenote>Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; fish pathologist (to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce), $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500; superintendent of car and messenger service, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>$1,600; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, four of class two, six of class one, three at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; statistical agents—two at $1,400 each two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers, at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $106,420.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alaska service: Pribil of Islands—two agents and caretakers, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, physicians, etc.</p></sidenote> $2,000 each: two physicians, at $1,500 each; three school-teachers, at $1,200 each: storekeeper, $1,800: agent, $2,500; assistant agents— one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens— one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $28,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees at large.</p></sidenote>each; field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; fishculturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each: two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $17,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distribution (car) employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution cars.</p></sidenote> messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five apprentice messengers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each: in all, $23,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Afognak (Alaska)Station: Superintendent, $1,500;foreman, $1,200; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station employees.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Afognak, Alaska.</p></sidenote>two fishculturists, at $960 eacn: three apprentice fishculturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fishculturist, $900;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alpena, Mich.</p></sidenote> in all, $2,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.</p></sidenote> $1,500; foreman, $1,080; fishculturists, $900; three apprentice fishculturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,280.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baker Lake, Wash.</p></sidenote> $900; two apprentice fishculturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beaufort, N. C.</p></sidenote> director, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $4,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Berkshire (Massachusetts) Trout Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Berkshire, Mass.</p></sidenote> fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boothbay Harbor, Me.</p></sidenote> $900; engineer, $1,100; apprentice fish-culturists—one $780, two at $600 each; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; in all, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bozeman, Mont.</p></sidenote> $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bryans Point, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Vincent, N. Y.</p></sidenote>$720; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $l,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clackamas, Oreg.</p></sidenote> $900; apprentice fish-culturists—-three at $720 each, two at $600 each: in all, $5,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500: fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cold Springs, Ga.</p></sidenote> $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500: fish-culturist<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Craig Brook, Me.</p></sidenote>, $990; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p></sidenote> at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edenton, N. C.</p></sidenote> $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each: in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erwin, Tenn.</p></sidenote> $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fairport (Iowa) Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairport, Iowa.</p></sidenote> of fishculture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; clerk, $900; engineer, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/166">166</page>$1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $12,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gloucester, Mass.</p></sidenote>Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; fireman, $720; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,920.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Green Lake, Me.</p></sidenote>Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homer, Minn.</p></sidenote>Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote>Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,500; engineer, $1,000; laboratory aid, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leadville, Colo.</p></sidenote>eadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; apprentice fish-culturists— one $720, two at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisville, Ky.</p></sidenote>Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mammoth Spring, Ark.</p></sidenote>Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, Iowa.</p></sidenote>Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashua, N.H.</p></sidenote>Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neosho, Mo.</p></sidenote>Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists, one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,320.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northville, Mich.</p></sidenote>Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orangeburg, S. C.</p></sidenote>Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote>Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Put in Bay, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.</p></sidenote>Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, four at $600 each; in all, $6,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos, Tex.</p></sidenote>San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saratoga, Wyo.</p></sidenote>Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spearfish, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springville, Utah.</p></sidenote>Springville (Utah) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900 ; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $3,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tupelo, Miss.</p></sidenote> $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central Station and Aquaria.</p></sidenote> Superintendent, $1,500; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.</p></sidenote>$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woods Hole, Mass.</p></sidenote>machinist, $960; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $8,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wytheville (Virginia) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wytheville, Va.</p></sidenote> at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yes Bay, Alaska.</p></sidenote>$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessel Service.</p></sidenote>assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all,$5,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seamen, $600; in all, $5,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $16,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska fisheries service.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1117.</p></sidenote> including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Propagation expenses.</p></sidenote> operations of fishcultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, propagation and not to exceed $10,000 for distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $375,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Developing aquatic sources of leather, Bureau of Fisheries: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aquatic leather.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Developing sources of.</p></sidenote> developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards new aquatic sources of supply of leather, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be immediately available, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the appropriations herein for propagation of food fishes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on expenses in States.</p></sidenote> shall be expended for hatching or planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded full and free right to conduct fishcultural operations, and all fishing and other operations necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or his agents.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/168">168</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of vessels.</p></sidenote>Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Fish Hawk.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Repairs to Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk: For overhauling and repairing United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk, provide new propelling machinery, and all other items necessary to place her in a seaworthy condition, including incidental and miscellaneous expenses in connection therewith, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food fishes inquiry.</p></sidenote>Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statistical inquiry.</p></sidenote>Statistical inquiry: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sponge fisheries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc.</p></sidenote>Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 692.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska, general service.</p></sidenote>Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.</p></sidenote>including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 326.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments under treaty obligations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 1544.</p></sidenote>For payments to be made to Great Britain and Japan under the terms of article eleven of the convention for protection and preservation of the fur seal and sea otters in lieu of their share of sealskins for the yearly season of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 502.</p></sidenote>accordance with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution cars.</p></sidenote>Distribution cars: The appropriation of $40,000 in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the purchase or construction of two steel cars for the distribution of useful food fishes, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bozeman, Mont.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote>Bozeman, Montana, fishcultural station: For construction and repair of buildings and ponds, and for improvements to water supply, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Vincent, N. Y.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land, etc.</p></sidenote>Cape Vincent, New York, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land and for improvement to water supply, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edenton, N. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land, etc.</p></sidenote>Edenton, North Carolina, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land, extension of pond system, and for general improvements, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orangeburg, S. C.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote>Orangeburg, South Carolina, fish hatchery: For completion of the station, including the construction of ponds and improvements to grounds, $3,500.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/169">169</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Marcos, Texas, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos, Tex.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land, etc.</p></sidenote> construction of buildings and ponds, and purchase and repair of equipment, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saratoga, Wyoming, fish hatchery: For completion of the fish-cultural<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saratoga, Wyo.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote> station, including the construction of buildings and ponds, and improvement to water supply, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woods Hole, Massachusetts, fish-cultural station: For new motor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woods Hole, Mass.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New launch.</p></sidenote> vessel to replace launch Blue Wing, $3,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of standards.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Standards.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing large scales, etc.</p></sidenote>track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of addition to Bureau site.</p></sidenote> or otherwise, about one hundred and fifty-five thousand four hundred square feet of additional land for enlargement, of the present site of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> the Bureau of Standards, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the land to be acquired hereunder being described as follows: First, starting at the northwest corner of the present site of the Bureau of Standards on Idaho Avenue, and running thence along the easterly fine of said avenue, northeasterly to the northerly line of the Pierce Mill Road; thence with said northerly line westerly to the easterly line of Idaho Avenue, ninety feet wide; thence with said easterly line, northeasterly ninety-five feet, more or less, to the south line of Van Ness Street, sixty feet wide; thence with said south line nine hundred and ten feet, more or less, to intersect the prolongation of the present easterly line of the Bureau of Standards site; thence with said line of prolongation, southerly ninety-seven feet, more or less, to the northeast comer of the Bureau of Standards grounds; thence with the north line of said grounds, west nine hundred and sixty-five feet to the point of beginning, containing ninety-one thousand five hundred square feet; second, starting at the ponit of intersection of the southerly boundary of the present site of the Bureau of Standards with the northerly line of Tilden Street, one hundred and twenty feet wide, as projected on the permanent system of highways plan, and running thence with said southerly boundary, east one thousand one hundred and twenty-five feet, more or less, to the southeast comer of the present bureau site; thence with the prolongation of the easterly line of the present site, southerly one hundred feet, more or less, to the northerly line of the said Tilden Street; thence with said northerly line, and with a curve deflecting to the right, westerly one thousand one hundred and forty feet to the point of beginning, containing one hundred and twenty-four thousand square feet.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>immigration stations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigrant stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ellis Island, New York; For renewing hot-water pipes in main <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>building, kitchen, and laundry, and ticket office, $18,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For renewing hot, cold, and salt water pipes, baggage and dormitory building, $15,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/170">170</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new boilers in power house to replace worn-out equipment, $48,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For boiler feed pump, complete with foundations and connections, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For underpinning and new piling for ferryhouse, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outside lighting system, contagious-disease hospital, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For high-pressure fire system, contagious-disease hospital, $22,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuation of sea wall.</p></sidenote>For continuation of granite-faced sea wall, under original limit of cost, $200,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $321,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric wiring.</p></sidenote>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For installation of underground wiring system to replace overhead wiring, $2,300.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration Service.</p></sidenote>immigration service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.</p></sidenote>For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38. p. 680.</p></sidenote>including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 898; Vol. 39, p. 874.</p></sidenote>August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chinese exclusion.</p></sidenote>the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refunding head tax.</p></sidenote>seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles outside of District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the purchase, use, maintenance, and operation of horses and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the execution of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>prescribe:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government maintenance of station privileges forbidden.</p></sidenote>of such motor vehicles;</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 894.</p></sidenote>any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holland-America Line.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote>For refund to the Holland-America Line of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of Marianna and Rosalia Zuck, American citizens, $39.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Steam Navigation Company.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote>For refund to National Steam Navigation Company of Greece for amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of Constantino and Eftilna Panagiotopoulou, American citizens, $108.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United Fruit Company.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote>For refund to the United Fruit Company of amount erroneously paid as a penalty for nonmanifesting of two American citizens, $20.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/171">171</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refund to Hartfield, Solari and Company of amounts erroneously<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hartfield, Solari and Company.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote> paid for hospital charges on account of American citizens, $103.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of Labor is authorized to pay not to exceed $3,741<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for vehicle service.</p></sidenote> from the unexpended balance in the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for horse and motor vehicle service furnished by officers of the Immigration Service prior to April first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, when such allowances were discontinued.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>naturalization service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special examiners, interpreters, etc.</p></sidenote> interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of car rying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 596.</p></sidenote> and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 736.</p></sidenote> and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For diem subsistence.</p></sidenote> subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> $5,300 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance to clerks of courts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 680.</p></sidenote> into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, pp. 765, 830.</p></sidenote> and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and sixty-five): <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the whole amount allowed for a fiscal year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance limited.</p></sidenote> to the clerk of a court and his assistants from naturalization fees and this appropriation or any similar appropriation made hereafter shall be based upon and not exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of said clerk from naturalization fees during the fiscal year immediately preceding, unless the naturalization business of the clerk of any court during the year shall be in excess of the naturalization business of the preceding year, in which event the amount allowed may be increased to an amount equal to one-half the estimated gross receipts of the said clerk from naturalization fees during the current fiscal year:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That payment is authorized in the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For services in May, 1916.</p></sidenote> $272.10 for the services rendered during the month of May, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by clerical assistants originally authorized by the Secretary of Labor where the disbursements for salaries were in excess of the amount lawfully allowable; and for mileage and fees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p></sidenote> to witnesses subpœnaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $275,000.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of appropriations.</p></sidenote> of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-fourth <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 25.</p></sidenote>Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/172">172</page>indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 587.</p></sidenote>chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">M. I. Howell.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote>To pay M. I. Howell for services rendered the special committee appointed under Senate Resolution Numbered Five hundred and forty-three, to secure certain information concerning interned ships in the ports of the United States and elsewhere, and what efforts have been made by certain parties or interests to prevent the passage of Senate Bill Numbered Sixty-eight hundred and fifty-six, commonly known as the ship purchase bill, during the third session of the Sixty-third Congress, from February sixteenth to April eighth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $115.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $11,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New boilers.</p></sidenote>For two new boilers for the Botanic Garden to replace two recently
rendered unfit for use, to be immediately available, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of fence, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 327.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and reappropriated for subsequent years, for removing fence and wall around the Botanic Garden and such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>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, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, and so forth, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate kitchens and restaurants.</p></sidenote>For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $17,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $51,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional rooms, etc.</p></sidenote>For the construction of additional rooms at the House Office Building and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including painting in the subway, $3,460, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol power plant.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, oil, etc.</p></sidenote>For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional <page identifier="/us/stat/40/173">173</page>buildings, $95,599. This and the three foregoing appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases not restricted to supply committee.</p></sidenote> shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1365.</p></sidenote> March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p></sidenote> hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public printing and binding.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc.</p></sidenote> $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—two at $2,000 each, seven of class four, thirteen of class three, eight of class two, five of class one, ten at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief, $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants, at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $130,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy, etc.</p></sidenote>clerks—-two of class one, one $840; chemist, $1,600; messenger; in all, $10,180.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; sixty-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watch force.</p></sidenote> watchmen; in all, $49,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holidays.</p></sidenote> of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $180,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves of absence.</p></sidenote> the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $380,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing and binding.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate amount.</p></sidenote> and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles etc.</p></sidenote> the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical <page identifier="/us/stat/40/174">174</page>books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $5,275,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total.</p></sidenote>In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $6,024,720; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $1,972,520. Printing and binding for Congress charge-able to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departments, etc.</p></sidenote>For the State Department, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the
Federal farm loan Act, $425,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army medical bulletins.</p></sidenote>For the War Department, $275,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from timo to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 330.</p></sidenote>For the Navy Department, $160,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office, and the sum of $12,000 for special printing and binding for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is made available for the same purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $55,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $320,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $585,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding set of German patents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 378.</p></sidenote>For binding in classified order one set of German patents now in the Patent Office Library, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels <page identifier="/us/stat/40/175">175</page>and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Justice, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural Department.</p></sidenote> for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 616.</p></sidenote> twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 825.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $200,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of our-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the ad-dressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $650,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Labor, $155,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Federal Trade Commission, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Court of Claims, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Executive Office, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly allotment restrictions.</p></sidenote> for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of necessity required.</p></sidenote>expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine <page identifier="/us/stat/40/176">176</page>business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional authorization.</p></sidenote>for in appropriations herein; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on paying detailed employees.</p></sidenote>No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.</p></sidenote>All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, and expenses incurred on account of heat, light, and power furnished the city post-office building in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Superintendent of Documents.</p></sidenote>office of superintendent of documents.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote>Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks— two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each, four at $840 each, twenty at $720 each; cataloguera—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,400; assistant foreman, $1,200; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; forty-one skilled laborers, at $626 each; ton miskilled laborers, at $626 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each, six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $16,000; in all, $179,595.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $33,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $80,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $17,000; in all, $146,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote>THE PANAMA CANAL.</heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p></sidenote>For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the construction, maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects designated.</p></sidenote>Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report, rents and personal services in the District of Columbia; pur<page identifier="/us/stat/40/177">177</page>chase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for damages.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 563.</p></sidenote> damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages caused to owners of private lands or private property of any kind by reason of the grants contained in the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 2234.</p></sidenote> proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the work of sanitation, and protection therein provided for, whether such claims are compromised by agreements between the claimants and the Governor of the Panama Canal or allowed by a joint land commission; acquisition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 561.</p></sidenote> of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.</p></sidenote> and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary to best promote the construction, maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, equipment, etc., of Canal.</p></sidenote> Canal, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; for the completion of ono dock at Cristobal (numbered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dock at Cristobal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal barges.</p></sidenote> six) at a total cost not exceeding $1,500,000; and toward construction by contract or in navy yards complete in every detail of two seagoing coal barges at a total cost not exceeding $800,000 each under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for two colliers repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 333.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance for barges.</p></sidenote> authority contained in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the construction of two colliers is repealed and the sum of $1,100,000 appropriated therein toward the construction of the said colliers, or so much thereof as is unexpended, is made available for use in the construction of the coal barges authorized herein, $2,755,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance and operation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Governor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 240.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> governor, $100,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to alien cripples.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 742.</p></sidenote> lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, $9,000,000, together with all moneys arising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional from receipts.</p></sidenote> from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/178">178</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitation, etc.</p></sidenote>For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation from May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $700,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil government expenses.</p></sidenote>For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge $6,000, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $700,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available until expended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinbursement from sale of bonds.</p></sidenote>In all, $13,155,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all expenditures from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Panama Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances, for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, for the construction of office buildings and quarters, and other necessary buildings, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>exclusive of fortifications, colliers, dock six at Cristobal, coal barges, and repairs, alterations, and reboilering of steamships Ancon and Cristobal, and exclusive of the fair value of the American Legation building in Panama, as approved by the Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and exclusive of the amount used for operating and maintaining the canal, and exclusive of the amount expended for sanitation and civil government after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, may be paid from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 484.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 117.</p></sidenote>section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of employees limited to estimates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction employees.</p></sidenote>Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent organization.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 561.</p></sidenote>and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate of pay restricted.</p></sidenote>annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations.</p></sidenote>In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for expenditure and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad <page identifier="/us/stat/40/179">179</page>Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.</p></sidenote> profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating water works, etc., for Panama and Colon.</p></sidenote> and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In addition to the foregoing amounts there is appropriated, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of tolls erroneously received.</p></sidenote> any money hereafter received as tolls, before such money is covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, amounts necessary to refund to the parties entitled thereto amounts which heretofore or may hereafter be erroneously received as tolls and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Upon the application of the governor of the Panama Canal the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insane Americans may be transferred to Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is authorized to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for treatment all American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Canal Zone whose legal residence in one of the States and Territories or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish. Upon the ascertainment of the legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsequent transfer to legal residence.</p></sidenote> residence of persons so transferred to the hospital, the superintendent of the hospital shall thereupon transfer such persons to their respective places of residence, and the expenses attendant thereon shall be paid from the appropriation for the support of the hospital.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>fortifications, panama canal.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 201, 355.</p></sidenote>be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of clearings and trails, $20,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearings and trails.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, repair, etc.</p></sidenote> structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants, etc.</p></sidenote>power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $7,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of seacoast batteries, $332,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Submarine base (Coco Solo Point): For dredging inner basin<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine base.</p></sidenote> and channel to same, concrete dock, containing walls, finger docks, tracks, dry fill, electrical work, shops, storehouses, stationary crane, magazines and torpedo storage, shop and power tools, and plant equipment, $750,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the construction work hereunder shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Direction of construction.</p></sidenote> performed under the direction of the governor of the Panama Canal;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction and development of an aeronautic station on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeronautic station.</p></sidenote> the Canal Zone, $250,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mine supplies.</p></sidenote> $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control installations.</p></sidenote> defenses, $10,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/180">180</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Airships, etc.</p></sidenote>For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the aviation section for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, $500,000: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Direction of construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That the construction of buildings hereunder shall be performed under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote>For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $468,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for sea-coast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>manufacture at the arsenals, $1,985,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $700,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and hereto-fore made;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, installing, etc., seacoast artillery.</p></sidenote>For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $335,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance depot.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>Ordnance Depot: For a building for storing artillery vehicles, $8,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary equipment, including machinery and its installation, for the ordnance repair shops, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two magazines, $34,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for dock and dredging repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 812, repealed.</p></sidenote>The appropriations of $160,000 for one dock and $100,000 for necessary dredging for the Ordnance Depot for the Panama Canal, contained in the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are repealed;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total.</p></sidenote>In all, $86,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,756,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay to officer using time-measuring device on work of any employee.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such works; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash rewards, etc., limited.</p></sidenote>Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.</proviso></p>
</content></appropriations></appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay to employees receiving not more than $1,800 a year.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate per annum less than $1,200, and for increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicable to employees under this Act except Panama Canal.</p></sidenote>much as may be necessary is appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this section shall only apply to the employees who are appropriated for in this Act specifically and under lump sums or whose employment is authorized herein, but shall not include employees of the Panama
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed reports to be submitted.</p></sidenote>Canal on the Canal Zone:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That detailed reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing <page identifier="/us/stat/40/181">181</page>the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles L. Freer.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income tax canceled of gift to Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote> cancel the assessment of $13,252.21, being income tax on profit on the sale of Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, of twelve thousand and ninety-five shares of Parke, Davis and Company’s stock, $1,000,000 of the proceeds from the sale of said stock having been given to the Smithsonian Institution for the erection of a building to house the art collections presented to the Nation by Mr. Freer under deed of gift dated May fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the remainder having been paid by Mr. Freer for the purchase of additional objects which have been added to the collections and presented to the Nation by him.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That all sums appropriated by this act for salaries of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sums for salaries to be in full.</p></sidenote> and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 12, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 28: To authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of home guards.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>28</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 181</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-14</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>28.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of home guards.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-14">June 14, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/995">S. 995</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/22">Public, No. 22</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home guards of States, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of Army small arms, etc., to, authorized.</p></sidenote> during this existing emergency be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to issue from time to time to the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia for the equipment of such home guards having the character of State police or constabulary as may be organized by the several States and Territories and District of Columbia, and such other home guards as may be organized under the direction of the governors of the several States and Territories and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or other State troops or militia, such rifles and ammunition therefor, cartridge belts, haversacks, canteens, in limited amounts as available supplies will permit, provided that the property so issued shall remain the property of the United States and shall be receipted for by the governors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accountability, etc.</p></sidenote> of the several States and Territories and Commissioners of the District of Columbia and accounted for by them under such regulations and upon furnishing such bonds or security as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and that any property so issued shall be returned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return, etc.</p></sidenote> to the United States on demand when no longer needed for the purposes for which issued, or if, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, an exigency requires the use of the property for Federal purposes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all home guards, State troops and militia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of ride ranges.</p></sidenote> receiving arms and equipments as herein provided shall have the use, in the discretion of the Secretary of War and under such regulations as he may prescribe, of rifle ranges owned or controlled by the United States of America.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 14, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 29: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>29</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 182</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/182">182</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>29.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-15">June 15, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3971">H. R. 3971</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/23">Public, No. 23</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 345.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and for other purposes, namely:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council of National Defense.</p></sidenote>COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of work, etc., under.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p.649.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s167/p27">R. S., sec. 167, p. 27</ref>.</p></sidenote>For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, employment of experts, and at rates of compensation authorized by section one hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States of clerical and other assistance, supplies, including books of reference and periodicals, and for necessary expenses of members of the council, of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies going to and attending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> meetings of the commission or subordinate bodies, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the appropriations herein and heretofore made for the Council of National Defense there may be expended for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and not to exceed $50,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers, etc., unchanged.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 650.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the expenditure of said moneys the existence of a state of war shall not be construed as enlarging the powers or duties of the Council of National Defense, but that such powers and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 70.</p></sidenote> duties shall remain as prescribed by the Act creating said council, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Shipping Fund.</p></sidenote>EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND.</heading>
<chapeau class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred on the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 720, 1022.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To order shim, etc,, for Government use.</p></sidenote>The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts herein authorized—</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>To place an order with any person for such ships or material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require during the period of the war and which are of the nature, kind and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such person.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modify, etc., contracts therefor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 535, 720.</p></sidenote>
<content>To modify, suspend, cancel, or requisition any existing or future contract for the building, production, or purchase of ships or material.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Take the product of shipbuilding plants, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content>To require the owner or occupier of any plant in which ships or materials are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such plant, to deliver such output or part thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession of plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1022.</p></sidenote>
<content>To requisition and take over for use or operation by the United States any plant, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, whether the United States has or has not any contract or agreement with the owner or occupier of such plant.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquire ships under construction, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">To purchase, requisition, or take over the title to, or the possession of, for use or operation by the United States any ship now constructed or in the process of construction or hereafter constructed, or any part thereof, or charter of such ship.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compliance compulsory.</p></sidenote>Compliance with all orders issued hereunder shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts placed with such per<page identifier="/us/stat/40/183">183</page> son. If any person owning any ship, charter, or material, or owning,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession of ships, plants, etc., on refusal of owner.</p></sidenote> leasing, or operating any plant equipped for the building or production of ships or material shall refuse or fail to comply therewith or to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantities or qualities of the ships or material so ordered, at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any ship, charter, material or plant of such person, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whenever the United States shall cancel, modify, suspend or requisition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be determined by the President.</p></sidenote> any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, acquire or take over any plant or part thereof, or any ship, charter, or material, in accordance with the provisions hereof, it shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President; and if the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote> amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp, 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote> one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution of powers etc.</p></sidenote> in him, and expend the money herein and hereafter appropriated through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all money turned over to the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of Emergency Fleet Corpora.</p></sidenote> Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation may be expended as other moneys of said corporation are now expended. All ships constructed, purchased, or requisitioned under authority herein, or heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States, shall be managed, operated, and disposed of as the President may direct.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The word “person” as used herein, shall include any individual,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms construed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person.”</p></sidenote> trustee, firm, association, company, corporation, or contractor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The word “ship” shall include any boat, vessel, or submarine and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Ship.”</p></sidenote> the parts thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The word “material” shall include stores, supplies, and equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Material.”</p></sidenote> for ships, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The word “plant” shall include any factory, workshop, warehouse,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Plant.”</p></sidenote> engine works; buildings used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or any process; any shipyard or dockyard and discharging terminal or other facilities connected therewith.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The words “United States” shall include all lands and waters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“United States.”</p></sidenote> subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All authority granted to the President herein, or by him delegated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of authority.</p></sidenote> shall cease six months after a final treaty of peace is proclaimed between this Government and the German Empire.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of expenditures.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 345.</p></sidenote> material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction shall not exceed the sum of $250,000,000, exclusive of the cost of ships turned over to the Army and Navy, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted by this Act for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to expend more than the said sum; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, $150,000,000; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursements from Army and Navy funds.</p></sidenote> this appropriation shall be reimbursed from available funds under the War and Navy Departments for vessels turned over for the exclusive use of those departments or either of them.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/184">184</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of ship construc ti on restricted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 345.</p></sidenote>The cost of construction of ships authorized herein shall not exceed the sum of $500,000,000, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted herein for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to expend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> more than said sum; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, $250,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation of ships.</p></sidenote>For the operation of the ships herein authorized or in any way acquired by the United States, except those acquired for the Army or Navy, and for every expenditure incident thereto, $5,000,000.</p>
</content>
</level>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Efficiency Bureau.</p></sidenote>BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 802.</p></sidenote>For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $5,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which reads as follows: “Until otherwise provided by law the Bureau of Efficiency shall continue to occupy its present quarters in the Winder Building,” is repealed.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil Service Commission.</p></sidenote>CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional expenses.</p></sidenote>For necessary additional employees, printing, stationery, travel, contingent and other necessary expenses, $20,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for War Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, May 1 to June 30, 1917.</p></sidenote>Office of Auditor for War Department: For additional employees from May first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—four of class four, four of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, eight at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; messenger, $840; in all, $7,023.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For fiscal year 1918.</p></sidenote>For additional employees in the Office of Auditor for the War Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—ten of class four, ten of class three, twenty of class two, fifty of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three assistant messengers at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; in all, $136,140.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for Navy Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, 1918.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Navy Department</inline>: For the following additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: Assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four and fourteen of class three; in all, $38,800.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p></sidenote>INDEPENDENT TREASURY.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assis tant treasurers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional guards for.</p></sidenote>For additional guards from May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote>Office of assistant treasurer at New York: Three guards at $1,000 each, $3,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco.</p></sidenote>Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: Two guards at $720 each, $1,680;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans.</p></sidenote>Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: Four guards at $720 each, $3,360;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $8,540.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 351, 473, 59S, 783.</p></sidenote>For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dis<page identifier="/us/stat/40/185">185</page> patch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $900,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to be submitted in detail.</p></sidenote> first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by The Adjutant General’s Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; freight and express charges; street car tickets not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $415,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> $230,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $75,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the War Department, to be executed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and bind ing.</p></sidenote> under the Public Printer, $630,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armories and arsenals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $7,500 made in the sundry civil appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Picatinny, N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 283.</p></sidenote> Act, approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the purchase of land in connection with the Picatinny Arsenal, is made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery.</p></sidenote> for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $400,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingencies of the army.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies.</p></sidenote> and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies.</p></sidenote> of the Chief of Staff; for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services m the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified; to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote> purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Registration and selection for military service: For all expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration for draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft into military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>,p. 79.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 335, 474, 851, 1027, 1170.</p></sidenote> service, $2,658,413.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/186">186</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office, Chief of Staff.</p></sidenote>office of the chief of staff.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, military information section.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps</inline>: For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote> to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation, $500,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Observing war operations abroad.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of military observers abroad</inline>: For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $85,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">United States service schools</inline>: To provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army service schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p></sidenote> Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School, at Fort Riley,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Sill, Okla.</p></sidenote> Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery and for the School of Musketry, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modem instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, $25,325.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department.</p></sidenote>adjutant general’s department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies at headquarters.</p></sidenote>Contingencies, headquarters of military departments, districts, and tactical commands</inline>: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, 87,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote>chief of coast artillery.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, maps, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia</inline>: 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, and for purchase and issue of relief maps to coast defenses, 84,000.
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/187">187</page>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Service of the Army</inline>: For expenses of the Signal Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 285.</p></sidenote> of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War balloons, airships, etc.</p></sidenote> accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-control<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants, etc.</p></sidenote> and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military fines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $47,267,766: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i> That not more than $43,450,000 of the foregoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation Section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc., under.</p></sidenote> appropriation shall be used for the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment and personnel, and other accessories necessary in the Aviation Section; and for the purchase, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p></sidenote> repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger and equipment carrying vehicles which may be necessary for the Aviation Section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That of the sum last above mentioned so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying reservists in active service.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary shall be available for paying and otherwise providing for such officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and such enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as may be called into active service.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites for aviation schools, posts, etc.</p></sidenote> to acquire, by purchase, donation, or by condemnation, such land sites throughout the United States as are immediately necessary for the permanent establishment of aviation schools, aviation posts, and experimental aviation stations and proving grounds for the United States Army:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more than $9,000,000 of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures speci fied.</p></sidenote> the sum last above mentioned shall be made available for the purchase of land sites and for the improvement and preparation of land and waters contiguous thereto; for the construction, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of building, etc.</p></sidenote> and repair of permanent barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration buildings, hangars, sheds, shops, garages, and other permanent buildings necessary for the shelter of aviation troops, public animals, stores and equipment, and for administration imposes; for the purchase of all equipment and material necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Installation, equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> for the installation, operation, and repair of all water, sewer, electric light and electric-power systems; for the construction of roads, walks, and wharves; for the disposal of drainage; for the clearing, grading, rolling, seeding, dredging, and otherwise improving and preparing land and water sites; for rental and lease of grounds for aviation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases.</p></sidenote> fields, camp sites, and other military aviation purposes; for rental and lease of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by aviation troops, and for use as storehouses, offices, shops, garages, and for other military aviation purposes; for the purchase of office furniture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> and office equipment; for the purchase and installation of special equipment, supplies, and accessories necessary for the establishment of experimental stations and proving grounds, aviation schools, and aviation posts; for the purchase of such textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and the<page identifier="/us/stat/40/188">188</page> purchase of modem instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction in all experimental stations and proving grounds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land purchases limited.</p></sidenote> and aviation schools and aviation posts:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more than $2,500,000 of the said sum of $9,000,000 shall be used for the purchase of land.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of the Army.</p></sidenote>Pay of the army.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote>officers of the line.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line, including National Guard staff.</p></sidenote>For pay of officers of the line, including staff corps of the National Guard, $42,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote>Additional pay to officers for length of service, $96,626.09.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>enlisted men of the line.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line, including training for Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p></sidenote>For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, and pay at $100 per month for enlisted men in training for officers of the Reserve Corps, $226,882,560.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote>ordnance department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $696,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $39,003.84.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote>quartermaster corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cook instructors for war duty.</p></sidenote>Pay of enlisted men, $24,890,128: <i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enlist twelve hundred competent cooks as sergeants, first-class, Quartermaster Corps, for the duration of the war only, to be trained as cook instructors and to be employed as such.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote>signal corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $5,309,896.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $53,519.92.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>medical department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, $18,748,960.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office, Chief of Staff.</p></sidenote>clerks, messengers, and laborers, office of the chief of staff.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks.</p></sidenote>Clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $1,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $3,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $11,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $8,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $32,600.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters of departments, etc.</p></sidenote>clerks and messengers at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks.</p></sidenote>Clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, $24,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,800 each per annum, $64,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,600 each per annum, $107,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,400 each per annum, $140,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/189">189</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, $342,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, at $1,000 each per annum, $500,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Messengers at temporary headquarters, at $720 each per annum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers.</p></sidenote> $72,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $1,250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty in Department forbidden.</p></sidenote> at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty in any bureau in the War Department.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>general staff corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staff officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Staff Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the General Staff Corps, $214,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $6,520.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>adjutant general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of The Adjutant General’s Department, $231,450.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $12,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>inspector general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Inspector General’s Department, $121,605.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $9,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>corps of engineers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corps of Engineers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $3,024,108.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $28,544.59.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $404,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $36,481.77.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Quartermaster Corps, $6,167,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $119,556.88.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Medical Department, $15,131,752.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $13,956.15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reserve veterinarians, at $1,700 each per annum, $632,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve veterinarians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract surgeons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contract surgeons, at not exceeding $150 each per month, $51,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nurses (female), $591,622.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>judge advocate general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge Advocate General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, $63,280.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $1,580.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>signal corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $1,629,167.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $73,266.66.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>retired officers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers on the retired list, $62,420. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $19,990. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active duty pay.</p></sidenote>Increased pay to retired officers on active duty, $354,725.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $153,775.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted mon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>retired enlisted men.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of retired enlisted men, $79,356.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On active duty.</p></sidenote>For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $28,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservists.</p></sidenote>For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active duty, $54,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts martial, etc.</p></sidenote>For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions, retiring boards, and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending same, and expenses of taking depositions and securing other evidence for use before the same, $190,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, etc.</p></sidenote>For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote>For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $510,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts sped fled.</p></sidenote>All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases tor issue.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Subsistence of the Army</inline>: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made) Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales.</p></sidenote> observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National rifle match.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $12,000 is authorized to be expended for supplying meals or furnishing commutation of rations to enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard who may be competitors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations restriction.</p></sidenote> in the national rifle match:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no competitor shall be entitled to commutation of rations in excess of $1.50 per day, and when meals are furnished no greater expense than that sum per man per day for the period the contest is in progress shall be incurred.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations.</p></sidenote> For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to<page identifier="/us/stat/40/191">191</page> active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, at 40 cents per ration, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and general prisoners sick therein, at the rate of 40 cents per ration (except that at the general hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, 50 cents per ration and at other general hospitals 40 cents per ration are authorized for enlisted patients therein), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes for bakers and cooks.</p></sidenote> Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, accounting, etc.</p></sidenote> necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, $133,000,000.</proviso>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps</inline>: Regular supplies of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote> the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines: authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote> light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote> operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> for the post schools and libraries and for textbooks for noncommissioned officers’ schools, including subscriptions for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines for use of enlisted men as may be authorized by the Secretary of War; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers,<page identifier="/us/stat/40/192">192</page> market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc., for animals.</p></sidenote> recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $101,800,114.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.</proviso>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps</inline>: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra duty pay, etc.</p></sidenote> to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized-office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officer’s mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote> sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools<page identifier="/us/stat/40/193">193</page> and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $8,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of the Army and its supplies</inline>: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel allowances, etc., on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 217.</p></sidenote> allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard officers on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 903.</p></sidenote> to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiera subsistence.</p></sidenote> for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to land grant roads.</p></sidenote> of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computation.</p></sidenote> shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated by this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote> Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate tor the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Sec<page identifier="/us/stat/40/194">194</page> retary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full pay to excepted roads.</p></sidenote> be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals, etc.</p></sidenote> draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote> of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, etc.</p></sidenote> for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transports.</p></sidenote> for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $221,963,745.42.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, sewers, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Water and sewers at military posts</inline>: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for m other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $10,546,169.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage</inline>: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistments while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for destroyed clothing.</p></sidenote> court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $231,538,548.64.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers</inline>: For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical<page identifier="/us/stat/40/195">195</page> Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote> added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open market pur chases.</p></sidenote> open market at all military posts or stations when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standard required.</p></sidenote> That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United States Military Academy:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Polo ponies.</p></sidenote> That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $25,000,000.</proviso>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and quarters</inline>: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees, for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; for barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks, and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation restriction.</p></sidenote> States, $47,603,314.20: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quartern to officers or enlisted men:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the number of and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military post exchanges</inline>: For continuing the construction, equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of tho post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 2$.</p></sidenote> erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secre<page identifier="/us/stat/40/196">196</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for personal services forbidden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p></sidenote>tary of War, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for personal services.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage</inline>: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves: for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $5,539,965.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, services, and transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Combination fund constituted of.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence of the Army; Regular supplies, Quarter-master Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewers at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, Services, and Transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, repair, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and repair of hospitals</inline>: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, and for temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments, $2,115,267.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>medical department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Medical and Hospital Department</inline>: For the purchase of medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas masks.</p></sidenote> and hospital supplies, including gas masks, motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation, and disinfectants, and the purchase and exchange of typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mosquito destruction.</p></sidenote> transports, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor ambulances.</p></sidenote> about the military posts in the Canal Zone: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War may m his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private treatment.</p></sidenote> That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases expenses.</p></sidenote> proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks, and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis;<page identifier="/us/stat/40/197">197</page> for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.</p></sidenote> laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $29,780,000.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer equipment of troops</inline>: For pontoon material, tools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of troops.</p></sidenote> instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motorcycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $35,876,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer operations in the field</inline>: For expenses incident to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field operations ex penses.</p></sidenote> military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $94,500,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Depart ment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Service</inline>: For the current expenses of the Ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Odinance Office: subscriptions to periodicals, which may be paid for in advance; and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $2,650,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores, ammunition</inline>: Manufacture and purchase of ammunition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for small arms.</p></sidenote> for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, $131,048,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Small-arms target practice</inline>: For manufacture and purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small arms target practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, targets, etc.</p></sidenote> of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At educational institutions, etc.</p></sidenote> ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions and homes does not exceed $75,000, $17,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Manufacture of arms</inline>: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p></sidenote> and issuing arms at the national armories, $55,349,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores and supplies</inline>: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc., ordnance.</p></sidenote> and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/198">198</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote> manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requirements of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $106,550,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic machine rifles.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic machine rifles</inline>: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, $65,900,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armored motor cars.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Armored motor cars</inline>: For the purchase and manufacture of armored motor cars, $3,900,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antiaircraft guns.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Antiaircraft guns</inline>: For the procurement and test of antiaircraft guns and devices for use at the arsenals, including their carriages, sights, implements, and equipments, $760,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for antiaircraft guns.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ammunition for antiaircraft guns</inline>: For the procurement and test of ammunition for antiaircraft guns and devices, for use at the arsenals, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, $1,640,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military training camps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms, ammunition, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Military training camps</inline>: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, horse equipment, and so forth; ammunition, targets, and other accessories for target practice, and for overhauling and repairing arms for issue and use in connection with training camps in pursuance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 194.</p></sidenote> of the provisions of section fifty-four of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,750,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian military training.</p></sidenote>civilian military training.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of instruction camps, etc.</p></sidenote>For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> therewith, including textbooks and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 194.</p></sidenote> section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,440,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance stores and equipments for.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores and equipment for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps</inline>: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 192.</p></sidenote> and horse equipments, and so forth, for use in connection with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, established by the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $524,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schoolsand colleges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance supplies, etc., tor.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance supplies for military equipment of schools and colleges</inline>: For arms and ordnance equipment, including overhauling and repairing of personal equipments, machine-gun outfits, and horse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 197.</p></sidenote> equipments for issue to schools and colleges in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $218,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns office, Interior Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3744/p738">R. S., sec. 3744, p. 738</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote>Section thirty-seven hundred and forty-four, Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of the last sentence:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for filing Army and Navy contracts in, extended.</p></sidenote> <proviso><quotedText>“<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy may extend the time for filing such contracts in the returns office of the Department of the Interior to ninety days whenever in their opinion it would be to the interest of the United States to follow such a course.</quotedText>
”</proviso>
</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/199">199</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expert, etc., employees authorized in.</p></sidenote> employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fortifications and other works of defense.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $2,500,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gun and mortar batteries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and protection of fire-control stations and accessories, including purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders.</p></sidenote> test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $3,147,225.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installation and replacement of electric light and power plants<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote> at seacoast fortifications, $1,700,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> including searchlights for antiaircraft defense and accessories therefor, $5,900,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo structures, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p, 1306.</p></sidenote> storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves, $500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of land defenses in the United States, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land defenses, construction, etc.</p></sidenote> the procurement of equipment and materials required therefor, the construction and repair of roads required for military purposes, and the procurement and installation of searchlights, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> fortifications and their accessories, $1,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armament of fortifications.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armament.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, field, and siege cannon.</p></sidenote> cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $155,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $40,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $367,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast camion.</p></sidenote> defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $7,950,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $8,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, modernizing projectiles, etc.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the<page identifier="/us/stat/40/200">200</page> necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> for its manufacture at the arsenals, $12,255,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts, or otherwise incur obligations, for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $6,000,000, in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for practice.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for the manufacture at the arsenals, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., mobile artillery.</p></sidenote>For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and material necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $25,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $9,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.</p></sidenote>For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary or the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $3,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proving grounds.</p></sidenote>proving grounds.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance material, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employment, etc.</p></sidenote>For necessary expenses of officers not occupying public quarters at the proving grounds, while employed on ordnance duty thereat, at the rate of $2.50 per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction work, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote>submarine mines.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mines, nets for closing channels, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $2,926,330.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of supplies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten, N. Y., torpedo depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1306.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of submarine mine matériel within the limits of continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten days in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining matériel at the torpedo depot; and for torpedo-depot administration, $500,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote>Fortifications in Insular Possessions.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote>ordnance department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,060,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith,<page identifier="/us/stat/40/201">201</page> and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $5,100,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $2,550,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $700,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines, nets to close channels etc.</p></sidenote> to operate them for closing the channels leading to seaports in the insular possessions, $23,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of the submarine-mine matériel in the insular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of mine supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1307.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material to be of American manufacture.</p></sidenote> possessions, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>panama canal fortifications.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications, etc.</p></sidenote> namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $5,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For land defenses, Panama Canal, including the procurement and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land defenses.</p></sidenote> installation of searchlights, purchase of armored cars and locomotives, construction of roads and surveys incidental thereto, $29,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of electric light and power plants<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote> for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $55,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> fortifications on the Canal Zone, $78,774;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote> coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $1,775,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> and land-defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,415,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, installing, etc., seacoast artillery.</p></sidenote> including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $665,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of submarine mines and nets and the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines, nets to close channels, etc.</p></sidenote> appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the Panama Canal, $250,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration, maintenance and repair of submarine mine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1308.</p></sidenote> matériel, $47,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance depot, Panama Canal: For an additional amount for a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance depot.</p></sidenote> building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,320,974.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional watch men, 1917 and 1918.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For thirty-two additional watchmen at the rate of $720 each per annum, from May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $26,880.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1098.</p></sidenote>For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000, in lieu of a clerk of class three, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight laborers, at $660 each; six firemen, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; in all, $20,480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Annex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, 1918.</p></sidenote>Navy Department Annex (New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street): For additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Two firemen at $720 each; two elevator conductors at $720 each; skilled laborer at $840; in all, $3,720.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 484, 599, 787.</p></sidenote>For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote>Office of the Secretary, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Solicitor, $1,804;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Judge Advocate General, $21,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Naval Intelligence, $5,634;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic Office, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval Observatory, $11,620;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Steam Engineering, $22,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Construction and Repair, $72,660;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Yards and Docks, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Navigation, $70,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $65,120;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marine Corps headquarters, $ 11,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of employees, etc.</p></sidenote>In all, $499,038: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For stationery, furniture, newspapers plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $168,300; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional rant.</p></sidenote>For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $79,650.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Navy Department, including not exceeding $15,000 for the Hydrographic Office, to be executed under the Public Printer, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote>hydrographic office.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates;<page identifier="/us/stat/40/203">203</page> tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of such additional printing presses as may be necessary; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pilot Charts, etc.</p></sidenote> and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $30,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay, miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commissions and interests; transportation of funds; exchange;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous e xpenses.</p></sidenote> mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters: for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; information<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information from abroad.</p></sidenote> from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.</p></sidenote> out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, shall not exceed $150,000, and for necessary expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interned prisoners of war, etc.</p></sidenote> for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $1,801,500.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Aviation</inline>: For aviation, including not to exceed $150,000 for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> purchase of land, and for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, including rigid dirigibles, and appurtenances, maintenance of aircraft stations and experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes,<page identifier="/us/stat/40/204">204</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jamestown site forbidden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 207.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> $11,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum shall be used for the purchase of the Jamestown site or any part thereof:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $150,000.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote>bureau of navigation.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at homo and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval auxiliaries and Reserves.</p></sidenote> in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation and shipping of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; transportation of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $1,659,324.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting.</p></sidenote>Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; purchase, rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent</p></sidenote>Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gunnery and engineering exercises.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Gunnery and engineering exercises</inline>: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in coal consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purposes of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits on first enlistments, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Outfits on first enlistment</inline>: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force, $150 each for officers and $60 each for men; in all, $7,778,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval auxiliaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of appropriations.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of naval auxiliaries</inline>: The sum appropriated for “Maintenance of naval auxiliaries” in the naval Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be transferred to other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 1170, 1181, 1182.</p></sidenote> appropriations as follows: “Transportation, Bureau of Navigation,” $11,500; “Pay of the Navy,” $846,890, and “Provisions, Navy,” $286,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/205">205</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Instruments and supplies</inline>: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies, instrumente, etc.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and loads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gyrocompass electricians.</p></sidenote> electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $5,743,440.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ocean and lake surveys</inline>: Hydrographic surveys, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocean and lake surveys.</p></sidenote> pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ship for Illinois Naval Militia</inline>: The limit of cost of $125,000<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illinois Naval Militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased of ship for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 559.</p></sidenote> on the purchase, repair, and alteration of a ship for the Naval Militia of Illinois as fixed in the naval appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased by $,000, which sum is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, California</inline>: Maintenance of naval training<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yerba Buena Island. Cal.</p></sidenote> station, Yerba Buena Island, California: Labor and material: buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of Sounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car re; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting: stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, Rhode Island</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.</p></sidenote> training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals: fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $100,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service shall not exceed $10,000.</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Naval, training station, Great Lakes</inline>: Maintenance of naval training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same: motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and fighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service shall not exceed $4,500; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $100,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Helena.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, Saint Helena</inline>: Maintenance of naval training station; labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Reserve Force</inline>: For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, stationery, and postage; printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction camps for recruits, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Schools or camps of instruction for recruits and Naval Reserve forces</inline>: For rental of necessary land and for providing quarters and the maintenance and equipment thereof, for assembling, training, and instructing recruits and reserves of all classes, including the crews of section patrols, harbor patrols, submarines and submarine chasers, and beach patrols, and for all purposes connected therewith, $2,655,360.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote>bureau of ordnance.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance and ordnance stores</inline>: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the genera! work of the Ordnance Department; for necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, naval gun factory, and naval ammunition depots; and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> stations, and naval ammunition depots: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for draftsmen, etc., in Department.</p></sidenote> depots, shall not exceed $725,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not exceeding $81,500 of this amount may be expended for the services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Ordnance; in all, $16,905,366.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for issue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price for powder lim ited.</p></sidenote>For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $68,664,858: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the purchase of powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of 53 cents a pound:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases subject to full operation of In dianhead plant.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in expenditures of this appropriation, or any part thereof, for powder, no powder shall at any time be purchased unless the powder factory at Indianhead, Maryland, shall be operated on a basis of not less than its full maximum capacity.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/207">207</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new batteries for ships of the Navy, $22,333,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New batteries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auxiliaries and mer chantmen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedoes, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For batteries for auxiliaries and merchantmen, $29,672,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ammunition for auxiliaries and merchantmen, $19,988,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances, $11,242,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance supplies, $29,260,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supplies.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote>Bureau of Yards and Docks.</sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For general maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, operation or repair, purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yard; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $2,060,000; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations shall not exceed $800,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not exceeding $100,000 of this amount may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen, etc., in Department.</p></sidenote> expended for the services of draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, in the Bureau of Yards and Docks.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $750,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quarters for marine guards: For temporary quarters for marine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine guard quarters at magazines.</p></sidenote> guards at naval magazines, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Submarine facilities; For submarine facilities, navy yards and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine facilities.</p></sidenote> stations, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Power plants and distributing systems: For improvements, central<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power, etc., plants.</p></sidenote> power plants and distributing systems, navy yards and stations, $750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depots for coal and other fuel: Toward fuel-oil storage, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel oil storage.</p></sidenote> not to exceed $100,000 for the purchase of land, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance storage: For storage of ammunition, mines, torpedoes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance storage.</p></sidenote> and other ordnance material, $3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: The President is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval base, Hampton Roads, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession authorized of Jamestown Exposition site for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1674.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and including all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, water, and sewer companies, of the tract of land known as the James town Exposition site, on Hampton Roads, Virginia, and of such lands adjacent thereto as lie north of Ninety-ninth Street and Algonquin Street, the entire property being bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Nintyninth and Algonquin Streets.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote>That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements thereof shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit to determine if offer unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote> compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as added to said seventy-five per centum will make up<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote> such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest at once.</p></sidenote>Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid, the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A mount for property.</p></sidenote>For the payment of compensation for said property so taken over,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> $1,200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and toward the equipment of the same as a naval operating base, including piers, store houses, oil-fuel storage, training station and recreation grounds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property acquired.</p></sidenote> for the fleet and other purposes, $1,600,000, in all, $2,800,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appropriation herein shall be available only for the acquisition of the entire property bounded on the north and west by Hampton Roads and Willoughby Bay, on the east by Boush Creek, and on the south by Ninety-ninth and Algonquin Streets, together with all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, and all the rights and properties of railway, electric light, power, telephone, telegraph, cable, water, and sewer companies:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction restriction waived.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend public money in the development of said tract of land without reference to the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary hospitals.</p></sidenote>Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical supply depots.</p></sidenote> $1,000,000; and for the establishment of naval medical supply depots at Brooklyn, New York, and Mare Island, California, by purchase or construction, $350,000; in all, $1,350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Juliens Creek, Ya., naval magazine.</p></sidenote>Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend public money in the development of the tract of land to be added to the naval reservation at the naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction restriction waived.</p></sidenote> ammunition depot, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia, without reference to the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, and the provision in the naval appropriation Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring additional land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39. p. 570, amended.</p></sidenote> approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy), authorizing the purchase of additional land under the beading “Naval magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia,” is hereby amended to read as follows: “<quotedText>For additional land, to be secured by purchase or condemnation or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Navy may direct, $60,000.</quotedText>”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone line from, navy yard to Keyport radio station.</p></sidenote>Puget Sound, Washington, Navy Yard: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation, easements over private land where necessary for the installation of a telephone, power and distant control line for the radio station at Keyport, Washington, between said station and the navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, $3,500, which sum is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations</inline>: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $900,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote>bureau of medicine and surgery.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the<page identifier="/us/stat/40/209">209</page> civil establishment at the several naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p></sidenote> hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, and toward the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For tolls<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers who die within the United States; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental oufits and dental material, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of remains</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting re mains of officers, etc.</p></sidenote> Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, $300,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of fund.</p></sidenote> appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital expenses</inline>: For the care, maintenance, and treatment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital expenses of patients,etc.</p></sidenote> patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, and for the rental of land, $3,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of the Navy</inline>: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of the Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of amounts.</p></sidenote> on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors; and also members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation allowed Nurse Corps.</p></sidenote> of Nurse Corps (female) who shall hereafter be paid the same commutation as is or may be allowed members of the Nurse Corps of the Army; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to<page identifier="/us/stat/40/210">210</page> repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service act ing with Navy.</p></sidenote> pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia; pay of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; pay of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial; and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations, and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">NavalReserve Force.</p></sidenote> of the Nurse Corps; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force; in all, $75,508,672.42.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Navy</inline>: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 50 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations to prisoners.</p></sidenote> expiration of such confinement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency ration.</p></sidenote> and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations as required; in all, $31,740,992.45.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing and small stores fund.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and small-stores fund</inline>: For purchase of clothing and small-stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the “Clothing and small-stores fund,” $9,571,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: For fuel; the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships, chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote> for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy<page identifier="/us/stat/40/211">211</page> yards; musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General account of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food inspection.</p></sidenote> advances”; and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards naval stations, naval-defense districts, and disbursing offices, shall not exceed $750,000; in all, $3,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: All freight and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, Department and bureaus.</p></sidenote> express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel and transportation</inline>: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $19,362,420: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels for carrying fuel.</p></sidenote> in the opinion of the President, the prices asked for the charter of vessels for the transportation of fuel are excessive, he is authorized to purchase vessels suitable for the purpose and, if money is not otherwise available, to pay for them from the appropriation “Fuel and transportation.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reserve material, Navy</inline>: For procuring apparatus and materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve material.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For emergency use.</p></sidenote> (other than ordnance materials and medical stores), as a war reserve necessary to be carried in the supply departments for the purpose of fitting out vessels of the fleet and merchant auxiliaries in time of war or when, in the opinion of the President, a national emergency exists, $2,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, to prevent deterioration materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement when taken for current use.</p></sidenote> purchased under the reserve material Navy fund shall be used as required in time of peace, and when so used reimbursement shall be made to this appropriation from current naval appropriations in order that additional stocks may be procured.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of construction and repair.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construc tion and Repair.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and repair of vessels</inline>: For preservation and completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair of vessels.</p></sidenote> of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels of the Coast Guard and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard, Lighthouse, etc., vessels.</p></sidenote> Lighthouse Services, submarine chasers, patrol boats; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote> bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free com<page identifier="/us/stat/40/212">212</page> petition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">limit on repairs not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1195.</p></sidenote> equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $57,327,340: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limitations imposed by existing law relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services in Department.</p></sidenote> expenditure of funds made available in this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the expenditures under this appropriation for services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Construction and Repair shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> exceed $157,340:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations; and offices of superintending naval constructors, shall not exceed $1,270,000.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote>bureau of steam engineering.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Engineering</inline>: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, patrol and other vessels that may be utilized for war purposes, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewal of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; maintenance and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of Naval Communications.</p></sidenote> operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Communications and the purchase of land as necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote> for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats and patrol and other vessels that may be utilized for war purposes; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations; pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval and other vessels, navy yards and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books, and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radio-telegraphy at the naval radio laboratory:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services in Department.</p></sidenote> offices of United Stated inspectors of machinery and engineering material shall not exceed $2,000,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not exceeding $110,640 of this amount may be expended for the services of draftsmen and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary in the Bureau of Steam Engineering; in all, engineering, $34,960,500.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.</p></sidenote>The foregoing appropriations for the Naval Establishment shall be available for similar expenses of the Coast Guard and lighthouse<page identifier="/us/stat/40/213">213</page> Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations avail able for, cooperating with Navy.</p></sidenote> appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; and, when expenditures are thus made, naval appropriations need not be reimbursed from the appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ACADEMY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Commissary department: For equipment for the commissary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissary department.</p></sidenote> department, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy</inline>: For general maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance and repairs.</p></sidenote> and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be Used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery: furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of building; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Buildings: For an addition to Isherwood Hall, $300,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isherwood Hall.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addition to.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MARINE CORPS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay, Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, including clerks for assistant paymasters, nine (additional), $1,771,934.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $4,459,866.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undrawn clothing.</p></sidenote> clothing undrawn, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> troops, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> where there are no public quarters, $75,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> and privates serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted<page identifier="/us/stat/40/214">214</page> men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties; transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy ration instead of Army.</p></sidenote> offices and preservation of rations, $3,445,671: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the Army ration, such marines may be allowed the Navy ration or commutation therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, authorized by law, $.3,848,450.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Marine Corps</inline>: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $402,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military stores.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Military stores, Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; one mechanic, at $3 per diem; two mechanics, at $2,50 each per diem; one chief electrician, at $4 per diem, and one assistant electrician, at $3.50 per diem; per diem of enlisted men employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments, etc.</p></sidenote> on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts,. waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; purchase and repair of tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents; purchase and repair of instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, renting ranges, construction of buildings for temporary shelter and preservation of stores, and entrance fees in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies: in all, $7,373,408.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation and recruiting.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps</inline>: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising agencies.</p></sidenote> service, $1,731,600: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That authority is hereby granted to employ the services of advertising agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair of barracks, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps</inline>: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and other public buildings on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, $1,104,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Forage, Marine Corps</inline>: For forage in kind and stabling for public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote> animals of the quartermasters department and the authorized number of officers horses, $60,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps</inline>: Commutation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $187,552.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Marine Corps</inline>: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> advertising, washing of bod sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the placo of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones: purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ took, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves, water; straw for beading, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $2,054,680.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depot of supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies depot buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 723, 1324.</p></sidenote> the purchase of a strip of land in rear of the depot of supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, extending about one hundred and forty-two feet on Washington Avenue and about two hundred and twenty-six feet on Fifteenth Street, with all buildings thereon, and for adapting said buildings to uses connected with the depot, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing and accounting.</p></sidenote> Corps, $20,408,161; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermasters Department, Marine<page identifier="/us/stat/40/216">216</page> Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of the Navy.</p></sidenote>increase of the navy.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarines.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost limit increased.</p></sidenote>The limit of cost of the forty-six submarines now under contract is increased by the sum of $10,000 each.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees for new Department Building, 1917.</p></sidenote>Interior Department Building (new): For employees from May first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—twenty-seven at 8660 each, seventeen at $600 each, fourteen at $540 each, one $480; six female laborers at $400 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; general machinist, $1,500; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; eighteen watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $13,940.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Standards.</p></sidenote>bureau of standards.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standardizing supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperative assistance to Army and Navy in.</p></sidenote>To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with the War and Navy Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies, including personal services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the erection of temporary structures; books of reference and periodicals; and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical laboratory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing equipment of new.</p></sidenote>To complete the equipment of the new chemical laboratory building, including the construction, purchase, and installation of chemical desks, hoods, cases, special furniture, and other necessary equipment, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standardizing gauges, screw threads, etc., for Army, Navy, etc.</p></sidenote>To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary, equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $150,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of immigration.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interned alien enemies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of detention.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4067–4069/p784">R. S., sec. 4067–4069, p 784</ref>.</p></sidenote>Detention of interned aliens: To enable the Secretary of Labor to detain, care for, and guard aliens in custody, pursuant to the requirements of sections four thousand and sixty-seven, four thousand and sixty-eight, and four thousand and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, sections nine and ten of the Executive order of April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the regu<page identifier="/us/stat/40/217">217</page> lations made in pursuance thereof, to wit: For maintenance and hospital charges, food, medicines, and supplies, rental of quarters, including repairs and alterations thereto, salaries of officers and employees, furniture, fuel, light, water, and all contingent and miscellaneous expenses incident to the object stated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $1,000,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Henry T. Helgesen, late a Representative<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry T. Helgesen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of North Dakota, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the use of the committees and officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> the House, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the appropriations contained in this Act, unless otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations available during 1917 and 1918.</p></sidenote> specified herein, shall be available during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That the appropriations contained herein shall be available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prior emergency obligations.</p></sidenote> for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">That the service of all persons selected by draft and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service under draft and war enlistments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote> enlistments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be for the period of the war, unless<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compulsory, to cease four months after peace proclaimed.</p></sidenote> sooner terminated by discharge or otherwise. Whenever said war shall cease by the conclusion of peace between the United States and its enemies in the present war, the President shall so declare by a public proclamation to that effect, and within four months after the date of said proclamation or as soon thereafter as it may be practicable to transport the forces then serving without the United States to their home station, the provisions of said Act, in so far as they authorize compulsory service by selective draft or otherwise, shall cease to be of force and effect. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement of all expenditures to Congress.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That, in addition to the reports now required by law, the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy shall each on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, transmit to the Congress a detailed statement of all expenditures under this Act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 15, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 30: To punish, acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>30</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-15</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>30.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To punish, acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-15">June 15, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/291">H. R. 291</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8"><ref href="/us/pl/65/24">[Public, No. 24</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>, </enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National defense, espionage, neutrality, etc.</p></sidenote>
<title>
<num value="I"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title I.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">espionage.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Espionage.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">That (a) whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses designated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obtaining information for injury to the United States at places connected with national defense, etc.</p></sidenote> respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains informa<page identifier="/us/stat/40/218">218</page> tion concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, coaling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or signal station, building, office, or other place connected with the national defense, owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control of the United States, or of any of its officers or agents, or within the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Where vessels, munitions, etc., for Government use are made, etc.</p></sidenote> exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired, or stored, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other places.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 219.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obtaining, copies, etc., of national defense plans, etc.</p></sidenote> any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any prohibited place within the meaning of section six of this title; or (b) whoever for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts, or induces or aids another to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receiving, etc., prohibited Information from others.</p></sidenote> or note of anything connected with the national defense; or (c) whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain it, that it has been or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willfully communicating plans, etc., to unauthorized persons.</p></sidenote> will be obtained, taken, made or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this title; or (d) whoever, lawfully or unlawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being intrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, willfully communicates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withholding them from officials.</p></sidenote> or transmits or attempts to communicate or transmit the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Negligently permitting their loss, etc.</p></sidenote> same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or (e) whoever, being intrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, or information, relating to the national defense, through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, Stolen, abstracted, or destroyed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote> shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Communicating to foreign governments, etc., plans of defense, etc.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids or induces another to, communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote> defense, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whoever shall violate the provisions of subsection (a) of this section in time of war shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In time of war.</p></sidenote> thirty years; and (b)<page identifier="/us/stat/40/219">219</page> whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gathering for enemy in time of war, information of armed forces, etc.</p></sidenote> to the enemy, shall collect, record, publish, or communicate, or attempt to elicit any information with respect to the movement, numbers, description, condition, or disposition of any of the armed forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of the United States, or with respect to the plans or conduct,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans of public defense, etc.</p></sidenote> or supposed plans or conduct of any naval or military operations, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for the fortification or defense of any place, or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false statements to interfere with operation of national forces, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 553.</p></sidenote></proviso>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inciting disloyalty, etc.</p></sidenote> cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obstructing enlistments.</p></sidenote> the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or of the United States, shall be punished by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote> a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability for conspiring to do prohibited acts.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">If two or more persons conspire to violate the provisions of sections two or three of this title, and one or more of such persons does any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be punished as in said sections provided in the case of the doing of the act the accomplishment of which is the object of such conspiracy. Except as above provided conspiracies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other punishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1096.</p></sidenote> to commit offenses under this title shall be punished as provided by section thirty-seven of the Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever harbors or conceals any person who he knows,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for concealing offenders, etc.</p></sidenote> or has reasonable grounds to believe or suspect, has committed, or is about to commit, an offense under this title shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">The President in time of war or in case of national<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of other prohibited places.</p></sidenote> emergency may by proclamation designate any place other than those set forth in subsection (a) of section one hereof in which anything<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 218.</p></sidenote> for the use of the Army or Navy is being prepared or constructed or stored as a prohibited place for the purposes of this title: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition determining.</p></sidenote> That he shall determine that information with respect thereto would be prejudicial to the national defense. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts-martial, etc., jurisdiction not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1342/1343/1624/pp230/242/275">R. S., secs. 1342, 1343, 1624; pp. 230, 242, 275</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 650; Vol. 35, p. 621.</p></sidenote></proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">Nothing contained in this title shall be deemed to limit the jurisdiction of the general courts-martial, military commissions, or naval courts-martial under sections thirteen hundred and forty-two, thirteen hundred and forty-three, and sixteen hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes as amended. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All possessions of the United States included.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">The provisions of this title shall extend to all Territories, possessions, and places subject to the jurisdiction of the United States whether or not contiguous thereto, and offenses under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses on high seas, etc.</p></sidenote> title when committed upon the high seas or elsewhere within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and outside the territorial limits thereof shall be punishable hereunder. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former Act repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1084.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">The Act entitled “An Act to prevent the disclosure of national defense secrets,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby repealed.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/220">220</page></content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="II"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title II.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels in United States ports, etc.</p></sidenote>vessels in ports of the united states.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control, etc., over, in time of war. by Secretary of the Treasury.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury may make, subject to the approval of the President, rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the United States, may inspect such vessel at any time, place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession to prevent injury, etc.</p></sidenote> guards thereon, and, if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such vessels from damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may take, by and with the consent of the President, for such purposes, full possession<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of crew, etc.</p></sidenote> and control of such vessel and remove therefrom the officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially authorized by him to go or remain on board thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control in Canal Zone waters.</p></sidenote>Within the territory and waters of the Canal Zone the Governor of the Panama Canal, with the approval of the President, shall exercise all the powers conferred by this section on the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of vessel if owner refuses to obey rales, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If any owner, agent, master, officer, or person in charge, or any member of the crew of any such vessel fails to comply with any regulation or rule issued or order given by the Secretary of the Treasury or the Governor of the Panama Canal under the provisions of this title, or obstructs or interferes with the exercise of any power conferred by this title, the vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and equipment, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States in the same manner as merchandise is forfeited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal punishment.</p></sidenote> for violation of the customs revenue laws; and the person guilty of such failure, obstruction, or interference shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Injury, etc., of vessel by owner, etc., unlawful.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">It shall be unlawful for the owner or master or any other person in charge or command of any private vessel, foreign or domestic, or for any member of the crew or other person, within the territorial waters of the United States, willfully to cause or permit the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permitting use for conspiracy, etc.</p></sidenote> destruction or injury of such vessel or knowingly to permit said vessel to be used as a place of resort for any person conspiring with another or preparing to commit any offense against the United States, or in violation of the treaties of the United States or of the obligations of the United States under the law of nations, or to defraud the United States, or knowingly to permit such vessels to be used in violation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure and forfeiture of vessel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the rights and obligations of the United States under the law of nations; and in case such vessel shall be so used, with the knowledge of the owner or master or other person in charge or command thereof, the vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and equipment, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States in the same manner as merchandise is forfeited for violation of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal punishment.</p></sidenote> customs revenue laws; and whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement by the President.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The President may employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of this title.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/221">221</page></content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="III"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title III.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">injuring vessels engaged in foreign commerce.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels in foreign commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall set fire to any vessel of foreign registry,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for setting fire, etc., to, or cargo, in United States jurisdiction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1148.</p></sidenote> or any vessel of American registry entitled to engage in commerce with foreign nations, or to any vessel of the United States as defined in section three hundred and ten of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” or to the cargo of the same, or shall tamper with the motive power or instrumentalities of navigation of such vessel, or shall place bombs or explosives in or upon such vessel, or shall do any other act to or upon such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Placing bombs, etc., on board.</p></sidenote> vessel while within the jurisdiction of the United States, or, if such vessel is of American<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Endangering American vessel, etc., on high seas.</p></sidenote> registry, while she is on the high sea, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of the vessel or of her cargo, or of persons on board, whether the injury or danger is so intended to take place within the jurisdiction of the United States, or after the vessel shall have departed therefrom; or whoever shall attempt or conspire to do any such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attempts or conspiracies.</p></sidenote> acts with such intent, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="IV"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title IV.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">interference with foreign commerce by violent means.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interfering with foreign commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever, with intent to prevent, interfere with, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for destroying, etc., articles for export.</p></sidenote> obstruct or attempt to prevent, interfere with, or obstruct the exportation to foreign countries of articles from the United States shall injure or destroy, by fire or explosives, such articles or the places where they may be while in such foreign commerce, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="V"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title V.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">enforcement of neutrality.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of neutrality.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">During a war in which the United States is a neutral<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearance or departure withheld from vessel carrying arms, etc., to a belligerent when United States is neutral.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1226.</p></sidenote> nation, the President, or any person thereunto authorized by him, may withhold clearance from or to any vessel, domestic or foreign, which is required by law to secure clearance before departing from port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, or, by service of formal notice upon the owner, master, or person in command or having charge of any domestic vessel not required by law to secure clearances before so departing, to forbid its departure from port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any such vessel, domestic or foreign, whether requiring clearance or not, is about to carry fuel, arms, ammunition, men, supplies, dispatches, or information to any warship, tender, or supply ship of a foreign belligerent nation in violation of the laws, treaties, or obligations of the United States under the law of nations; and it shall thereupon be unlawful for such vessel to depart.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detention of private warlike vessel to prevent use against friendly nation.</p></sidenote> the President, or any person thereunto authorized by him, may detain any armed vessel owned wholly or in part by American citizens, or any vessel, domestic or foreign (other than one which has entered the ports of the United States as a public vessel), which is manifestly built for warlike purposes or has been converted or adapted from a private vessel to one suitable for warlike use, until the owner or<page identifier="/us/stat/40/222">222</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Release if owner furnish proof of no illegal Intent.</p></sidenote> master, or person having charge of such vessel, shall furnish proof satisfactory to the President, or to the person duly authorized by him, that the vessel will not be employed by the said owners, or master, or person having charge thereof, to cruise against or commit or attempt to commit hostilities upon the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with which the United States is at peace, and that the said vessel will not be sold or delivered to any belligerent nation, or to an agent, officer, or citizen of such nation, by them or any of them, within the jurisdiction of the United States, or, having left that jurisdiction, upon the high seas.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sending out armed vessel for delivery to belligerent nation at peace with United States, unlawful.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation, it shall be unlawful to send out of the jurisdiction of the United States any vessel built, armed, or equipped as a vessel of war, or converted from a private vessel into a vessel of war, with any intent or under any agreement or contract, written or oral, that such vessel shall be delivered to a belligerent nation, or to an agent, officer, or citizen of such nation, or with reasonable cause to believe that the said vessel shall or will be employed in the service of any such belligerent nation after its departure from the jurisdiction of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearances, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manifests to be delivered before departure of vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4197/4198/4200/pp809/810">R. S., secs. 4197, 4198, 4200, pp. 809, 810</ref>.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">During a war in which the United States is a neutral nation, in addition to the facts required by sections forty-one hundred and ninety-seven, forty-one hundred and ninety-eight, and forty-two hundred of the Revised Statutes to be set out in the masters’ and shippers’ manifests before clearance will be issued to vessels bound to foreign ports, each of which sections of the Revised Statutes is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional statements during war when United States is neutral.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 424.</p></sidenote> declared to he and is continued in full force and effect, every master or person having charge or command of any vessel, domestic or foreign, whether requiring clearance or not, before departure of such vessel from port shall deliver to the collector of customs for the district wherein such vessel is then located a statement duly verified by oath, that the cargo or any part of the cargo is or is not to be delivered to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From master as to transshipments.</p></sidenote> other vessels in port or to be transshipped on the high seas and, if it is to be so delivered or transshipped, stating the kind and quantities and the value of the total quantity of each kind of article so to be delivered or transshipped, and the name of the person, corporation, vessel, or government, to whom the delivery or transshipment is to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From shipper, etc.</p></sidenote> be made; and the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo of such vessel shall in the same manner and under the same conditions deliver to the collector like statements under oath as to the cargo or the parts thereof laden or shipped by them, respectively.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refusal of clearance, etc., if statements believed to be false, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whenever it appears that the vessel is not entitled to clearance or whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that the additional statements under oath required in the foregoing section are false, the collector of customs for the district in which the vessel is located may, subject to review by the Secretary of Commerce, refuse clearance to any vessel, domestic or foreign, and by formal notice served upon the owners, master, or person or persons in command or charge of any domestic vessel for which clearance is not required by law, forbid the departure of the vessel from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departure unlawful.</p></sidenote> port or from the jurisdiction of the United States; and it shall thereupon be unlawful for the vessel to depart.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for unlawful departure, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever, in violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall take, or attempt or conspire to take., or authorize the taking of any such vessel, out of port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of vessel, etc.</p></sidenote> than five years, or both; and, in addition, such vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture, equipment, and her cargo shall be forfeited to the United States.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/223">223</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever, being a person belonging to the armed land or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interned belligerent aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaving limits, etc., without permission, to be arrested, etc.</p></sidenote> naval forces of a belligerent nation or belligerent faction of any nation and being interned in the United States, in accordance with the law of nations, shall leave or attempt to leave said jurisdiction, or shall leave or attempt to leave the limits of internment in which freedom of movement has been allowed, without permission from the proper official of the United States in charge, or shall willfully overstay a leave of absence granted by such official, shall be subject to arrest by any marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, or by the military or naval authorities thereof, and shall be returned to the place of internment and there confined and safely kept for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for aiding, etc., escapes.</p></sidenote> such period of time as the official of the United States in charge shall direct; and whoever, within the jurisdiction of the United States and subject thereto, shall aid or entice any interned person to escape or attempt to escape from the jurisdiction of the United States, or from the limits of internment prescribed, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">Section thirteen of the Act entitled “An Act to codify,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organizing expeditions against friendly powers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1090, amended.</p></sidenote> revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses designated.</p></sidenote> United States or of any of its possessions, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing money, etc., added.</p></sidenote> for, or who takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined not more than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote> 83,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">That the President may employ such part of the land or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement by the President.</p></sidenote> naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">Section fifteen of the Act entitled “An Act to codify,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compelling foreign vessels to depart.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1091, amended.</p></sidenote> revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">It shall be lawful for the President to employ such part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement by Army. Navy, or militia.</p></sidenote> of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia thereof, as he may deem necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart from the United States or any of its possessions in all cases in which, by the law of nations or the treaties of the United States, it ought not to remain, and to detain or prevent any foreign vessel from so departing in all cases in which, by the law of nations or the treaties of the United States, it is not entitled to depart.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">The joint resolution approved March fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former Resolution and conflicting laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1226, repealed.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifteen, “To empower the President to better enforce and maintain the neutrality of the United States,” and any Act or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this title are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VI"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title VI.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">seizure of arms and other articles intended for export.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure of arms, etc., for export.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever an attempt is made to export or ship from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for, if unlawful exportation attempted.</p></sidenote> or take out of the United States, any arms or munitions of war, or other articles, in violation of law, or whenever there shall be known or probable cause to believe that any such arms or munitions of war, or other articles, are being or are intended to be exported, or shipped from, or taken out of the United States, in violation of law, the several<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers authorized to seize.</p></sidenote> collectors, naval officers, surveyors, inspectors of customs, and mar<page identifier="/us/stat/40/224">224</page> shals, and deputy marshals of the United States, and every other person duly authorized for the purpose by the President, may seize and detain any articles or munitions of war about to be exported or shipped from, or taken out of the United States, in violation of law, and the vessels or vehicles containing the same, and retain possession<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture if violation proved.</p></sidenote> thereof until released or disposed of as hereinafter directed. If upon due inquiry as hereinafter provided, the property seized shall appear to have been about to be so unlawfully exported, shipped from, or taken out of the United States, the same shall be forfeited to the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further detention, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to court for warrant for.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">It shall be the duty of the person making any seizure under this title to apply, with due diligence, to the judge of the district court of the United States, or to the judge of the United States district court of the Canal Zone, or to the judge of acourt of first instance in the Philippine Islands, having jurisdiction over the place within which the seizure is made, for a warrant to justify the further detention of the property so seized, which warrant shall be granted only on oath or affirmation showing that there is known or probable cause to believe that the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration, if warrant refused, etc.</p></sidenote> property seized is being or is intended to be exported or shipped from or taken out of the United States in violation of law; and if the judge refuses to issue the warrant, or application therefor is not made by the person making the seizure within a reasonable time, not exceeding ten days after the seizure, the property shall forthwith be restored to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detention on Issue of warrant.</p></sidenote> owner or person from whom seized. If the judge is satisfied that the seizure was justified under the provisions of this title and issues his warrant accordingly, then the property shall be detained by the person<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of the President,</p></sidenote> seizing it until the President, who is hereby expressly authorized so to do, orders it to be restored to the owner or claimant, or until it is discharged in due course of law on petition of the claimant, or on trial of condemnation proceedings, as hereinafter provided.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petition of owner for restoration.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The owner or claimant of any property seized under this title may, at any time before condemnation proceedings have been instituted, as hereinafter provided, file his petition for its restoration in the district court of the United States, or the district court of the Canal Zone, or the court of first instance in the Philippine Islands, having<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expedited hearing, etc.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction over the place in which the seizure was made, whereupon the court shall advance the cause for hearing and determination with all possible dispatch, and, after causing notice to be given to the United States attorney for the district and to the person making the seizure, shall proceed to hear and decide whether the property seized shall be restored to the petitioner or forfeited to the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Libel proceedings for condemnation and sale of seized property.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whenever the person making any seizure under this title applies for and obtains a warrant for the detention of the property, and (a) upon the hearing and determination of the petition of the owner or claimant restoration is denied, or (b) the owner or claimant fails to file a petition for restoration within thirty days after the seizure, the United States attorney for the district wherein it was seized, upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of courts.</p></sidenote> direction of the Attorney General, shall institute libel proceedings in the United States district court or the district court of the Canal Zone or the court of first instance of the Philippine Islands having jurisdiction over the place wherein the seizure was made, against the property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of sale.</p></sidenote> for condemnation; and if, after trial and hearing of the issues involved, the property is condemned, it shall be disposed of by sale, and the proceeds thereof, less the legal costs and charges, paid into the Treasury.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admiralty procedure to govern trials.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The proceedings in such summary trials upon the petition of the owner or claimant of the property seized, as well as in the libel cases herein provided for, shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury trial of facts.</p></sidenote> in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in such libel cases, and all such proceed<page identifier="/us/stat/40/225">225</page> ings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delivery to owner on giving bond not to ex port illegally, etc.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the payment of the costs and legal expenses of both the summary trials and the libel proceedings herein provided for, and the execution and delivery of a good and sufficient bond in an amount double the value of the property seized, conditioned that it will not be exported or used or employed contrary to the provisions of this title, the court, in its discretion, may direct that it be delivered to the owners thereof or to the claimants thereof.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">Except in those cases in which the exportation of arms and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawful export trade not interfered with.</p></sidenote> munitions of war or other articles is forbidden by proclamation or otherwise by the President, as provided in section one of this title, nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to, or interfere with any trade in such commodities, conducted with any foreign port or place wheresoever, or with any other trade which might have been lawfully carried on before the passage of this title, under the law of nations, or under the treaties or conventions entered into by the United States, or under the laws thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">Upon payment of the costs and legal expenses incurred in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary release of property.</p></sidenote> any such summary trial for possession or libel proceedings, the President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to order the release and restoration to the owner or claimant, as the case may be, of any property seized or condemned under the provisions of this title.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">The President may employ such part of the land or naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement by the President.</p></sidenote> forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VII"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title VII.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">certain exports in time of war unlawful.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unlawful exports in time of war.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever during the present war the President shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exporting articles prohibited in proclamation of the President, unlawful.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1383, 1391, 1394.</p></sidenote> find that the public safety shall so require, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export from or ship from or take out of the United States to any country named in such proclamation any article or articles mentioned in such proclamation, except at such time or times, and under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port preferences forbidden.</p></sidenote> That no preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">Any person who shall export, ship, or take out, or deliver<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote> or attempt to deliver for export, shipment, or taking out, any article in violation of this title, or of any regulation or order made hereunder, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than two years, or both; and any article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure and forfeiture of articles.</p></sidenote> so delivered or exported, shipped, or taken out, or so attempted to be delivered or exported, shipped, or taken out, shall be seized and forfeited to the United States; and any officer, director, or agent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of corporations.</p></sidenote> a corporation who participates in any such violation shall be liable to like fine or imprisonment, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearance refused vessel carrying prohibited articles.</p></sidenote> vessel, domestic or foreign, is about to carry out of the United States any article or articles in violation of the provisions of this title, the collector of customs for the district in which such vessel is located is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to review by the Secretary of Commerce, to refuse clearance to any such vessel, domestic or foreign, for which clearance is required by law, and by formal notice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departure of domestic vessel forbidden.</p></sidenote> served upon the owners, master, or person or persons in command or charge of any domestic vessel for which clearance is not required by law, to forbid the departure of such vessel from the port, and it shall thereupon be unlawful for such vessel to depart. Whoever, in vio<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/226">226</page> lation of any of the provisions of this section shall take, or attempt to take, or authorize the taking of any such vessel, out of port or from the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be fined not more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of vessel, etc.</p></sidenote> than $10.000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; and, in addition, such vessel, her tackle, apparel, furniture, equipment, and her forbidden cargo shall be forfeited to the United States.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VIII"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title VIII.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disturbance of foreign relations.</p></sidenote>disturbance of foreign relations.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false statements made in interest of foreign government to injure the United States.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between a foreign government and the United States, shall willfully and knowingly make any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, under oath before any person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By agent of foreign government.</p></sidenote> government, or of any officer or agent of any foreign government, to the injury of the United States, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the Government of the United States, or any branch thereof, to the injury of the United States, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for falsely assuming to be foreign official.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever within the jurisdiction of the United States shall falsely assume or pretend to be a diplomatic or consular, or other official of a foreign government duly accredited as such to the Government of the United States with intent to defraud such foreign government or any person, and shall take upon himself to act as such, or in such pretended character shall demand or obtain, or attempt to obtain from any person or from said foreign government, or from any officer thereof, any money, paper, document, or other thing of value, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for acting for foreign government without recognition.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, shall act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Secretary of State shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Foreign government.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of term construed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35. pp. 1117, 1118, 1120, 1132.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The words “foreign government,” as used in this Act and in sections one hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and sixty-one, one hundred and seventy, one hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and seventy-three, and two hundred and twenty of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to codify,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">De facto govern meats, etc., included.</p></sidenote> revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” shall be deemed to include any Government, faction, or body of insurgents within a country with which the United States is at peace, which Government, faction, or body of insurgents may or may not have been recognized by the United States as a Government.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for conspiracy in United States to injure property in foreign country at peace therewith.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If two or more persons within the jurisdiction of the United States conspire to injure or destroy specific property situated within a foreign country and belonging to a foreign Government or to any political subdivision thereof with which the United States is at peace, or any railroad, canal, bridge, or other public utility so situated, and if one or more of such persons commits an act within the jurisdiction of the United States to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to the conspiracy shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. Any indictment or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific description of property required.</p></sidenote> information under this section shall describe the specific property which it was the object of the conspiracy to injure or destroy.</content>
</section>
</title>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/227">227</page>
<title>
<num value="IX"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title IX.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">passports.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passports.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Before a passport is issued to any person by or under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application requirements.</p></sidenote> authority of the United States such person shall subscribe to and submit a written application duly verified by his oath before a person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which said application shall contain a true recital of each and every matter of fact which may be required by law or by any rules authorized by law to be stated as a prerequisite to the issuance of any such passport. Clerks of United States courts, agents of the Department of State, or other Federal officials authorized, or who may be authorized, to take passport applications and administer oaths thereon, shall collect, for all services in connection therewith, a fee of $1, and no more,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee limited.</p></sidenote> in lieu of all fees prescribed by any statute of the United States, whether the application is executed singly, in duplicate, or in triplicate.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall willfully and knowingly make any false<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false statements in applications.</p></sidenote> statement in an application for passport with intent to induce or secure the issuance of a passport under the authority of the United States, either for his own use or the use of another, contrary to the laws regulating the issuance of passports or the rules prescribed pursuant to such laws, or whoever shall willfully and knowingly use or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using passport to obtained.</p></sidenote> attempt to use, or furnish to another for use, any passport the issue of winch was secured in any way by reason of any false statement, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall willfully and knowingly use, or attempt to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illegally using passport of another.</p></sidenote> use, any passport issued or designed for the use of another than himself,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Violating restrictions.</p></sidenote> or whoever shall willfully and knowingly use or attempt to use any passport in violation of the conditions or restrictions therein contained, or of the rules prescribed pursuant to the laws regulating the issuance of passports, which said rules shall be printed on the passport; or whoever shall willfully and knowingly furnish, dispose of, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delivery to unauthorized person.</p></sidenote> deliver a passport to any person, for use by another than the person for whose use it was originally issued and designed, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for counterfeiting, forging, etc., passports.</p></sidenote> alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered any passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, with intent to use the same, or with intent that the same may be used by another; or whoever shall willfully or knowingly use,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using forged, etc., passports.</p></sidenote> or attempt to use, or furnish to another for use any such false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, or any passport validly issued which has become void<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Void passports.</p></sidenote> by the occurrence of any condition therein prescribed invalidating the same, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="X"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title X.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">counterfeiting government seal.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official seals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall fraudulently or wrongfully affix or impress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for fraudulently affixing, etc.</p></sidenote> the seal of any executive department, or of any bureau, commission, or office of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper of any description; or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using such paper.</p></sidenote> whoever, with knowledge of its fraudulent character, shall with wrongful or fraudulent intent use, buy, procure, sell, or transfer to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to<page identifier="/us/stat/40/228">228</page> which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall he fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for forging, etc., any Government seal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, or shall willingly assist in falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, mutilating, or altering, the seal of any executive department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affixing such to certificate, etc.</p></sidenote> or any bureau, commission, or office of the United States, or whoever shall knowingly use, affix, or impress any such fraudulently made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered seal to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, of any description,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Having possession thereof, etc.</p></sidenote> or whoever with wrongful or fraudulent intent shall have possession of any such falsely made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered seal, knowing the same to have been so falsely made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for forging, etc., naval, military, or official passes or permits.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, alter, or tamper with any naval, military, or official pass or permit, issued by or under the authority of the United States, or with wrongful or fraudulent intent shall use or have in his possession any such pass or permit, or shall personate or falsely represent himself to be or not to be a person to whom such pass or permit has been duly issued, or shall willfully allow any other person to have or use any such pass or permit, issued for his use alone, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XI"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title XI.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Search warrants.</p></sidenote>search warrants.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials authorized to issue.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">A search warrant authorized by this title may be issued by a judge of a United States district court, or by a judge of a State or Territorial court of record, or by a United States commissioner for the district wherein the property sought is located.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds for, designated.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">A search warrant may be issued under this title upon either of the following grounds:</chapeau>
<paragraph class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="1">1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For property stolen or embezzled.</p></sidenote>
<content>When the property was stolon or embezzled in violation of a law of the United States; in which case it may be taken on the warrant from any house or other place in which it is concealed, or from the possession of the person by whom it was stolen or embezzled, or from any person in whose possession it may be.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Used to commit a felony.</p></sidenote>
<content>When the property was used as the means of committing a felony; in which case it may be taken on the warrant from any house or other place in which it is concealed, or from the possession of the person by whom it was used in the commission of the offense, or from any person in whose possession it may be.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To unlawfully aid a foreign government.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 230.</p></sidenote>
<content>When the property, or any paper, is possessed, controlled, or used in violation of section twenty-two of this title; in which case it may be taken on the warrant from the person violating said section, or from any person in whose possession it may be, or from any house or other place in which it is concealed.</content>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Descriptive affidavit required.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">A search warrant can not be issued but upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person and particularly describing the property and the place to be searched.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination before issue.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The judge or commissioner must, before issuing the warrant, examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce, and require their affidavits or take their depositions in writing and cause them to be subscribed by the parties making them.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facts to be established.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The affidavits or depositions must set forth the facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for believing that they exist.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/229">229</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">If the judge or commissioner is thereupon satisfied of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue to qualified officer.</p></sidenote> existence of the grounds of the application or that there is probable cause to believe their existence, he must issue a search warrant, signed by him with his name of office, to a civil officer of the United States duly authorized to enforce or assist in enforcing any law thereof, or to a person so duly authorized by the President of the United States, stating the particular grounds or probable cause for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of grounds.</p></sidenote> its issue and the names of the persons whose affidavits have been taken in support thereof, and commanding him forthwith to search the person or place named, for the property specified, and to bring it before the judge or commissioner.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">A search warrant may in all cases be served by any of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service restricted to designated officer.</p></sidenote> officers mentioned in its direction, but by no other person, except in aid of the officer on his requiring it, he being present and acting in its execution.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">The officer may break open any outer or inner door or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forcing entrance to execute.</p></sidenote> window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">He may break open any outer or inner door or window of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of force to liberate server, etc.</p></sidenote> a house for the purpose of liberating a person who, having entered to aid him in the execution of the warrant, is detained therein, or when necessary for his own liberation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">The judge or commissioner must insert a direction in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of service restricted.</p></sidenote> warrant that it be served in the daytime, unless the affidavits are positive that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched, in which case he may insert a direction that it be served at any time of the day or night.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">A search warrant must be executed and returned to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for execution and return.</p></sidenote> judge or commissioner who issued it within ten days after its date; after the expiration of this time the warrant, unless executed, is void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">When the officer takes property under the warrant, he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipt for property taken.</p></sidenote> must give a copy of the warrant together with a receipt for the property taken (specifying it in detail) to the person from whom it was taken by him, or in whose possession it was found; or, in the absence of any person, he must leave it in the place where he found the property.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">The officer must forthwith return the warrant to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of warrant and delivery of property to judge, etc.</p></sidenote> judge or commissioner and deliver to him a written inventory of the property taken, made publicly or in the presence of the person from whose possession it was taken, and of the applicant for the warrant, if they are present, verified by the affidavit of the officer at the foot of the inventory and taken before the judge or commissioner at the time, to the following effect: “I, R. S., the officer by whom this warrant was executed, do swear that the above inventory contains a true and detailed account of all the property taken by me on the warrant.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content class="inline">The judge or commissioner must thereupon, if required,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copies of inventory.</p></sidenote> deliver a copy of the inventory to the person from whose possession the property was taken and to the applicant for the warrant.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">If the grounds on which the warrant was issued be controverted,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings if issue controverted.</p></sidenote> the judge or commissioner must proceed to take testimony in relation thereto, and the testimony of each witness must be reduced to writing and subscribed by each witness.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content class="inline">If it appears that the property or paper taken is not the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration if erroneously taken.</p></sidenote> same as that described in the warrant or that there is no probable cause for believing the existence of the grounds on which the warrant was issued, the judge or commissioner must cause it to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retention, etc., if probable cause shown.</p></sidenote> restored to the person from whom it was taken; but if it appears that the property or paper taken is the same as that described in<page identifier="/us/stat/40/230">230</page> the warrant and that there is probable cause for believing the existence of the grounds on which the warrant was issued, then the judge or commissioner shall order the same retained in the custody of the person seizing it or to be otherwise disposed of according to law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final disposition.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The judge or commissioner must annex the affidavits, search warrant, return, inventory, and evidence, and if he has not power to inquire into the offense in respect to which the warrant was issued he must at once file the same, together with a copy of the record of his proceedings, with the clerk of the court having power to so inquire.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for obstructing, etc., service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall knowingly and willfully obstruct, resist, or oppose any such officer or person in serving or attempting to serve or execute any such search warrant, or shall assault, beat, or wound any such officer or person, knowing him to be an officer or person so authorized, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for perjury</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1111.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Sections one hundred and twenty-five and one hundred and twenty-six of the Criminal Code of the United States shall apply to and embrace all persons making oath or affirmation or procuring the same under the provisions of this title, and such persons shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of said sections.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for maliciously procuring warrant.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">A person who maliciously and without probable cause procures a search warrant to be issued and executed shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for exceeding authority, etc., in executing.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">An officer who in executing a search warrant willfully exceeds his authority, or exercises it with unnecessary severity, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for illegally possessing papers, etc., in aid of foreign Government.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever, in aid of any foreign Government, shall knowingly and willfully have possession of or control over any property or papers designed or intended for use or which is used as the means of violating any penal statute, or any of the rights or obligations of the United States under any treaty or the law of nations, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing laws not impaired.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Nothing contained in this title shall be held to repeal or impair any existing provisions of law regulating search and the issue of search warrants.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XII"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title XII.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of mails.</p></sidenote>use of mails.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matter violating provisions of this Act nonmailable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 426.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Every letter, writing, circular, postal card, picture, print, engraving, photograph, newspaper, pamphlet, book, or other publication, matter, or thing, of any kind, in violation of any of the provisions of this Act is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to open letters restricted.</p></sidenote> by any letter carrier: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to authorize any person other than an employe of the Dead Letter Office, duly authorized thereto, or other person upon a search warrant authorized by law, to open any letter not addressed to himself.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters, etc., advocating treason, resistance to law, etc., nonmailable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Every letter, writing, circular, postal card, picture, print, engraving, photograph, newspaper, pamphlet, book, or other publication, matter or thing, of any kind, containing any matter advocating or urging treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, is hereby declared to be nonmailable.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whoever shall use or attempt to use the mails or Postal Service of the United States for the transmission of any matter de<page identifier="/us/stat/40/231">231</page> clared by this title to be nonmailable, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Any person<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Venue of actions.</p></sidenote> violating any provision of this title may be tried and punished either in the district m which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed, or to which it was carried by mail for delivery according to the direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 554.</p></sidenote> person to whom it was addressed.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XIII"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Title XIII.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">general provisions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General provisions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<content class="inline">The term “United States” as used in this Act includes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“United States.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Territory included in term.</p></sidenote> the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">The several courts of first instance in the Philippine Islands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands and Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of courts in.</p></sidenote> and the district court of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this Act committed within their respective districts, and concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of the United States of offenses under this Act committed upon the high seas, and of conspiracies to commit such offenses, as denned by section thirty-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conspiracies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1096.</p></sidenote> of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the provisions of said section, for the purpose of this Act, are hereby extended to the Philippine Islands, and to the Canal Zone. In such cases the district attorneys of the Philippine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of district attorneys.</p></sidenote> Islands and of the Canal Zone shall have the powers and perform the duties provided in this Act for United States attorneys.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">Offenses committed and penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior offenses, etc., subject to former laws.</p></sidenote> incurred prior to the taking effect hereof under any law embraced in or changed, modified, or repealed by any chapter of this Act may be prosecuted and punished, and suits and proceedings for causes arising or acts done or committed prior to the taking effect hereof may be commenced and prosecuted, in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, June 15, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 31: Relating to the service of certain retired officers of the Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>31</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 231</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-15</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>31.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to the service of certain retired officers of the Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-15">June 15, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/70">S. J. Res. 70</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/6">Pub. Res., No. 6</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That when retired officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility of retired officers for active Engineer service.</p></sidenote> the Army, any portion of whose active service was in the Corps of Engineers, are called back into active service they shall be eligible to fill any position required by law to be filled by an officer of the Corps of Engineers.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 15, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 32: To amend the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, known as the Federal reserve Act, as amended by the Acts of August fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>32</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 232</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-21</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/232">232</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>32.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the Act approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, known as the Federal reserve Act, as amended by the Acts of August fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-21">June 21, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3673">H. R. 3673</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/25">Public, No. 25</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un ited States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Reserve Act Amendments.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section three of the Act known as the Federal reserve Act be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Branches of reserve banks authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 253, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Management, etc., modified.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The Federal Reserve Board may permit or require any Federal reserve bank to establish branch banks within the Federal reserve district in which it is located or within the district of any Federal reserve bank which may have been suspended. Such branches, subject to such rules and regulations as the Federal Reserve Board may prescribe, shall be operated under the supervision of a board of directors to consist of not more than seven nor less than three directors, of whom a majority of one shall be appointed by the Federal reserve bank of the district, and the remaining directors by the Federal Reserve Board. Directors of branch banks shall hold office during the pleasure of the Federal Reserve Board.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors of reserve banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 255, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section four in the paragraph relating to the appointment of class C directors and prescribing their duties be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class C directors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One to be chairman of board and reserve agent.</p></sidenote>“Class C directors shall be appointed by the Federal Reserve Board. They shall have been for at least two years residents of the district for which they are appointed, one of whom shall be designated by said board as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank and as ‘Federal reserve agent.’ He shall be a person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote>of tested banking experience, and in addition to his duties as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank he shall be required to maintain, under regulations to be established by the Federal Reserve Board, a local office of said board on the premises of the Federal reserve bank. He shall make regular reports to the Federal Reserve Board and shall act as its official representative for the performance of the functions conferred upon it by this Act. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>He shall receive an annual compensation to be fixed by the Federal Reserve Board and paid monthly by the Federal reserve bank to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy chairman.</p></sidenote>which he is designated. One of the directors of class C shall be appointed by the Federal Reserve Board as deputy chairman to exercise the powers of the chairman of the board when necessary. In case of the absence of the chairman and deputy chairman, the third class C director shall preside at meetings of the board.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant agents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties, etc.</p></sidenote>“Subject to the approval of the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal reserve agent shall appoint one or more assistants. Such assistants, who shall be persons of tested banking experience, shall assist the Federal reserve agent in the performance of his duties and shall also have power to act in his name and stead during his absence or disability. The Federal Reserve Board shall require such bonds of the assistant Federal reserve agents as it may deem necessary for the protection of the United States. Assistants to the Federal reserve agent shall receive an annual compensation, to be fixed and paid in the same manner as that of the Federal reserve agent.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, etc., banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 259, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications of, to become member banks.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section nine be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Any bank incorporated by special law of any State, or organized under the general laws of any State or of the United States, desiring to become a member of the Federal Reserve System, may make application to the Federal Reserve Board, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, for the right to subscribe to the stock of the Federal reserve bank organized within the district <page identifier="/us/stat/40/233">233</page>in which the applying bank is located. Such application shall be for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stock subscriptions.</p></sidenote>the same amount of stock that the applying bank would be required to subscribo to as a national bank. The Federal Reserve Board, subject to such conditions as it may prescribe, may permit the applying bank to become a stockholder of such Federal reserve bank.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“In acting upon such applications the Federal Reserve Board <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptability consid ered.</p></sidenote>shall consider the financial condition of the applying bank, the general character of its management, and whether or not the corporate powers exercised are consistent with the purposes of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Whenever the Federal Reserve Board shall permit the applying <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of stock to, if admitted.</p></sidenote>bank to become a stockholder in the Federal reserve bank of the district its stock subscription shall be payable on call of the Federal Reserve Board, and stock issued to it shall be held subject to the provisions of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“All banks admitted to membership under authority of this section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions to be complied with.</p></sidenote>shall be required to comply with the reserve and capital requirements of this Act and to conform to those provisions of law imposed on national banks which prohibit such banks from lending on or purchasing their own stock, which relate to the withdrawal or impairment of their capital stock, and which relate to the payment of unearned dividends. Such banks and the officers, agents, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5209/p1007">R. S., sec. 5209, p. 1007</ref>.</p></sidenote>and employees thereof shall also be subject to the provisions of and to the penalties prescribed by section fifty-two hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes, and shall be required to make reports of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports to be made.</p></sidenote>condition and of the payment of dividends to the Federal reserve bank of which they become a member. Not less than three of such reports shall be made annually on call of the Federal reserve bank on dates to be fixed by the Federal Reserve Board. Failure to make <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure.</p></sidenote>such reports within ten days after the date they are called for shall subject the offending bank to a penalty of $100 a day for each day that it fails to transmit such report; such penalty to be collected by the Federal reserve bank by suit or otherwise.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“As a condition of membership such banks shall likewise be subject <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations.</p></sidenote>to examinations made by direction of the Federal Reserve Board or of the Federal reserve bank by examiners selected or approved by the Federal Reserve Board.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Whenever the directors of the Federal reserve bank shall approve <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of State examinations.</p></sidenote>the examinations made by the State authorities, such examinations and the reports thereof may be accepted in lieu of examinations made by examiners selected or approved by the Federal Reserve Board: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That when it deems it necessary the board may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special examinations.</p></sidenote>order special examinations by examiners of its own selection and shall in all cases approve the form of the report. The expenses of all examinations, other than those made by State authorities, shall be assessed against and paid by the banks examined.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If at any time it shall appear to the Federal Reserve Board that <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, etc., forfeited on noncompliance with Jaw, etc.</p></sidenote>a member bank has failed to comply with the provisions of this section or the regulations of the Federal Reserve Board made pursuant thereto, it shall be within the power of the board after hearing to require such bank to surrender its stock in the Federal reserve bank and to forfeit all rights and privileges of membership. The <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration.</p></sidenote>Federal Reserve Board may restore membership upon due proof of compliance with the conditions imposed by this section.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any State bank or trust company desiring to withdraw from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal from membership.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice, etc.</p></sidenote>membership in a Federal reserve bank may do so, after six months ’ written notice shall have been filed with the Federal Reserve Board, upon the surrender and cancellation of all of its holdings of capital stock in the Federal reserve bank: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on voluntary withdrawals.</p></sidenote>reserve bank shall, except under express authority of the Federal Reserve Board, cancel within the same calendar year more than <page identifier="/us/stat/40/234">234</page>twenty-five per centum of its capital stock for the purpose of effecting voluntary withdrawals during that year. All such applications shall be dealt with in the order in which they are filed with the board. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of subscription on surrender of stock, etc.</p></sidenote>Whenever a member bank shall surrender its stock holdings in a Federal reserve bank, or shall be ordered to do so by the Federal Reserve Board, under authority of law, all of its rights and privileges as a member bank shall thereupon cease and determine, and after due provision has been made for any indebtedness due or to become due to the Federal reserve bank it shall be entitled to a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote>refund of its cash paid subscription with interest at the rate of one-half of one per centum per month from date of last dividend, if earned, the amount refunded in no event to exceed the book value of the stock at that time, and shall likewise be entitled to repayment of deposits and of any other balance due from the Federal reserve bank.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital required.</p></sidenote>“No applying bank shall be admitted to membership in a Federal reserve bank unless it possesses a paid-up, unimpaired capital sufficient to entitle it to become a national banking association in the place where it is situated under the provisions of the national-bank Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional require ments.</p></sidenote>“Banks becoming members of the Federal Reserve System under authority of this section shall be subject to the provisions of this section and to those of this Act which relate specifically to member <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations excepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5240/p1013">R. S., sec. 5240, p. 1013</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 271.</p></sidenote>banks, but shall not be subject to examination under the provisions of the first two paragraphs of section fifty-two hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes as amended by section twenty-one of this Act. Subject to the provisions of this Act and to the regulations of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charter rights retained.</p></sidenote>board made pursuant thereto, any bank becoming a member of the Federal Reserve Systemi shall retain its full charter and statutory rights as a State bank or trust company, and may continue to exercise all corporate powers granted it by the State in which it was created, and shall be entitled to aU privileges of member banks: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discounts for State banks, etc., by reserve banks limited.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no Federal reserve bank shall be permitted to discount for any State bank or trust company notes, drafts, or bills of exchange of any one borrower who is hable for borrowed money to such State bank or trust company in an amount greater than ten per centum of the capital and surplus of such State bank or trust company, but the discount of bills of exchange drawn against actually existing value and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same shall not be considered as borrowed money within the meaning of this section. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guaranties required.</p></sidenote>The Federal reserve bank, as a condition of the discount of notes, drafts, and bills of exchange for such State bank or trust company, shall require a certificate or guaranty to the effect that the borrower is not liable to such bank in excess of the amount provided by this section, and will not be permitted to become fiable in excess of this amount while such notes, drafts, or bills of exchange are under discount with the Federal reserve bank.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certifying checks, unless equated by deposits, unlawful.</p></sidenote>“It shall be unlawful for any officer, clerk, or agent of any bank admitted to membership under authority of this section to certify any check drawn upon such bank unless the person or company drawing the check has on deposit therewith at the time such check is certified an amount of money equal to the amount specified in such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of issuing bank.</p></sidenote>check. Any check so certified by duly authorized officers shall be a good and valid obligation against such bank, but the act of any such officer, clerk, or agent in violation of this section may subject such bank to a forfeiture of its membership in the Federal Reserve System upon hearing by the Federal Reserve Board.”</p>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 752, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the first paragraph of section thirteen be further amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any Federal reserve bank may receive from any of its member <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits allowed in.</p></sidenote>banks, and from the United States, deposits of current funds in lawful money, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, or checks, and drafts, payable upon presentation, and also, for collection, maturing notes and bills; or, solely for purposes of exchange or of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From other reserve banks solely, for collection, etc.</p></sidenote>collection, may receive from other Federal reserve banks deposits of current funds in lawful money, national-bank notes, or checks upon other Federal reserve banks, and checks and drafts, payable upon presentation within its district, and maturing notes and bills payable within its district; or, solely for the purposes of exchange <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From nonmember banks.</p></sidenote>or of collection, may receive from any nonmember bank or trust company deposits of current funds in lawful money, national-bank notes, Federal reserve notes, checks and drafts payable upon presentation, or maturing notes and bills: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Such nonmember <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances from nonmember banks.</p></sidenote>bank or trust company maintains with the Federal reserve bank of its district a balance sufficient to offset the items in transit held for its account by the Federal reserve bank:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection charges not prohibited.</p></sidenote>nothing in this or any other section of this Act shall be construed as prohibiting a member or nonmember bank from making reasonable charges, to be determined and regulated by the Federal Reserve Board, but in no case to exceed 10 cents per $100 or fraction thereof, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation, etc.</p></sidenote>based on the total of checks and drafts presented at any one time, for collection or payment of checks and drafts and remission therefor by exchange or otherwise ; but no such charges shall be made against the Federal reserve banks.”</proviso></p>
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<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That the fifth paragraph of section thirteen be further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 752, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign trade paper.</p></sidenote>amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any member bank may accept drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it having not more than six months sight to run, exclusive of days of grace, which grow out of transactions involving the importation or exportation of goods; or which grow out of transactions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Covering domestic shipments.</p></sidenote>involving the domestic shipment of goods provided shipping documents conveying or securing title are attached at the time of acceptance; or which are secured at the time of acceptance by a warehouse <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secured by warehouse receipts.</p></sidenote>receipt or other such document conveying or securing title covering readily marketable staples. No member bank shall accept, whether <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit to one person.</p></sidenote>in a foreign or domestic transaction, for any one person, company, firm, or corporation to an amount equal at any time in the aggregate to more than ten per centum of its paid-up and unimpaired capital stock and surplus, unless the bank is secured either by attached documents or by some other actual security growing out of the same transaction as the acceptance; and no bank shall accept such bills to an amount equal at any time in the aggregate to more than one-half of its paid-up and unimpaired capital stock and surplus: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further increase, if authorized by Board.</p></sidenote>That the Federal Reserve Board, under such general regulations as it may prescribe, which shall apply to all banks alike regardless of the amount of capital stock and surplus, may authorize any member bank to accept such bills to an amount not exceeding at any time in the aggregate one hundred per centum of its paid-up and unimpaired capital stock and surplus:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic transactions limited.</p></sidenote>the aggregate of acceptances growing out of domestic transactions shall in no event exceed fifty per centum of such capital stock and surplus.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open-market operations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 754, amended.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
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<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content>That section fourteen, subsection (e), be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
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<content>To establish accounts with other Federal reserve banks for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for exchange, and agencies abroad, allowed.</p></sidenote>exchange purposes and, with the consent or upon the order and direction of the Federal Reserve Board and under regulations to be prescribed by said board, to open and maintain accounts in foreign countries, appoint correspondents, and establish agencies in such <page identifier="/us/stat/40/236">236</page>countries wheresoever it may be deemed best for the purpose of purchasing, selling, and collecting bills of exchange, and to buy and sell, with or without its indorsement, through such correspondents or agencies, bills of exchange (or acceptances) arising out of actual commercial transactions which have not more than ninety days to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for foreign correspondants.</p></sidenote>run, exclusive of days of grace, and which bear the signature of two or more responsible parties, and, with the consent of the Federal Reserve Board, to open and maintain banking accounts for such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transactions permitted for other reserve banks.</p></sidenote>foreign correspondents or agencies. Whenever any such account has been opened or agency or correspondent has been appointed by a Federal reserve bank, with the consent of or under the order and direction of the Federal Reserve Board, any other Federal reserve bank may, with the consent and approval of the Federal Reserve Board, be permitted to carry on or conduct, through the Federal reserve bank opening such account or appointing such agency or correspondent, any transaction authorized by this section under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the board.”</content>
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<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal reserve notes.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section sixteen, paragraphs two, three, four, five, six, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications for, by reserve banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 265.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 754, amended.</p></sidenote>and seven, be further amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any Federal reserve bank may make application to the local Federal reserve agent for such amount of the Federal reserve notes hereinbefore provided for as it may require. Such application shall be accompanied with a tender to the local Federal reserve agent of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collateral for.</p></sidenote>collateral in amount equal to the sum of the Federal reserve notes thus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of paper extended.</p></sidenote>applied for and issued pursuant to such application. The collateral security thus offered small be notes, drafts, bills of exchange, or acceptances acquired under the provisions of section thirteen of this Act, or bills of exchange indorsed by a member bank of any Federal reserve district and purchased under the provisions of section fourteen of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 235.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 264.</p></sidenote>this Act, or bankers’ acceptances purchased under the provisions of said section fourteen, or gold or gold certificates; but m no event shall such collateral security, whether gold, gold <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Daily notices of issues and withdrawals.</p></sidenote>certificates, or eligible paper, be less than the amount of Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional security.</p></sidenote>reserve notes applied for. The Federal reserve agent shall each day notify the Federal Reserve Board of all issues and withdrawals of Federal reserve notes to and by the Federal reserve bank to which he is accredited. The said Federal Reserve Board may at any time call upon a Federal reserve bank for additional security to protect the Federal reserve notes issued to it.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserves for deposits and circulation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 266, amended.</p></sidenote>“Every Federal reserve bank shall maintain reserves in gold or lawful money of not less than thirty-five per centum against its deposits and reserves in gold of not less than forty per centum against <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gold collateral with reserve agents included in.</p></sidenote>its Federal reserve notes in actual circulation: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That when the Federal reserve agent holds gold or gold certificates as collateral for Federal reserve notes issued to the bank such gold or gold certificates shall be counted as part of the gold reserve which such bank is required to maintain against its Federal reserve notes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of notes.</p></sidenote>in actual circulation. Notes so paid out shall bear upon their faces a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Received by another to be returned to issuing bank or the Treasurer.</p></sidenote>distinctive letter and serial number which shall be assigned by the Federal Reserve Board to each Federal reserve bank. Whenever Federal reserve notes issued through one Federal reserve bank shall be received by another Federal reserve bank, they shall be promptly returned for credit or redemption to the Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for other use.</p></sidenote>reserve bank through which they were originally issued or, upon direction of such Federal reserve bank, they shall be forwarded direct to the Treasurer of the United States to be retired. No Federal reserve bank shall pay out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption at the Treasury.</p></sidenote>notes issued through another under penalty of a tax of ten per centum upon the face value of notes so paid out. Notes presented for redemption at the Treasury of the United States shall be paid out of the redemption fund and returned to the Federal reserve banks <page identifier="/us/stat/40/237">237</page>through which they were originally issued, and thereupon such Fed eral reserve bank shall, upon demand of the Secretary of the Treasury, reimburse such redemption fund in lawful money or, if such Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement by issuing bank.</p></sidenote>reserve notes have been redeemed by the Treasurer in gold or gold certificates, then such funds shall be reimbursed to the extent deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury in gold or gold certificates, and such Federal reserve bank shall, so long as any of its Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gold reserve to be kept.</p></sidenote>reserve notes remain outstanding, maintain with the Treasurer in gold an amount sufficient in the judgment of the Secretary to provide for all redemptions to be made by the Treasurer. Federal reserve notes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange, etc., it not redeemed.</p></sidenote>received by the Treasurer otherwise than for redemption may be exchanged for gold out of the redemption fund hereinafter provided and returned to the reserve bank through which they were originally issued, or they may be returned to such bank for the credit of the United States. Federal reserve notes unfit for circulation shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destruction of unfit notes.</p></sidenote>returned by the Federal reserve agents to the Comptroller of the Currency for cancellation and destraction.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Federal Reserve Board shall require each Federal reserve bank <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gold redemption fund in the Treasury.</p></sidenote>to maintain on deposit in the Treasury of the United States a sum in gold sufficient in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury for the redemption of the Federal reserve notes issued to such bank, but in no event less than five per centum of the total amount of notes issued less the amount of gold or gold certificates held by the Federal reserve agent as collateral security: but such deposit of gold shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Included in circulation reserve.</p></sidenote>counted and included as part of the forty per centum reserve hereinbefore required. The board shall have the right, acting through the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board to control issue.</p></sidenote>Federal reserve agent, to grant, in whole or in part, or to reject entirely the application of any Federal reserve bank for Federal reserve notes; but to the extent that such application may be granted the Federal Reserve Board shall, through its local Federal reserve agent, supply Federal reserve notes to the banks so applving, and such bank shall be charged with the amount of notes issued to it and shall pay <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest payment limited.</p></sidenote>such rate of interest as may be established by the Federal Reserve Board on only that amount of such notes which equals the total amount of its outstanding Federal reserve notes less the amount of gold or gold certificates held by the Federal reserve agent as collateral security. Federal reserve notes issued to any such bank shall, upon <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien for notes issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 268.</p></sidenote>delivery, together with such notes of such Federal reserve bank as may be issued under section eighteen of this Act upon security of United States two per centum Government bonds, become a first and paramount lien on all the assets of such bank.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any Federal reserve bank may at any time reduce its liability for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of reserve liability.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 267.</p></sidenote>outstanding Federal reserve notes by depositing with the Federal reserve agent its Federal reserve notes, gold, gold certificates, or lawful money of the United States. Federal reserve notes so deposited shall not be reissued, except upon compliance with the conditions of an original issue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Federal reserve agent shall hold such gold, gold certificates, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve agent’s duties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 267, amended.</p></sidenote>lawful money available exclusively for exchange for the outstanding Federal reserve notes when offered by the reserve bank of which he is a director. Upon the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of gold to Treasurer.</p></sidenote>Federal Reserve Board shall require the Federal reserve agent to transmit to the Treasurer of the United States so much of the gold held by him as collateral security for Federal reserve notes as may be required for the exclusive purpose of the redemption of such Federal reserve notes, but such gold when deposited with the Treasurer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Security as collateral retained.</p></sidenote>shall be counted and considered as if collateral security on deposit with the Federal reserve agent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any Federal reserve bank may at its discretion withdraw collateral <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of collateral.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 3 8, p. 2 6 7, amended.</p></sidenote>deposited with the local Federal reserve agent for the protection of its Federal reserve notes issued to it and shall at the same time <page identifier="/us/stat/40/238">238</page>substitute therefor other collateral of equal amount with the approval of the Federal reserve agent under regulations to be prescribed by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit for retirement.</p></sidenote>the Federal Reserve Board. Any Federal reserve bank may retire any of its Federal reserve notes by depositing them with the Federal reserve agent or with the Treasurer of the United States, anil such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of collateral.</p></sidenote>Federal reserve bank shall thereupon be entitled to receive back the collateral deposited with the Federal reserve agent for the security of such notes. Federal reserve banks shall not be required to maintain the reserve or the redemption fund heretofore provided for against <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reissue restricted.</p></sidenote>Federal reserve notes which have been retired. Federal reserve notes so deposited shall not be reissued except upon compliance with the conditions of an original issue.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notes and gold deposits.</p></sidenote>All Federal reserve notes and all gold, gold certificates, and lawful money issued to or deposited with any Federal reserve agent under the provisions of the Federal reserve Act shall hereafter be hold for such agent, under such rules and regulations as the Federal Reserve <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint custody of reserve agent and Board.</p></sidenote>Board may prescribe, in the joint custody of himself and the Federal reserve bank to which he is accredited. Such agent and such Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability.</p></sidenote>reserve bank shall be jointly liable for the safe-keeping of such Federal reserve notes, gold, gold certificates, and lawful money. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to prohibit a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits of gold with Board or Treasurer.</p></sidenote>Federal reserve agent from depositing gold or gold certificates with the Federal Reserve Board, to be held by such board subject to his order, or with the Treasurer of the United States for the purposes authorized by law.</p>
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<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gold deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 268, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed with Treasurer from reserve banks or agents.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section sixteen be further amended by adding at the end of the section the following:
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to receive deposits of gold coin or of gold certificates with the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the United States when tendered by any Federal reserve bank or Federal reserve agent for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts.</p></sidenote>credit to its or his account with the Federal Reserve Board. The Secretary shall prescribe by regulation the form of receipt to be issued by the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer to the Federal reserve bank or Federal reserve agent making the deposit, and a duplicate of such receipt shall be delivered to the Federal Reserve Board by the Treasurer at Washington upon proper advices from any assistant treasurer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments therefor.</p></sidenote>that such deposit has been made. Deposits so made shall be held subject to the orders of the Federal Reserve Board and shall be payable in gold coin or gold certificates on the order of the Federal Reserve Board to any Federal reserve bank or Federal reserve agent at the Treasury or at the Subtreasury of the United States nearest the place of business of such Federal reserve bank or such Federal reserve <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso</p>.<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of shipping.</p></sidenote>agent: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any expense incurred in shipping gold to or from the Treasury or Subtreasuries in order to make such payments, or as a result of making such payments, shall be paid by the Federal Reserve Board and assessed against the Federal reserve banks. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orders for payment.</p></sidenote>The order used by the Federal Reserve Board in making such payments shall be signed by the governor or vice governor, or such other officers or members as the board may by regulation prescribe. The form of such order shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment of expenses.</p></sidenote>“The expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out these provisions, including the cost of the certificates or receipts issued for deposits received, and all expenses incident to the handling of such deposits shall be paid by the Federal Reserve Board and included in its assessments against the several Federal reserve banks.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance as reserves.</p></sidenote>“Gold deposits standing to the credit of any Federal reserve bank with the Federal Reserve Board shall, at the option of said bank, be counted as part of the lawful reserve which it is required to maintain <page identifier="/us/stat/40/239">239</page>against outstanding Federal reserve notes, or as a part of the reserve it is required to maintain against deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Nothing in this section shall be construed as amending section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gold certificate deposits not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 47; Vol. 34, p. 1289; Vol. 36, p. 965.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 225.</p></sidenote>six of the Act of March fourteenth, nineteen hundred, as amended by the Acts of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, and June twelfth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, nor shall the provisions of this section be construed to apply to the deposits made or to the receipts or certificates issued under those Acts.”</p>
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<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That section seventeen be amended and reenacted so as to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 268, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of registered bonds by, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5159/p997">R. S., Sec. 5159, p. 997; amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 124; Vol. 22, p. 164.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol . 38, p. 268, amended.</p></sidenote>read as follows:
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<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content>So much of the provisions of section fifty-one hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and section four of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and section eight of the Act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and of any other provisions of existing statutes as require that before any national banking association shall be authorized to commence banking business it shall transfer and deliver to the Treasurer of the United States a stated amount of United States registered bonds, and so much of those provisions or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of, not required.</p></sidenote>of any other provisions of existing statutes as require any national banking association now or hereafter organized to maintain a minimum deposit of such bonds with the Treasurer is hereby repealed.”</content>
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<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That section nineteen be further amended and reenacted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserves for deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 270, 691, amended.</p></sidenote>so as to read as follows:
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<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
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<p class="inline">Demand deposits within the meaning of this Act shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Demand and time deposits construed.</p></sidenote>comprise all deposits payable within thirty days, and time deposits shall comprise all deposits payable after thirty days, all savings accounts and certificates of deposit which are subject to not less than thirty days’ notice before payment, and all postal savings <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal savings added.</p></sidenote>deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Every bank, banking association, or trust company which is or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances to be kept by member in reserve bank.</p></sidenote>which becomes a member of any Federal reserve bank shall establish and maintain reserve balances with its Federal reserve bank as follows:</p>
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<num value="a">“(a) </num>
<content>If not in a reserve or central reserve city, as now or hereafter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If not in reserve or central reserve city.</p></sidenote>defined, it shall hold and maintain with the Federal reserve bank of its district an actual net balance equal to not less than seven per centum of the aggregate amount of its demand deposits and three per centum of its time deposits.</content>
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<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<content>If in a reserve city, as now or hereafter defined, it shall hold <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In reserve city.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 970.</p></sidenote>and maintain with the Federal reserve bank of its district an actual net balance equal to not less than ten per centum of the aggregate amount of its demand deposits and three per centum of its time deposits.</content>
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<num value="c">“(c) </num>
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<p class="inline">If in a central reserve city, as now or hereafter defined, it <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In central reserve city.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 970.</p></sidenote>shall hold and maintain with the Federal reserve bank of its district an actual net balance equal to not less than thirteen per centum of the aggregate amount of its demand deposits and three per centum of its time deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“No member bank shall keep on deposit with any State bank or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount allowed in nonmember banks, etc.</p></sidenote>trust company which is not a member bank a sum in excess of ten per centum of its own paid-up capital and surplus. No member <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discounts for non member banks restricted.</p></sidenote>bank shall act as the medium or agent of a nonmember bank in applying for or receiving discounts from a Federal reserve bank under the provisions of this Act, except by permission of the Federal Reserve Board.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The required balance carried by a member bank with a Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance in reserve bank.</p></sidenote>reserve bank may, under the regulations and subject to such penalties as may be prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board, be checked against and withdrawn by such member bank for the purpose of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/240">240</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New loans, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote>meeting existing liabilities: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no bank shall at any time make now loans or shall pay any dividends unless and until the total balance required by law is fully restored.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of reserve balances.</p></sidenote>“In estimating the balances required by this Act, the net difference of amounts due to and from other banks shall be taken as the basis for ascertaining the deposits against which required balances with Federal reserve banks snail be determined.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska, insular, etc., banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status permitted.</p></sidenote>“National banks, or banks organized under local laws, located in Alaska or in a dependency or insular possession or any part of the United States outside the continental United States may remain nonmember banks, and shall in that event maintain reserves and comply with all the conditions now provided by law regulating them; or said banks may, with the consent of the Reserve Board, become member banks of any one of the reserve districts, and shall in that event take stock, maintain reserves, and be subject to all the other provisions of this Act”</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on receiving fees, etc., by member bank officials.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 272, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That that part of section twenty-two which reads as follows: “Other than the usual salary or director’s fees paid to any officer, director, or employee of a member bank and other than a reasonable fee paid by said bank to such officer, director, or employee for service rendered to such bank, no officer, director, employee, or attorney of a member bank shall be a beneficiary of or receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, commission, gift, or other consideration for or in connection with any transaction or business of the bank. ” be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receiving fees, etc., by officials restricted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys added.</p></sidenote>“Other than the usual salary or director’s fee paid to any officer, director, employee, or attorney of a member bank, and other than a reasonable fee paid by said bank to such officer, director, employee, or attorney for services rendered to such bank, no officer, director, employee, or attorney of a member bank shall be a beneficiary of or receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, commission, gift, or other consideration for or in connection with any transaction or business <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on deposits not prohibited.</p></sidenote>of the bank: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prohibit a director, officer, employee, or attorney from receiving the same rate of interest paid to other depositors for similar deposits made with such bank:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discounts allowed.</p></sidenote>That notes, drafts, bills of exchange, or other evidences of debt executed or indorsed by directors or attorneys of a member bank may be discounted with such member bank on the same terms and conditions as other notes, drafts, bills of exchange, or evidences of debt <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>upon the affirmative vote or written assent of at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such member bank.”</proviso></p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, June 21, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 33: To correct an error in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>33</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-21</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>33.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To correct an error in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-21">June 21, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/105">H. J. Res. 105</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/7">Pub. Res. No. 7</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sundry civil appropriation Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 177, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That that portion of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” which reads: “For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for salary of governor of Panama Canal, corrected.</p></sidenote>governor, $100,000,” is amended to read as follows: “For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the governor, $10,000;”.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 21, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 34: Extending the time within which the “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River” shall remain in effect.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>34</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-06-30</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/241">241</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>34.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time within which the “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River” shall remain in effect.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-06-30">June 30, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/13">S. J. Res. 13</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/8">Pub. Res. No. 8</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That public resolution numbered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Niagara River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional diversion of water from, above the Falls, continued for one year.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 867.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 633.</p></sidenote>forty-five of the Sixty-fourth Congress, approved January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River,” is continued in full force and effect, and under the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations, until July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of water diversion, etc.</p></sidenote>to make a comprehensive and thorough investigation, including all necessary surveys and maps, of the entire subject of water diversion from the Great Lakes and the Niagara River, including navigation, sanitary and power purposes, and the preservation of the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls and the rapids of Niagara River, and to report to Congress thereon at the earliest practicable date. To carry <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>out the provisions of this proviso, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 30, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 35: To authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>35</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>35.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-02">July 2, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2453">S. 2453</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/26">Public, No. 26</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That hereafter the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands for military purposes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceedings authorized to acquire.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 518, 888.</p></sidenote>of War may cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States, in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings for the acquirement by condemnation of any land, temporary use thereof or other interest therein, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, Or prosecution of works for fortifications, coast defenses, and military training camps, such proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when the owner of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases without suit.</p></sidenote>such land, interest or rights pertaining thereto shall fix a price for the same, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, shall be reasonable, he may purchase or enter into a contract for the use of the same at such price without further delay:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalf <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donations allowed.</p></sidenote>of the United States donations of land and the interest and rights pertaining thereto required for the above-mentioned purposes:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That when such property is acquired in time of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate use in time of war before title vested.</p></sidenote>war or the imminence thereof upon the filing of the petition for the condemnation of any land, temporary use thereof or other interest therein or right pertaining thereto to be acquired for any of the purposes aforesaid, immediate possession thereof may be taken to the extent of the interest to be acquired and the lands may be occupied and used for military purposes, and the provision of section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote>three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing that no public money shall be expended upon such land until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land is located has been given, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended during the period of the existing emergency.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 2, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 36: Providing for the modification of the designs of the current quarter dollar.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>36</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/242">242</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>36.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the modification of the designs of the current quarter dollar.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-09">July 9, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3548">H. R. 3548</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/27">Public, No. 27</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarter dollar.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modification of design of current, permitted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That for the purpose of increasing the artistic merit of the current quarter dollar, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to make slight modifications in the details of the designs in accordance with sketches submitted by the sculptor whose models were accepted under date of May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and now being used in the execution of the coins.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote>No changes shall be made in the emblems or devices used. The modifications shall consist of the changing of the position of the eagle, the rearrangement of the stars and lettering, and a slight concavity given to the surface. Such changes shall be made and completed on or before July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 9, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 37: To fix the status and rights of officers of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, the Army, or the Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>37</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>37.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To fix the status and rights of officers of the Public Health Service when serving with the Coast Guard, the Army, or the Navy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-09">July 9, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/67">S. J. Res. 67</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/9">Pub. Res., No. 9</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status of officers of, when serving with Coast Guard, Army, or Navy.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That when officers of the United States Public Health Service are serving on Coast Guard vessels in time of war, or are detailed in time of war for duty with the Army or Navy in accordance with law, they shall be entitled to pensions for themselves and widows and children, if any, as are now provided for officers of corresponding grade and length of service of the Coast Guard, Army or Navy, as the case may be, and shall be subject to the laws prescribed for the government of the service to which they are respectively detailed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 9, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 38: Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>38</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>38.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for certain session employees of the Senate and House of Representatives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-17">July 17, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5405">H. R. 5405</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/28">Public, No. 28</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for session employees of Congress.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the following sums are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:</content></section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote>senate.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, so much as may be necessary.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote>house of representatives.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>For the following employees, from and including July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until the close of the first session of the Sixty-fifth Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post office messengers.</p></sidenote>entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; nine messengers in the post office at the rate of $100 per month each; so much as may be necessary.</content>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 17, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 39: To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>39</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/243">243</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>39.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-17">July 17, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/33">S. J. Res. 33</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/10">Pub. Res., No. 10</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the provisions of section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine assessment work not required of claimants in service during present war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s2324/p426">R. S., sec. 2324, p. 426</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 343, 448.</p></sidenote>twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which require that on each mining claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, shall not apply to claims or parts of claims owned by officers or enlisted men who have been or may, during the present war with Germany, be mustered into the military or naval service of the United States to serve during their enlistment in the war with Germany, so that no mining claim or any part thereof owned by such person which has been regularly located and recorded shall be subject to forfeiture for nonperformance of the annual assessments during the period of his service or until six months after such owner is mustered out of the service or until six months after his death in the service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of muster, etc., to be Hied.</p></sidenote>That the claimant of any mining location, in order to obtain the benefits of this resolution, shall file, or cause to be filed, a notice in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, before the expiration of the assessment year during which he is so mustered, giving notice of his muster into the service of the United States and of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 17, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 40: To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, manufacture, maintain, repair, and operate airships, and to make appropriations therefor, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>40</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>40.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, manufacture, maintain, repair, and operate airships, and to make appropriations therefor, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-24">July 24, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5326">H. R. 5326</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/29">Public, No. 29</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That for and during the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps and Aviation Section increased temporarily.</p></sidenote>existing emergency, the President be, and is hereby, authorized to increase the present authorized commissioned and enlisted strength of the Signal Corps of the Army, including the Aviation Section thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That to provide the additional commissioned personnel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional commissioned personnel authorized.</p></sidenote>required by this Act the President is authorized to promote, appoint, detail, or attach as temporary officers in the Signal Corps, including the Aviation Section thereof, officers of the Regular Army, National Army, or National Guard, or the Officers’ Reserve Corps, or to appoint temporarily enlisted mon of the Regular Army, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, or persons from civil life: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos</p>.<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualifications.</p></sidenote>That no person shall be so promoted, appointed, detailed, or attached until he shall have been found physically, mentally, and morally qualified under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That officers with rank not above colonel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments by President alone.</p></sidenote>shall be appointed and commissioned by the President alone, irrespective of the rank or grade held by them on the date of the passage <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By President and Senate.</p></sidenote>of this Act, and that officers above the grade of colonel shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, irrespective of the rank or grade held by them on the date of the passage of this Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That to provide the additional enlisted men required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional enlisted men by enlistment or draft.</p></sidenote>by this Act, the President is authorized to raise and maintain, by voluntary enlistment or by draft, such number of enlisted men as he may deem necessary and to embody them into organizations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p></sidenote>hereinafter provided for in section four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the draft <page identifier="/us/stat/40/244">244</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limit for drafted men.</p></sidenote>herein provided for shall not apply to any person under the age of twenty-one years or to any person above the age of thirty-one <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chauffeur grades created.</p></sidenote>years:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the grades of chauffeur, first class, and chauffeur are hereby created in the Signal Corps. The pay and allowances of a chauffeur, first class, shall be the same as a sergeant, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, rank, etc.</p></sidenote>first class, in the Signal Corps. Pay and allowances of a chauffeur shall be the same as a sergeant in the Signal Corps. All chauffeurs while serving as such shall rank with corporals of the Signal Corps and shall be subject to promotion and reduction to any other grade now authorized in the Signal Corps.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tactical units to be organized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the President is hereby authorized to appropriately officer and organize the personnel of the Signal Corps into such number of divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as may be necessary, and to increase or decrease the number of organizations prescribed for the divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights, and to prescribe such new and different organizations and personnel for divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as the efficiency of the service may require.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters and headquarters detachments for units.</p></sidenote>The President is further authorized to organize such headquarters and headquarters detachments for divisions, brigades, regiments, wings, squadrons, battalions, companies, and flights as may be necessary, and to prescribe new and different organizations for such headquarters and headquarters detachments whenever the efficiency of the service may require.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General officers to ho appointed for stall and other duty.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized to appoint for the period of the existing emergency such general officers of appropriate grades as may be necessary for staff duty and for duty with such brigades and divisions of the troops of the Signal Corps, including the Aviation Section thereof, as may be organized by the President.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary appointments to fill created vacancies.</p></sidenote>Vacancies in all grades of the Regular Army, National Army, or National Guard resulting from the temporary appointment of officers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 81, 82.</p></sidenote>thereof to higher grades shall be filled or vacated as provided for in sections eight and nine of the Act authorizing the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States and approved May eighteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviators and aeronauts rated.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That officers detailed in or attached to the aviation section of the Signal Corps may, when qualified therefor, be rated as junior military aviators, military aviators, junior military aeronauts, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of qualification.</p></sidenote>military aeronauts, but no person shall be so rated until there shall have been issued to him a certificate to the effect that he is qualified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations.</p></sidenote>for the rating, and no certificate shall be issued to any person until an examining board, which shall be composed of two officers of experience of the aviation section of the Signal Corps and one medical officer, shall have examined him under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War and published to the Army by the War Department, and shall have reported him to be qualified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service requirements for ratings.</p></sidenote>for the rating. No person shall receive the rating of military aviator or military aeronaut until he shall have served creditably for three years as an aviation officer with the rating of a junior military aviator <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions in time of war.</p></sidenote>or the rating of a junior military aeronaut, except that in time of war any officer or enlisted man who specially distinguishes himself in active service may, upon recommendation of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, be rated as a junior military aviator, military aviator, junior military aeronaut, or military aeronaut without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased rank, for aeronauts.</p></sidenote>regard to examination or to length of service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That junior military aeronauts and military aeronauts shall be entitled to the same increase in rank and pay as are now authorized by law for junior military aviators and military aviators, respectively:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i> <page identifier="/us/stat/40/245">245</page><i>further</i>, That any officer attached to the aviation section of the Signal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay for flight duty.</p></sidenote>Corps for any military duty requiring him to make regular and frequent flights shall receive an increase of twenty-five per centum of the pay of his grade and length of service under his commission.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of War is authorized from time to time to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted mechanicians rated.</p></sidenote>cause such number of the enlisted men of the aviation section of the Signal Corps above the grade of corporal as he may deem necessary to be rated as aviation mechanicians or as balloon mechanicians in the manner now proscribed by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That balloon mechanicians <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balloon mechanicians.</p></sidenote>shall receive the same increase of pay as now prescribed by law for aviation mechanicians.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That all officers and enlisted men of the temporary forces <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All pay, etc., to correspond with Army.</p></sidenote>of the Signal Corps, including the aviation section thereof provided for herein, shall be in all respects on the same footing as to pay, allowances, and pensions as permanent officers and enlisted men of corresponding grades and length of service in the Regular Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall operate to decrease the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized Army strength not decreased.</p></sidenote>present authorized strength of the Regular Army or National Army heretofore authorized by law.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That during the existing emergency authority is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Airships, aerial machines, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for emergency purchase, manufacture, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 43.</p></sidenote>given to the President, through the War Department, for the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, repair, and operation of airships and other aerial machines, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, including guns, armament, ammunition, and all necessary spare parts ana equipment connected therewith; and all necessary buildings for equipment and personnel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, motor vehicles, etc.</p></sidenote>in the Aviation Section and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation, through the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, of all mo tor-pro polled passenger and equipment carrying vehicles which may be necessary for the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And during the existing emergency authority is hereby further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation stations.</p></sidenote>given for the establishment, equipment, maintenance, and operation of aviation stations, including (a) the acquisition of land, or any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites, buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>interest in land, with any buildings and improvements thereon, by purchase, lease, donation, condemnation, or otherwise: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of public lands.</p></sidenote>That by order of the President any unappropriated or reserved public lands may be reserved from entry, designated, and used for such aviation stations; (b) the improvement of such land by clearing, grading, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement of sites.</p></sidenote>draining, seeding, and otherwise making the same suitable for the purpose intended; (c) the construction, maintenance, and repair of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, structures, etc.</p></sidenote>permanent or temporary barracks, quarters, hospitals, mess houses, administration, instructional and recreational buildings, hangars, magazines, storehouses, sheds, shops, garages, boathouses, docks, radio stations, laboratories, observation stations, and all other buildings and structures necessary or advisable; (d) procuring and introducing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, light, plumbing. etc.</p></sidenote>water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraph, and sewerage to aviation stations and buildings and structures thereon by the extension of existing systems or the creation of new systems and their maintenance, operation and repair, installation of plumbing, electric fixtures and telephones, fire apparatus and fire alarm systems and the maintenance, operation and repair of all such systems, fixtures and apparatus; (e) construction and repair of roads, walks, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, wharves, etc.</p></sidenote>sea walls, breakwaters, bridges and wharves, dredging, filling and otherwise improving land and water sites; (f) purchase of stoves and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence equipments.</p></sidenote>other cooking and heating apparatus, kitchen and tableware, and furniture and equipment for Kitchens, mess halls, offices, quarters, barracks, hospitals, and other buildings, screens, lockers, refrigerators, and all other necessary equipment; (g) purchase of gasoline, oil, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel supplies.</p></sidenote>fuel, and all supplies of every kind and character necessary or advis<page identifier="/us/stat/40/246">246</page>able for maintenance and operation of aviation stations, including electric light and power, telephones, water supply and sewerage <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction ma chinery, tools, etc.</p></sidenote>service; (h) purchase and manufacture and installation of all kinds of machinery, tools, material, supplies, and equipment for construction, maintenance, and repair of aircraft, buildings, and improvements at aviation stations, or property or appliances used in connection with aviation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special clothing, etc.</p></sidenote>And also for the purchase or manufacture and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel expenses at home and abroad.</p></sidenote>And also for the actual and necessary expenses of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army and authorized agents sent on special duty at home and abroad for aviation purposes, including observation and investigation of foreign military operations and organization, manufacture of aircraft, and engines, also special courses in foreign aviation schools and manufacturing establishments, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War certifying that the expenditures were necessary for military purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational training.</p></sidenote>And also for vocational training, including employment of necessary civilian instructors in important trades related to aviation, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, and machines required for such training, purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction at aviation schools <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 186.</p></sidenote>and stations, and all other means to cany out the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in active service, means for securing educational and vocational training of a character to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation Section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of reserve officers, enlisted men, etc., called into service.</p></sidenote>And also to pay and otherwise provide for such officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 77.</p></sidenote>such enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as may be called into active service and such enlisted men as may be enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps under the provisions of section two of the Act to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or any subsequent Act temporarily increasing the commissioned or enlisted personnel of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and such civilian employees as may be necessary, for the payment of their traveling and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts.</p></sidenote>necessary expenses when not traveling with troops: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter all reserve officers and enlisted men of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps shall be paid by Quartermaster Corps disbursing officers from funds transferred to their credit from Signal Corps appropriations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Development of engines, airplanes, etc.</p></sidenote>And also for the payment of all expenses in connection with the development of suit able types of aviation engines, airplanes, and other aircraft appurtenances, including the cost of sample engines, airplanes, and appurtenances, cost of any patents and other rights therein, and costs of investigation, experimentation, and research in respect thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of manufacturing plants, etc.</p></sidenote>And also for the payment of all expenses in connection with the creation, expansion, acquisition, and development of plants, factories, and establishments for the manufacture of airplanes, aircraft, engines, and appurtenances, including provision for the purchase or lease of land with the buildings thereon, construction of permanent or temporary buildings for all purposes, purchase of machinery, tools, and employment of operatives, together with all administrative expenses necessary, the purchase and supply of raw and semifinished <page identifier="/us/stat/40/247">247</page>materials and of fuel and all other things necessary for creating and extending the production of airplanes, aircraft, engines, and all appurtenances.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And also for creating, maintaining, and operating at technical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation technical instruction at schools, etc.</p></sidenote>schools and colleges courses of instruction for aviation students, including cost of instruction, equipment, and supplies necessary for instruction and subsistence of students while receiving such instruction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchanges for new equipment.</p></sidenote>motor-propelled vehicles, airplanes, engines, parts thereof, and appurtenances may be exchanged in part payment for new equipment of the same or similar character to be used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That during the present emergency, officers and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel expenses of foreign instructors, etc., in the United States.</p></sidenote>enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps as instructors or inspectors when traveling in the United States on official business pertaining to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps shall be authorized, from funds appropriated by this Act, the same mileage and transportation allowances as are authorized for officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>sum of $640,000,000 is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 24, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 41: Granting the consent of Congress to the Sebastian bridge district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>41</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-07-27</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>41.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Sebastian bridge district to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-27">July 27, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2666">S. 2666</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/30">Public, No. 30</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sebastian bridge district may bridge, Fort Smith, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1051.</p></sidenote>is hereby granted to the Sebastian bridge district, created by the Legislature of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at the foot of Garrison Avenue, at Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 27, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 42: Authorizing the President to take possession, on behalf of the United States, for use as sites for permanent aviation stations for the Army and Navy and for aviation school purposes, of the whole of North Island in the harbor of San Diego, California, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>42</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 247</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>42.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the President to take possession, on behalf of the United States, for use as sites for permanent aviation stations for the Army and Navy and for aviation school purposes, of the whole of North Island in the harbor of San Diego, California, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-27">July 27, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4892">H. R. 4892</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/31">Public, No. 31</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the President be, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Island, San Diego Harbor, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession authorized of, for aviation purposes.</p></sidenote>he is hereby, authorized to cause possession to be taken forthwith, on behalf of the United States, for use for national defense and in connection therewith as sites for permanent aviation stations for the Army and Navy and for aviation school purposes, of the whole of North Island, in the harbor of San Diego, California, and the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vesting of title waived.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote>of section three hundred and fifty-five, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to the expenditure of any appropriations for improvements thereon for aviation purposes.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/248">248</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceedings.</p></sidenote>The Attorney General or the claimants to the said North Island are authorized to make application for the determination and appraisement of any rights private parties may have in the said island over and beyond any rights thereto in the United States to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California; the proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws of the State of California relating to the condemnation of property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote>for public use. Either party may take an appeal from the judgment of such court direct to the Supreme Court of the United States within <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of determined value into court.</p></sidenote>ninety days after such judgment is rendered. Upon the final ascertainment of the value of any right, title, or interest adjudged to be in any private claimants to the said island there shall be paid into court the value of the same as so determined, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from date possession thereof was taken as herein authorized; and thereupon the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution to owners.</p></sidenote>States shall be vested with title to said lands. The amount so paid shall be distributed by order of the court to the owner or owners of such right, title, or interest in said island as their respective interests <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>may be determined by the court. The amount necessary to pay the awards in favor of private claimants is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated, to be disbursed under orders of the Secretary of War.</p>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 27, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 44: For the relief of homestead entrymen or settlers who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>44</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 248</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>44.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of homestead entrymen or settlers who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-28">July 28, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1811">S. 1811</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/32">Public, No. 32</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service in time of war accepted for homestead residence, etc., requirements.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That any settler upon the public lands of the United States; or any entryman whose application has been allowed; or any person who has made application for public lands which thereafter may be allowed under the homestead laws, who, after such settlement, entry, or application, enlists or is actually engaged in the military or naval service of the United States as a private soldier, officer, seaman, marine, national guardsman, or member of any other organization for offense or defense authorized by Congress during any war in which the United States may be engaged, shall, in the administration of the homestead laws, have his services therein construed to be equivalent to all intents and purposes to residence and cultivation for the same length of time upon the tract entered or settled upon; and hereafter no contest shall be initiated on the ground of abandonment, nor allegation of abandonment sustained against any such settler, entryman, or person unless it shall be alleged in the preliminary affidavit or affidavits of contest and proved at the hearing in cases hereinafter initiated that the alleged absence from the land was not due to his employment in such military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistment term equivalent to residence if discharged for disability.</p></sidenote>or naval service; that if he shall be discharged on account of wounds received or disability incurred in the line of duty, then the term of his enlistment shall be deducted from the required length of residence, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence before issue of patent.</p></sidenote>without reference to the time of actual service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no patent shall issue to any homestead settler who has not resided upon, unproved, and cultivated his homestead for a period of at least one year.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heirs of settlers, etc., dying in service to receive patent.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That any settler upon the public lands of the United States; or any entryman whose application has been allowed; or any person who has made application for public lands which thereafter may be allowed under the homestead laws, who dies while actually engaged in the military or naval service of the United States as a private soldier, officer, seaman, marine, national guardsman, or member of any other organization for offense or defense authorized by Congress <page identifier="/us/stat/40/249">249</page>during any war in which the United States may be engaged, then his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, his minor orphan children, or his or their legal representatives, may proceed forthwith to make final proof upon such entry or application thereafter allowed, and shall be entitled to receive Government patent for such land; and that the death of such soldier while so engaged in the service of the United States shall, in the administration of the homestead laws, be construed to be equivalent to a performance of all requirements as to residence and cultivation upon such homestead.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 28, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 45: To authorize the county of Cass, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>45</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>45.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the county of Cass, in the State of Indiana, to construct a bridge across the Wabash River east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-28">July 28, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2106">S. 2106</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/33">Public, No. 33</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the county of Cass, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wabash River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cass County, Ind., may bridge, near Logansport.</p></sidenote>State of Indiana, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Wabash River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at a place east of the city of Logansport, at a point known as Cedar or Rock Island, in said Wabash River, in the State of Indiana, in accordance with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 28, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 46: Granting the consent of Congress to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, to construct a bridge across Bayou Macon, in Louisiana, at a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>46</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-07-28</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>46.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, to construct a bridge across Bayou Macon, in Louisiana, at a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-07-28">July 28, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2667">S. 2667</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/34">Public, No. 34</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Macon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company may bridge, Wisner, La.</p></sidenote>is hereby grunted to the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, of Wisner, Louisiana, and to its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Bayou Macon at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near a point east of the town of Wisner, Louisiana, in the parish of Franklin, in the State of Louisiana, in accordance with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 28, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 47: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>47</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-08-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>47.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-03">August 3, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2695">S. 2695</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/35">Public, No. 35</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the county of Mississippi, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi County, Ark., may bridge.</p></sidenote>a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, anti operate a bridge and ap<page identifier="/us/stat/40/250">250</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>proaches across Little River, at or near the foot of the gar hole about one-half mile south of the Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railway bridge across Little River, Arkansas, at a point suitable to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 3, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 48: For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>48</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 250</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-08-07</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>48.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-07">August 7, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3331">H. R. 3331</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/36">Public, No. 36</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert-land entries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 377; Vol. 26, P. 1096.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for expenditures, while serving in present war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That no desert-land entry made or held under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as amended by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by an officer or enlisted man in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the United States shall be subject to contest or cancellation for failure to make or expend the sum of $1 per acre per year in improvements upon such claim, or to effect the reclamation thereof, during the period said entryman or his successor in interest is engaged in the military service of the United States during the present war with Germany, and until six months thereafter, and the time within which such entry-man or claimant is required to make such expenditures and effect reclamation of the land shall be, exclusive of the time of his actual service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Organized Militia of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For prior entries.</p></sidenote>United States; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said desert-land entry shall have been made by the said officer or enlisted man prior to his enlistment:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of muster to be filed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That each such entryman or claimant shall, within six months after the passage of this Act, or within six months after he is mustered into the service, file in the local land office of the district wherein his claim is situate a notice of his muster into the service of the United States and of his desire to hold said desert claim under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service specified.</p></sidenote>this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the term “enlisted man,” as used in this section shall include any person selected to serve in the military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote>forces of the United States as provided by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May “eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 7, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 49: Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>49</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 250</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-08-08</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>49.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-08">August 8, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4285">H. R. 4285</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/37">Public, No. 37</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River and harbor appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland, Me.</p></sidenote>Portland Harbor, Maine: For completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered <page identifier="/us/stat/40/251">251</page>Seventy-one, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: The unexpended balances of appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-one, Sixty-third Congress, second session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gloucester, Beverly, Salem, Lynn, Plymouth, and Provincetown <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gloucester, etc., Mass.</p></sidenote>Harbors, Mystic, Malden, Weymouth Fore, and Weymouth Back Rivers, and Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts: For maintenance, $24,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Providence River and Harbor, Pawtucket River, Newport Harbor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providence, etc., R. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>harbors of refuge at Point Judith and Block Island, entrance to Point Judith Pond, and Great Salt Pond, Block Island, Rhode Island: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for improvement of Providence River and Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and nineteen, Sixtieth Congress, first session, are hereby made available for improvement of said river and harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-second Congress, third session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stonington and New London Harbors, Connecticut, Pawcatuck <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London, etc., Conn.</p></sidenote>River, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Mystic and Thames Rivers, Connecticut: For maintenance, $10,000; for completing improvement of New London Harbor, $160,000: in all, $170,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duck Island, Branford, New Haven, Milford, Bridgeport, Southpart, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Haven, etc., Conn.</p></sidenote>Norwalk, Five Mile River, Stamford, and Greenwich Harbors, Westport Harbor and Saugatuck River, breakwaters at New Haven, and Housatonic River, Connecticut: For maintenance, $71,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Connecticut River above and below Hartford, Connecticut: Continuing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connecticut River, Conn.</p></sidenote>improvement and for maintenance below Hartford, $70,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington Harbor, Vermont; Plattsburg and Port Henry Harbors, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Plattsburg, etc., Vt. and N. Y.</p></sidenote>New York; and Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont: For maintenance, $5,000; for improvement of Narrows of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Champlain Narrows.</p></sidenote>Lake Champlain in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred anti eighty-seven, Sixty-second Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000; for completing improvement of Port <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Henry, N. Y.</p></sidenote>Henry Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $71,500; in all, $376,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Olcott, Charlotte, Pultneyville, Great Sodus Bay, Little Sodus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Ontario harbors, etc., N. Y.</p></sidenote>Bay, Oswego, Capo Vincent, and Ogdensburg Harbors, New York: For maintenance, $33,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Port Chester, Mamaroneck, and Echo Bay Harbors, East Chester <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Chester Creek, etc., N. Y.</p></sidenote>and Westchester Creeks, and Bronx River, New York: Completing improvement of East Chester Creek, $11,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saugerties, Rondout, Peekskill, and Tarrytown Harbors, and Wappinger <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saugerties, etc., N.Y.</p></sidenote>Creek, New York: For maintenance $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New York Harbor, New York: For maintenance of entrance channels <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor. NY.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Channels, and upper bay.</p></sidenote>and for improvement of the upper bay opposite anchorage grounds in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighteen, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and at Craven Shoal in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-seven, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $40,000, and the unexpended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement and maintenance of the entrance channels are hereby made available for coutinuing improvement in accordance <page identifier="/us/stat/40/252">252</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staten Island channel.</p></sidenote>with the reports submitted in said documents; for improvement of channel between Staten Island and Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $50,000; in all, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hudson River Channel.</p></sidenote>Hudson River Channel, New York Harbor, New York: Continuing improvement, $210,500; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-seven, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $600,000; in all, $810,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black Rock, etc.. N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New York: The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for this improvement are hereby made available for Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Channel and Erie Basin and for widening the channel at the bend.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>East River, New York: For improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-eight, Sixty-third Congress, first session, and for a forty-foot <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hell Gate channel, etc.</p></sidenote>channel through East River and Hell Gate, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $1,250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of East River and Hell Gate are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depth at Diamond Reef.</p></sidenote>reports submitted in said document:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That a depth of forty feet is authorized across Diamond Reef:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of drift, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That so much as may be necessary of this and any other appropriations made herein or hereafter for specific portions of New York Harbor and its immediate tributaries may be allotted by the Secretary of War for the maintenance of these waterways by the collection and removal of drift.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Jersey.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of harbors, etc.</p></sidenote>Keyport and Shoal Harbors, Woodbridge, Cheesequake, Matawan, and Compton Creeks, Elizabeth, Raritan, South, and Shrewsbury Rivers, and Raritan Bay, New Jersey: For maintenance, $58,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cold Spring Inlet, etc., N. J.</p></sidenote>Cold Spring and Absecon Inlets, Absecon and Tuckerton Creeks, and Toms River, New Jersey: For maintenance, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maurice, etc., Rivers, N. J.</p></sidenote>Cooper, Salem, Cohansey, and Maurice Rivers, Woodbury, Mantua, Raccoon, Oldmans, and Alloway Creeks, New Jersey: For maintenance, $23,000; continuing improvement and for maintenance of Maurice River, $25,000; in all, $48,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburgh, Pa.</p></sidenote>Pittsburgh Harbor, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schuylkill River, Pa.</p></sidenote>Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania: For improvement in. accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and seventy, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River, Pa, N. J., anti Del.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia to the sea.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To Trenton.</p></sidenote>Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $1,870,000; for maintenance of improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to Lalor Street, Trenton, $40,000: in all, $1,910,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, Del.</p></sidenote>Wilmington Harbor, Delaware: For maintenance, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appoquinimink,etC., Rivers, Del.</p></sidenote>Appoqumimink, Smyrna, Leipsic, Little, Saint Jones, Murderkill, Mispillion, and Broadkill Rivers, Delaware: For maintenance, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewes, Del.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron pier.</p></sidenote>Government iron pier in Delaware Bay near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance and repair in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Ten hundred and fifty-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $68,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Rohoboth and Delaware Bays.</p></sidenote>Waterway between Rehoboth Bay and Delaware Bay, Delaware: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chincoteague Bay, Va., to Lewes, Del.</p></sidenote>Waterway from Chincoteague Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay at or near Lewes, Delaware: For maintenance, $1,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving inland waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Del. and Md.</p></sidenote>Bay, Delaware and Maryland, in accordance with the project recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and in paragraph three of his report, dated August ninth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as published in House Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-six, Sixty-third Congress, first session: The <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal authorized.</p></sidenote>Secretary of War is hereby authorized to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the existing Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and all the property, rights of property, franchises, and appurtenances used or acquired for use in connection therewith or appertaining thereto; and he is further authorized, if in his judgment the price is reasonable and satisfactory, to make a contract for the purchase of the same, subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. In the event of the inability of the Secretary of War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceeding if no contract agreed to.</p></sidenote>to make a satisfactory contract for the voluntary purchase of said canal and its appurtenances, he is hereby authorized and directed through the Attorney General to institute and to carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation of the said canal and its appurtenances, the acceptance of the award in said proceedings to be subject to future ratification and appropriation by Congress. Such condemnation proceedings shall be instituted and conducted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>in, and jurisdiction of said proceedings is hereby given to, the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware substantially as provided in “An Act to authorize condemnation of land <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 357.</p></sidenote>for sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to pay the necessary costs thereof and expenses in connection therewith.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baltimore Harbor and Channels, Maryland: For maintenance of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore. Md.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patapsco River, etc.</p></sidenote>Patapsco River and Channel to Baltimore, including channel of approach at York Spit, Chesapeake Bay, $104,000; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $250,000; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prosecute maintenance work in the inner harbor in accordance with the recommendation submitted in said document; in all, $354,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rockhall, Queenstown, Claiborne, Tilghman Island, Cambridge, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryland eastern shore harbors, etc.</p></sidenote>and Crisfield Harbors, Elk and Little Elk, Chester, Corisea, Choptank, Tuckahoe, Warwick, La Trappe, Tred Avon, Wicomico, Manokin, and Pocomoke Rivers, Slaughter, Tvaskin, and Broad Creeks, Twitch Cove and Big Thoroughfare River, and Lower Thoroughfare, Deal Island, Maryland; Nanticoke River (including Northwest Fork), Delaware and Maryland; and Broad Creek River, Delaware: For maintenance, $15,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Potomac River, at Washington, District of Columbia, at Alexandria, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac River, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D. C., Md.,and Va.</p></sidenote>Virginia, and at Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, Anacostia River, District of Columbia, Occoquan, Aquia, Upper Machodoc, and Nomini Creeks, Virginia: For maintenance, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia: For improvement, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Channel to Newport News, etc.</p></sidenote>channel to Newport News, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Six hundred and five, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, item “B,” page five, $900,000. The unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made for improvement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>of channel to Norfolk, Virginia, is hereby made available or continuing improvement of said channel in accordance with the report submitted in said document.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rappahannock, etc., Rivers, Va.</p></sidenote>Rappahannock, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey Rivers, Urbana Creek, and Milford Haven Harbor, Virginia: For maintenance, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James River, etc., Va.</p></sidenote>James, Nansemond, Pagan, and Appomattox Rivers, Virginia: For maintenance, $26,000; continuing improvement of James River, $46,000; in all $72,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blackwater River, Va., etc.</p></sidenote>Blackwater River, Virginia: Meherrin and Roanoke Rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort Inlet, N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary route.</p></sidenote>Waterway from Norfolk, Virginia, to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: Continuing improvement, $100,000: <i>Provided</i>, That the route of the waterway may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be modified in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-third <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way.</p></sidenote>Congress, third session: <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That not more than $75,000 shall be expended in acquiring the necessary rights of way between Albemarle Sound and Pungo River.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manteo Bay, Tar River, etc., N. C.</p></sidenote>Manteo Bay, Scuppernong, Pamlico, Tar, South, Bay, Neuse, and Trent Rivers, Fishing, Contentnea, Swift, and Smith Creeks, and waterway connecting Swan Quarter Bay with Deep Bay, North Carolina: For maintenance, $15,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterways, North Carolina.</p></sidenote>Beaufort and Morehead City Harbors, Beaufort Inlet, waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, waterway connecting Core Sound and Beaufort Harbor, and inland waterway Beaufort to Jacksonville, North Carolina: For maintenance, $35,500; and the unex pended balances of appropriations heretofore made for New River, forth Carolina, are hereby made available for the improvement of the inland waterway, Beaufort to Jacksonville, North Carolina, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and seventy-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Fear River,etc., N. C.</p></sidenote>Northeast, Black, and Cape Fear Rivers, North Carolina: For maintenance, $85,000; completing improvement of Cape Fear River below Wilmington, $35,000; in all, $120,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote>Charleston Harbor and Channels, South Carolina: For maintenance, $40,000 ; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $70,000; for maintenance of Ashley River Channel, $10,000; in all, $120,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winyah Bay, etc.,</p></sidenote>Winyah Bay, Waccamaw, Little Peedee, and Great Peedee Rivers, South Carolina: For maintenance, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congaree, etc., Rivers, S. C.</p></sidenote>Santee, Wateree, and Congaree Rivers, South Carolina: For maintenance, including the Estherville-Minim Creek Canal and the Congaree River as far up as the Gervais Street Bridge, Columbia, and for improvement of the Congaree River in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and two, Sixty-third Congress, second session, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Beaufort, S. C., to Saint Johns River, Fla.</p></sidenote>Waterway between Beaufort, South Carolina, and Saint Johns River, Florida: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $43,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah Harbor and River, Ga.</p></sidenote>Savannah Harbor, and Savannah River, below, at, and above Augusta, Georgia: For maintenance, $380,000; for improvement of Savannah Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-one, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nopayment for lands.</p></sidenote>forth in said document, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement; in all, $880,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbors, etc., Ga. and Fla.</p></sidenote>Sapelo, and Darien Harbors, Cowhead, and Satilla Rivers, Club, Plantation, and Fancy Bluff Creeks, Georgia, and Saint Marys River, Georgia and Florida: For maintenance, $12,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brunswick Harbor, Georgia: For maintenance, $33,250.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brunswick, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Altamaha, Oconee, and Ocmulgee Rivers, Georgia: Continuing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oconee, cte., Rivers, Ga.</p></sidenote>improvement and for maintenance, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian River, Saint Lucie Inlet, Miami Harbor (Biscayne Bay), and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miami Harbor, etc., Fla.</p></sidenote>Harbor at Key West, Florida: For maintenance, $6,000; completing improvement of Miami Harbor, $160,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the work <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract work.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 209.</p></sidenote>proposed under the project adopted by the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, may be done by contract if reasonable prices can be obtained; in all, $166,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tampa and Hillsboro Bays, Saint Petersburg Harbor, Hillsboro, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tampa Bay, etc., Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hillsboro Bay, Fla.</p></sidenote>and Manatee Rivers, Florida: For maintenance, $66,500 ; for improvement of Hillsboro Bay in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and forty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $300,000; in all, $366,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of Ybor Estuary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Voi. 36, p. 644.</p></sidenote>in this Act, nor in the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” shall be so construed as to prevent the use of any part of the Ybor Estuary zone for industrial or other legitimate purposes when the same is not needed for commercial uses, nor to exclude the building and operation of a railroad or railroads by private parties or railroad companies under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, subject to the right of the city of Tampa to construct and operate a municipal railroad on said estuary zone as set forth in said report. The Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Petersburg, Fla.</p></sidenote>of War is hereby authorized to prosecute the work of improvement on the existing project for Saint Petersburg Harbor, in accordance with the modified conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in the report printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Six, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Johns River, Florida, Jacksonville to the ocean, opposite the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johns River, ate., Fla.</p></sidenote>city of Jacksonville, Jacksonville to Palatka, and Palatka to Lake Harney, Lake Crescent and Dunns Creek, and Oklawaha River, Florida: For maintenance, $335,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kissimmee, Caloosahatchee, Orange, Anclote, Crystal, Withlacoochee, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kissimmee River, etc., Fla.</p></sidenote>and Suwannee Rivers, Charlotte Harbor, Sarasota Bay, and Clearwater Harbor and Boca Ceiga Bay, Florida: For maintenance, $11,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Removing the water hyacinth, Florida: For the removal of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water hyacinth.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing from Florida waters.</p></sidenote>water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the State of Florida, in so far as it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carrabelle Bar and Harbor, Apalachicola, Saint Joseph, and Saint <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apalachicola River, etc., Fla. and Ga.</p></sidenote>Andrews Bays, Apalachicola and Chipola Rivers, and channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay, Florida, Flint River, Georgia, and Chattahoochee River, Georgia and Alabama: For maintenance, $77,500; continuing improvement of Apalachicola River, including the cut-off, Lee Slough, lower Chipola River, and upper Chipola River from Marianna to its mouth, $18,000; in all, $95,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Holmes and Blackwater Rivers, Florida, Choctawhatchee, Escambia, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla., etc.</p></sidenote>and Conecuh Rivers, Florida and Alabama, the narrows in Santa Rosa Sound, and Pensacola Harbor, Florida: For maintenance, $9,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mobile Harbor and Bar, and channel connecting Mobile Bay and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile, Ala.</p></sidenote>Mississippi Sound, Alabama: For maintenance of channel connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, $5,000; for maintenance of Mobile Harbor and Bar and for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-three, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and subject to the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/256">256</page>conditions set forth in said document, except as to pilotage and terminal facilities, $110,000; in all, $115,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama and Coosa Rivers, Ala. and Ga.</p></sidenote>Alabama River, Alabama, and Coosa River, Alabama and Georgia: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including the Alabama and Coosa Rivers between Montgomery and Wetumpka, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tombigbee River, Ala. and Miss.</p></sidenote>Tombigbee River, Alabama and Mississippi: For maintenance from mouth to Demopolis, Alabama, $30,000, and from Demopolis, Alabama, to Walkers Bridge, Mississippi, $10,000; in all, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pascagoula Harbor, Miss.</p></sidenote>Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of channels through Horn Island Pass, Mississippi Sound, Pascagoula River, and Dog River, $113,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gulfport, Harbor, Miss.</p></sidenote>Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi: Continuing improvement and for maintenance of anchorage basin at Gulfport and channel therefrom to the anchorage or roadstead at Ship Island, and for the improvement and maintenance of channel at Ship Island Pass, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pascagoula, etc., Rivers, Miss.</p></sidenote>Pascagoula, Wolf, Jordan, Pearl, and East Pearl Rivers, and Biloxi Harbor, Mississippi: For maintenance, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yazoo River, etc., Miss.</p></sidenote>Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi: For maintenance, including Yazoo, Tallahatchie, Coldwater, and Big Sunflower Rivers, Tchula Lake, Steele, and Washington Bayous, Lake Washington, and Bear Creek, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River passes, La.</p></sidenote>Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $1,825,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayous Lafourche, etc., La.</p></sidenote>Bayous Lafourche, Terrebonne, Grossetete, Plaquemine, and Teche, Louisiana: For maintenance, including Grand River and Pigeon Bayous, $64,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, from the Mississippi to the Sabine, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mermentau to Sabine, La. and Tex.</p></sidenote>Waterway from the Mississippi River to the Sabine River, Louisiana: For maintenance, $7,000: for completing improvement from Mermentau River to Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas, in accordance with the report submitted in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and five, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $230,000: in all, $237,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Pontchartrain, etc., La.</p></sidenote>Lake Ponchartrain, Pass Manchac, Bogue Falia, Chefuncte, Ponchatoula, Natalbany, Blood, Tickfaw, and Amite Rivers, and Bayou Mancnac, Louisiana: For maintenance, $4,000 ; for completing improvement of Lake Ponchaitrain in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-six, Sixty-third Congress, first session, $32,000; in all, $36,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayous Vermilion, etc., La.</p></sidenote>Bayous Vermilion, Nezpique, des Cannes, Plaquemine Brule, and Queue de Tortue, Mermentau River, and Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, including channel, bay, and passes of Bayou Vermilion, and tributaries of Mermentau River, $51,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water hyacinth.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.</p></sidenote>Removing the water hyacinths, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas: For the removal of the water hyacinth from the navigable waters in the States named in so faras it is or may become an obstruction to navigation, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atchafalaya River,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, etc., La. and Tex.</p></sidenote>Atchafalaya River, Louisiana: For maintenance, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, Sabine-Neches Canal, and Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana and Texas: For maintenance, $110,000; continuing improvement of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Canal, $300,000; in all, $410,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red River, etc., Ark., Tex., and La.</p></sidenote>Red and Sulphur Rivers, Arkansas and Texas, and Cypress Bayou and Waterway between Jefferson, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana: For maintenance, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston Harbor, etc., Tex.</p></sidenote>Galveston Harbor, Galveston Channel, Port Bolivar Channel, Texas City Channel, and Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For maintenance, $480,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Aransas, Tex.</p></sidenote>Port Aransas, Texas: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $100,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Anahuac Channel, mouth of Trinity River, Oyster, and Clear <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anahuac Channel, etc., Tex.</p></sidenote>Creeks, and Cedar, Chocolate, Turtle, Bastrop, Dickinson, Double, and East Bay Bayous, Texas: For maintenance, $33,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterway from Galveston to Corpus Christi, and channel from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Galveston to Corpus Christi Tex., etc.</p></sidenote>Pass Cavallo to Port Lavaca, Texas: For maintenance, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Freeport Harbor, Texas: For maintenance of mouth of Brazos <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freeport Harbor, Tex.</p></sidenote>River, $66,000; for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-nine, Sixty-third Congress, third session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $150,000; in all, $216,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Red, Black, Ouachita, Tensas, Boeuf, and Saline Rivers, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ouachita, etc., Rivers, Ark. and La.</p></sidenote>Bayous Macon, Bartholomew, D’Arbonne, and Corney, Arkansas and Louisiana: For maintenance, $65,000. The balance of appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dam No. 5.</p></sidenote>heretofore made for the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Seven, Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana, is hereby made available, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arkansas River, Arkansas and Oklahoma: For maintenance by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas River, Ark. and Okla.</p></sidenote>snagging operations, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Black and Current Rivers, Arkansas and Missouri; White, Saint <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black River, etc., Ark. and Mo.</p></sidenote>Francis, and L’Anguille Rivers, and Blackfish Bayou, Arkansas: For maintenance, $28,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cumberland River, Tennessee and Kentucky: For maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumberland River, Tenn, and Ky.</p></sidenote>above Nashville, $5,000; continuing improvement below Nashville, $632,000; in all, $637,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tennessee River, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: For maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky.</p></sidenote>and continuing improvement, $401,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toledo, Port Clinton, Sandusky, Huron, Vermilion, Lorain, Cleveland, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Erie harbors, etc., Ohio.</p></sidenote>Fairport, Ashtabula, and Conneaut Harbors, Ohio: For maintenance, $132,000; completing improvement of Lorain Harbor in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lorain, Ohio.</p></sidenote>with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eighty, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $16,500; for completing improvement of Lorain Harbor in accordance with House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eighty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $63,150; for improvement of Cuyahoga River, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Cleveland Harbor, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and seven, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $5,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Government’s share in the cost of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote>the improvement in accordance with the final plans adopted shall not exceed $400,000; in all, $216,650. The unexpended balances of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conneaut, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote>appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, are hereby made available for completing improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and eighty-three, Sixty-fourth Con gress, firat session.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ohio River: Continuing improvement by the construction of locks <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio River.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locks and dams.</p></sidenote>and dams with a view to securing a navigable depth of nine feet, $5,000,000. Upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and the approval of the Secretary of War the project for the improvement of the Ohio River may be so modified as to permit the construction of one lock and fixed dam to replace Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two, should such modification be deemed desirable and advantageous.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grand Marais, Marquette, Marquette Bay, and Ontonagon Harbors, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Superior harbors, etc., Mich., Wis., and Minn.</p></sidenote>and Keweenaw Waterway, Michigan; Ashland and Port Wing Harbors, Wisconsin; Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin; Agate Bay and Grand Marais Harbors, Minnesota: For maintenance, $175,000; completing improvement of Ashland Harbor in accordance <page identifier="/us/stat/40/258">258</page>with the modified plans in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $10,000; in all, $185,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Michigan harbors, etc., Mich.</p></sidenote>Saint Joseph Harbor and River, Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, South Haven, Holland, Grand Haven, Muskegon, White Lake, Ludington, Manistee, Portage Lake, Arcadia, Frankfort, Charlevoix, and Petoskey Harbors, and Grand River, Michigan: For maintenance, $112,050; continuing improvement of Manistee Harbor, $28,700; in all, $140,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Huron harbors, etc., Mich.</p></sidenote>Mackinac, Cheboygan, Rogers City, Alpena, Harbor Beach, and Monroe Harbors, Sagmaw, Black, Clinton, and Rouge Rivers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbor Beach, Mich.</p></sidenote>Michigan: For maintenance, $13,500; for improvement of Harbor Beach Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rouge River, Mich.</p></sidenote>$100,000; for improvement of Rouge River, Michigan, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Two thousand and sixty-three, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary project.</p></sidenote>subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $490,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, substitute plan B for plan A; in all, $603,500.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes ship channel.</p></sidenote>Ship channel connecting waters of the Great Lakes between Chicago, Duluth, and Buffalo, including Saint Marys River, Saint Clair River, channels in Lake Saint Clair, and Detroit River, Michigan: For maintenance, $185,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Michigan harbors, etc., Wis.</p></sidenote>Manistique Harbor, Michigan, Menominee, Oconto, Green Bay, Algoma, Kewaunee, Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Port Washington, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Waukegan Harbors, Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal, and Fox River, Wisconsin: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Channel depths, Milwaukee, etc.</p></sidenote>For maintenance, $52,100: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this amount is hereby made available for maintenance of the channel to the established depth of the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnikinnic Rivers, Inner Harbor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depere, Wis., turning basin.</p></sidenote>Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The project for the improvement of Green Bay Harbor, Wisconsin, is hereby modified to include the maintenance of the turning basin at Depere in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One thousand and seventeen, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Croix, etc.. Rivers, Minn., Wis., N. and S. Dak.</p></sidenote>Saint Croix River, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Minnesota River, Minnesota, Lake Traverse, Minnesota and South Dakota, Red River of the North, Minnesota and North Dakota, Warroad Harbor and River, Zippel Bay, and Lake of the Woods, Minnesota: For maintenance, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, etc., Ill. and Ind.</p></sidenote>Chicago and Calumet Harbors, Chicago and Illinois Rivers, Illinois, Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana, Indiana and Michigan <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indiana Harbor, Ind.</p></sidenote>City Harbors, Indiana: For maintenance, $115,000; completing improvement of Indiana Harbor, $395,200; in all, $510,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From the Ohio to the Missouri.</p></sidenote>Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memphis, Tenn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of bar.</p></sidenote>The Mississippi River Commission shall forthwith make an examination of the Memphis Harbor, on the Mississippi River at the mouth of Wolf River, and at the earliest practicable moment make such plans and take such steps, to be approved by the Chief of Engineers, as will remove the large sand bar in front of Memphis to such an extent as may be necessary in the interest of navigation at that point, such improvements to be paid out of any funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the work of the Mississippi River Commission, not to exceed, however, the sum of $250,000 for the current fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To Minneapolis, Minn.</p></sidenote>Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $1,200,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/259">259</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mississippi River between Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and between <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Above Saint Paul, Minn.</p></sidenote>Brainerd and Grand Rapids, Mississippi and Leech Rivers, and reservoirs at headwaters of Mississippi River: For maintenance, $2,000; continuing improvement of Mississippi and Leech Rivers, $50,000; in all, $52,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Osage and Gasconade Rivers, Missouri, and Kansas River, Kansas: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage and Gasconade Rivers, Mo.</p></sidenote>Continuing improvement and for maintenance of Osage and Gasconade Rivers, $20,000; completing improvement of Kansas River <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas River, Kans.</p></sidenote>in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $10,000; in all, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Missouri River: For maintenance and continuing improvement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six-foot channel, etc.</p></sidenote>with a view to securing a permanent six-foot channel between Kansas City, Kansas, from the upper end of Quindaro Bend, and the mouth of the river, $1,000,000; for snagging and maintenance between Kansas City and Sioux City, $35,000; for maintenance between Sioux City and Fort Benton, $50,000; in all, $1,085,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be expended, out of the $1,000,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cambridge Bend, Glasgow, Mo.</p></sidenote>above appropriated, as soon as practicable, and, if possible, before June first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, subject to such terms of local cooperation as the Secretary of War may prescribe, not to exceed one-half the cost of the improvement, at Cambridge Bend, near Glasgow, Missouri, from the head of said bend to Bowlers Point, in constructing all necessary new works and in putting in thorough repair existing works, so that the same shall effectively protect the banks and confine the river to its channel at and along said bend:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of dredges.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to transfer to the Missouri River for work thereon, free of cost, two dredges not necessarily employed elsewhere.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Diego Harbor, California: For maintenance, $20,000; completing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Diego, Cal.</p></sidenote>improvement of San Diego Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, and by dredging area “A” in accordance with the project submitted on page fourteen of House Document Numbered Six hundred and forty-eight, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, as modified in the report printed in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered Eight, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $154,000; in all, $174,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Los Angeles Harbor, California: For maintenance, $25,000; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Los Angeles, Cal.</p></sidenote>for improvement in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-six, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, $50,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense for lands.</p></sidenote>by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement; in all, $75,000. Such modification as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modifications authorized.</p></sidenote>may be recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of. War for the plan of silt-diversion works adopted by the river and harbor Act approved July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the protection of Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, in accordance with the report printed in House Document Numbered Four hundred and sixty-two, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions set forth in said document:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such modifications shall not increase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No increase of cost.</p></sidenote>the total cost of the work to the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, Monterey, and Humboldt <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco Harbor, etc., Cal.</p></sidenote>Harbors, Redwood, and Petaluma Creeks, Napa River, San Pablo Bay, Mare Island Strait, and Suisun Channel, California: For maintenance, $287,500; continuing improvement of Oakland Harbor, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/260">260</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging plant.</p></sidenote>$92,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if in the judgment of the Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisements for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Cal.</p></sidenote>construction of a suitable dredging plant; for improvement of Richmond Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifteen, Sixty-third Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Humboldt Bay, etc., Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Pablo Bay, etc., Cal.</p></sidenote>$100,000; continuing improvement of Humboldt Harbor and Bay, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacramento River, etc., Cal.</p></sidenote>$190,500; for improvement of San Pablo Bay and Mare Island Strait in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and forty, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, if required for naval needs, $330,000; in all, $1,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coquille River, Coos Bay, etc., Oreg.</p></sidenote>Sacramento, Feather, San Joaquin, and Mokelumne Rivers, and Stockton and Mormon Channels (diverting canal), California: For maintenance, $31,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River, etc., Orog., Wash., and Idaho.</p></sidenote>Coquille, Coos, Siuslaw, and Yaquina Rivers, and Coos, Tillamook, and Nehalem Bays, Oregon: For maintenance, $34,000; continuing improvement of channel over the bar at Coos Bay, $70,000; in all, $104,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willamette River, etc., Oreg, and Wash.</p></sidenote>Cascades and Dalles-Celilo Canals, Oregon, Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to the mouth of Snake River, Oregon and Washington, and Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia and Willamette Rivers, below Portland, Oreg.</p></sidenote>Willamette River above Portland and at Willamette Falls, Yamhill and Clatskanie Rivers, Oregon, Cowlitz, Lewis, and Grays Rivers, Washington: For maintenance, $48,300; completing improvement of Willamette River around the Willamette Falls at Oregon City, Oregon, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One thousand and sixty, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $80,000; continuing improvement of Lewis River, including North and East Forks, $13,500; in all, $141,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cathlamet, Wash.</p></sidenote>Columbia and lower Willamette Rivera below Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, and mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: Continuing improvement and for maintenance, in accordance with report submitted in Senate Document Numbered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willapa River, etc., Wash.</p></sidenote>Fifty-seven, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $310,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the funds herein appropriated $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in completing improvement at Cathlamet, Washington, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty, Sixty-third Congress, first session.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of dredge.</p></sidenote>Willapa River and Harbor, Grays Harbor, Chehalis and Hoquiam Rivers, Washington: For maintenance, $7,500; for improvement of Grays Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and twenty-nine, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, tributaries, etc., Wash.</p></sidenote>Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $85,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That pending the construction of the new dredge authorized any other Government dredge that may be available may be used for the deepening and maintenance of the bar channel; in all, $92,500.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Washington Ship Canal.</p></sidenote>Puget Sound and its tributary waters, Olympia, Tacoma, and Bellingham Harbors, Lake Washington Ship Canal, Snohomish and Skagit Rivers, Swinomish Slough, waterway connecting Port Townsend Bay and Oak Bay, Columbia River between Wenatchee and Kettle Falls, Washington: For maintenance, $30,000; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nome Harbor, etc., Alaska.</p></sidenote>improvement of Lake Washington Ship Canal in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $200,000; in all, $230,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, etc., Harbors, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>Nome Harbor and Apoon mouth of Yukon River, Alaska: Completing improvement of Apoon mouth of Yukon River in accordance <page identifier="/us/stat/40/261">261</page>with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and ninety-one, Sixty-third Congress, first session, $45,000; completing improvement of Nome Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nineteen hundred and thirty-two, Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, and subject to the conditions setforth in said document, $105,000; in all, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Honolulu, Kahului, and Hilo Harbors, Hawaii: For maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging plant.</p></sidenote>$10,000; for improvement of Honolulu Harbor in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Three hundred and ninety-two. Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, $50,000; and the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made and authorized for the improvement of Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, are hereby made available for improvement in accordance with the above-mentioned report: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if in the judgment of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hilo.</p></sidenote>Secretary of War the prices received in response to advertisement for bids for dredging are not reasonable, so much of the amount herein appropriated and authorized as shall be necessary may be expended for the purchase or construction of a suitable dredging plant; continuing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan, P. R.</p></sidenote>improvement of Hilo Harbor, $150,000; in all, $210,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Juan Harbor, Porto Rico: For maintenance, $10,000; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement by Porto Rico.</p></sidenote>improvement in cooperation with the local government in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-five, Sixty-third Congress, second session, $400,000; in all, $410,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That until $600,000 of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of consolidated works.</p></sidenote>amount expended on the dredging and reclamation work authorized herein is reimbursed, the Government of Porto Rico shall on the first day of July of each year after the completion of the work pay to the Government of the United States $50,000.</proviso></p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>Where separate works or items are consolidated herein <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances carried to authorized works.</p></sidenote>and an aggregate amount is appropriated therefor, the amount so appropriated shall, unless otherwise expressed, be expended in securing the maintenance and improvement according to the respective projects adopted by Congress after giving due regard to the respective needs of traffic. The allotments to the respective works so consolidated shall be made by the Chief of Engineers as authorized by the Secretary of War. In case such works or items are consolidated and separate amounts are given to individual projects, the amounts so named shall be expended upon such separate projects unless, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War, another allotment or division should be made of the same. Any balances remaining to the credit of the consolidated items shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract work authorized.</p></sidenote>be carried to the credit of the respective aggregate amounts appropriated for the consolidated items.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That in all cases where the authorized project for a work of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation forexaminations, surveys, etc.</p></sidenote>river or harbor improvement provides for the construction or use of Government dredging plant, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, have the work done by contract if reasonable prices can be obtained.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific authority required.</p></sidenote>rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of $200,000 is hereby appropriated; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution shall be made:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That after the regular or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplementary reports restricted.</p></sidenote>formal reports made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless ordered by a concurrent resolution of Congress:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special authority required to begin work.</p></sidenote>Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this <page identifier="/us/stat/40/262">262</page></proviso>Act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of preliminary examinations, surveys, etc.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the following-named localities, and a sufficient sum to pay the cost thereof may be allotted from the amount provided in this section:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maine.</p></sidenote>Harbor at Corea, Maine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts.</p></sidenote>Waterway connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Cod Canal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1808.</p></sidenote>Massachusetts: The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce are hereby authorized to examine and appraise the value of the works and franchises of the Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards and Cape Cod Bays, with reference to the advisability of the purchase of said canal by the United States and the construction over the route of the said canal of a free waterway, with or without a guard lock, and having a depth and capacity sufficient to accommodate the navigation interests that are affected thereby. This investigation shall be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers in the usual manner provided by law for making preliminary examinations and surveys except that the Secretary of War shall call upon the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Commerce for such data and evidence as these Secretaries may wish to have incorporated in the report of survey, and further, that the final report of the investigation, with its conclusions upon probable cost and commercial advantages, and military and naval uses of the said canal, shall be submitted to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce for their action before it is transmitted to Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., authorised.</p></sidenote>If the said Secretaries are all in favor of the acquisition of the said canal, the Secretary of War is hereby further authorized to enter into negotiations for its purchase, including all property, franchises, and appurtenances used or acquired for use in connection therewith or appertaining thereto; and he is further authorized, if in the judgment of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce, that the price for such canal is reasonable and satisfactory, to make contracts for the purchase of the same, at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condomnation pro ceedings.</p></sidenote>the option of the United States, subject to future ratification and appropriation by the Congress; or, in the event of the inability of the Secretary of War to make a satisfactory contract for the voluntary purchase of said Cape Cod Canal and its appurtenances, he is hereby authorized and directed, through the Attorney General, to institute and carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation of said canal and its appurtenances, the acceptance of the award <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>in said proceedings to be subject to the future ratification and appropriation by Congress. Such condemnation proceedings shall be instituted and conducted in, and jurisdiction of said proceedings is hereby given to, the district court of the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 357.</p></sidenote>for the district of Massachusetts, substantially as provided in “An Act to authorize condemnation of land for sites for public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved August first, eighteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>and eighty-eight; and the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to pay the necessary costs thereof and expenses in connection therewith. The Secretary of War is further authorized and directed to report the proceedings hereunder to Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode island.</p></sidenote>Providence Harbor, Rhode Island.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pawtucket River, Rhode Island, with a view to increasing the width of channel through the ledge near Pawtucket.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote>Sterling Basin, at Greenport, New York, with a view to securing adequate width and depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jamaica Bay.</p></sidenote>The item for preliminary examination of Jamaica Bay with a view to obtaining a channel one hundred feet wide and six feet deep to <page identifier="/us/stat/40/263">263</page>and through Great South Bay to Peconic Bay, including channels to Parsonage and Sumpawans River and Freeport and Massapequa Creeks, in the river and harbor Act approved March second, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1115.</p></sidenote>hundred and seven, is modified to permit the consideration of a channel of suitable depth and width.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Flushing Bay, Now York.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Kill van Kull from Shooters Island west to junction of channels with a view to dredging shoals between channels to provide anchorage grounds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bay Ridge Channel, New York Harbor, New York.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harlem River, New York.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New York Harbor: West side of upper bay from Constable Hook to Ellis Island.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gardiners Island, New York, with a view to the construction of a breakwater.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania, from its mouth to West <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote>Newton, including a report on existing and prospective water terminals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Poplar Island, Maryland.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryland.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest River, Virginia-North Carolina: From at or near <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia-North Carolina.</p></sidenote>Woodward’s Bridge upstream so flat lighters, and so forth, may ascend, with a width of channel of not less than forty feet, as far as the Cornland Causeway Road, or beyond that point as far as practicable, and to take into consideration any proposition for the cooperation on the part of local or State interests, for the payment of one-half the expense of this project, and to report the possible utility of the whole river, from its mouth to its source, if adequately improved to meet the requirements of its connecting waters, for the national defense.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Trent River, North Carolina, with a view to deepening the channel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p></sidenote>along that portion of the river known as Feys Flats, and creating a turning basin at the confluence of Mill Creek and Trent River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor of Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island, and entrance thereto from Pamlico Sound, North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Smiths Creek, Pamlico County, North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Broad Creek, Pamlico County, North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Queens Creek, Onslow County, North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast River, Duplin County, North Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little River, North Carolina and South Carolina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lynchs River, South Carolina.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Carolina.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Broad and Congaree Rivers, at or near Columbia, South Carolina, with a view to improvement for navigation, consideration being given to any proposition of local cooperation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charleston Harbor and Cooper River, South Carolina, from the entrance to Sanders Creek, including Town Creek Channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Church and Bohicket Creeks and Church Flats, South Carolina, from the North Edisto River to the Stono River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashley River, South Carolina, from the Standard Wharf of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company to Lambs, with a view of improving the channel to a depth of not less than eight feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a navigable waterway, of suitable depth <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia.</p></sidenote>and width to answer the needs of commerce, connecting the waters of the Flint and Ocmulgee Rivers in the State of Georgia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savannah River at and near Augusta, Georgia, for the purpose of determining what erosion is taking place and what improvements are necessary to prevent the same in the interest of navigation; also the consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local or State interests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Canaveral Harbor, Florida.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Florida.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Banana Creek, Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian and Halifax Rivers, Florida.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Sarasota Bay, Florida, from Sarasota Bay to Venice.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miami Harbor (Biscayne Bay), Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Withlacoochee River, Florida, between Dunnellon and Lake Panasoffkee.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lake Worth Inlet, Palm Beach County, Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlotte Harbor, Florida, with a view to securing a channel of increased depth from the Gulf of Mexico to the town of Boca Grande.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pithlachascotee River, Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peace River, Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Braden River, Manatee County, Florida.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hillsboro River, Florida, from Michigan Avenue to Lafayette Street Bridge, Tampa.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi.</p></sidenote>Back Bay of Biloxi, Mississippi, with a view to removing shoals at Cranes Neck and Biloxi Mud Flats and securing a depth of twelve feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisiana.</p></sidenote>Bayou Tigre, Louisiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atchafalaya River and Bayous Cour tableau, Teche, and Vermilion, with a view to forming navigable connections between said streams, including consideration of any propositions for cooperation on the part of local interests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Dorcheat, Louisiana, through Lake Bistaneau and Loggy Bayou.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Terrebonne, Louisiana, between Houma and Thibodaux.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Lacassine, Louisiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Chene, Louisiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shallow Bayou, Louisiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Intracoastal waterway from Calcasieu River, Louisiana, to Sabine River, Texas and Louisiana, with a view to securing such width and depth as will meet the demands of commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Calcasieu River from the Gulf of Mexico to the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, with a view to providing greater depth of water.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas.</p></sidenote>Old River, Chambers County, Texas,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Galveston Bay at Smiths Point, Texas.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel from Aransas Pass to Corpus Christi, Texas.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterway in Texas from the jetties at Sabine Pass through the Port Arthur Ship Channel to Port Arthur and through the Sabine-Neches Canal to the mouths of the Neches and Sabine Rivers, and thence up said rivers to Beaumont and Orange, respectively, and also through Taylors Bayou from the Government turning basin to the Southern Pacific Railway Bridge, with a view to deepening and widening such waterways, making necessary cut-offs, and otherwise improving same for navigation and commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas and Missouri.</p></sidenote>Black River, Arkansas and Missouri.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Black River, Arkansas and Missouri, above Black Rock, Arkansas, an instrumental survey with a view to preparing plans and estimates of cost for caring for flood waters in said river and to determining whether a portion of the flood waters of the Saint Francois River should be diverted to the Black River, and what additional cost such diversion would involve in connection with the works on the Black River. The report of survey shall also include consideration of any imposition by local interests for participation in the expense of said project on account of the reclamation of contiguous lands or other lands subject to overflow by said streams.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston, Tex.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a board of engineers to make a survey of Galveston Island and Galveston Channel, Texas, east of the causeway, and to prepare plans and estimates for their protection against storms and erosions, including the protection of the instrumentalities and aids to commerce located there.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel connecting the Houston Ship Channel with the Goose Creek oil field, Harris County, Texas.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tennessee River, Tennessee, with a view to locating one low dam <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee.</p></sidenote>at mouth of Whites Creek and one low dam at the mouth of the Clinch River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Tennessee River, Tennessee.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Black River at Lorain, Ohio.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Buffalo Harbor, Michigan.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pentwater Harbor, Michigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bar in Lake Michigan in front of the United States naval training <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illinois.</p></sidenote>station, Great Lakes, Illinois, with a view to dredging said bar so as to permit lake vessels to land at said station.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized to make such preliminary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship canal, Lake Ontario to Saint Lawrence River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>examinations as can be made from available data, without making field surveys, touching the creation of conditions in or paralleling the Saint Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the Canadian border suitable in all respects for navigation by ocean-going ships, including such approximate estimate of cost of improvement as can be predicated on such available data and an approximation of the amount of power, if any, that would be incident thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Missouri River between Yankton and Vermilion, South Dakota.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Los Angeles Harbor, California, with a view to dredging a channel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote>of adequate width and depth in the West Basin.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Newport, California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sacramento River, California, from the city of Sacramento to the city of Colusa, with a view to providing a channel six feet in depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Petaluma Creek, California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Haydens Slough, Columbia River, near Portland, Oregon, with a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote>view to the relocation of the dike near upper end.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is directed to make a survey and submit a report to Congress with a view to securing a channel thirty-five feet deep in the Lower Columbia and Willamette Rivers below Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Main ship channel in or near the mouth of the Columbia River on the southerly or Oregon side from a point in the vicinity of Point Adams along channel to or a short distance above Tongue Point, and of Youngs Bay from the Columbia River channel to a point one mile above the county bridge, so as to give a depth of forty feet at low tide.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is directed to make a survey and submit a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington and Oregon.</p></sidenote>report to Congress upon the advisability of securing a channel in the Columbia River from the mouth of the Willamette River to the eastern limits of the city of Vancouver, Washington, equal in width and depth to the project channel from the mouth of the Willamette</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">to the city of Portland, Oregon, and what cooperation, if any, should be given.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River between Carrolls, Washington, and Stella, Washington, and the Cowlitz River below Ostrander, Washington, with a view to devising plans for bank protection, including consideration of any proposition for cooperation on the part of local or State interests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Willamette Slough, Oregon, with a view to removing old dikes and breakwaters now obstructing navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East Channel, Coos River, Oregon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tillamook Bay and River and Hoquarten Slough, Oregon, with a view to securing the most feasible channel from the entrance to the city of Tillamook.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Black River and Renton Harbor, Washington.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mouth of the Cowlitz River, Washington, for the purpose of determining the advisability of the construction of a jetty, or other means, for deepening the channel at the mouth of the river.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterway between Port Townsend Bay and Oak Bay in Jefferson <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote>County, Washington, with a view to increased width and depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction until close of present war.</p></sidenote>Controller Bay, Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Provided</i>, That no survey herein provided for shall be made until after the close of the war with Germany except such as the Secretary of War shall direct.</p>
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<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota North and South Dakota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements of boundary waters by, consented to.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Congress hereby consents that the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, or any two of them, may enter into any agreement or agreements with each other to aid in improving navigation and to prevent and control floods on boundary waters of said States and the waters tributary thereto. And said States, or any two of them, may agree with each other upon any project or projects for the purpose of making such improvements, and upon the amount of money to be contributed by each to carry <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys, etc.</p></sidenote>out such projects. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to make a survey of any project proposed, as aforesaid, by said States, or any two of them, to determine the feasibility and practicability thereof and the expenses of carrying the same into effect and what share of such expenses should be borne by the respective States, local interests, or by the National Government. If the Secretary of War approves any such projects, he may authorize the States to make such improvements at their own expense, but under his supervision. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of War to make the surveys and estimates herein contemplated.</content>
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<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on private contract work.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to pay for any work done by private contract if the contract price is more than twenty-five per centum in excess of the estimated cost of doing the work by Government plant.</content>
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<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation of harbors, etc.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 362.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section four of the river and harbor Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended by section eleven of the river and harbor Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of navigable waters to be regulated by Secretary of War.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 374, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to prescribe such regulations for the use, administration, and navigation of the navigable waters of the United States as in his judgment the public necessity may require for the protection of life and property, or of operations of the United States in channel improvement, covering all matters not specifically delegated by law to some other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Posting of regulations.</p></sidenote>executive department. Such regulations shall be posted, in conspicuous and appropriate places, for the information of the public; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>and every person and every corporation which shall violate such regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof in any district court of the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such offense may have been committed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.”</content>
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<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation of areas adjacent to target practice, fortifications, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 892.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That, in the interest of the national defense and for the better protection of life and property on said waters, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe such regulations as he may deem best for the use and navigation of any portion of areas of the navigable waters of the United States or waters under the jurisdiction of the United States endangered or likely to be endangered by Coast Artillery fire in target practice or otherwise, or by the proving operations of the Government ordnance proving ground at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, or at any Government ordnance proving ground that may be established elsewhere on or near such waters, and of any portion or area of said waters occupied by sub<page identifier="/us/stat/40/267">267</page>marine mines, mine fields, submarine cables, or other material and accessories pertaining to seacoast fortifications; and the said Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting explosives.</p></sidenote>of War shall have like power to regulate the transportation of explosives upon any of said waters.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That to enforce the regulations prescribed pursuant to this section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of War may detail any public vessel in the service of the War Department, or, upon the request of the Secretary of War, the head of any other department may enforce, and the head of any such department is hereby authorized to enforce, such regulations by means of any public vessel of such department.</p>
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<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That whenever any State, or any reclamation, flood control <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings to secure title to lands to be given for improvements by State authorities, etc.</p></sidenote>or drainage district, or other public agency created by any State, shall undertake to secure any land or easement therein, needed in connection with a work of river and harbor improvement duly authorized by Congress, for the purpose of conveying the same to the United States free of cost, and shall be unable for any reason to obtain the same by purchase and acquire a valid title thereto, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States for the acquirement by condemnation of said land or easement, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute and conduct such proceedings upon the request of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of expenses.</p></sidenote>That all expenses of said proceedings and any award that may be made thereunder shall be paid by such State, or reclamation, flood control or drainage district, or other public agency as aforesaid, to secure which payment the Secretary of War may require such State, or reclamation, flood control or drainage district, or other public agency as aforesaid, to execute a proper bond in such amount as he may deem necessary before said proceedings are commenced.</proviso></content>
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<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That section four of the river and harbor Act of July <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer reports.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 411, amended.</p></sidenote>twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That there shall be printed one thousand five hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Index to, 1913 to 1917, ordered printed.</p></sidenote>copies of an index to the annual reports of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, from nineteen hundred and thirteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, which shall be supplemental to the index published in House Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty, Sixty-third Congress, second session, covering the period from eighteen hundred and sixty-six to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, authorized by section six of the river and harbor Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 233.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional matter.</p></sidenote>approved duly twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and shall a so include an index of congressional documents relating to works of river and harbor improvement which have not been published in the annual reports of the Chief of Engineers, and an index of such other professional papers relating to the work of the Engineer Department as the Chief of Engineers may select for this purpose.”</content>
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<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>The Secretary of War is hereby directed to report without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of survey of harbor encroachments required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 817.</p></sidenote>delay to Congress the survey provided for by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen relative to the encroachments and obstructions in the Chicago River and all its branches, together with such encroachments as have been made in and along the lake front between Lincoln Park and the Indiana State Line.</content>
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<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seattle, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Betterton-Morgan Company Inc. may construct dock on tide lands.</p></sidenote>such terms, including a reasonable rental, to be approved by him, to permit the Betterton-Morgan Company Inc. to construct a dock or docks upon lots one, two, and three, block six, Seattle tidelands, or upon such portions thereof as he may designate, the construction of said docks to be under the supervision of and all material used therein to be approved by the Secretary of War and the necessary expenses of such supervision and construction to be borne by said company. Said company shall maintain said docks at its own <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms and conditions.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/268">268</page>expense and use and maintain the same under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe. Said company shall vacate said docks and remove all its property therefrom upon twenty-four hours’ notice to do so from the Secretary of War, and it shall give the Secretary of War satisfactory assurances that upon thirty days’ notice to do so it will demolish said docks and remove all débris pertaining thereto as may be required by the Secretary of War. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government use, etc.</p></sidenote>Said docks shall from the time of their construction be the property of the United States and subject to the use of the United States for any purpose whatsoever, and the only interest the said company shall have hereunder is a revocable license to use the same under the terms and conditions set out herein.</content>
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<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rentals for use of Government plants.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That amounts hereafter paid by private parties or other agencies for rental of plant owned by the Government in connection with the prosecution of river and harbor works shall be deposited in each case to the credit of the appropriation to which the plant belongs.</content>
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<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Diego, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company may retain wharf at.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, of Kansas, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas, be, and it is hereby, granted authority to maintain its wharf, known as “ long wharf,” in the harbor of San Diego, California, where the same extends across certain submerged lands of the United States, ceded to the United States by act of the Legislature of the State of California, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, which said submerged lands lie in front of certain upland property of the United States described as lots one to nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>of block eighteen of the city of San Diego, upon the following conditions and limitations: That the United States shall have free use of the so-called “west wharf” of the said railway company, adjoining and connected with the said “long wharf” in the harbor of San Diego, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be agreed upon between the local representatives of the railway company and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement as to disputes.</p></sidenote>the commanding officer of Fort Rosecrans, California: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if, at any time, the said parties shall fail to agree as to said rules and regulations, the United States shall have the occupancy and use of said wharf until the controversy shall have been referred to the general manager of the railway company and the department commander, Western Department, United States Army, for decision, and an agreement shall have been reached by them in the matter, or by one of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements, etc., by the Government.</p></sidenote>them and an umpire to be selected by them:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the United States shall have the right to make such improvements to the said “west wharf” at its own expense as may be necessary to give the United States adequate and reasonable accommodations, provided such improvements snail be made without unnecessary interference with the operation of the railway company in its relations to the public as a common carrier and in its use of the said wharf as such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alterations, etc., by railway company not required.</p></sidenote>common carrier:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the railway company shall not be required to add to or alter the said “west wharf” or to add to or alter the warehouse and storeroom accommodations connected therewith. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is hereby expressly reserved.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mosquito Creek, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declared nonnavigable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Mosquito Creek, in Colleton County, South Carolina, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Meto, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declared noimavigable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Bayou Meto, in the State of Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Marys River, Ohio and Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declared normavigable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Saint Marys River, Ohio and Indiana, be, and the same hereby is, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/269">269</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That a commission, to be known as the Waterways Commission, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterways Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition of.</p></sidenote>consisting of seven members to be appointed by the President of the United States, at least one of whom shall be chosen from the active or retired list of the Engineers Corps of the Army, at least one of whom shall be an expert hydraulic engineer from civil life, and the remaining five of whom may each be selected either from civil life or the public service, is hereby created and authorized, under such rules <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Created to formulate plans for developing water resources for navigation, etc.</p></sidenote>and regulations as the President may prescribe, and subject to the approval of the heads of the several executive departments concerned, to bring into coordination and cooperation the engineering, scientific, and constructive services, bureaus, boards, and commissions of the several governmental departments of the United States and commissions created by Congress that relate to study, development, or control <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subjects for study, etc., designated.</p></sidenote>of waterways and water resources and subjects related thereto, or to the development and regulation of interstate and foreign commerce, with a view to uniting such services in investigating, with respect to all watersheds in the United States, questions relating to the development, improvement, regulation, and control of navigation as a part of interstate and foreign commerce, including therein the related questions of irrigation, drainage, forestry, arid and swamp land reclamation, clarification of streams, regulation of flow, control of floods, utilization of water power, prevention of soil erosion and waste, storage, and conservation of water for agricultural, industrial, municipal, and domestic uses, cooperation of railways and waterways, and promotion of terminal and transfer facilities, to secure the necessary data, and to formulate and report to Congress, as early as practicable, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of plans to Congress.</p></sidenote>a comprehensive plan or plans for the development of waterways and the water resources of the United States for the purposes of navigation and for every useful purpose, and recommendations for the modification or discontinuance of any project herein or heretofore adopted. Any member appointed from the retired list shall receive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of commission.</p></sidenote>the same pay and allowances as he would if on the active list, and no member selected from the public service shall receive additional compensation for services on said commission, and members selected from civil life shall receive compensation of $7,500 per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all matters done, or to be done, under this section relating to any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consideration of rights, etc., of United States, States, etc., re specting proposed projects.</p></sidenote>of the subjects, investigations, or questions to be considered hereunder, and in formulating plans, and in the preparation of a report or reports, as herein provided, consideration shall be given to all matters which are to be undertaken, either independently by the United States or by cooperation between the United States and the several States, political subdivisions thereof, municipalities, communities, corporations, and individuals within the jurisdiction, powers, and rights of each, respectively, and with a view to assigning to the United States such portion of such development, promotion, regulation, and control as may be undertaken by the United States, and to the States, political subdivisions thereof, municipalities, communities, corporations, and individuals such portions as belong to their respective jurisdictions, rights, and interests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The commission is authorized to employ, or retain, and fix the compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, technical experts, etc., to be employed.</p></sidenote>for the services of such engineers, transportation experts, experts in water development and utilization, and constructora of eminence as it may deem necessary to make such investigations and to carry out the purposes of this section. And in order to defray the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote>expenses made necessary by the provisions of this section there is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as Congress may hereafter determine, and the sum of $100,000 is hereby appropriated, available until expended, to be paid out upon warrants drawn on the Secretary of the Treasury by the chairman of said commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The commission shall have power to make every expenditure <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for expen ditures.</p></sidenote>requisite for and incident to its authorized work, and to employ in <page identifier="/us/stat/40/270">270</page>the District of Columbia and in the field such clerical, legal, engineering, artistic, and expert services as it may deem advisable, including the payment of per diem in lieu of subsistence for employees engaged in field work or traveling on official business, rent of offices in the District of Columbia and in the field, and the purchase of books, maps, and office equipment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River and harbor projects not interfered with, etc.</p></sidenote>Nothing herein contained shall be construed to delay, prevent, or interfere with the completion of any survey, investigation, project, or work herein or heretofore or hereafter adopted or authorized upon or for the improvement of any of the rivera or harbors of the United States or with legislative action upon reports heretofore or hereafter presented.</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 8, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 50: To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>50</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 270</citableAs>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>50.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-09">August 9, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1816">S. 1816</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/38">Public, No. 38</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That section twenty-four of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, be further amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 24. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Membership enlarged.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 595, amended.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby enlarged so as to consist of nine members, with terms of seven years, and each shall receive $10,000 compensation annually. The qualifications of the members and the manner of the payment of their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of new members.</p></sidenote>salaries shall be as already provided by law. Such enlargement of the commission shall be accomplished through appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of two additional Interstate Commerce Commissioners, one for a term expiring December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and one for a term expiring December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expiration of terms.</p></sidenote>twenty-two. The terms of the present commissioners, or of any successor appointed to fill a vacancy caused by the death or resignation of any of the present commissioners, shall expire as heretofore <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Successors to serve seven years.</p></sidenote>provided by law. Their successors and the successors of the additional commissioners herein provided for shall be appointed for the full term of seven years, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Political selection.</p></sidenote>whom he shall succeed. Not more than five commissioners shall be appointed from the same political party.”</content></section>
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</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline">That section seventeen of said Act, as amended, be further amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 17. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduct of proceedings, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 861, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the commission may conduct its proceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and to the ends of justice. The commission shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed. Any member of the commission may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quorum.</p></sidenote>administer oaths and affirmations and sign subpoenas. A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except as may be otherwise herein provided, but no commissioner shall participate in any hearing or proceeding in which he has <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General rules, orders, etc.</p></sidenote>any pecuniary interest. The commission may, from time to time, make or amend such general rules or orders as may be requisite for the order and regulation of proceedings before it, or before any division of the commission, including forms of notices and the service thereof, which shall conform, as nearly as may be, to those in use in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appearances, etc.</p></sidenote>the courts of the United States. Any party may appear before the commission or any division thereof and be heard in person or by attorney. Every vote and official act of the commission, or of any <page identifier="/us/stat/40/271">271</page>division thereof, shall be entered of record, and its proceedings shall be public upon the request of any party interested.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The commission is hereby authorized by its order to divide the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Divisions of Commission authorized.</p></sidenote>members thereof into as many divisions as it may deem necessary, which may be changed from time to time. Such divisions shall be denominated, respectively, division one, division two, and so forth. Any commissioner may be assigned to and may serve upon such division <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of members thereto.</p></sidenote>or divisions as the commission may direct, and the senior in service of the commissioners constituting any of said divisions shall act as chairman thereof. In case of vacancy in any division, or of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary service.</p></sidenote>absence or inability to serve thereon of any commissioner thereto assigned, the chairman of the commission, or any commissioner designated by him for that purpose, may temporarily serve on said division until the commission shall otherwise order.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The commission may by order direct that any of its work, business, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of work to divisions.</p></sidenote>or functions arising under this Act, or under any Act amendatory thereof, or supplemental thereto, or under any amendment which may be made to any of said Acts, or under any other Act or joint resolution which has been or may hereafter be approved, or in respect of any matter which has been or may be referred to the commission by Congress or by either branch thereof, be assigned or referred to any of said divisions for action thereon, and may by order at any time amend, modify, supplement, or rescind any such direction. All such orders shall take effect forthwith and remain in effect until otherwise ordered by the commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“In conformity with and subject to the order or orders of the commission <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full Jurisdiction conferred on divisions.</p></sidenote>in the premises, each division so constituted shall have power and authority by a majority thereof to hear and determine, order, certify, report, or otherwise act as to any of said work, business, or functions so assigned or referred to it for action by the commission, and in respect thereof the division shall have all the jurisdiction and powers now or then conferred by law upon the commission, and be subject to the same duties and obligations. Any order, decision, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement of orders.</p></sidenote>report made or other action taken by any of said divisions in respect of any matters so assigned or referred to it shall have the same force and effect, and may be made, evidenced, and enforced in the same manner as if made, or taken by the commission, subject to rehearing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rehearings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 592.</p></sidenote>by the commission, as provided in section sixteen-a hereof for rehearing cases decided by the commission. The secretary and seal of the commission shall be the secretary and seal of each division thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“In all proceedings before any such divisions relating to the reasonableness <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate, etc., questions.</p></sidenote>of rates or to alleged discriminations not less than three members shall participate in the consideration and decision; and in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical valuation proceedings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 701.</p></sidenote>all proceedings relating to the valuation of railway property under the Act entitled ‘An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteeen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not less than five members shall participate in the consideration and decision.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The salary of the secretary of the commission shall be $5,000 per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary of secretary.</p></sidenote>annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Nothing in this section contained, or done pursuant thereto, shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of Commission not affected.</p></sidenote>be deemed to divest the commission of any of its powers.”</p>
</content></section>
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</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">So much of section eighteen of the Act to regulate commerce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former pay repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 861, amended.</p></sidenote>as fixes the salary of the secretary of the commission is hereby repealed.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/272">272</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New rates, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 552, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That paragraph two, section fifteen, of the Act to regulate commerce approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, as amended, be further amended by adding the following: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on filing increased rales, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso>“<i>Provided further</i>, until January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, no increased rate, fare, charge, or classification shall be filed except <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval by Commission.</p></sidenote>after approval thereof has been secured from the commission. Such approval may, in the discretion of the commission, be given without formal hearing, and in such case shall not affect any subsequent proceeding relative to such rate, fare, charge, or classification.”</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 9, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 51: To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>51</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 272</citableAs>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>51.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the Act to regulate commerce, as amended, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-10">August 10, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2356">S. 2356</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/39">Public, No. 39</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate commerce regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 547, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That section one of the act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, be further amended by adding thereto the following:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for obstructing movement of carriers, etc., during present war.</p></sidenote>“That on and after the approval of this Act any person or persons who shall, during the war in which the United States is now engaged, knowingly and willfully, by physical force or intimidation by threats of physical force obstruct or retard, or aid in obstructing or retarding, the orderly conduct or movement in the United States of interstate or foreign commerce, or the orderly make-up or movement or disposition of any train, or the movement or disposition of any locomotive, car, or other vehicle on any railroad or elsewhere in the United States engaged in interstate or foreign commerce shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of armed torces to prevent, etc.</p></sidenote>imprisonment; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment the public interest requires, to employ the armed forces of the United States to prevent any such obstruction or retardation of the passage of the mail, or of the orderly conduct or movement of interstate or foreign commerce in any part of the United States, or of any train, locomotive, car, or other vehicle upon any railroad or elsewhere in the United States engaged in interstate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor provisions not changed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 731, 738.</p></sidenote>or foreign commerce: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal, modify, or affect either section six or section twenty of an Act entitled ‘An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes, approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferential transportation of national defense commodities.</p></sidenote>“That during the continuance of the war in which the United States is now engaged the President is authorized, if he finds it necessary for the national defense and security, to direct that such traffic or such shipments of commodities as, in his judgment, may be essential to the national defense and security shall have preference or priority in transportation by any common carrier by railroad water, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials to issue orders, etc.</p></sidenote>or otherwise. He may give these directions at and for such times as he may determine, and may modify, change, suspend, or annul them, and for any such purpose he is hereby authorized to issue orders direct, or through such person or persons as he may designate for the purpose or through the Interstate Commerce Commission. Officials of the United States, when so designated, shall receive no <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation, expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>compensation for their services rendered hereunder. Persons not in the employ of the United States so designated shall receive such compensation as the President may fix. Suitable offices may be <page identifier="/us/stat/40/273">273</page>rented and all necessary expenses, including compensation of persons so designated, shall be paid as directed by the President out of funds which may have been or may be provided to meet expenditures for the national security and defense. The common carriers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers may have agencies in Washington to receive notices, orders, etc.</p></sidenote>subject to the Act to regulate commerce or as many of them as desire so to do are hereby authorized without responsibility or liability on the part of the United States, financial or otherwise, to establish and maintain in the city of Washington during the period of the war an agency empowered by such carriers as join in the arrangement to receive on behalf of them all notice and service of such orders and directions as may be issued in accordance with this Act, and service upon such agency shall be good service as to all the carriers joining in the establishment thereof. And it shall be the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orders to be complied with.</p></sidenote>duty of any and all the officers, agents, or employees of such carriers by railroad or water or otherwise to obey strictly and conform promptly to such orders, and failure knowingly and willfully to comply <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure.</p></sidenote>there with, or to do or perform whatever is necessary to the prompt execution of such order, shall render such officers, agents, or employees guilty of a misdemeanor, and any such officer, agent, or employee shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates for transportation to be fixed by Commission.</p></sidenote>the transportation of persons or property in carrying out the orders and directions of the President, just and reasonable rates shall be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission; and if the transportation be for the Government of the United States, it shall be paid for currently or monthly by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any funds not otherwise appropriated. Any carrier complying <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferences exempt from penalties, etc.</p></sidenote>with any such order or direction tor preference or priority herein authorized shall be exempt from any and all provisions in existing law imposing civil or criminal pains, penalties, obligations, or liabilities upon carriers by reason of giving preference or priority in compliance with such order or direction.”</p>
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</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 10, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 52: To provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>52</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 273</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-08-10</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>52.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-10">August 10, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4188">H. R. 4188</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/40">Public, No. 40</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That, for the purpose of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural food products, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred to gather Information, increase supply, etc.</p></sidenote>more effectually providing for the national security and defense and carrying on the war with Germany by gathering authoritative information concerning the food supply, by increasing production, by preventing waste of the food supply, by regulating the distribution thereof, and by such other means and methods as are hereinafter provided, the powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are conferred and prescribed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That the Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of demand, production, distribution, etc., of designated articles.</p></sidenote>President, is authorized to investigate and ascertain the demand for, the supply, consumption, costs, and prices of, and the basic facts relating to the ownership, production, transportation, manufacture, storage, and distribution of, foods, food materials, feeds, seeds, fertilizers, agricultural implements and machinery, and any article required in connection with the production, distribution, or utilization of food. It shall be the duty of any person, when requested by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compulsory testimony, etc.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of Agriculture, or any agent acting under his instructions, to answer correctly, to the best of his knowledge, under oath or otherwise, all questions touching his knowledge of any matter authorized to be investigated under this section, or to produce all books, letters, papers, or documents in his possession, or under his <page identifier="/us/stat/40/274">274</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for refusals, false statements, etc.</p></sidenote>control, relating to such matter. Any person who shall, within a reasonable time to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, not exceeding thirty days from the date of the receipt of the request, willfully fail or refuse to answer such questions or to produce such books, letters, papers, or documents, or who shall willfully give any answer that is false or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seeds for seeding may be bought to sell to farmers.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That whenever the Secretary of Agriculture shall find that there is or may be a special need in any restricted area for seeds suitable for the production of food or feed crops, he is authorized to purchase, or contract with persons to grow such seeds, to store them, and to furnish them to farmers for cash, at cost, including the expense of packing and transportation.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation with States, etc.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cooperate with such State and local officials, and with such public and private agencies, or persons, as he finds necessary, and to make such rules and regulations as are necessary effectively to carry out the preceding sections of this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two additional Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties, pay, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 659, amended.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint two additional Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture, who shall perform such duties as may be required by law or prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and who shall each be paid a salary of $5,000 per annum.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation of other agencies, etc., to avoid duplication.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the President is authorized to direct any agency or organization of the Government to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out the purposes of this Act and to coordinate their activities so as to avoid any preventable loss or duplication of work.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of terms used.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That words used in this Act shall be construed to import the plural or the singular as the case demands, and the word “person,” wherever used in this Act, shall include individuals, partnerships, associations, and corporations.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for specified objects.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That for the purposes of this Act, the following sums are hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eradicating livestock diseases, etc.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, available immediately and until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: For the prevention, control, and eradication of the diseases and pests of live stock; the enlargement of live-stock <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conserving animal products.</p></sidenote>production; and the conservation and utilization of meat, poultry, dairy, and other animal products, $885,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procuring seeds, etc., for sale.</p></sidenote>For procuring, storing, and furnishing seeds, as authorized by section three of this Act, $2,500,000, and this fund may be used as a revolving fund until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eradicating insects, plant diseases, etc.</p></sidenote>For the prevention, control, and eradication of insects and plant diseases injurious to agriculture, and the conservation and utilization of plant products, $441,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food conservation demonstrations, etc.</p></sidenote>For increasing food production and eliminating waste and promoting conservation of food by educational and demonstrational methods, through county, district, and urban agents and others, $4,348,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gathering information, market news, preventing waste, etc.</p></sidenote>For gathering authoritative information in connection with the demand for, and the production, supply, distribution, and utilization of food, and otherwise carrying out the purpose of section two of this Act; extending and enlarging the market news service; and preventing waste of food in storage, in transit, or held for sale; advise concerning the market movement or distribution of perishable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certifying condition of fruits, etc., at central markets.</p></sidenote>products; for enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and certify to shippers the condition as to soundness of fruits, vegetables, and other food products, when received at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe:<page identifier="/us/stat/40/275">275</page> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That certificates issued by the authorized agents of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of certificates.</p></sidenote>department shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained; and otherwise carrying out the purposes of this Act, $2,522,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Women to be employed.</p></sidenote>Secretary of Agriculture shall, so far as practicable, engage the services of women for the work herein provided for.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, including the salaries of Assistant Secretaries <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>appointed under this Act; special work in crop estimating; aiding agencies in the various States in supplying farm labor; enlarging the informational work of the Department of Agriculture; and printing and distributing emergency leaflets, posters, and other publications requiring quick issue or large editions, $650,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the employment of any person under the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees not exempt from military</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote>of this Act shall not exempt any such person from military service under the provisions of the selective draft law approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote>Congress at its regular session in December of each year a detailed report of the expenditure of all moneys herein appropriated.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><content>That the Act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cattle quarantine, etc., modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 4 14, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1048.</p></sidenote>ninety, entitled “An Act providing for an inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes ” (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and fourteen), is hereby amended so as to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tick infested cattle for immediateslaughter may be imported.</p></sidenote>authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, within his discretion and under such joint regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury, to permit the admission for immediate slaughter at ports of entry of tick-infested cattle which are otherwise free from disease and which have not been exposed to the infection of any other disease within sixty days next before their exportation from Mexico, South and Central America, the islands of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea into <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ports to be designated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, pp, 416, 417.</p></sidenote>those parts of the United States below the southern cattle quarantine line at such ports of entry as may be designated by said joint regulations and also subject to the provisions of sections seven, eight, nine, and ten of said Act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the importation of tick-infested cattle from any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Countries excluded.</p></sidenote>country referred to in this section in which foot-and-mouth disease exists, which existence shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all cattle imported <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meat inspection requirements to govern.</p></sidenote>under the provisions of this section shall be slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 674, 1260.</p></sidenote>seventy-four), commonly called the meat inspection amendment, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, and that their hides shall be disposed of under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposition of hides.</p></sidenote>rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num><content>That section six of the Act of Congress approved June <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarged homesteads in Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 532, amended.</p></sidenote>seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead, ” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 6. </num><content class="inline">That whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands without water for domestic use, to be designated.</p></sidenote>find any tracts of land in the State of Idaho, subject to entry under this Act, do not have upon them such a sufficient supply of water suitable for domestic purposes as would make continuous residence upon the lands possible ho may, in his discretion, designate such tracts of land, not to exceed in the aggregate one million acres, and thereafter they <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Area increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence not required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount to be cultivated reduced.</p></sidenote>shall be subject to entry under this Act without the necessity of residence upon the land entered: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entryman shall in good faith cultivate not less than one-sixteenth of the entire area of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/276">276</page>the entry which is susceptible of cultivation during the first year of the entry, not loss than one-eighth during the second year, and not less than one-fourth during the third year of the entry and until <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State residence required.</p></sidenote>final proof:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That after six months from the date of entry and until final proof the entryman shall be a resident of the State of Idaho.”</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of residence requirement, etc. authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 389.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the continuance of this Act that provision of the Act known as the “Reclamation Act” requiring residence upon lands in private ownership or within the neighborhood for securing water for the irrigation of the same, and he is authorized to permit the use of available water thereon upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act to cease after war terminates.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the provisions of this Act shall cease to be in effect when the national emergency resulting from the existing state of war shall have passed, the date of which shall be ascertained and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Date.</p></sidenote>proclaimed by the President: but the date when this Act shall cease to be in effect shall not be later than the beginning of the next fiscal year after the termination, as ascertained ny the President, of the present war between the United States and Germany.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, August 10, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 53: To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>53.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-08-10">August 10, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4961">H. R. 4961</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/41">Public, No. 1</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food products, fuel, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Measures for conserving supply of designated necessities during present war, authorized.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To prevent scarcity, etc.</p></sidenote>fuel, hereafter in this Act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To establish governmental control.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Means, etc., created.</p></sidenote>manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war. For such purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers, authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations and orders to be issued.</p></sidenote>established, conferred, and prescribed. The President is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective powers vested in the President.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in carrying out the purposes of this Act the President is authorized to enter into any voluntary arrangements or agreements, to create and use any agency or agencies, to accept the services of any person without compensation, to cooperate with any agency or person, to utilize any department or agency of the Government, and to coordinate their activities so as to avoid any preventable loss or duplication of effort or funds.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government agents, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inducing contracts, etc., by, forbidden if pecuniarily interested therein.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no person acting either as a voluntary or paid agent or employee of the United States in any capacity, including an advisory capacity, shall solicit, induce, or attempt to induce any person or officer authorized to execute or to direct the execution of contracts on behalf of the United States to make any contract or give any order for the furnishing to the United States of work, labor, or services, or of materials, supplies, or other property of any kind or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/277">277</page>character, if such agent or employee has any pecuniary interest in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If party thereto, etc.</p></sidenote>such contract or order, or if he or any firm of which he is a member, or corporation, joint-stock company, or association of which he is an officer or stockholder, or in the pecuniary profits of which he is directly or indirectly interested, shall be a party thereto. Nor shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest in contracts recommended by, to be disclosed.</p></sidenote>any agent or employee make, or permit any committee or other body of which he is a member to make, or participate in making, any recommendation concerning such contract or order to any council, board, or commission of the United States, or any member or subordinate thereof, without making to the best of his knowledge and belief a full and complete disclosure in writing to such council, board, commission, or subordinate of any and every pecuniary interest which he may have in such contract or order and of his interest in any firm, corporation, company, or association being a party thereto. Nor shall he participate in the awarding of such contract or giving <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Awarding such contracts forbidden.</p></sidenote>such order. Any willful violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Criminal Code not modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1097.</p></sidenote>imprisonment of not more than five years, or both: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of this section shall not change, alter or repeal section forty-one of chapter three hundred and twenty-one, Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That it is hereby made unlawful for any person willfully to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enhancing price to restrict supply, wasting, etc., necessaries, unlawful.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses specified.</p></sidenote>destroy any necessaries for the purpose of enhancing the price or restricting the supply thereof; knowingly to commit waste or willfully to permit preventable deterioration of any necessaries in or in connection with their production, manufacture, or distribution; to hoard, as defined in section six of this Act, any necessaries; to monopolize or attempt to monopolize, either locally or generally, any necessaries; to engage in any discriminatory and unfair, or any deceptive or wasteful practice or device, or to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge, in handling or dealing in or with any necessaries; to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conspiracies, combinations, etc., to accomplish unlawful acts.</p></sidenote>conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person, (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, harvesting, manufacturing, supplying, storing, or dealing in any necessaries; (b) to restrict the supply of any necessaries; (c) to restrict distribution of any necessaries; (d) to prevent, limit, or lessen the manufacture or production of any necessaries in order to enhance the price thereof, or (e) to exact excessive prices for any necessaries; or to aid or abet the doing of any act made unlawful by this section.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conducting specified business in necessaries without, forbidden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1689, 1696, 1700, 1713, 1714. 1736. 1742, 1743, 1751, 1775. 1778, 1802, 1846, 1866.</p></sidenote>it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries, in order to carry into effect any of the purposes of this Act, and shall publicly so announce, no person shall, after a date fixed in the announcement, engage in or carry on any such business specified in the announcement of importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any necessaries as set forth in such announcement, unless he shall secure and hold a license issued pursuant to this section. The President is authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations for issue of, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote>to issue such licenses and to prescribe regulations for the issuance of licenses and requirements for systems of accounts and auditing of accounts to be kept by licensees, submission of reports by them, with or without oath or affirmation, and the entry and inspection by the President’s duly authorized agents of the places of business of licensees. Whenever the President shall find that any storage <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unfair storage charges, etc., by licensees to be discontinued.</p></sidenote>charge, commission, profit, or practice of any licensee is unjust, or unreasonable, or discriminatory and unfair, or wasteful, and shall order such licensee, within a reasonable time fixed in the order, to discontinue the same, unless such order, which shall recite the facts found, is revoked or suspended, such licensee shall, within the time prescribed in the order, discontinue such unjust, unreasonable, dis<page identifier="/us/stat/40/278">278</page>criminatory and unfair storage charge, commission, profit, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitution of just, etc., ones therefor, by the President.</p></sidenote>practice. The President may, in lieu of any such unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, and unfair storage charge, commission, profit, or practice, find what is a just, reasonable, nondiscriminatory and fair storage charge, commission, profit, or practice, and in any proceeding brought m any court such order of the President shall be prima <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>facie evidence. Any person who, without a license issued pursuant to this section, or whose license shall have been revoked, knowingly engages in or carries on any business for which a license is required under this section, or willfully fails or refuses to discontinue any unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory and unfair storage charge, commission, profit, or practice, in accordance with the requirement of an order issued under this section, or any regulation prescribed under this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Occupations, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote>years, or both: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this section shall not apply to any fanner, gardener, cooperative association of farmers or gardeners, including live-stock farmers, or other persons with respect to the products of any farm, garden, or other land owned, leased, or cultivated by him, nor to any retailer with respect to the retail business <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No import or export tax authorized.</p></sidenote>actually conducted by him, nor to any common carrier, nor shall anything in this section be construed to authorize the fixing or imposition of a duty or tax upon any article imported into or exported from the United States or any State, Territory, or the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retailer defined.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That for the purposes of this Act a retailer shall be deemed to be a person, co-partnership, firm, corporation, or association not engaging in the wholesale business whose gross sales do not exceed $100,000 per annum.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for hoarding necessaries.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any person who willfully hoards any necessaries shall upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding 85,000 or be imprisoned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses specified.</p></sidenote>for not more than two years, or both. Necessaries shall be deemed to be hoarded within the meaning of this Act when either (a) held, contracted for, or arranged for by any person in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements for use or consumption by himself and dependents for a reasonable time; (b) held, contracted for, or arranged for by any manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or other dealer in a quantity in excess of the reasonable requirements of his business for use or sale by him for a reasonable time, or reasonably required to furnish necessaries produced in surplus quantities seasonally throughout the period of scant or no production; or (c) withheld, whether by possession or under any contract or arrangement, from the market by any person for the purpose of unreasonably increasing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange, etc., transactions not included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 280.</p></sidenote>or diminishing the price: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this section shall not include or relate to transactions on any exchange, board of trade, or similar institution or place of business as described in section thirteen of this Act that may be permitted by the President under the authority <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accumulating their products by farmers, etc., not deemed hoarding.</p></sidenote>conferred upon him by said section thirteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any accumulating or withholding by any farmer or gardener, cooperative association of farmers or gardeners, including Eve-stock farmers, or any other person, of the products of any farm, garden, or other land owned, leased, or cultivated by him shall not be deemed to be hoarding within the meaning of this Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure, etc., of hoarded necessaries.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That whenever any necessaries shall be hoarded as defined in section six they shall be liable to be proceeded against in any district court of the United States within the district where the same are found and seized by a process of libel for condemnation, and if such necessaries shall be adjudged to be hoarded they shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc.</p></sidenote>disposed of by sale in such manner as to provide the most equitable distribution thereof as the court may direct, and the proceeds thereof, less the legal costs and charges, shall be paid to the party <page identifier="/us/stat/40/279">279</page>entitled thereto. The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>as near as may be to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States. It shall be the duty of the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys to prosecute, etc.</p></sidenote>attorney for the proper district to institute and prosecute any such action upon presentation to him of satisfactory evidence to sustain the same.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content>That any person who willfully destroys any necessaries <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for willfully destroying necessaries.</p></sidenote>for the purpose of enhancing the price or restricting the supply thereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That any person who conspires, combines, agrees, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for conspiracies respecting necessaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses designated.</p></sidenote>arranges with any other person (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing, or dealing m any necessaries; (b) to restrict the supply of any necessaries; (c) to restrict the distribution of any necessaries; (d) to prevent, limit, or lessen the manufacture or production of any necessaries in order to enhance the price thereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding $10,000 or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That the President is authorized, from time to time, to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requisition of necessaries for public use, authorized.</p></sidenote>requisition foods, feeds, fuels, and other supplies necessary to the support of the Army or the maintenance of the Navy, or any other public use connected with the common defense, and to requisition, or otherwise provide, storage facilities for such supplies; and he shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for.</p></sidenote>ascertain and pay a just compensation therefor. If the compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized if amount not satisfactory.</p></sidenote>so determined be not satisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President, and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation for such necessaries or storage space, and jurisdiction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of district courts.</p></sidenote>is hereby conferred on the United States District Courts to hear and determine all such controversies: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Necessaries for personal consumption exempt.</p></sidenote>or in the section that follows, shall be construed to require any natural person to furnish to the Government any necessaries held by him and reasonably required for consumption or use by himself and dependents, nor shall any person, firm, corporation, or association <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seed for seeding also.</p></sidenote>be required to furnish to the Government any seed necessary for the seeding of land owned, leased, or cultivated by them.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>That the President is authorized from time to time to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, sale, etc., of food necessaries by United States.</p></sidenote>purchase, to store, to provide storage facilities for, and to sell for cash at reasonable prices, wheat, flour, meal, beans, and potatoes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if any minimum price shall have been theretofore fixed, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p></sidenote>pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen of this Act, then the price paid for any such articles so purchased shall not be less than such minimum price. Any moneys received by the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of receipts from sales.</p></sidenote>from or in connection with the disposal by the United States of necessaries under this section may, in the discretion of the President, be used as a revolving fund for further carrying out the purposes of this section. Any balance of such moneys not used as part of such revolving fund shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content>That whenever the President shall find it necessary to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to take over and operate plants to manufacture necessaries, etc.</p></sidenote>secure an adequate supply of necessaries for the support of the Army or the maintenance of the Navy, or for any other public use connected with the common defense, he is authorized to requisition and take over, for use or operation by the Government, any factory, packing house, oil pipe line, mine, or other plant, or any part thereof, in or through which any necessaries are or may be manufactured, produced, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/280">280</page>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return when not needed.</p></sidenote>prepared, or mined, and to operate the same. Whenever the President shall determine that the further use or operation by the Government of any such factory, mine, or plant, or part thereof, is not essential for the national security or defense, the same shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be designated by the President.</p></sidenote>restored to the person entitled to the possession thereof. The United States shall make just compensation, to be determined by the President, for the taking over, use, occupation, and operation by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized if amount not satisfactory.</p></sidenote>Government of any such factory, mine, or plant, or part thereof. If the compensation so determined be unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President, and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36. pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>will be just compensation, in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operative regulations.</p></sidenote>Judicial Code. The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations as he may deem essential for carrying out the purposes of this section, including the operation of any such factory, mine, or plant, or part thereof, the purchase, sale, or other disposition of articles used, manufactured, produced, prepared, or mined therein, and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing use of receipts, etc.</p></sidenote>employment, control, and compensation of employees. Any moneys received by the United States from or in connection with the use or operation of any such factory, mine, or plant, or part thereof, may, in the discretion of the President, be used as a revolving fund for the purpose of the continued use or operation of any such factory, mine, or plant, or part thereof, and the accounts of each such factory, mine, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances.</p></sidenote>plant, or part thereof, shall be kept separate and distinct. Any balance of such moneys not used as part of such revolving fund shall be paid into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchanges, boards of trade, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations authorised to govern dealing in necessaries at.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That whenever the President finds it essential in order to prevent undue enhancement, depression, or fluctuation of prices of, or in order to prevent injurious speculation in, or in order to prevent unjust market manipulation or unfair and misleading market quotations of the prices of necessaries, hereafter in this section called evil practices, he is authorized to prescribe such regulations governing, or may either wholly or partly prohibit, operations, practices, and transactions at, on, in, or under the rules of any exchange, board of trade, or similar institution or place of business as he may find essential in order to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Records and accounts to be kept.</p></sidenote>prevent, correct, or remove such evil practices. Such regulations may require all persons coming within their provisions to keep such records and statements of account, and may require such persons to make such returns, verified under oath or otherwise, as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions at, in, or on, or under the rifles of any such exchange, board of trade, or similar institution or place of business, including the making, execution, settlement, and fulfillment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearing house transactions.</p></sidenote>thereof. He may also require all persons acting in the capacity of a clearing house, clearing association, or similar institution, for the purpose of clearing, settling, or adjusting transactions at, in, or on, or under the rules of any such exchange, board of trade, or similar institution or place of business, to keep such records and to make such returns as will fully and correctly disclose all facts in their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents to investigate, etc.</p></sidenote>possession relating to such transactions, and he may appoint agents to conduct the investigations necessary to enforce the provisions of this section and all rules and regulations made by him in pursuance thereof, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>may fix and pay the compensation of such agents. Any person who willfully violates any regulation made pursuant to this section, or who knowingly engages in any operation, practice, or transaction prohibited pursuant to this section, or who willfully aids or abets any such violation or any such prohibited operation, practice, or transaction, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than four years, or both.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/281">281</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content>That whenever the President shall find that an emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wheat.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guaranteed price to be established for, by public notice, to stimulate production.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1348, 1649, 1844.</p></sidenote>exists requiring stimulation of the production of wheat and that it is essential that the producers of wheat, produced within the United States, shall have the benefits of the guaranty provided for in this section, he is authorized, from time to time, seasonably and as far in advance of seeding time as practicable, to determine and fix and to give public notice of what, under specified conditions, is a reasonable guaranteed price for wheat, in order to assure such producers a reasonable profit. The President shall thereupon fix <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conformable to standards.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 482.</p></sidenote>such guaranteed price for each of the official grain standards for wheat as established under the United States grain standards Act, approved August eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen. The <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations governing, etc., to be issued.</p></sidenote>President shall from time to time establish and promulgate such regulations as he shall deem wise in connection with such guaranteed prices, and in particular governing conditions of delivery and payment, and differences in price for the several standard grades in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis.</p></sidenote> principal primary markets of the United States, adopting number one northern spring or its equivalent at the principal interior primary markets as the basis. Thereupon, the Government of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price to producer.</p></sidenote>States hereby guarantees every producer of wheat produced within the United States, that, upon compliance by him with the regulations prescribed, he shall receive for any wheat produced in rebanee upon this guarantee within the period, not exceeding eighteen months, prescribed in the notice, a price not less than the guaranteed price therefor as fixed pursuant to this section. In such regulations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms and conditions.</p></sidenote>the President shall prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such producer shall be entitled to the benefits of such guaranty. The guaranteed prices for the several standard grades of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price for crop of 1918.</p></sidenote>wheat for the crop of nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be based upon number one northern spring or its equivalent at not less than $2 per bushel at the principal interior primary markets. This guaranty shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guaranty absolute.</p></sidenote>not be dependent upon the action of the President under the first part of this section, but is hereby made absolute and shall be binding until May first, nineteen hundred and nineteen. When <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Added duty on imports authorized to maintain price.</p></sidenote>the President finds that the importation into the United States of any wheat produced outside of the United States materially enhances or is likely materially to enhance the liabilities of the United States under guaranties of prices therefor made pursuant to this section, and ascertains what rate of duty, added to the then existing rate of duty on wheat and to the value of wheat at the time of importation, would be sufficient to bring the price thereof at which imported up to the price fixed therefor pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this section, he shall proclaim such facts, and thereafter there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon wheat when imported, in addition to the then existing rate of duty, the rate of duty so ascertained; but in no case shall any such rate of duty be fixed at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No existing rate reduced.</p></sidenote>an amount which will effect a reduction of the rate of duty upon <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, sale, etc., by the Government to sustain guaranty.</p></sidenote>wheat under any then existing tariff law of the United States. For the purpose of making any guaranteed price effective under this section, or whenever he deems it essential in order to protect the Government of the United States against material enhancement of its liabilities arising out of any guaranty under this section, the President is authorized also, in his discretion, to purchase any wheat for which a guaranteed price shall be fixed under this section, and to hold, transport, or store it, or to sell, dispose of, and deliver the same <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposition.</p></sidenote>to any citizen of the United States or to any Government engaged in war with any country with which the Government of the United States is or may be at war or to use the same as supplies for any department or agency of the Government of the United States. Any moneys received by the United States from or in connection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing use of receipts.</p></sidenote>with the sale or disposal of wheat under this section may, in the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/282">282</page>discretion of the President, be used as a revolving fund for further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances.</p></sidenote>carrying out the purposes of this section. Any balance of such moneys not used as part of such revolving fund shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distilled spirits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of foods, etc., to produce, for beverages forbidden.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after thirty days from the date of the approval of this Act no foods, fruits, food materials, or feeds shall be used in the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed, if not for beverages.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That under such rules, regulations, and bonds as the President may prescribe, such materials may be used in the production of distilled spirits exclusively for other than beverage purposes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To fortify wines.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 785.</p></sidenote>or for the fortification of pure sweet wines as defined by the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Imports forbidden.</p></sidenote>approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Nor shall there be imported into the United States any distilled spirits. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Malt and vinous liquors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of foods, etc., to produce, may be limited, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1728, 1866.</p></sidenote>Whenever the President shall find that limitation, regulation, or prohibition of the use of foods, fruits, food materials, or feeds in the production of malt or vinous liquors for beverage purposes, or that reduction of the alcoholic content of any such malt or vinous liquor, is essential, in order to assure an adequate and continuous supply of food, or that the national security and defense will be subserved thereby, he is authorized, from time to time, to prescribe and give public notice of the extent of the limitation, regulation, prohibition, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses required.</p></sidenote>or reduction so necessitated. Whenever such notice shall have been given and shall remain unrevoked no person shall, after a reasonable time prescribed in such notice, use any foods, fruits, food materials, or feeds in the production of malt or vinous liquors, or import any such liquors except under license issued by the President and in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules, etc.</p></sidenote>compliance with rules and regulations determined by him governing the production and importation of such liquors and the alcoholic <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>content thereof. Any person who willfully violates the provisions of this section, or who shall use any foods, fruits, food materials, or feeds in the production of malt or vinous liquors, or who shall import any such liquors, without first obtaining a license so to do when a license is required under this section, or who shall violate any rule or regulation made under this section, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No license at places where manufacture prohibited.</p></sidenote>or both:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the licensing of the manufacture of vinous or malt liquors in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or any civil subdivision thereof, where the manufacture of such vinous or malt liquor is prohibited.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distilled spirits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commandeering of, in bond, etc., for Government uses, authorised.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the President is authorized and directed to commandeer any or all distilled spirits in bond or in stock at the date of the approval of this Act for redistillation, in so far as such redistillation may be necessary to meet the requirements of the Government in the manufacture of munitions and other military and hospital supplies, or in so far as such redistillation would dispense with the necessity of utilizing products and materials suitable for foods and feeds in the future manufacture of distilled spirits for the purposes herein <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit if amount not satisfactory.</p></sidenote>enumerated. The President shall determine and pay a just compensation for the distilled spirits so commandeered; and if the compensation so determined be not satisfactory to the person entitled to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.36, pp. 1096, 1132.</p></sidenote>just compensation for such spirits, in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</content>
</section>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content>That every person who willfully assaults, resists, impedes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for assaulting officials, etc.</p></sidenote>or interferes with any officer, employee, or agent of the United States in the execution of any duty authorized to be performed by or pursuant to this Act shall upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding $1 ,000 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content>That the sum of $2,500,000 is hereby appropriated, out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for administrative expenses, printing, etc.</p></sidenote>of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the payment of such rent, the expense, including postage, of such printing and publications, the purchase of such material and equipment, and tile employment of such persons and means, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as the President may deem essential.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<content>That for the purposes of this Act the sum of $150,000,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for other purposes.</p></sidenote>is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available during the time this Act is in effect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>the purposes described in the preceding section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly statements to Senate and House.</p></sidenote>That itemized statements covering all purchases and disbursements under this and the preceding section shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives on or before the twenty-fifth day of each month after the taking effect of this Act, covering the business of the preceding month, and said statements shall be subject to public inspection.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content>That the employment of any person under the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees not exempt from military draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote>of this Act shall not exempt any such person from military service under the provisions of the selective draft law approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num>
<content>The President shall cause a detailed report to he made to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed report to Congress each year.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents.</p></sidenote>the Congress on the first day of January each year of all proceedings had under this Act during the year preceding. Such report shall, in addition to other matters, contain an account of all persons appointed or employed, the salary or compensation paid or allowed each, the aggregate amount of the different kinds of property purchased or requisitioned, the use and disposition made of such propertv, and a statement of all receipts, payments, and expenditures, together with a statement showing the general character, and estimated value of all property then on hand, and the aggregate amount and character of all claims against the United States growing out of this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num>
<content>That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.</p></sidenote>Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, out shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23. </num>
<content>That words used in this Act shall be construed to import <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of terms.</p></sidenote>the plural or the singular, as the case demands. The word “person,” wherever used in this Act, shall include individuals, partnerships, associations, and corporations. When construing and enforcing the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporations, etc., responsible for acts of agents.</p></sidenote>provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any official, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any partnership, association, or corporation within the scope of his employment or office shall, in every case, also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such partnership, association, or corporation as well as that of the person.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24. </num>
<content>That the provisions of this Act shall cease to be in effect <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act effective until end of present war.</p></sidenote>when the existing state of war between the United States and Germany shall have terminated, and the fact and date of such termination shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President; but the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending actions, etc., not affected thereby.</p></sidenote>termination of this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/284">284</page>obligation accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said termination pursuant to this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement of rights, etc.</p></sidenote>Act; but all rights and liabilities under this Act arising before its termination shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the Act had not terminated. Any offense committed and all penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to such termination may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions, etc., continued.</p></sidenote>if this Act had not been terminated. Any offense committed and all penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to such termination may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act han not been terminated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and coke.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power conferred to regulate prices, production, sales, etc., during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1757.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, whenever and wherever in his judgment necessary for the efficient prosecution of the war, to fix the price of coal and coke, wherever and whenever sold, either by producer or dealer, to establish rules for the regulation of and to regulate the method of production, sale, shipment, distribution, apportionment, or storage thereof among dealers and consumers, domestic or foreign; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution by Federal Trade Commission.</p></sidenote>said authority and power may be exercised by him in each case through the agency of the Federal Trade Commission during the war or for such part of said time as in his judgment may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President may take over and conduct business if producer, etc., fails to comply with regulations.</p></sidenote>That if, in the opinion of the President, any such producer or dealer fails or neglects to conform to such prices or regulations, or to conduct his business efficiently under the regulations and control of the President as aforesaid, or conducts it in a manner prejudicial to the public interest, then the President is hereby authorized and empowered in every such case to requisition and take over the plant, business, and all appurtenances thereof belonging to such producer or dealer as a going concern, and to operate or cause the same to be operated in such manner and through such agency as he may direct during the period of the war or for such part of said time as in his judgment may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of compensation.</p></sidenote>That any producer or dealer whose plant, business, and appurtenances shall have beer requisitioned or taken over by the President shall be paid a just compensation for the use thereof during the period that the same may be requisitioned or taken over as aforesaid, which compensation the President shall fix or cause to be fixed by the Federal Trade Commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized if amount not satisfactory.</p></sidenote>That if the prices so fixed, or if, in the case of the taking over or requisitioning of the mines or business of any such producer or dealer the compensation therefor as determined by the provisions of this Act be not satisfactory to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>amount so determined, and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1096, 1132.</p></sidenote>manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating employees, etc.</p></sidenote>While operating or causing to be operated any such plants or business, the President is authorized to prescribe such regulations as he may deem essential for the employment, control, and compensation of the employees necessary to conduct the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of products to United States agency may be required.</p></sidenote>Or if the President of the United States shall be of the opinion that he can thereby better provide for the common defense, and whenever, in his judgment, it shall be necessary for the efficient prosecution of the war, then he is hereby authorized and empowered to require any or all producers of coal and coke, either in any special area or in any special coal fields, or in the entire United States, to sell their products only to the United States through an agency to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency to control production, sale, purchases, etc.</p></sidenote>be designated by the President, such agency to regulate the resale of such coal and coke, and the prices thereof, and to establish rules for the regulation of and to regulate the methods of production, shipment, distribution, apportionment, or storage thereof among <page identifier="/us/stat/40/285">285</page>dealers and consumers, domestic or foreign, and to make payment of the purchase price thereof to the producers thereof, or to the person or persons legally entitled to said payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That within fifteen days after notice from the agency so designated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipments by producer to cease.</p></sidenote>to any producer of coal and coke that his, or its, output is to be so purchased by the United States as hereinbefore described, such pro ducer shall cease shipments of said product upon his own account and shall transmit to such agency all orders received and unfilled or partially unfiled, showing the exact extent to which shipments have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orders, etc., to be executed by agency alone.</p></sidenote>been made thereon, and thereafter all shipments shall be made only on authority of the agency designated by the President, and thereafter no such producer shall sell any of said products except to the United States through such agency, and the said agency alone is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase during the continuance of the requirement the output of such producers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the prices to be paid for such products so purchased shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basic of purchase price.</p></sidenote>based upon a fair and just profit over and above the cost of production, including proper maintenance and depletion charges, the reasonableness of such profits and cost of production to be determined by the Federal Trade Commission, and if the prices fixed by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., authorized if amount not satisfactory.</p></sidenote>said commission of any such product purchased by the United States as hereinbefore described be unsatisfactory to the person or persons entitled to the same, such person or persons shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined, and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1096, 1132.</p></sidenote>twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All such products so sold to the United States shall be sold by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government prices to be uniform.</p></sidenote>United States at such uniform prices, quality considered, as may be practicable and as may be determined by said agency to be just and air.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any moneys received by the United States for the sale of any such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing use of receipts.</p></sidenote>coal and coke may, in the discretion of the President, be used as a revolving fund for further carrying out the purposes of this section. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances.</p></sidenote>Any moneys not so used shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That when directed by the President, the Federal Trade Commission <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of production to be ascertained by Commission.</p></sidenote>is hereby required to proceed to make full inquiry, giving such notice as it may deem practicable, into the cost of producing under reasonably efficient management at the various places of production the following commodities, to wit, coal and coke.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The books, correspondence, records, and papers in any way referring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information required from producers, purchasers, etc.</p></sidenote>to transactions of any kind relating to the mining, production, sale, or distribution of all mine operators or other persons whose coal and coke have or may become subject to this section, and the books, correspondence, records, and papers of any person applying for the purchase of coal and coke from the United States shall at all times be subject to inspection by the said agency, and such person or persons shall promptly furnish said agency any data or information relating to the business of such person or persons which said agency may call for, and said agency is hereby authorized to procure the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of agency to procure.</p></sidenote>information in reference to the business of such coal-mine operators and producers of coke and customers therefor in the manner provided for in sections six and nine of the Act of Congress approved September <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 721, 722.</p></sidenote>twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes,” and said agency is hereby authorized and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/286">286</page>empowered to exercise all the powers granted to the Federal Trade Commission by said Act for the carrying out of the purposes of this section.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishment of maximum prices.</p></sidenote>Having completed its inquiry respecting any commodity in any locality, it shall, if the President has decided to fix the prices at which any such commodity shall be sold by producers and dealers generally, fix and publish maximum prices for both producers of and dealers in any such commodity, winch maximum prices shall be observed by all producers and dealers until further action thereon is taken by the commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for producers.</p></sidenote>In fixing maximum prices for producers the commission shall allow the cost of production, including the expense of operation, maintenance, depreciation, and depletion, and shall add thereto a just and reasonable profit.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for dealers.</p></sidenote>In fixing such prices for dealers, the commission shall allow the cost to the dealer and shall add thereto a just and reasonable sum for his profit in the transaction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior contracts not impaired.</p></sidenote>The maximum prices so fixed and published shall not be construed as invalidating any contract in which prices are fixed, made in good faith, prior to the establishment and publication of maximum prices by the commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>Whoever shall, with knowledge that the prices of any such commodity have been fixed as herein provided, ask, demand, or receive a higher price, or whoever shall, with knowledge that the regulations have been prescribed as herein provided, violate or refuse to conform to any of the same, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Each independent transaction shall constitute a separate offense.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norestriction on purchases. etc., for Government use.</p></sidenote>Nothing in this section shall be construed as restricting or modifying in any manner the right the Government of the United States may have in its own behalf or in behalf of any other Government at war with Germany to purchase, requisition, or take over any such commodities for the equipment, maintenance, or support of armed forces at any price or upon any terms that may be agreed upon or otherwise lawfully determined.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoarding, destroying, etc., necessaries to limit supply, etc., a felony.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any person carrying on or employed in commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, or with or in the Territories or other possessions of the United States in any article suitable for human food, fuel, or other necessaries of life, who, either in his individual capacity or as an officer, agent, or employee of a corporation or member of a partnership carrying on or employed in such trade, shall store, acquire, or hold, or who shall destroy or make away with any such article for the purpose of limiting the supply thereof to the public or affecting the market price thereof in such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote>commerce, whether temporarily or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storing personal products of farms, excepted.</p></sidenote>years, or both: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any storing or holding by any farmer, gardener, or other person of the products of any farm, garden, or other land cultivated by him shall not be deemed to be a storing or holding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Associations of farmers, etc.</p></sidenote>within the meaning of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That farmers and fruit growers, cooperative and other exchanges, or societies of a similar character shall not be included within the provisions of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For future business needs, etc.</p></sidenote>section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That tins section shall not be construed to prohibit the holding or accumulating of any such article by any such person in a quantity not in excess of the reasonable requirements of his business for a reasonable time or in a quantity reasonably required to furnish said articles produced in surplus quantities <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antitrust Act not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 209.</p></sidenote>seasonally throughout the period of scant or no production. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to repeal the Act entitled <page identifier="/us/stat/40/287">287</page>“An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, commonly known as the Sherman Antitrust Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27. </num>
<content>That the President is authorized to procure, or aid in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nitrate of soda.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President may pro cure and sell, to aid agriculture.</p></sidenote>procuring, such stocks of nitrate of soda as he may determine to be necessary, and find available, for increasing agricultural production during the calendar years nineteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen, and to dispose of the same for cash at cost, including all expenses connected therewith. For carrying out the purposes of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>section, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, available immediately and until expended, the sum of $10,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the President is authorized to make such regulations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Means of operation.</p></sidenote>and to use such means and agencies of the Government, as, in his discretion, he may deem best. The proceeds arising from the disposition <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 494, 1007.</p></sidenote>of the nitrate of soda shall go into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, August 10, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 54: To authorize and empower the Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association, of the State of Louisiana, to construct a lock and dam in Mermentau River, in the State of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>54</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>54.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize and empower the Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association, of the State of Louisiana, to construct a lock and dam in Mermentau River, in the State of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-19">September 19, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2785">S. 2785</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/42">Public, No. 42</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mermentau River, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association may build lock and dam in.</p></sidenote>is hereby granted for the Southwest Louisiana Waterways Association, of the State of Louisiana, to construct a lock and dam in the Mermentau River at some suitable point, to be approved by the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lock and dam shall be constructed and maintained wholly at the expense of said Association and in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No toll allowed.</p></sidenote>with plans and specifications approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no toll shall be imposed at any time for the passage of any craft through said lock:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the operation and care of said lock and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation under Army officer.</p></sidenote>dam, with funds provided by the association, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be assigned to the engineer officer of the United States Army in charge of the locality.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That this Act shall be null and void unless the privilege <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commencement.</p></sidenote>hereby granted shall be availed of within two years from the date hereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no dam constructed under the consent hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use limited.</p></sidenote>granted shall be used to develop water power, nor to generate electricity, but the use of the dam by the construction shall be limited to irrigation.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 19, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 55: For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>55</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 287</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-09-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>55.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For improving Willapa Harbor and River, Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-19">September 19, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/93">S. J. Res. 93</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/11">Pub. Res., No. 11</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willapa Harbor and River, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of improvement work authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 405.</p></sidenote>may proceed with the work of improving Willapa Harbor and River, Washington, in accordance with the authorization in the river and harbor Act of July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, provided he is assured that the city of Raymond and other local interests will contribute the sum of $71,775, being one-half the actual estimated cost of dredging in the North and South Forks of the Willapa River above their junction and will comply with all the other conditions of cooperation imposed by the said Act.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 19, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 56: To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>56</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 288</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-09-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/288">288</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>56.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-24">September 24, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5901">H. R. 5901</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/43">Public, No. 43</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle> 
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States securities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue authorized to borrow money for national security, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 503, 844, 1309.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, is hereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United States for the purposes of this Act, and to meet expenditures authorized for the national security and defense and other public purposes authorized by law, not exceeding in the aggregate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional to prior issue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote>$7,538,945,460, and to issue therefor bonds of the United States, in addition to the $2,000,000,000 bonds already issued or offered for subscription under authority of the Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount in lieu of unissued liberty bonds.</p></sidenote>other purposes”: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this sum $3,063,945,460 shall be in lieu of that amount of the unissued bonds authorized by sections one and four of the Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal bonds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 117.</p></sidenote>seventeen, $225,000,000 shall be in lieu of that amount of the unissued bonds authorized by section thirty-nine of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval emergency bonds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1201.</p></sidenote>$150,000,000 shall be in lieu of the unissued bonds authorized by the joint resolution approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">March 3, 1917, bonds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1002.</p></sidenote>seventeen, and $100,000,000 shall be in lieu of the unissued bonds authorized by section four hundred of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forms, terms, etc., of bonds.</p></sidenote>The bonds herein authorized shall be in such form or forms and denomination or denominations and subject to such terms and conditions of issue, conversion, redemption, maturities, payment, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest at 4 per cent.</p></sidenote>and rate or rates of interest, not exceeding four per centum per annum, and time or times of payment of interest, as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time at or before the issue thereof <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable in gold.</p></sidenote>may prescribe. The principal and interest thereof shall be payable in United States gold coin of the present standard of value.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offer as public loan.</p></sidenote>The bonds herein authorized shall from time to time first be offered at not less than par as a popular loan, under such regulations, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, as will in his opinion give the people of the United States as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary allotments to subscribers.</p></sidenote>nearly as may be an equal opportunity to participate therein, but he may make allotment in full upon applications for smaller amounts of bonds in advance of any date which he may set for the closing of subscriptions and may reject or reduce allotments upon later applications and applications for larger amounts, and may reject or reduce allotments upon applications from incorporated banks and trust companies for their own account and make allotment in full or larger allotments to others, and may establish a graduated scale of allotments, and may from time to time adopt any or all of said methods, should any such action be deemed by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General rules to apply.</p></sidenote>him to be in the public interest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such reduction or increase of allotments of such bonds shall be made under general rules to be prescribed by said Secretary and shall apply to all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of unsubscribed for portion.</p></sidenote>subscribers similarly situated. And any portion of the bonds so offered and not taken may be otherwise disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury in such manner and at such price or prices, not less than par, as he may determine.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to be established with foreign governments at war with United States’ enemies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of more effectually providing for the national security and defense and prosecuting the war, the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, is hereby <page identifier="/us/stat/40/289">289</page>authorized, on behalf of the United States, to establish credits with the United States for any foreign governments then engaged in war with the enemies of the United States; and, to the extent of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of their obligations.</p></sidenote> credits so established from time to time, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to purchase, at par, from such foreign governments respectively their several obligations hereafter issued, bearing such rate or rates of interest, maturing at such date or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest rates, etc.</p></sidenote> dates, not later than the bonds of the United States then last issued under the authority of this Act, or of such Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote> April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and containing such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time determine, or to make advances to or for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances authorized tor obligations.</p></sidenote> the account of any such foreign governments and to receive such obligations at par for the amount of any such advances: but the rate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest to equal highest rates of United States bonds.</p></sidenote> or rates of interest borne by any such obligations shall not be less than the highest rate borne by any bonds of the United States which, at the time of the acquisition thereof, shall have been issued under authority of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, or of this Act, and any such obligations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion provisions.</p></sidenote> shall contain such provisions as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time determine for the conversion of a proportionate part of such obligations into obligations bearing a higher rate of interest if bonds of the United States issued under authority of this Act shall be converted into other bonds of the United States bearing a higher rate of interest, but the rate of interest in such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> foreign obligations issued upon such conversion shall not be less than the highest rate of interest borne by such bonds of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrangement for payments, etc.</p></sidenote> President, is hereby authorized to enter into such arrangements from time to time with any such foreign Governments as may be necessary or desirable for establishing such credits and for the payment of such obligations of foreign Governments before maturity. For the purposes of this section there is appropriated, out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 504, 844.</p></sidenote> money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $4,000,000,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriations made by section two of said Act approved April<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote> twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof as may be necessary:<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the authority granted by this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to cease at end of war with Germany.</p></sidenote> section to the Secretary of the Treasury to establish credits for foreign Governments, as aforesaid, shall cease upon the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government.</proviso>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion of foreign obligations into higher Interest rates, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> from time to time, to exercise in respect to any obligations of foreign governments acquired under authority of this Act or of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, any privilege of conversion into obligations bearing interest at a higher rate provided for in or pursuant to this Act or said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Short time into long time.</p></sidenote> convert any short-time obligations of foreign governments which may have been purchased under the authority of this Act or of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, into long-time obligations of such foreign governments, respectively, maturing not later than the bonds of the United States then last issued under the authority of this Act or of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as the case may be, and in such form and terms as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; but the rate or rates of interest borne by any such longtime<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equality of rates.</p></sidenote> obligations at the time of their acquisition shall not be less than the rate borne by the short-time obligations so converted into such <page identifier="/us/stat/40/290">290</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption of designated United States bends from sales or payments of foreign.</p></sidenote>long-time obligations; and, under such terms and conditions as he may from time to time prescribe, to receive payment, on or before maturity, of any obligations of such foreign governments acquired on behalf of the United States under authority of this Act or of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and, with the approval of the President, to sell any of such obligations (but not at less than the purchase price with accrued interest unless otherwise hereafter provided by law), and to apply the proceeds thereof, and any payments so received from foreign governments on account of the principal of their said obligations, to the redemption <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 35, 36.</p></sidenote>or purchase, at not more than par and accrued interest, of any bonds of the United States issued under authority of this Act or of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other outstanding obligations.</p></sidenote>and if such bonds can not be so redeemed or purchased the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem or purchase any other outstanding interest-bearing obligations of the United States which may at such time be subject to redemption or which can be purchased at not more than par and accrued interest.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Convertible bonds authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 504.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in connection with the issue of any series of bonds under the authority of section one of this Act the Secretary of the Treasury may determine that the bonds of such series shall be convertible as provided in or pursuant to this section, and, in any such case, he may make appropriate provision to that end in offering for subscription the bonds of such series (hereinafter called convertible <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange by holder for subsequent issues at higher rates.</p></sidenote>bonds). In any case of the issue of a series of convertible bonds, if a subsequent series of bonds (not including United States certificates of indebtedness, war savings certificates, and other obligations maturing not more than five years from the issue of such obligations, respectively) bearing interest at a higher rate shall, under the authority of this or any other Act, be issued by the United States before the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, then the holders of such convertible bonds shall have the privilege, at the option of the several holders, at any time within such period, after the public offering of bonds of such subsequent series, and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall have prescribed, of converting their bonds, at par, into bonds bearing such higher rate of interest at such price not less than par as the Secretary of the Treasury shall have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Similar forms, terms, tax exemptions, etc.</p></sidenote>prescribed. The bonds to be issued upon such conversion under this Act shall be substantially the same in form and terms as shall be prescribed by or pursuant to law with respect to the bonds of such subsequent series, not only as to interest rate but also as to convertibility (if future bonds be issued at a still higher rate of interest) or nonconvertibility, and as to exemption from taxation, if any, and in all other respects, except that the bonds issued upon such conversion shall have the same dates of maturity, of principal, and of interest, and be subject to the same terms of redemption before maturity, as the bonds converted; and such bonds shall be issued from time to time if and when and to the extent that the privilege <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of privilege if not availed of.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1311.</p></sidenote>of conversion so conferred shall arise and shall be exercised. If the privilege of conversion so conferred under this Act shall once arise, and shall not be exercised with respect to any convertible bonds within the period so prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, then such privilege shall terminate as to such bonds and shall not arise again though again thereafter bonds be issued bearing interest at a higher rate or rates.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of indebtedness.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue authorized to borrow money for public expenditures, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in addition to the bonds authorized by section one of this Act the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to borrow from time to time, on the credit of the United States, for the purposes of this Act and to meet public expenditures authorized by law, such <page identifier="/us/stat/40/291">291</page>sum or sums as in his judgment may be necessary, and to issue therefor certificates of indebtedness of the United States at not less than par in such form or forms and subject to such terms and conditions and at such rate or rates of interest as he may prescribe; and each certificate so issued shall be payable at such time not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable within one year.</p></sidenote> exceeding one year from the date of its issue, and may be redeemable before maturity upon such terms and conditions, and the interest accruing thereon shall be payable at such time or times as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The sum of such certificates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of, and of prior issue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 36.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 504, 1311.</p></sidenote> outstanding hereunder and under section six of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not at any one time exceed in the aggregate $4,000,000,000.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">That in addition to the bonds authorized by section one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War-savings certificates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue authorized to borrow money for public expenses.</p></sidenote> this Act and the certificates of indebtedness authorized by section five of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to borrow from time to time, on the credit of the United States, for the purposes of this Act and to meet public expenditures authorized by law, such sum or sums as in his judgment may be necessary, and to issue therefor, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions, interest, etc.</p></sidenote> such price or prices and upon such terms and conditions as he may determine, war-savings certificates of the United States on which interest to maturity may be discounted in advance at such rate or rates and computed in such manner as he may prescribe. Such war-savings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forms, payment, etc.</p></sidenote> certificates shall be in such form or forms and subject to such terms and conditions, and may have such provisions for payment thereof before maturity, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Each war-saving certificate so issued shall be payable at such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable within five years.</p></sidenote> time, not exceeding five years from the date of its issue, and may be redeemable before maturity, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The sum of such war-savings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate allowed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 966.</p></sidenote> certificates outstanding shall not at any one time exceed in the aggregate $2,000,000,000. The amount of war-savings certificates <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit to one person.</p></sidenote>sold to any one person at any one time shall not exceed $100, and it shall not be lawful for any one person at any one time to hold war-savings certificates to an aggregate amount exceeding $1,000. The Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps to show payments.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury may, under such regulations and upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, issue, or cause to be issued, stamps to evidence payments for or on account of such certificates.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That none of the bonds authorized by section one, nor of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No circulation privileges to bonds, etc.</p></sidenote> certificates authorized by section five, or by section six, of this Act, shall bear the circulation privilege. All such bonds and certificates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General tax exemptions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 966.</p></sidenote> shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, any State, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority, except (a) estate or inheritance taxes, and (b) graduated additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 301, 302, 324.</p></sidenote> income taxes, commonly known as surtaxes, and excess profits and war-profits taxes, now or hereafter imposed by the United States, upon the income or profits of individuals, partnerships, associations, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption of $5,000.</p></sidenote>corporations. The interest on an amount of such bonds and certificates the principal of which does not exceed in the aggregate $5,000, owned by any individual, partnership, association, or corporation, shall be exempt from the taxes provided for in subdivision (b) of this section.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds to be deposited in banks, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 504.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to deposit, in such incorporated banks and trust companies as he may designate, the proceeds, or any part thereof, arising from the sale of the bonds and certificates of indebtedness and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> war-savings certificates authorized by this Act, and such deposits shall bear such rate or rates of interest, and shall be secured in such manner, and shall be made upon and subject to such terms and conditions, as <page identifier="/us/stat/40/292">292</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserves not required for public money deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5191/p1004">R. S., sec. 5191, p. 1004</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 682.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe: <i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of section fifty-one hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Federal Reserve Act, and the amendments thereof, with reference to the reserves required to be kept by national banking associations and other member banks of the Federal Reserve System, shall not apply to deposits of public moneys <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositaries abroad tor disbursements for armed forces, etc.</p></sidenote>by the United States in designated depositaries. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to designate depositaries in foreign countries, with which shall be deposited all public money which it may be necessary or desirable to have on deposit in such countries to provide for current disbursements to the military and naval forces of the United States and to the diplomatic and consular and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination, etc.</p></sidenote>representatives of the United States in and about such countries until six months after the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, and to prescribe the terms and conditions of such deposits.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal employees.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of bonds, etc., by.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in connection with the operations of advertising, selling, and delivering any bonds, certificates of indebtedness, or war-savings certificates of the United States provided for in this Act, the Postmaster General, under such regulations as he may prescribe, shall require, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, the employees of the Post Office Department and of the Postal Service to perform such services as may be necessary, desirable, or practicable, without extra compensation.
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses of issue, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in order to pay all necessary expenses, including rent, connected with any operations under this Act, except under section twelve, a sum not exceeding one-fifth of one per centum of the amount of bonds and war-saving certificates and one-tenth of one per centum of the amount of certificates of indebtedness herein authorized is hereby appropriated, or as much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to Congress.</p></sidenote>expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That m addition to the reports now required by law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and annually thereafter, transmit to the Congress a detailed statement of all expenditures under this Act.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further issue of former bonds restricted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 35, 36.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That bonds shall not be issued under authority of sections one and four of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in addition to the $2,000,000,000 thereof <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For interchange, conversion, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote>heretofore issued or offered for subscription, but bonds shall be issued from time to time upon the interchange of such bonds of different denominations and of coupon and registered bonds and upon the transfer of registered bonds, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and, if and to the extent that the privilege of conversion provided for in such bonds shall arise and shall be exercised, in accordance with such provision for such conversion. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issues rescinded.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 36.</p></sidenote>No bonds shall be issued under authority of the several sections of Acts and of the resolution mentioned in said section four of the Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present authorization substituted therefor.</p></sidenote>approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; but the proceeds of the bonds herein authorized may be used for purposes mentioned in said section four of the Act of April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and as set forth m the Acts therein enumerated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States securities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 192, amended.</p></sidenote>That section two of an Act of Congress approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act prescribing certain provisions and conditions under which bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States may be issued, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended to read as follows:</p>
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<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That any certificates of indebtedness hereafter issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of indebtedness.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption from taxes, modified.</p></sidenote> shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States (but, in the case of certificates issued after September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, only if and to the extent provided in connection with the issue thereof), as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority; and that a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses of issue, etc., re.</p></sidenote> sum not exceeding one-tenth of one per centum of the amount of any certificates of indebtedness issued is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expenses of preparing, advertising, and issuing the same.”
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</section>
</quotedContent>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military accounts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for auditing, etc., abroad.</p></sidenote> the war, whenever it shall appear that the public interests require that any of the accounts of the Military Establishment be audited at any place other than the seat of Government, to direct the Comptroller of the Treasury and the Auditor for the War Department to exercise, either in person or through assistants, the powers and perform the duties of their offices at any place or places away from the seat of Government in the manner that is or may be required by law at the seat of Government and in accordance with the provisions of this section.</chapeau>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That when the Secretary of the Treasury shall exercise the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller and Auditor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers and duties of may be exercised abroad.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 205.</p></sidenote> authority herein referred to, the powers and duties of the said comptroller and auditor, under and pursuant to the provisions of the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and all other laws conferring jurisdiction upon those officers, shall be exercised and performed in the same manner as nearly as practicable and with the same effect away from the seat of Government as they are now exercised and performed and have effect at the seat of Government, and decisions authorized by law to be rendered by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decisions of Comptroller by assistants, effective.</p></sidenote> comptroller at the request of disbursing officers may be rendered with the same effect by such assistants as may be authorized by him to perform that duty.
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</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">That when pursuant to this section the said comptroller and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances certified from abroad conclusive.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 207.</p></sidenote> auditor shall perform their duties at a place in a foreign country, the balances arising upon the settlement of accounts and claims of the Military Establishment shall be certified by the auditor to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants of the Treasury Department as now provided for the certification of balances by said auditor in Washington, and the balances so found due shall be final and conclusive upon all branches of the Government, except that any person whose account has been settled or the commanding officer of the Army abroad, or the comptroller may obtain a revision<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revision allowed.</p></sidenote> of such settlement by the comptroller upon application therefor within three months, the decision to be likewise final and conclusive and the differences arising upon such revision to be certified to and stated by the auditor as now provided by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on certificates.</p></sidenote> certificates of balances due may be transmitted to and paid by the proper disbursing officer abroad instead of by warrant:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any person whose account has been settled, or the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reexamination, etc., after the war.</p></sidenote> Secretary of War, may obtain a reopening and review of any settlement made pursuant to this section upon application to the Comptroller of the Treasury in Washington within one year after the close of the war, and the action of the comptroller thereon shall be final and conclusive in the same manner as herein provided in the case of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of Comptroller final.</p></sidenote> a balance found due by the auditor.</proviso>
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</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">That the comptroller and auditor shall preserve the accounts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation of accounts, etc., abroad until end of war, etc.</p></sidenote> and the vouchers and papers connected therewith, and the files of their offices in the foreign country and transmit them to Washington within six months after the close of the war and at such earlier time as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury as to any or all accounts, vouchers, papers, and files.
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</subsection>
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<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Comptroller and Assistant Auditor Co be appointed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint an assistant comptroller and an assistant auditor and to fix their compensation, and to designate from among the persons to be employed hereunder one or more to act in the absence or disability <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, number, pay, etc.</p></sidenote>of such assistant comptroller and assistant auditor. He shall also prescribe the number and maximum compensation to be paid to agents, accountants, clerks, translators interpreters, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of accounts by Assistants authorized.</p></sidenote>persons who may be employed in the work under this section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil service laws, etc., not applicable to employees abroad.</p></sidenote>by the comptroller and auditor. The assistant comptroller and assistant auditor shall have full power to perform in a foreign country all the duties with reference to the settlement there of the accounts of the Military Establishment that the comptroller and auditor now have at the seat of Government and in foreign countries under the provisions of this section, and shall perform such duties in accordance with the instructions received from and rules and regulations made by the comptroller and auditor. Such persons as are residing in a foreign country when first employed hereunder shall not be required to take an oath of office or be required to be employed pursuant to the laws, rules, and regulations relating to the classified civil service, nor shall they be reimbursed for subsistence expenses at their post of duty or for expenses in traveling to or from the United States.
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</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials to examine records, receipts, disbursements, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of all contracting, purchasing, and disbursing officers to allow any representative of the comptroller or auditor to examine all books, records, and papers in any way connected with the receipt, disbursement, or disposal of public money, and to render such accounts and at such times as may be required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative examination by War Department waived.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 211.</p></sidenote>by the comptroller. No administrative examination by the War Department shall be required of accounts rendered and settled abroad, and the time within which these accounts shall be rendered by disbursing officers shall be prescribed by the comptroller, who shall have power to waive any delinquency as to time or form in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts to be filled abroad.</p></sidenote>rendition of these accounts. All contracts connected with accounts to be settled by the auditor abroad shall be filed in his office there.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration of employees to former positons.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any person appointed or employed under the provisions of this section who at the time is in the service of the United States shall, upon termination of his services hereunder, be restored to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Washington permitted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1121.</p></sidenote>position held by him at the time of such employment. No provision of existing law shall be construed to prevent the payment of money appropriated for the salary of any Government officer or employee at the seat of Government who may be detailed to perform duty under this section outside the District of Columbia, and such details are hereby authorized.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses of auditing, etc., abroad.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for the payment of the expenses in carrying into effect this section, including traveling expenses, per diem of $4 in lieu of subsistence for officers and employees absent from Washington, rent, cablegrams and telegrams, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, office equipment and exchange thereof, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the sum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance at Washington.</p></sidenote>of $300,000, of which not exceeding $25,000 may be expended at Washington for the purpose of this section, but no officer or employee <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>shall receive for duty in Washington any compensation other than his regular salary.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="h">(h) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two disbursing agents authorized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury may designate not more than two persons employed hereunder to act as special disbursing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of accounts.</p></sidenote>agents of the appropriation herein, to serve under the direction of the comptroller, and their accounts shall be rendered to and settled by the accounting officers of the Treasury in Washington. All persons employed under this section shall perform such additional duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
</content>
</subsection>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/295">295</page>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="i">(i) </num>
<content class="inline">That the comptroller and the auditor, and such persons as may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration of oaths, etc.</p></sidenote> be authorized in writing by either of them, may administer oaths to American citizens in respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of either of said officers and certify the official character, when known, of any foreign officer whose jurat or certificate may be necessary on any paper to be filed with them.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="j">(j) </num>
<content class="inline">That persons engaged in work abroad under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees may purchase Army stores while abroad.</p></sidenote> this section may purchase from Army stores for cash and at cost price for their own use such articles or stores as may be sold to officers and enlisted men.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="k">(k) </num>
<content class="inline">That the authority granted under this section shall terminate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to terminate after close of war.</p></sidenote> six months after the close of the war or at such earlier date as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and it shall be the duty of the comptroller and auditor to make such reports as the Secretary of the Treasury may require of the expenditures made and work done pursuant to this section, and such reports shall be transmitted to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports to Congress.</p></sidenote> the Congress at such time as he may decide to be compatible with the public interest.
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="l">(l) </num>
<content class="inline">No officers, employees, or agents appointed or employed under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of salaries.</p></sidenote> this section shall receive more salary or compensation than like officers, employees, or agents of the Government now receive.
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purposes of this Act the date of the termination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Date of termination of war to be fixed by proclamation.</p></sidenote> of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government shall be fixed by proclamation of the President of the United States.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 24, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 57: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>57</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-09-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>57.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-25">September 25, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2830">S. 2830</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/44">Public, No. 44</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas River, Ark.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Pulaski County.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 685, amended.</p></sidenote> and completing the construction of a bridge, authorized by Act of Congress approved August seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to be built across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta, Arkansas, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date hereof.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 25, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 58: To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>58</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-09-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>58.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction of a building for the use of the Treasury Department.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-27">September 27, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2477">S. 2477</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/45">Public, No. 45</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional building for Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed, upon land belonging to the United States, at the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, a suitable building, complete, for the use of the Treasury Department, and to cause an underground connection of said building with the Treasury building to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> constructed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> empowered to enter into the necessary contracts at a total limit of cost for said building and underground connection of not to exceed $1,250,000.
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/296">296</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., services authorized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized, without regard to civil-service laws, rules, or regulations, to obtain such special architectural or other expert technical services as he may deem necessary and specially order in writing, and to pay for such services such prices or rates of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable from the appropriation for said building, any statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 27, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 59: To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia, authorized by an Act approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>59</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-09-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>59.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia, authorized by an Act approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-09-28">September 28, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5335">H. R. 5335</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/46">Public, No. 46</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, Ky. and W. Va.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Interstate Bridge Company.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 7, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by the Act of Congress approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be built across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River near Warfield, Kentucky, and Kermit, West Virginia, are hereby extended to one year and three years, respectively, from the twenty-eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, September 28, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 60: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saline River, at or near Suttons Ferry, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>60</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>60.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across the Saline River, at or near Suttons Ferry, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-01">October 1, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5431">H. R. 5431</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/47">Public, No. 47</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saline River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bradley County, Ark., may bridge, Suttons Ferry.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Bradley, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Saline River, at or near Suttons Ferry in the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section fifteen, township thirteen south, range nine west, of the fifth principal meridian on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>Warren and Monticello Road, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 1, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 61: To create the Aircraft Board and provide for its maintenance.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>61</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>61.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To create the Aircraft Board and provide for its maintenance.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-01">October 1, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2705">H. R. 2705</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/48">Public, No. 48</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aircraft Board.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Created for development of air service.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of expanding and coordinating the industrial activities relating to aircraft, or parts of aircraft, produced for any purpose in the United States, and to facilitate generally the development of air service, a board is hereby created, to be known as the Aircraft Board, hereinafter referred to as the board.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the board shall number not more than nine in all, and shall include a civilian chairman, the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, and two other officers of the Army, to be appointed by the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/297">297</page>Secretary of War; the Chief Constructor of the Navy and two other officers of the Navy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy; and two additional civilian members. The chairman and civilian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of civilian members.</p></sidenote> members shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That said board and tenure of office of the members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tenure of office.</p></sidenote> thereof shall continue during the pleasure of the President, but not longer than six months after the present war. The civilian members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilians to serve without pay.</p></sidenote> of the board shall serve without compensation.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">That the board is hereby empowered, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of purchase, etc., of aircraft, construction plants, etc., by.</p></sidenote> and control of and as authorized by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, on behalf of the Departments of War and Navy, to supervise and direct, in accordance with the requirements prescribed or approved by the respective departments, the purchase, production, and manufacture of aircraft, engines, and all ordnance and instruments used in connection therewith, and accessories and materials therefor, including the purchase, lease, acquisition, or construction of plants for the manufacture of aircraft, engines, and accessories: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the board may make recommendations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recommendations as to contracts by.</p></sidenote> as to contracts and their distribution in connection with the foregoing, but every contract shall be made by the already constituted authorities of the respective departments.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That the board is also empowered to employ, either in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, experts, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia or elsewhere, such clerks and other employees as may be necessary to the conduct of its business, including such technical experts and advisers as may be found necessary, and to fix their salaries. Such salaries shall conform to those usually paid by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> Government for similar service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That by unanimous approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of experts.</p></sidenote> of the board higher compensation may be paid to technical experts and advisers. The board may rent suitable offices in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative and contingent expenses allowed.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia or elsewhere, purchase necessary office equipment and supplies, including scientific publications and printing, and may incur necessary administrative and contingent expenses, and for all of the expenses enumerated in this paragraph there shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment from Signal Service appropriations.</p></sidenote> allotted by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, from any appropriation now existing for or hereinafter made to the Signal Corps of the Army, and such appropriation is hereby made available for these purposes:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That except upon the joint and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplication of present work restricted.</p></sidenote> concurrent approval of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy there shall not be established or maintained under the board any office or organization duplicating or replacing, in whole or in part, any office or organization now existing that can be properly established or maintained by appropriations made for or available for the military or naval services:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That a report shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote> made to Congress on the first day of each regular session of the salaries paid from this appropriation to clerks and employees by grades, and the number in each such grade.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 1, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 62: To authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>62</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>62.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-02">October 2, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2156">H. R. 2156</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/49">Public, No. 49</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potassium deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits authorized to prospect for, on public finds.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to issue to any applicant who is a citizen of the United States, an association of such citizens, or a corporation organized under the laws of any State or Territory <page identifier="/us/stat/40/298">298</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right exclusive for two years.</p></sidenote>thereof, a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right, for a period not exceeding two years, to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>public lands of the United States, except lands in and adjacent to Searles Lake, which would be described if surveyed as townships twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven south of ranges forty-two, forty-three, and forty-four east, Mount Diablo <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of area.</p></sidenote>meridian, California: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the area to be included in such permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to permittee if deposit discovered.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of one or more of the substances enumerated in section one hereof have been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit, the permittee shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>entitled to a patent for not to exceed one-fourth of the land embraced in the prospecting permit, to be taken in compact form and described by legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys, or if the land be not surveyed, then in tracts which shall not exceed two miles in length, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of vacant lands within permits, by competitive bidding.</p></sidenote>All other lands described and embraced in such a prospecting permit from and after the exercise of the right to patent accorded to the discoverer, and not covered by leases, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior, through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt, and in such areas as lie shall fix, not exceeding two thousand five hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Royalty conditions.</p></sidenote>sixty acres, all leases to be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be specified in the lease and which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in advance of offering the same, and which shall not be less than two per centum on the gross value of the output at the point of shipment, which royalty, on demand of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be paid in the product <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual rentals.</p></sidenote>of such lease, and the payment in advance of a rental, which shall be not less than 25 cents per acre for the first year thereafter; not less than 50 cents per acre for the second, third, fourth, and fifth years, respectively; and not less than $1 per acre for each and every year thereafter during the continuance of the lease, except that such rental for any year shall be credited against the royalties as they <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indeterminate period for leases.</p></sidenote>accrue for that year. Leases shall be for indeterminate periods, upon condition that at the end of each twenty-year period succeeding the date of any lease such readjustment of terms and conditions may be made as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, unless otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patentees may lease.</p></sidenote>periods, and a patentee under this section may also be a lessee:
<proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searles Lake, Cal., lands may be operated or leased.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That the potash deposits in the public lands in and adjacent to Searles Lake in what would be if surveyed townships twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven south of ranges forty-two, forty-three, and forty-four, east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, may be operated by the United States or may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms and provisions of this Act:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases for potash deposits in Wyoming.</p></sidenote>issue leases under the provisions of this Act for deposits of potash in public lands in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, also containing deposits of coal, on condition that the coal be reserved to the United States.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of lands for development work, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in addition to areas of such mineral land to be included in prospecting permits or leases the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may issue to a permittee or lessee under this Act the exclusive right to use, during the life of the permit or lease, a tract of unoccupied nonmineral public land not exceeding forty acres in area for camp sites, refining works, and other purposes connected <page identifier="/us/stat/40/299">299</page>with and necessary to the proper development and use of the deposits covered by the permit or lease.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior shall reserve the authority<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of permits for want of diligence, etc.</p></sidenote> and shall insert in any preliminary permit issued under section one hereof appropriate provisions for its cancellation by him upon failure by the permittee or licensee to exercise due diligence in the prosecution of the prospecting work in accordance with the terms and conditions stated in the permit.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That no person shall take or hold any interest or interests<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owning interest in other leases restricted.</p></sidenote> as a member of an association or associations or as a stockholder of a corporation or corporations holding a lease under the provisions hereof which, together with the area embraced in any direct holding of a lease under this Act, or which, together with any other interest or interests as a member of an association or associations or as a stockholder of a corporation or corporations holding a lease under the provisions hereof, or otherwise, exceeds in the aggregate in any area fifty miles square an amount equivalent to the maximum number of acres allowed to any one lessee under this Act; that no person,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest in sales agencies, etc., limited.</p></sidenote> association, or corporation holding a lease under the provisions of this Act shall hold more than a tenth interest, direct or indirect, in any other agency, corporate or otherwise, engaged in the sale or resale of the products obtained from such lease; and any violation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture for violation.</p></sidenote> of the provisions of this section shall be ground for the forfeiture of the lease or interest so held; and the interests held in violation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote> of this provision shall be forfeited to the United States by appropriate proceedings instituted by the Attorney General for that purpose in the United States district court for the district in which the property or some part thereof is located, except that any such ownership<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ownership by descent, etc., limited.</p></sidenote> or interest hereby forbidden which may be acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years and not longer after its acquisition.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">That any permit, lease, occupation, or use permitted under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way, etc., through leased lands to be reserved.</p></sidenote> this Act shall reserve to the Secretary of the Interior the right to permit for joint or several use such easements or rights of way upon, through, or in the lands leased, occupied, or used as may be necessary or appropriate to the working of the same, or of other lands con taming the deposits described in this Act, and the treatment and shipment of the products thereof by or under authority of the Government, its lessees, or permittees, and for other public purposes:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to dispose of surface.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said Secretary, in his discretion, in making any lease under this Act may reserve to the United States the right to dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within such lease under existing law or laws hereafter enacted, in so far as said surface is not necessary for use of the lessee in extracting and removing the deposits therein:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That if such reservation is made it<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination before offering lease.</p></sidenote> shall be so determined before the offering of such lease; that the said Secretary, during the life of the lease, is authorized to issue such permits for easements herein provided to be reserved.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That each lease shall contain provisions deemed necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of monopoly, etc.</p></sidenote> for the protection of the interests of the United States, and for the prevention of monopoly, and for the safeguarding of the public welfare.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That any lease issued under the provisions of this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture proceedings.</p></sidenote> may be forfeited and canceled by an appropriate proceeding in the United States district court for the district in which the property or some part thereof is located whenever the lessee fails to comply<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds for.</p></sidenote> with any of the provisions of this Act, of the lease, or of the general regulations promulgated under this Act and in force at the date of the lease, and the lease may provide for resort to appropriate methods<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of disputes.</p></sidenote> for the settlement of disputes or for remedies for breach of specified conditions thereof.
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/300">300</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions applicable to all reserved potassium deposits.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this Act shall also apply to all deposits of potassium salts in the lands of the United States which may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States the potassium deposits with the right to prospect for, drill, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as to the use and occupancy of the surface as are or may hereafter be provided by law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Royalties and rents to be paid into reclamation fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all moneys received from royalties and rentals under the provisions of this Act, excepting those from Alaska, shall be paid into, reserved, and appropriated as a part of the reclamation fund created by the Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the reclamation Act, but after use thereof <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">After used for construction, 50 per cent to go to States.</p></sidenote>in the construction of reclamation works and upon return to the reclamation fund of any such moneys in the manner provided by the reclamation Act and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, fifty per centum of the amounts derived from such royalties and rentals, so utilized in and returned to the reclamation fund shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury after the expiration of each fiscal year to the State within the boundaries of which the leased <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For public roads and schools.</p></sidenote>lands or deposits are or were located, said moneys to be used by such State or subdivisions thereof for the construction and maintenance of public roads or for the support of public schools.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposition of all deposits subject to this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valid claims protected.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the deposits herein referred to, in lands valuable for such minerals, shall be subject to disposition only in the form and manner provided in this Act, except as to valid claims existent at date of the passage of this Act and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, etc., tax laws not impaired.</p></sidenote>perfected under such laws: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local authority to exercise any rights which they may have to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to regulate price of mineral reserved.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to incorporate in every lease issued under the provisions of this Act a provision reserving to the President the right to regulate the price of all mineral extracted and sold from the leased premises, which stipulation shall specifically provide that the price or prices fixed shall be such as to yield a fair and reasonable return to the lessee upon his investment and to secure to the consumer any of such products at the lowest price reasonable and consistent with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation of disposal.</p></sidenote>foregoing: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such lease issued under this Act shall also stipulate that the President shall have authority to so regulate the disposal of the potassium products produced under such lease as to secure its distribution and use wholly within the limits of the United States or its possessions.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 2, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 63: To provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>63</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-10-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>63.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-03">October 3, 1917</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4280">H. R. 4280</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/50">Public, No. 50</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Revenue Act.</p></sidenote>
<title>
<num value="I">Title I.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war income tax.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Income Tax.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional normal tax on Incomes of citizens or residents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 756.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1119.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in addition to the normal tax imposed by subdivision (a) of section one of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nine<page identifier="/us/stat/40/301">301</page>teen hundred and sixteen, there shall he levied, assessed, collected,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war income tax.</inline></p></sidenote> and paid a like normal tax of two per centum upon the income of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1062.</p></sidenote> every individual, a citizen or resident of the United States, received in the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen and every
calendar year thereafter.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in addition to the additional tax imposed by subdivision<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On incomes exceeding $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 756.</p></sidenote> (b) of section one of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a like additional tax upon the income of every individual received in the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen and every calendar year thereafter, as follows:</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1062.</p></sidenote> net income exceeds $5,000 and does not exceed $7,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $7,500 and does not exceed $10,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Three per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $10,000 and does not exceed $12,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $12,500 and does not exceed $15,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Five per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $15,000 and does not exceed $20,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Seven per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $20,000 and does not exceed $40,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Ten per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $40,000 and does not exceed $60,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Fourteen per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $60,000 and does not exceed $80,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Eighteen per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $80,000 and docs not exceed $100,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twenty-two per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $100,000 and does not exceed $150,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Twenty-five per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $150,000 and does not exceed $200,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Thirty per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $200,000 and does not exceed $250,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Thirty-four per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $250,000 and does not exceed $300,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Thirty-seven per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $300,000 and does not exceed $500,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Forty per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $500,000 and does not exceed $750,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Forty-five per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $750,000 and does not exceed $1,000,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Fifty per centum per annum upon the amount by which the total net income exceeds $1,000,000.</listContent></listItem>
</list>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That the taxes imposed by sections one and two of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment, payments, etc.</p></sidenote> Act shall be computed, levied, assessed, collected, and paid upon the same basis and in the same manner as the similar taxes imposed by section one of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, except that in the case of the tax imposed by section one of this Act (a) the exemptions of $3,000 and $4,000 provided in section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal exemptions reduced.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote> seven of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, shall be, respectively, $1,000 and $2,000, and (b) the returns required under subdivisions (b) and (c) of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns required.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 762.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote> eight of such Act as amended by this Act shall be required in the case of net incomes of $1,000 or over, in the case of unmarried persons, and $2,000 or over in the case of married persons, instead of $3,000 or over, as therein provided, and (c) the provisions of subdivision (c)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withholding new tax at source applicable only after January 1, 1918.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 332.</p></sidenote> of section nine of such Act, as amended by this Act, requiring the normal tax of individuals on income derived from interest to be deducted and withheld at the source of the income shall not apply to <page identifier="/us/stat/40/302">302</page> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">WAR INCOM TAX.</p></sidenote> the new two per centum normal tax prescribed in section one of this Act until on and after January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and thereafter only one two per centum normal tax shall be deducted and withheld at the source under the provisions of such subdivision <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further tax payable by recipient.</p></sidenote>(c), and any further normal tax for which the recipient of such income is liable under this Act or such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, shall be paid by such recipient.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on incomes of corporations, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 333, 1075.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in addition to the tax imposed by subdivision (a) of section ten of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a like tax of four per centum upon the income received in the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen and every calendar year thereafter, by every corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, subject to the tax imposed by that subdivision of that section, except that if it has <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation fiscal year 1917.</p></sidenote>fixed its own fiscal year, the tax imposed by this section for the fiscal year ending during the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid only on that proportion of its income for such fiscal year which the period between January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the end of such fiscal year bears to the whole of such fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment, payment, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 333.</p></sidenote>The tax imposed by this section shall be computed, levied, assessed, collected, and paid upon the same incomes and in the same manner as the tax imposed by subdivision (a) of section ten of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, except that for the purpose of the tax imposed by this section the income embraced in a return of a corporation, joint-stock <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit for tax-paid corporation dividends, etc.</p></sidenote>company or association, or insurance company, shall be credited with the amount received as dividends upon the stock or from the net earnings of any other corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, which is taxable upon its net income as provided in this title.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable to Porto Rico or Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this title shall not extend to Porto Rico or the Philippine Islands, and the Porto Rican or Philippine Legislature shall have power by due enactment to amend, alter, modify, or repeal the income tax laws in force in Porto Rico or the Philippine Islands, respectively.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="II"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> II.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Excess Profits Tax.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="200"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 200. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms construed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That when used in this title—</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Corporation.”</p></sidenote>The term “corporation” includes joint-stock companies or associations and insurance companies;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">”Domestic.”</p></sidenote>The term “domestic” means created under the law of the United States, or of any State, Territory, or District thereof, and the term <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Foreign.”</p></sidenote>“foreign” means created under the law of any other possession of the United States or of any foreign country or government;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“United States.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>The term “United States” means only the States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and the District of Columbia;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Taxable year.”</p></sidenote>The term “taxable year” means the twelve months ending December thirty-first, excepting in the case of a corporation or partnership which has fixed its own fiscal year, in which case it means such fiscal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First year, 1917.</p></sidenote>year. The first taxable year shall be the year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, except that in the case of a corporation or partnership which has fixed its own fiscal year, it shall be the fiscal year ending during the calendar year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportion for fiscal year within 1916.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen. If a corporation or partnership, prior to March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, makes a return covering its own fiscal year, and includes therein the income received during that part of the fiscal year falling within the calendar year nineteen<page identifier="/us/stat/40/303">303</page>hundred and sixteen, the tax for such taxable year shall be that proportion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p></sidenote> of the tax computed upon the net income during such full fiscal year which the time from January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to the end of such fiscal year bears to the full fiscal year; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The term “prewar period” means the calendar years nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Prewar period.”</p></sidenote> hundred and eleven, nineteen hundred and twelve, and nineteen hundred and thirteen, or, if a corporation or partnership was not in existence or an individual was not engaged in a trade or business during the whole of such period, then as many of such years during the whole of which the corporation or partnership was in existence or the individual was engaged in the trade or business.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The terms “trade” and “business” include professions and occupations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Trade” and “business.”</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The term “net income” means in the case of a foreign corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">”Net Income” of foreign corporations, etc.</p></sidenote> or partnership or a nonresident alien individual, the net income received from sources within the United States.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="201"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 201. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in addition to the taxes under existing law and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on percentages of net incomes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1082.</p></sidenote> under this act there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid for each taxable year upon the income of every corporation, partnership, or individual, a tax (hereinafter in this title referred to as the tax) equal to the following percentages of the net income:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates on invested capital.</p></sidenote> deduction (determined as hereinafter provided) and not in excess of fifteen per centum of the invested capital for the taxable year;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty-five per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of fifteen per centum and not in excess of twenty per centum of such capital;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-five per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of twenty per centum and not in excess of twenty-five per centum of such capital;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty-five per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of twenty-five per centum and not in excess of thirty-three per centum of such capital; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixty per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of thirty-three per centum of such capital.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of this title every corporation or partnership not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporations and partnerships taxed as of single trade or business.</p></sidenote> exempt under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be engaged in business, and all the trades and businesses in which it is engaged shall be treated as a single trade or business, and all its income from whatever source derived shall be deemed to be received from such trade or business.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">This title shall apply to all trades or businesses of whatever description,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All trades, etc., in eluded.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> whether continuously carried on or not, except—</p>
</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">In the case of officers and employees under the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of Federal, State, etc., officials.</p></sidenote> or any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or any local subdivision thereof, the compensation or fees received by them as such officers or employees;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">Corporations exempt from tax under the provisions of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempted corporations. etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 766, 1001.</p></sidenote> eleven of Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, and partnerships and individuals carrying on or doing the same business, or coming within the same description; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">Incomes derived from the business of life, health, and accident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Weekly payment insurance.</p></sidenote> insurance combined in one policy issued on the weekly premium payment plan.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="202"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 202. </num>
<content class="inline">That the tax shall not be imposed in the case of the trade<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum taxable income of foreign corporations, etc.</p></sidenote> or business of a foreign corporation or partnership or a nonresident alien individual, the net income of which trade or business during the taxable year is less than $3,000.
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/304">304</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="203"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 203. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic corporations.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That for the purposes of this title the deduction shall be as follows, except as otherwise in this title provided—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">In the case of a domestic corporation, the sum of (1) an amount equal to the same percentage of the invested capital for the taxable year which the average amount of the annual net income of the trade or business during the prewar period was of the invested capital for the prewar period (but not less than seven or more than nine per centum of the invested capital for the taxable year), and (2) $3,000;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partnerships, citizens, or residents.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">In the case of a domestic partnership or of a citizen or resident of the United States, the sum of (1) an amount equal to the same percentage of the invested capital for the taxable year which the average amount of the annual net income of the trade or business during the prewar period was of the invested capital for the prewar period (but not less than seven or more than nine per centum of the invested capital for the taxable year), and (2) $6,000;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">In the case of a foreign corporation or partnership or of a nonresident alien individual, an amount ascertained in the same manner as provided in subdivisions (a) and (b) without any exemption of $3,000 or $6,000.
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination by Secretary of the Treasury.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If the Secretary of the Treasury is unable satisfactorily to determine the average amount of the annual net income of the trade or business during the prewar period, the deduction shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra.</i></p></sidenote>determined in the same manner as provided in section two hundred and five.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="204"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 204. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount if no prewar business, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That if a corporation or partnership was not in existence, or an individual was not engaged in the trade or business, during the whole of any one calendar year during the prewar period, the deduction shall be an amount equal to eight per centum of the invested capital for the taxable year, plus in the case of a domestic corporation $3,000, and in the case of a domestic partnership or a citizen or resident of the United States $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination If new business a continuation of former.</p></sidenote>A trade or business carried on by a corporation, partnership, or individual, although formally organized or reorganized on or after January second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, which is substantially a continuation of a trade or business carried on prior to that date, shall, for the purposes of this title, be deemed to have been in existence prior to that date, and the net income and invested capital of its predecessor prior to that date shall be deemed to have been its net income and invested capital.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="205"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 205. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions by Secretary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If no prewar income</p></sidenote>
<subdivision class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That if the Secretary of the Treasury, upon complaint finds either (1) that during the prewar period a domestic corporation or partnership, or a citizen or resident of the United States, had no <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If lower than average similar business.</p></sidenote>net income from the trade or business, or (2) that during the prewar period the percentage, which the net income <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computing.</p></sidenote>was of the invested capital, was low as compared with the percentage, which the net income during such period of representative corporations, partnerships, and individuals, engaged in a like or similar trade or business, was of their invested capital, then the deduction shall be the sum of (1) an amount equal to the same percentage of its invested capital for the taxable year which the average deduction (determined in the same manner as provided in section two hundred and three, without including the $3,000 or $6,000 therein referred to) for such year of representative corporations, partnerships, or individuals, engaged in a like or similar trade or business, is of their average invested capital for such year plus (2) in the case of a domestic corporation $3,000, and in the case of a domestic partnership or a citizen or resident of the United States $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of percentage of net income to invested capital.</p></sidenote>The percentage which the net income was of the invested capital in each trade or business shall be determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. In the case of a <page identifier="/us/stat/40/305">305</page>corporation or partnership which has fixed its own fiscal year, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p></sidenote> percentage determined by the calendar year ending during such fiscal year shall be used.</p>
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">The tax shall be assessed upon the basis of the deduction determined<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 304.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for abatement.</p></sidenote> as provided in section two hundred and three, but the taxpayer claiming the benefit of this section may at the time of making the return file a claim for abatement of the amount by which the tax so assessed exceeds a tax computed upon the basis of the deduction determined as provided in this section. In such event, collection of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection delayed.</p></sidenote> the part of the tax covered by such claim for abatement shall not be made until the claim is decided, but if in the judgment of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the interests of the United States would be jeopardized thereby he may require the claimant to give a bond in such amount and with such sureties as the commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond, for payment, etc.</p></sidenote> may think wise to safeguard such interests, conditioned for the payment of any tax found to be due, with the interest thereon, and if such bond, satisfactory to the commissioner, is not given within such time as he prescribes, the full amount of tax assessed shall be collected and the amount overpaid, if any, shall upon final decision of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of overpayments.</p></sidenote> the application be refunded as a tax erroneously or illegally collected.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="206"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 206. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That for the purposes of this title the net income of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ascertaining net incomes of corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For 1911, 1912.</p></sidenote> corporation shall be ascertained and returned (a) for the calendar years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve upon the same basis and in the same manner as provided in section thirty-eight of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 112.</p></sidenote> duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, except that income taxes paid by it within the year imposed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income taxes included.</p></sidenote> authority of the United States shall be included; (b) for the calendar<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For 1913.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 172.</p></sidenote> year nineteen hundred and thirteen upon the same basis and in the same manner as provided in section II of the 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, except that income taxes paid by it within the year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income taxes included.</p></sidenote> imposed by the authority of the United States shall be included, and except that the amounts received by it as dividends upon the stock<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-paid dividends deducted.</p></sidenote> or from the net earnings of other corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, or insurance companies, subject to the tax imposed by section II of such Act of October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be deducted; and (c) for the taxable year upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For taxable year.</p></sidenote> same basis and in the same manner as provided in Title I of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 765.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 333.</p></sidenote> approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, except that the amounts received by it<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-paid dividends excepted.</p></sidenote> as dividends upon the stock or from the net earnings of other corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, or insurance companies, subject to the tax imposed by Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be deducted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The net income of a partnership or individual shall be ascertained<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partnerships or individuals.</p></sidenote> and returned for the calendar years nineteen hundred and eleven, nineteen hundred and twelve, and nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for the taxable year, upon the same basis and in the same manner <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote>as provided in Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, except that the credit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-paid income excepted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 759.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed partnerships.</p></sidenote> allowed by subdivision (b) of section five of such Act shall be deducted. There shall be allowed (a) in the case of a domestic partnership the same deductions as allowed to individuals in subdivision (a) of section five of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 759.</p></sidenote> and sixteen, as amended by this Act; and (b) in the case of a foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 330.</p></sidenote> partnership the same deductions as allowed to individuals in subdivision<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 760.</p></sidenote> (a) of section six of such Act as amended by this Act.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 330.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/306">306</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="207"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 207. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Invested capital.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of, as used.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">That as used in this title, the term “invested capital” for any year means the average invested capital for the year, as defined and limited in this title, averaged monthly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Non taxable income, borrowed money, etc., excluded.</p></sidenote>As used in this title “invested capital” does not include stocks, bonds (other than obligations of the United States), or other assets, the income from which is not subject to the tax imposed by this title, nor money or other property borrowed, and means, subject to the above limitations:</p>
</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of corporations or partnerships.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash paid in.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other tangible property paid for stocks or shares.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">In the case of a corporation or partnership: (1) Actual cash paid in, (2) the actual cash value of tangible property paid in other than cash, for stock or shares in such corporation or partnership, at the time of such payment (but in case such tangible property was paid in prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the actual cash value of such property as of January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, but in no case to exceed the par value of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Earned surplus used in business.</p></sidenote>original stock or shares specifically issued therefor), and (3) paid in or earned surplus and undivided profits used or employed in the business, exclusive of undivided profits earned during the taxable year: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents and copyrights.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That (a) the actual cash value of patents and copyrights paid in for stock or shares in such corporation or partnership, at the time of such payment, shall be included as invested capital, but not to exceed the par value of such stock or shares at the time of such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Good will, franchises, and other intangibles.</p></sidenote>payment, and (b) the good will, trade-marks, trade brands, the franchise of a corporation or partnership, or other intangible property, shall be included as invested capital if the corporation or partnership made payment bona fide therefor specifically as such in cash or tangible property, the value of such good will, trade-mark, trade brand, franchise, or intangible property, not to exceed the actual <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In business prior to March 3, 1917.</p></sidenote>cash or actual cash value of the tangible property paid therefor at the time of such payment; but good will, trade-marks, trade brands, franchise of a corporation or partnership, or other intangible property, bona fide purchased, prior to March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for and with interests or shares in a partnership or for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>and with shares in the capital stock of a corporation (issued prior to March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen), in an amount not to exceed, on March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, twenty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valuation.</p></sidenote>per centum of the total interests or shares in the partnership or of the total shares of the capital stock of the corporation, shall be included in invested capital at a value not to exceed the actual cash value at the time of such purchase, and in case of issue of stock therefor not to exceed the par value of such stock;</proviso>
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Individuals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash paid in.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other tangible property.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">In the case of an individual, (1) actual cash paid into the trade or business, and (2) the actual cash value of tangible property paid into the trade or business, other than cash, at the time of such payment (but in case such tangible property was paid in prior to January <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents, franchises, and other intangibles.</p></sidenote>first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the actual cash value of such property as of January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen), and (3) the actual cash value of patents, copyrights, good will, trade-marks, trade brands, franchises, or other intangible property, paid into the trade or business, at the time of such payment, if payment was <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valuation.</p></sidenote>made therefor specifically as such in cash or tangible property, not to exceed the actual cash or actual cash value of the tangible property bona fide paid therefor at the time of such payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income in United States.</p></sidenote>In the case of a foreign corporation or partnership or of a non-resident alien individual the term “invested capital” means that proportion of the entire invested capital, as defined and limited in this title, which the net income from sources within the United States bears to the entire net income.</p>
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="208"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 208. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of capital of reorganized, etc., business under same control.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in case of the reorganization, consolidation or change of ownership of a trade or business after March third, nine-teen hundred and seventeen, if an interest or control in such trade <page identifier="/us/stat/40/307">307</page>or business of fifty per centum or more remains in control of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p></sidenote> same persons, corporations, associations, partnerships, or any of them, then in ascertaining the invested capital of the trade or business no asset transferred or received from the prior trade or business shall be allowed a greater value than would have been allowed under this title in computing the invested capital of such prior trade or business if such asset had not been so transferred or received, unless such asset was paid for specifically as such, in cash or tangible property, and then not to exceed the actual cash or actual cash value of the tangible property paid therefor at the time of such payment.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="209"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 209. </num>
<content class="inline">That in the case of a trade or business having no invested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on trade or business without invested capital.</p></sidenote> capital or not more than a nominal capital there shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid, in addition to the taxes under existing law and under this Act, in lieu of the tax imposed by section two hundred and one, a tax equivalent to eight per centum of the net income of such trade or business in excess of the following deductions:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed.</p></sidenote> In the case of a domestic corporation $3,000, and in the case of a domestic partnership or a citizen or resident of the United States $6,000; in the case of all other trades or business, no deduction.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="210"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 210. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That if the Secretary of the Treasury is unable in any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions by the Secretary.</p></sidenote> case satisfactorily to determine the invested capital, the amount of the deduction shall be the sum of (1) an amount equal to the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportion of net income of average similar business.</p></sidenote> proportion of the net income of the trade or business received during the taxable year as the proportion which the average deduction (determined in the same manner as provided in section two hundred and three, without including the $3,000 or $6,000 therein referred to) for the same calendar year of representative corporations, partner ships, and individuals, engaged in a like or similar trade or business, bears to the total net income of the trade or business received by such corporations, partnerships, an d individuals, plus (2) in the case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further allowance to domestic persons.</p></sidenote> of a domestic corporation $3,000, and in the case of a domestic partnership or a citizen or resident of the United States $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of this section the proportion between the deduction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules for proportion to be made.</p></sidenote> and the net income in each trade or business shall be determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. In the case of a corporation or partnership which has fixed its own fiscal year, the proportion determined for the calendar year ending during such fiscal year shall be used.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="211"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 211. </num>
<content class="inline">That every foreign partnership having a net income of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partnership returns required.</p></sidenote> $3,000 or more for the taxable year, and every domestic partnership having a net income of $6,000 or more for the taxable year, shall render a correct return of the income of the trade or business for the taxable year, setting forth specifically the gross income for such year, and the deductions allowed in this title. Such returns shall be rendered at the same time and in the same manner as is prescribed for income-tax returns under Title I of such Act of September eighth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 761, 770.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 331, 335.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="212"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 212. </num>
<content class="inline">That all administrative, special, and general provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General laws applicable.</p></sidenote> law, including the laws in relation to the assessment, remission, collection, and refund of internal-revenue taxes not heretofore specifically repealed, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this title are hereby extended and made applicable to all the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 756–777.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 329–338.</p></sidenote> title and to the tax herein imposed, and all provisions of Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by this Act, relating to returns and payment of the tax therein imposed, including penalties, are hereby made applicable to the tax imposed by this title.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="213"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 213. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote> approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall make all necessary <page identifier="/us/stat/40/308">308</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excess profits tax.</inline></p></sidenote>regulations for carrying out the provisions of this title, and may require any corporation, partnership, or individual, subject to the provisions of this title, to furnish him with such facts, data, and information as in his judgment are necessary to collect the tax imposed by this title.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="214"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 214. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess-profits tax repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp., 1000–1002.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That Title II (sections two hundred to two hundred and seven, inclusive) of the Act entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy, and the extensions of fortifications, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments thereon credited to this tax.</p></sidenote>Any amount heretofore or hereafter paid on account of the tax imposed by such Title II, shall be credited toward the payment of the tax imposed by this title, and if the amount so paid exceeds the amount of such tax the excess shall be refunded as a tax erroneously or illegally collected.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Munitions tax.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 781, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate reduced.</p></sidenote>Subdivision (1) of section three hundred and one of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended so that the rate of tax for the taxable year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall be ten per centum instead of twelve and one-half per centum, as therein provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To cease January 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>Subdivision (2) of such section is hereby amended to read as follows: “<quotedText>(2) This section shall cease to be of effect on and after January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</quotedText>”</p>
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="III"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> III.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on beverages.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Tax on Beverages.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="300"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 300. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distilled spirits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on, in bond, produced or imported, increased.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 563.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3251/p627">R. S., sec. 3251, p. 627</ref>, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 309, 1105.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For beverages.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That on and after the passage of this Act there shall be levied and collected on all distilled spirits in bond at that time or that have been or that may be then or thereafter produced in or imported into the United States, except such distilled spirits as are subject to the tax provided in section three hundred and three, in addition to the tax now imposed by law, a tax of $1.10 (or, if withdrawn for beverage purposes or for use in the manufacture or production of any article used or intended for use as a beverage, a tax of $2.10) on each proof gallon, or wine gallon when below proof and a proportionate tax at a like rate on all fractional parts of such proof or wine gallon, to be paid by the distiller or importer when withdrawn, and collected under the provisions of existing law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on imported perfumes containing spirits.</p></sidenote>That in addition to the tax under existing law there shall be levied and collected upon all perfumes hereafter imported into the United States containing distilled spirits, a tax of $1.10 per wine gallon, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection at customhouse.</p></sidenote>a proportionate tax at a like rate on all fractional parts of such wine gallon. Such tax shall be collected by the collector of customs and deposited as internal-revenue collections, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="301"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 301. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importing, forbidden hereafter.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no distilled spirits produced after the passage of this Act shall be imported into the United States from any foreign country, or from the West Indian Islands recently acquired from Denmark (unless produced from products the growth of such islands, and not then into any State or Territory or District of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission for other than beverages.</p></sidenote>States in which the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited), or from Porto Rico, or the Philippine Islands. Under such rules, regulations, and bonds as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the provisions of this section shall not apply to distilled spirits imported for other than (1) beverage purposes or (2) use in the manufacture or production of any article used or intended for use as a beverage.
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/309">309</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="302"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 302. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That at registered distilleries producing alcohol, or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on beverages.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling packages at distilleries.</p></sidenote> high-proof spirits, packages may be filled with such spirits reduced to not less than one hundred proof from the receiving cisterns and tax paid without being entered into bonded warehouse. Such spirits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers by pipe lines.</p></sidenote> may also be transferred from the receiving cisterns at such distilleries, by means of pipe lines, direct to storage tanks in the bonded warehouse and may be warehoused in such storage tanks. Such spirits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In tanks, etc., for storage.</p></sidenote> may be also transferred in tanks or tank cars to general bonded warehouses for storage therein, either in storage tanks in such warehouses or in the tanks in which they were transferred. Such spirits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To rectifiers.</p></sidenote> may also be transferred after tax payment from receiving cisterns or warehouse storage tanks to tanks or tank cars and may be transported in such tanks or tank cars to the premises of rectifiers of spirits. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc., to be made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the. Treasury, is hereby empowered to prescribe all necessary regulations relating to the drawing off, transferring, gauging, storing and transporting of such spirits; the records to be kept and returns to be made; the size and kind of packages and tanks to be used; the marking, branding, numbering and stamping of such packages and tanks; the kinds of stamps, if any, to be used; and the time and manner of paying the tax; the kind of bond and the penal sum of same. The tax prescribed by law must be paid before such spirits are removed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of tax before removal.</p></sidenote> from the distillery premises, or from general bonded warehouse in the case of spirits transferred thereto, except as otherwise provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers without warehouse stamps in 30 days.</p></sidenote>with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe, distilled spirits may hereafter be drawn from receiving cisterns and deposited in distillery warehouses without having affixed to the packages containing the same distillery warehouse stamps, and such packages, when so deposited in warehouse, may be withdrawn therefrom on the original gauge where the same have remained in such warehouse for a period not exceeding thirty days from the date of deposit.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ethyl alcohol.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Used for other than beverages may be exempted from distillery time limitations.</p></sidenote>with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe, the manufacture, warehousing, withdrawal, and shipment, under the provisions of existing law, of ethyl alcohol for other than (1 ) beverage purposes or (2) use in the manufacture or production of any article used or intended for use as a beverage, and denatured alcohol,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denatured alcohol.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3283/p635">R. S., sec. 3283, p. 635</ref>.</p></sidenote> may be exempted from the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and eighty-three, Revised Statutes of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for filling tubs diminished.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3285/p635">R. S., sec. 3285, p. 635</ref>.</p></sidenote> with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe, manufacturers of ethyl alcohol for other than beverage purposes may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 145.</p></sidenote> be granted permission under the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and eighty-five, Revised Statutes of the United States, to fill fermenting tub in a sweet-mash distillery not oftener than once in forty-eight hours.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="303"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 303. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon all distilled spirits produced in or imported<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on stock held by retailers.</p></sidenote> into the United States upon which the tax now imposed by law has been paid, and which, on the day this Act is passed, are held by a retailer in a quantity in excess of fifty gallons in the aggregate, or by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantity affected.</p></sidenote> any other person, corporation, partnership, or association in any quantity, and which are intended for sale, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a tax of $1.10 (or, if intended for sale for beverage purposes or for use in the manufacture or production of any article used or intended for use as a beverage, a tax of $2.10) on each proof gallon, and a proportionate tax at a like rate on all fractional parts of such proof gallon: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the tax on such distilled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In custody of a bankrupt court.</p></sidenote> spirits in the custody of a court of bankruptcy in insolvency proceed<page identifier="/us/stat/40/310">310</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on beverages.</inline></p></sidenote>ings on June first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be paid by the person to whom the court delivers such distilled spirits at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>time of such delivery, to the extent that the amount thus delivered exceeds the fifty gallons hereinbefore provided.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="304"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 304. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rectified spirits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in addition to the tax now imposed or imposed by this Act on distilled spirits there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a tax of 15 cents on each proof gallon and a proportionate tax at a like rate on all fractional parts of such proof gallon on all distilled spirits or wines hereafter rectified, purified, or refined in such manner, and on all mixtures hereafter produced in such manner, that the person so rectifying, purifying, refining, or mixing the same <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3244/p623">R. S., sec. 3244, p. 623</ref>.</p></sidenote>is a rectifier within the meaning of section thirty-two hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gin excepted.</p></sidenote>forty-four, Revised Statutes, as amended, and on all such articles in the possession of the rectifier on the day this Act is passed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this tax shall not apply to gin produced by the redistillation of a pure spirit over juniper berries and other aromatics.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of proof after rectifying, unlawful.</p></sidenote>When the process of rectification is completed and the tax prescribed by this section has been paid, it shall be unlawful for the rectifier or other dealer to reduce in proof or increase in volume such spirits or wine by the addition of water or other substance; nothing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reusing permitted.</p></sidenote>herein contained shall, however, prevent a rectifier from using again in the process of rectification spirits already rectified and upon which the tax has theretofore been paid.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions from additional tax.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax paid cordials or liqueurs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 786.</p></sidenote>The tax imposed by this section shall not attach to cordials or liqueurs on which a tax is imposed and paid under the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, nor to the mixing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blending pure wines and straight whiskies.</p></sidenote>and blending of wines, where such blending is for the sole purpose of perfecting such wines according to commercial standards, nor to blends made exclusively of two or more pure straight whiskies aged in wood for a period not less than four years and without the addition of coloring or flavoring matter or any other substance than pure <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Whisky restrictions.</p></sidenote>water and if not reduced below ninety proof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such blended whiskies shall be exempt from tax under this section only when compounded under the immediate supervision of a revenue officer, in such tanks and under such conditions and supervision as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniform regulations to govern use, etc.</p></sidenote>All distilled spirits taxable under this section shall be subject to uniform regulations concerning the use thereof in the manufacture, blending, compounding, mixing, marking, branding, and sale of whisky and rectified spirits, and no discrimination whatsoever shall be made by reason of a difference in the character of the material from which same may have been produced.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rectifiers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules for business of.</p></sidenote>The business of a rectifier of spirits shall be carried on, and the tax on rectified spirits shall be paid, under such rules, regulations, and bonds as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double tax for evasions.</p></sidenote>He shall, in addition, be liable to double the tax evaded together with the tax, to be collected by assessment or on any bond given.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="305"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 305. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of stamps restricted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That hereafter collectors of internal revenue shall not furnish wholesale liquor dealer’s stamps in lieu of and in exchange for stamps for rectified spirits unless the package covered by stamp for rectified spirits is to be broken into smaller packages.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps discontinued.</p></sidenote>The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to discontinue the use of the following stamps whenever in his judgment the interests of the Government will be subserved thereby:</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/311">311</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distillery warehouse, special bonded warehouse, special bonded rewarehouse,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on beverages.</inline></p></sidenote> general bonded warehouse, general bonded retransfer, transfer brandy, export tobacco, export cigars, export oleomargarine and export fermented liquor stamps.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="306"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 306. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meters, tanks, etc., required to be used.</p></sidenote> approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to require at distilleries, breweries, rectifying houses, and wherever else in his judgment such action may be deemed advisable, the installation of meters, tanks, pipes, or any other apparatus for the purpose of protecting the revenue, and such meters, tanks, and pipes and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expense of installing, etc.</p></sidenote> necessary labor incident thereto shall be at the expense of the person, corporation, partnership, or association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business forbidden on noncompliance.</p></sidenote> on whose premises the installation is required. Any such person, corporation, partnership, or association refusing or neglecting to install such apparatus when so required by the commissioner shall not be permitted to conduct business on such premises.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="307"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 307. </num>
<content class="inline">That on and after the passage of this Act there shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fermented liquors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1109.</p></sidenote> levied and collected on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liquor, containing one-half per centum, or more of alcohol, brewed or manufactured and sold, or stored, in warehouse, or removed for consumption or sale, within the United States, by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 783.</p></sidenote> whatever name such liquors may be called, in addition to the tax now imposed by law, a tax of $1.50 for every barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional parts of a barrel authorized and definen by law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="308"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 308. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That from and after the passage of this Act taxable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal to industrial distilleries without paying tax. etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 199.</p></sidenote> fermented liquors may be conveyed without payment of tax from the brewery premises where produced to a contiguous industrial distillery of either class established under the Act of October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to be used as distilling material, and the residue from such distillation, containing less than one-half of one per centum of alcohol by volume, which is to be used in making beverages, may be manipulated by cooling, flavoring, carbonating, settling, and filtering on the distillery premises or elsewhere.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The removal of the taxable fermented liquor from the brewery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote> to the distillery and the operation of the distillery and removal of the residue therefrom shall be under the supervision of such officer or officers as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall deem proper, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to make such regulations from time to time as may be necessary to give force and effect to this section and to safeguard the revenue.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="309"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 309. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon all still wines, including vermuth, and upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wines, liqueurs, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on, produced or imported.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 783.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1110.</p></sidenote> all champagne and other sparkling wines, liqueurs, cordials, artificial or imitation wines or compounds sold as wine, produced in or imported into the United States, and hereafter removed from the custom-house, place of manufacture, or from bonded premises for sale or consumption, there shall be levied and collected, in addition to the tax now imposed by law upon such articles, a tax equal to such tax, to be levied, collected, and paid under the provisions of existing law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="310"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 310. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon all articles specified in section three hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantity of stock on hand taxable.</p></sidenote> and nine upon which the tax now imposed by law has been paid and which are on the day this Act is passed held in excess of twenty-five gallons in the aggregate of such articles and intended for sale, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a tax equal to the tax imposed by such section.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="311"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 311. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon all grape brandy or wine spirits withdrawn by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brandy withdrawn for fortifying wines.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on, doubled.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 784.</p></sidenote> a producer of wines from any fruit distillery or special bonded warehouse under subdivision (c) of section four hundred and two of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/312">312</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on beverages.</inline></p></sidenote>Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid in addition to the tax therein imposed, a tax equal to double such tax, to be assessed, collected, and paid under the provisions of existing law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="312"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 312. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Used in fortified wines.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That upon all sweet wines held for sale by the producer thereof upon the day this Act is passed there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid an additional tax equivalent to 10 cents per proof gallon upon the grape brandy or wine spirits used in the fortification <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On hand for fortifying.</p></sidenote>of such wine, and an additional tax of 20 cents per proof gallon shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid upon all grape brandy or wine spirits withdrawn by a producer of sweet wines for the purpose of fortifying such wines and not so used prior to the passage of this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="313"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 313. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unfermented liquors, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sirups and extracts for soft drinks.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all prepared sirups or extracts (intended for use in the manufacture or production of beverages, commonly known as soft <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on sales by producer, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1116.</p></sidenote>drinks, by soda fountains, bottling establishments, and other similar places) sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof, if so sold for not more than $1.30 per gallon, a tax of 5 cents per gallon; if so sold for more than $1.30 and not more than $2 per gallon, a tax of 8 cents per gallon; if so sold for more than $2 and not more than $3 per gallon, a tax of 10 cents per gallon; if so sold for more than $3 and not more than $4 per gallon, a tax of 15 cents per gallon; and if so sold for more than $4 per gallon, a tax of 20 cents per gallon; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bottled grape juice, soft drinks, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on sales by producer, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all unfermented grape juice, soft drinks or artificial mineral waters (not carbonated), and fermented liquors containing less than one-half per centum of alcohol, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof, in bottles or other closed containers, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ginger ale, etc.</p></sidenote>upon all ginger ale, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop, and other carbonated waters or beverages, manufactured and sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of the carbonic acid gas used in carbonating the same, a tax of 1 cent per gallon; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Natural mineral waters.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on sales by producer, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all natural mineral waters or table waters, sold by the producer, bottler, or importer thereof, in bottles or other closed containers, at over 10 cents per gallon, a tax of 1 cent per gallon.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="314"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 314. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly returns by manufacturer, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That each such manufacturer, producer, bottler, or importer shall make monthly returns under oath to the collector of internal revenue for the district in which is located the principal place of business, containing such information necessary for the assessment of the tax, and at such times and in such manner, as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation prescribe.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="315"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 315. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carbonic acid gas in drums, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on sales by producer, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1116.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That upon all carbonic acid gas in drums or other containers (intended for use in the manufacture or production of carbonated water or other drinks) sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manner of payment.</p></sidenote>a tax of 5 cents per pound. Such tax shall be paid by the purchaser to the vendor thereof and shall be collected, returned, and paid to the United States by such vendor in the same manner as provided in section five hundred and three.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="IV">Title IV.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war tax on cigars and tobacco.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Tax on Cigars, Tobacco, and Manufactures Thereof.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="400"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 400. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on sales by manufacturer, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 111.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3394/">R. S., sec. 3394</ref>, p. 566, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cigars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1116.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That upon cigars and cigarettes, which shall be manufactured and sold, or removed for consumption or sale, there shall be levied and collected, in addition to the taxes now imposed by existing law, the following taxes, to be paid by the manufacturer or importer thereof: (a) on cigars of all descriptions made of tobacco, or any substitute therefor, and weighing not more than three pounds <page identifier="/us/stat/40/313">313</page>per thousand, 25 cents per thousand: (b) on cigars made of tobacco,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">cigars and tobacco war tax.</inline></p></sidenote> or any substitute therefor, and weighing more than three pounds per thousand, if manufactured or imported to retail at 4 cents or more each, and not more than 7 cents each, $1 per thousand; (c) if manufactured or imported to retail at more than 7 cents each and not more than 15 cents each, $ per thousand; (d) if manufactured or imported to retail at more than 15 cents each and not more than 20 cents each, $5 per thousand; (e) if manufactured or imported to retail at more than 20 cents each, $7 per thousand: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retail price construed.</p></sidenote> the word “retail” as used in this section shall mean the ordinary retail price of a single cigar, and that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may, by regulation, require the manufacturer or importer to affix to each box or container a conspicuous label indicating by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Label to indicate tax.</p></sidenote> letter the clause of this section under which the cigars therein contained have been tax-paid, which must correspond with the tax-paid stamp on said box or container; (f) on cigarettes made of tobacco,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cigarettes.</p></sidenote> or any substitute therefor, made in or imported into the United States, and weighing not more than three pounds per thousand, 80 cents per thousand; weighing more than three pounds per thousand, $1.20 per thousand.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Every manufacturer of cigarettes (including small cigars weighing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cigarette packages allowed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 109.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3392/p566">R. S., sec. 3392, p. 666</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote>not more than three pounds per thousand) shall put up all the cigarettes and such small cigars that he manufactures or has manufactured for him, and sells or removes for consumption or use, in packages or parcels containing five, eight, ten, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four, forty, fifty, eighty, or one hundred cigarettes each, and shall securely affix to each of said packages or parcels a suitable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps.</p></sidenote> stamp denoting the tax thereon and shall properly cancel the same prior to such sale or removal for consumption or use under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Imported.</p></sidenote> cigarettes imported from a foreign country shall be packed, stamped, and the stamps canceled in a like manner, in addition to the import stamp indicating inspection of the custom-house before they are withdrawn therefrom.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="401"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 401. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That upon all tobacco and snuff hereafter manufactured<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufactured tobacco and snuff.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 108.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3368/p658">R. S., sec. 3368, p. 658</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote> and sold, or removed for consumption or use, there shall be levied and collected, in addition to the tax now imposed by law upon such articles, a tax of 5 cents per pound, to be levied, collected, and paid under the provisions of existing law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In addition to the packages provided for under existing law, manufactured<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional packages allowed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 108.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3362/p657">R. S., sec. 3362, p. 657</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote> tobacco and snuff may be put up and prepared by the manufacturer for sale or consumption, in packages of the following description: Packages containing one-eighth, three-eighths, five-eighths, seven-eighths, one and one-eighth, one and three-eighths, one and five-eighths, one and seven-eighths, and five ounces.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="402"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 402. </num>
<content class="inline">That sections four hundred, four hundred and one, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax to take effect in 30 days.</p></sidenote> four hundred and four, shall take effect thirty days after the passage of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That after the passage of this Act and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New packages allowed before.</p></sidenote> before the expiration of the aforesaid thirty days, cigarettes and manufactured tobacco and snuff may be put up in the packages now provided for by law or in the packages provided for in sections four hundred and four hundred and one.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="403"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 403. </num>
<content class="inline">That there shall also be levied and collected, upon all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax paid stock on hand.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantity allowed at ball the increased rate.</p></sidenote> manufactured tobacco and snuff in excess of one hundred pounds or upon cigars or cigarettes in excess of one thousand, which were manufactured or imported, and removed from factory or customhouse prior to the passage of this Act, bearing tax-paid stamps affixed to such articles for the payment of the taxes thereon, and which are, on the day after this Act is passed, held and intended for sale by any person, corporation, partnership, or association, and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/314">314</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">cigars and tobacco war tax.</inline></p></sidenote>upon all manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, removed from factory or customs house after the passage of this Act but prior to the time when the tax imposed by section four hundred or section four hundred and one upon such articles takes effect, an additional tax equal to one-half the tax imposed by such sections upon such articles.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="404"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 404. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cigarette papers and tubes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamp tax on.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That there shall be levied, assessed, and collected upon cigarette paper made up into packages, books, sets, or tubes, made up in or imported into the United States and intended for use by the smoker in making cigarettes the following taxes: On each package, book, or set, containing more than twenty-five but not more than fifty papers, one-half of 1 cent; containing more than fifty but not more than one hundred papers, 1 cent; containing more than one hundred papers, 1 cent for each one hundred papers or fractional part thereof; and upon tubes, 2 cents for each one hundred tubes or fractional part thereof.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="V">Title V.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">public utilities and insurance.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Tax on Facilities Furnished by Public Utili ties, and Insurance.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="500"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 500. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War tax on transportation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1101.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and seventeen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of interstate freight.</p></sidenote>paid (a) a tax equivalent to three per centum of the amount paid for the transportation by rail or water or by any form of mechanical motor power when in competition with carriers by rail or water of property by freight consigned from one point in the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Express packages.</p></sidenote>to another; (b) a tax of 1 cent for each 20 cents, or fraction thereof, paid to any person, corporation, partnership, or association, engaged m the business of transporting parcels or packages by express over regular routes between fixed terminals, for the transportation of any package, parcel, or shipment by express from one point in the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lists by carrier.</p></sidenote>States to another: <i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the carrier collecting such tax to list separately in any bill of lading, freight receipt, or other similar document, the amount of the tax herein levied, if the total amount of the freight and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passenger.</p></sidenote>tax be therein stated; (c) a tax equivalent to eight per centum of the amount paid for the transportation of persons by rail or water, or by any form of mechanical motor power on a regular established line when in competition with carriers by rail or water, from one point in the United States to another or to any point in Canada or Mexico, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum amount.</p></sidenote>where the ticket therefor is sold or issued in the United States, not including the amount paid for commutation or season tickets for trips less than thirty miles, or for transportation the fare for which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seats, berths, and staterooms.</p></sidenote>does not exceed 35 cents, and a tax equivalent to ten per centum of the amount paid for scats, berths, and staterooms in parlor cars, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection on prior purchases, or cash fares.</p></sidenote>sleeping cars, or on vessels. If a mileage book used for such transportation or accommodation has been purchased before this section takes effect, or if cash fare be paid, the tax imposed by this section shall be collected from the person presenting the mileage book, or paying the cash fare, by the conductor or other agent, when presented for such transportation or accommodation, and the amount so collected shall be paid to the United States in such manner and at such times as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partially used tickets.</p></sidenote>of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe; if a ticket (other than a mileage book) is bought and partially used before this section goes into effect it shall not be taxed, but it bought but not so used before this section takes effect, it shall not be valid for passage until the tax has been paid and such payment evidenced on the ticket in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation pre <page identifier="/us/stat/40/315">315</page>scribe; (d) a tax equivalent to five per centum of the amount paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">public utilities.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil by pipe lines.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messages, telegraph, etc.</p></sidenote> for the transportation of oil by pipe line; (e) a tax of 5 cents upon each telegraph, telephone, or radio, dispatch, message, or conversation, which originates within the United States, and for the transmission of which a charge of 15 cents or more is imposed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Only one tax on message.</p></sidenote> That only one payment of such tax shall be required, notwithstanding the lines or stations of one or more persons, corporations, partnerships, or associations shall be used for the transmission of such dispatch, message, or conversation.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="501"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 501. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the taxes imposed by section five hundred shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">User of facilities to pay tax.</p></sidenote> paid by the person, corporation, partnership, or association paying or the services or facilities rendered.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In case such carrier does not, because of its ownership of the commodity<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on commodities owned by carrier.</p></sidenote> transported, or for any other reason, receive the amount which as a carrier it would otherwise charge, such carrier shall pay a tax equivalent to the tax which would be imposed upon the transportation of such commodity if the carrier received payment for such transportation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in case of a carrier which on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis if no rates filed.</p></sidenote> May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, had no rates or tariffs on file with the proper Federal or State authority, the tax shall be computed on the basis of the rates or tariffs of other carriers for like services as ascertained and determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That nothing in this or the preceding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Used in business of carrier.</p></sidenote> section shall be construed as imposing a tax (a) upon the transportation of any commodity which is necessary for the use of the earner in the conduct of its business as such and is intended to be so used or has been so used; or (b) upon the transportation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For carrier of same system.</p></sidenote> company material transported by one carrier, which constitutes a part of a railroad system, for another earner which is also a part of the same system.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="502"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 502. </num>
<content class="inline">That no tax shall be imposed under section five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services to Government, States, etc., not taxed.</p></sidenote> upon any payment received for services rendered to the United States, or any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. The right to exemption under this section shall be evidenced in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation prescribe.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="503"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 503. </num>
<content class="inline">That each person, corporation, partnership, or association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns of collections by carriers, etc.</p></sidenote> receiving any payments referred to in section five hundred shall collect the amount of the tax, if any, imposed by such section from the person, corporation, partnership, or association making such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> payments, and shall make monthly returns under oath, in duplicate, and pay the taxes so collected and the taxes imposed upon it under paragraph two of section five hundred and one to the collector of internal revenue of the district in which the principal office or place of business is located. Such returns shall contain such information,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of returns, etc.</p></sidenote> and be made in such manner, as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation prescribe.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">insurance.</inline></p></sidenote>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="504"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 504. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That from and after the first day of November, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance policies.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax levied on.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1104.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid the following taxes on the issuance of insurance policies:</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">Life insurance: A tax equivalent to 8 cents on each $100 or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life.</p></sidenote> fractional part thereof of the amount for which any life is insured under any policy of insurance, or other instrument, by whatever name the same is called: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That on all policies for life insurance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small weekly payment.</p></sidenote> only by which a life is insured not in excess of $500, issued on the industrial or weekly-payment plan of insurance, the tax shall be forty per centum of the amount of the first weekly premium:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That policies of reinsurance shall be exempt from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsurance exempt.</p></sidenote> the tax imposed by this subdivision;</proviso>
</content>
</subdivision>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/316">316</page>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Insurance.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine, inland, and fire.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Marine, inland, and fire insurance: A tax equivalent to 1 cent on each dollar or fractional part thereof of the premium charged under each policy of insurance or other instrument by whatever name the same is called whereby insurance is made or renewed upon property of any description (including rents or profits), whether against peril by sea or inland waters, or by fire or lightning, or other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsurance exempt.</p></sidenote>peril: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That policies of reinsurance shall he exempt from the tax imposed by this subdivision;</proviso>
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casualty.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Casualty insurance: A tax equivalent to 1 cent on each dollar or fractional part thereof of the premium charged under each policy of insurance or obligation of the nature of indemnity for loss, damage, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>or liability (except bonds taxable under subdivision two of schedule A <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 321.</p></sidenote>of Title VIII) issued or executed or renewed by any person, corporation, partnership, or association, transacting the business of employer’s liability, workmen’s compensation, accident, health, tornado, plate glass, steam boiler, elevator, burglary, automatic sprinkler, automobile, or other branch of insurance (except life insurance, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsurance exempt.</p></sidenote>insurance described and taxed in the preceding subdivision): <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That policies of reinsurance shall be exempt from the tax imposed by this subdivision;</proviso>
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issued by exempted associations, etc., exempt.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Policies issued by any person, corporation, partnership, or association, whose income is exempt from taxation under Title I of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 766, 767.</p></sidenote>the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be exempt from the taxes imposed by this section.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="505"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 505. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly returns by ssuer.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That every person, corporation, partnership, or association, issuing policies of insurance upon the issuance of which a tax is imposed by section five hundred and four, shall, within the first fifteen days of each month, make a return under oath, in duplicate, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>and pay such tax to the collector of internal revenue of the district in which the principal office or place of business of such person, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of returns.</p></sidenote>corporation, partnership, or association is located. Such returns shall contain such information and be made in such maimer as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation prescribe.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VI">Title VI.—</num><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Excise Taxes.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="600"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 600. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On sales by producers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1122.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all automobiles, automobile trucks, automobile wagons, and motorcycles, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to three per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanical musical instruments, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all piano players, graphophones, phonographs, talking machines, and records used in connection with any musical instrument, piano player, graphophone, phonograph, or talking machine, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to three per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Films for moving pictures.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all moving-picture films (which have not been exposed) sold by the manufacturer or importer a tax equivalent to one-fourth of 1 cent per linear foot; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moving-picture films.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all positive moving-picture films (containing a picture ready for projection) sold or leased by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to one-half of 1 cent per linear foot; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jewelry.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon any article commonly or commercially known as jewelry, whether real or imitation, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof, a tax equivalent to three per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athletic articles, games, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Upon all tennis rackets, golf clubs, baseball bats, lacrosse sticks, balls of all kinds, including baseballs, foot balls, tennis, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/317">317</page>golf, lacrosse, billiard and pool balls, fishing rods and reels, billiard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excise taxes.</inline></p></sidenote> and pool tables, chess and checker boards and pieces, dice, games and parts of games, except playing cards and children’s toys and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> games, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to three per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all perfumes, essences, extracts, toilet waters, cosmetics,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Toilet articles, etc.</p></sidenote> petroleum jellies, hair oils, pomades, hair dressings, hair restoratives, air dyes, tooth and mouth washes, dentifrices, tooth pastes, aromatic cachous, toilet soaps and powders, or any similar substance, article, or preparation by whatsoever name known or distinguished, upon all of the above which are used or applied or intended to be used or applied for toilet purposes, and which are sold by the manufacturer, importer, or producer, a tax equivalent to two per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="h">(h) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all pills, tablets, powders, tinctures, troches or lozenges,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proprietary medicines, etc.</p></sidenote> sirups, medicinal cordials or bitters, anodynes, tonics, plasters, liniments, salves, ointments, pastes, drops, waters (except those taxed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 312.</p></sidenote> under section throe hundred and thirteen of this Act), essences, spirits, oils, and all medicinal preparations, compounds, or compositions whatsoever, the manufacturer or producer of which claims to have any private formula, secret, or occult art for making or preparing the same, or has or claims to have any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters patent, or trade-mark, or which, if prepared by any formula, published or unpublished, are held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders, or proprietors thereof as proprietary medicines or medicinal proprietary articles or preparations, or as remedies or specifics for any disease, diseases, or affection whatever affecting the human or animal body, and which are sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to two per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="i">(i) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all chewing gum or substitute therefor sold by the manufacturer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chewing gum.</p></sidenote>producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to two per centum of the price for which so sold; and
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="j">(j) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon all cameras sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cameras.</p></sidenote> a tax equivalent to three per centum of the price for which so sold.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="601"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 601. </num>
<content class="inline">That each manufacturer, producer, or importer of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly returns and payments.</p></sidenote> of the articles enumerated in section six hundred shall make monthly returns under oath in duplicate and pay the taxes imposed on such articles by this title to the collector of internal revenue for the district in which is located the principal place of business. Such returns shall contain such information and be made at such times and in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulations prescribe.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="602"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 602. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That upon all articles enumerated in subdivisions (a),<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Floor stock held by dealer other than retailer, etc., subject to one-half of tax.</p></sidenote> (b), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), or (j) of section six hundred, which on the day this Act is passed are held and intended for sale by any person, corporation, partnership, or association, other than (1) a retailer who is not also a wholesaler, or (2) the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a tax equivalent to. one-half the tax imposed by each such subdivision upon the sale of the articles therein enumerated. This tax shall be paid by the person, corporation, partnership, or association so holding such articles.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The taxes imposed by this section shall be assessed, collected, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment, payment, etc.</p></sidenote> paid in the same manner as provided in section ten hundred and two in the case of additional taxes upon articles upon which the tax imposed by existing law has been paid.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/318">318</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war excise taxes.</inline></p></sidenote>Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a tax upon <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption if no title passed.</p></sidenote>articles sold and delivered prior to May ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, where the title is reserved in the vendor as security for the payment of the purchase money.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="603"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 603. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yachts, motor boats, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual excise tax on owners, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1129.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That on the day this Act takes effect, and thereafter on July first in each year, and also at the time of the original purchase of a new boat by a user, if on any other date than July first, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid, upon the use of yachts, pleasure boats, power boats, and sailing boats, of over five net tons, and motor boats with fixed engines, not used exclusively for trade or national defense, or not built according to plans and specifications approved by the Navy Department, an excise tax to be based on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote>each yacht or boat, at rates as follows: Yachts, pleasure boats, power boats, motor boats with fixed engines, and sailing boats, of over five net tons, length not over fifty feet, 50 cents for each foot, length over fifty feet and not over one hundred feet, $1 for each foot, length over one hundred feet, $2 for each foot; motor boats of not over five net tons with fixed engines, $5.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Measurement.</p></sidenote>In determining the length of such yachts, pleasure boats, power boats, motor boats with fixed engines, and sailing boats, the measurement of over-all length shall govern.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of a year.</p></sidenote>In the case of a tax imposed at the time of the original purchase of a new boat on any other date than July first, the amount to be paid shall be the same number of twelfths of the amount of the tax as the number of calendar months, including the month of sale, remaining prior to the following July first.</p>
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VII"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> VII.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">admissions and dues.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Tax on Admissions and Dues.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="700"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 700. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War tax on admissions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1120.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That from and after the first day of November, nineteen hundred and seventeen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid (a) a tax of 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid for admission to any place, including admission by season ticket or subscription, to be paid by the person paying for such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children.</p></sidenote>admission: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the tax on admission of children under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free admissions.</p></sidenote>twelve years of age where an admission charge for such children is made shall in every case be 1 cent; and (b) in the case of persons (except bona fide employees, municipal officers on official business, and children under twelve years of age) admitted free to any place at a time when and under circumstances under which an admission charge is made to other persons of the same class, a tax of 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the price so charged to such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cabarets, etc.</p></sidenote>other persons for the same or similar accommodations, to be paid by the person so admitted; and (c) a tax of 1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof paid for admission to any public performance for profit at any cabaret or other similar entertainment to which the charge for admission is wholly or in part included in the price paid for refreshment, service, or merchandise; the amount paid for such admission to be computed under rules prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, such tax to be paid by the person paying for such refreshment, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Box holders, etc.</p></sidenote>service, or merchandise. In the case of persons having the permanent use of boxes or seats in an opera house or any place of amusement or a lease for the use of such box or seat in such opera house or place of amusement there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid a tax equivalent to ten per centum of the amount for which a similar box or seat is sold for performance or exhibition at which the box or seat <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Places exempt.</p></sidenote>is used or reserved by or for the lessee or holder. These taxes shall not be imposed in the case of a place the maximum charge for admission to which is 5 cents, or in the case of shows, rides, and other<page identifier="/us/stat/40/319">319</page>amusements, (the maximum charge for admission to which is 10<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">admissions and dues.</inline></p></sidenote> cents) within outdoor general amusement parks, or in the case of admissions to such parks.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No tax shall be levied under this title in respect to any admissions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Religious, educational, etc., entertainments not taxed.</p></sidenote> all the proceeds of which inure exclusively to the benefit of religious, educational, or charitable institutions, societies, or organizations, or admissions to agricultural fairs none of the profits of which are distributed to stockholders or members of the association conducting the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The term “admission” as used in this title includes seats and tables,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charges included.</p></sidenote> reserved or otherwise, and other similar accommodations, and the charges made therefor.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="701"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 701. </num>
<content class="inline">That from and after the first day of November, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Club dues, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1121.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid, a tax equivalent to ten per centum of any amount paid as dues or membership fees (including initiation fees), to any social, athletic, or sporting club or organization, where such dues or fees are in excess of $12 per year; such taxes to be paid by the person paying such dues or fees: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be exempted from the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fraternal relief lodges, etc., exempt.</p></sidenote> of this section all amounts paid as dues or fees to a fraternal beneficiary society, order, or association, operating under the lodge system or for the exclusive benefit of the members of a fraternity itself operating under the lodge system, and providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, or other benefits to the members of such society, order, or association or their dependents.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="702"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 702. </num>
<content class="inline">That every person, corporation, partnership, or association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection by receivers.</p></sidenote> (a) receiving any payments for such admission, dues, or fees, shall collect the amount of the tax imposed by section seven hundred or seven hundred and one from the person making such payments, or (b) admitting any person free to any place for admission to which a charge is made shall collect the amount of the tax imposed by section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns, payment, etc.</p></sidenote> seven hundred from the person so admitted, and (c) in either case shall make returns and payments of the amount so collected, at the same time and in the same manner as provided in section five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 315.</p></sidenote> and three of this Act.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="VIII"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> VIII.—</num><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Stamp Taxes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="800"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 800. </num>
<content class="inline">That on and after the first day of December, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Levied on designated bonds, stocks, documentary instruments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1133.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, for and in respect of the several bonds, debentures, or certificates of stock and of indebtedness, and other documents, instruments, matters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 321.</p></sidenote> and things mentioned and described in Schedule A of this title, or for or in respect of the vellum, parchment, or paper upon which such instruments, matters, or things, or any of them, are written or printed, by any person, corporation, partnership, or association who makes, signs, issues, sells, removes, consigns, or ships the same, or for whose use or benefit the same are made, signed, issued, sold, removed, consigned, or shipped, the several taxes specified in such schedule.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="801"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 801. </num>
<content class="inline">That there shall not be taxed under this title any bond,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds, etc., excepted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal, State, etc.</p></sidenote> note, or other instrument, issued by the United States, or by any foreign Government, or by any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or local subdivision thereof, or municipal or other corporation exercising the taxing power, when issued in the exercise of a strictly governmental, taxing, or municipal function; or stocks and bonds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building and loan associations.</p></sidenote> issued by cooperative building and loan associations which are organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of their members and make loans only to their shareholders, or by mutual ditch or irrigating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mutual ditch companies.</p></sidenote> companies.
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/320">320</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="802"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 802. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That whoever—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offenses designated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using unstamped, etc., papers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Makes, signs, issues, or accepts, or causes to be made, signed, issued, or accepted, any instrument, document, or paper of any kind or description whatsoever without the full amount of tax thereon being duly paid;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping parcel post articles without stamps.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Consigns or ships, or causes to be consigned or shipped, by parcel post any parcel, package, or article without the full amount of tax being duly paid;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selling unstamped articles.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Manufactures or imports and sells, or offers for sale, or causes to be manufactured or imported and sold, or offered for sale, any playing cards, package, or other article without the full amount of tax being duly paid;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not canceling stamps.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Makes use of any adhesive stamp to denote any tax imposed by this title without canceling or obliterating such stamp as prescribed in section eight hundred and four;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote>Is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not more than $100 for each offense.</p>
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="803"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 803. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That whoever—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fraudulently removing, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Fraudulently cuts, tears, or removes from any vellum, parchment, paper, instrument, writing, package, or article, upon which any tax is imposed by this title, any adhesive stamp or the impression of any stamp, die, plate, or other article provided, made, or used in pursuance of this title;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reusing, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Fraudulently uses, joins, fixes, or places to, with, or upon any vellum, parchment, paper, instrument, writing, package, or article, upon which any tax is imposed by this title, (1) any adhesive stamp, or the impression of any stamp, die, plate, or other article, which has been cut, torn, or removed from any other vellum, parchment, paper, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insufficient stamps.</p></sidenote>instrument, writing, package, or article, upon which any tax is imposed by this title; or (2) any adhesive stamp or the impression of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counterfeits.</p></sidenote>any stamp, die, plate, or other article of insufficient value; or (3) any forged or counterfeit stamp, or the impression of any forged or counterfeited stamp, die, plate, or other article;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing stamps for illegal use.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Willfully removes, or alters the cancellation, or defacing marks of, or otherwise prepares, any adhesive stamp, with intent to use, or cause the same to be used, after it has been already used, or knowingly or willfully buys, sells, offers for sale, or gives away, any such washed or restored stamp to any person for use, or knowingly uses the same;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possessing washed, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Knowingly and without lawful excuse (the burden of proof of such excuse being on the accused) has in possession any washed, restored, or altered stamp, which has been removed from any vellum, parchment, paper, instrument, writing, package, or article, is guilty of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment.</p></sidenote>misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than five <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of document, etc.</p></sidenote>years, or both, in the discretion of the court, and any such reused, canceled, or counterfeit stamp and the vellum, parchment, document, paper, package, or article upon which it is placed or impressed shall be forfeited to the United States.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="804"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 804. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancelation requirements.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That whenever an adhesive stamp is used for denoting any tax imposed by this title, except as hereinafter provided, the person, corporation, partnership, or association, using or affixing the same shall write or stamp or cause to be written or stamped thereupon the initials of his or its name and the date upon which the same <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other methods allowed.</p></sidenote>is attached or used, so that the same may not again be used: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe such other method for the cancellation of such stamps as he may deem expedient.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="805"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 805. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation, etc., of stamps.</p></sidenote>
<subdivision class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall cause to be prepared and distributed for the payment of the taxes prescribed in this title suitable stamps denoting the tax on the document, articles, or thing to which the same may be affixed, and shall <page identifier="/us/stat/40/321">321</page>prescribe such method for the affixing of said stamps in substitution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote> or or in addition to the method provided in this title, as he may deem expedient.
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside contracts for stamps allowed.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to procure any of the stamps provided for in this title by contract whenever such stamps can not be speedily prepared by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of authority.</p></sidenote> but this authority shall expire on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen, except as to imprinted stamps furnished under contract, authorized by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">All internal-revenue laws relating to the assessment and collection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General laws made applicable for mistakes, etc.</p></sidenote> of taxes are hereby extended to and made a part of this title, so far as applicable, for the purpose of collecting stamp taxes omitted through mistake or fraud from any instrument, document, paper, writing, parcel, package, or article named herein.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="806"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 806. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution through postmasters.</p></sidenote> furnish to the Postmaster General without prepayment a suitable quantity of adhesive stamps to be distributed to and kept on sale by the various postmasters in the United States. The Postmaster<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accountability, etc.</p></sidenote> General may require each such postmaster to give additional or increased bond as postmaster for the value of the stamps so furnished, and each such postmaster shall deposit the receipts from the sale of such stamps to the credit of and render accounts to the Postmaster General at such times and in such form as he may by regulations prescribe. The Postmaster General shall at least once monthly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers of collections to the Treasury.</p></sidenote> transfer all collections from this source to the Treasury as internal-revenue collections.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="807"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 807. </num>
<content class="inline">That the collectors of the several districts shall furnish<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution through assistant treasurers and depositaries.</p></sidenote> without prepayment to any assistant treasurer or designated depositary of the United States located in their respective collection districts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds required.</p></sidenote> a suitable quantity of adhesive stamps for sale. In such cases the collector may require a bond, with sufficient sureties, to an amount equal to the value of the adhesive stamps so furnished, conditioned for the faithful return, whenever so required, of all quantities or amounts undisposed of, and for the payment monthly of all quantities or amounts sold or not remaining on hand. The Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations authorized.</p></sidenote> the Treasury may from time to time make such regulations as he may find necessary to insure the safe-keeping or prevent the illegal use of all such adhesive stamps.
</content>
</section>
<level>
<num value="a"><inline class="smallCaps centered">schedule a.—</inline></num><heading class="smallCaps centered">stamp taxes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">schedule a.</inline></p></sidenote></heading>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">1. </num>
<content class="inline">Bonds of indebtedness: Bonds, debentures, or certificates of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds of indebtedness.</p></sidenote> indebtedness issued on and after the first day of December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by any person, corporation, partnership, or association, on each $100 of face value or fraction thereof, 5 cents:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Renewals.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of tax.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That every renewal of the foregoing shall be taxed as a new issue:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That when a bond conditioned for the repayment or payment of money is given in a penal sum greater than the debt secured, the tax shall be based upon the amount secured.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">2. </num>
<content class="inline">Bonds, indemnity and surety: Bonds for indemnifying any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity and surety bonds.</p></sidenote> person, corporation, partnership, or corporation who shall have become bound or engaged as surety, and all bonds for the due execution or performance of any contract, obligation, or requirement, or the duties of any office or position, and to account for money received by virtue thereof, and all other bonds of any description, except such as may be required in legal proceedings, not otherwise provided for in this schedule, 50 cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate of premium.</p></sidenote> premium is charged for the execution of such bond the tax shall be paid at the rate of one per centum on each dollar or fractional part <page identifier="/us/stat/40/322">322</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote>thereof of the premium charged:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That policies of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinsurance exempt.</p></sidenote>reinsurance shall be exempt from the tax imposed by this subdivision.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital stock.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Original issues.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Capital stock, issue: On each original issue, whether on organization or reorganization, of certificates of stock by any association, company, or corporation, on each $100 of face value or fraction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Without face value.</p></sidenote>thereof, 5 cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where capital stock is issued without face value, the tax shall be 5 cents per share, unless the actual value is in excess of $100 per share, in which case the tax shall be 5 cents on each $100 of actual value or fraction thereof.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be attached to stock books.</p></sidenote>The stamps representing the tax imposed by this subdivision shall be attached to the stock books and not to the certificates issued.</p>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales or transfers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Capital stock, sales or transfers: On all sales, or agreements to sell, or memoranda of sales or deliveries of, or transfers of legal title to shares or certificates of stock in any association, company, or corporation, whether made upon or shown by the books of the association, company, or corporation, or by any assignment in blank, or by any delivery, or by any paper or agreement or memorandum or other evidence of transfer or sale, whether entitling the holder in any manner to the benefit of such stock or not, on each $100 of face value or fraction thereof, 2 cents, and where such shares of stock are without par value, the tax shall be 2 cents on the transfer or sale or agreement to sell on each share, unless the actual value thereof is in excess of $100 per share, in which case the tax shall be 2 cents <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collateral agreements not taxed.</p></sidenote>on each $100 of actual value or fraction thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it is not intended by this title to impose a tax upon an agreement evidencing a deposit of stock certificates as collateral security for money loaned thereon, which stock certificates are not actually sold, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers through bankers, etc.</p></sidenote>nor upon such stock certificates so deposited:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the tax shall not be imposed upon deliveries or transfers to a broker for sale, nor upon deliveries or transfers by a broker to a customer for whom and upon whose order he has purchased same, but such deliveries or transfers shall be accompanied by a certificate setting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affixing stamps in books.</p></sidenote>forth the facts:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in case of sale where the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On certificates.</p></sidenote>evidence of transfer is shown only by the books of the company the stamp shall be placed upon such books; and where the change of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On bills of sale.</p></sidenote>ownership is by transfer of the certificate the stamp shall be placed upon the certificate; and in cases of an agreement to sell or where the transfer is by delivery of the certificate assigned in blank there shall be made and delivered by the seller to the buyer a bill or memorandum of such sale, to which the stamp shall be affixed; and every bill or memorandum of sale or agreement to sell before mentioned shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for sales, etc., without stamps.</p></sidenote>show the date thereof, the name of the seller, the amount of the sale, and the matter or thing to which it refers. Any person or persons liable to pay the tax as herein provided, or anyone who acts in the matter as agent or broker for such person or persons who shall make any such sale, or who shall in pursuance of any such sale deliver any stock or evidence of the sale of any stock or bill or memorandum thereof, as herein required, without having the proper stamps affixed thereto with intent to evade the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not exceeding $1,000, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5">5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of products at exchanges, etc., for future delivery.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Produce, sales of, on exchange: Upon each sale, agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, including so-called transferred or scratch sales, any products or merchandise at any exchange, or board of trade, or other similar place, for future delivery, for each $100 in value of the merchandise covered by said sale or agreement of sale or agreement to sell, 2 cents, and for each additional $100 or fractional <page identifier="/us/stat/40/323">323</page>part thereof in excess of $100, 2 cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That on every sale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote> or agreement of sale or agreement to sell as aforesaid there shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped bill of sale, etc., required.</p></sidenote> made and delivered by the seller to the buyer a bill, memorandum, agreement, or other evidence of such sale, agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, to which there shall be affixed a lawful stamp or stamps in value equal to the amount of the tax on such sale:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearing house transfers without tax.</p></sidenote> That sellers of commodities described herein, having paid the tax provided by this subdivision, may transfer such contracts to a clearing house corporation or association, and such transfer shall not be deemed to be a sale, or agreement of sale, or an agreement to sell within the provisions of this Act, provided that such transfer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> shall not vest any beneficial interest in such clearing house association but shall be made for the sole purpose of enabling such clearing house association to adjust and balance the accounts of the members of said clearing house association on their several contracts. And<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of bills of sale, etc.</p></sidenote> every such bill, memorandum, or other evidence of sale or agreement to sell shall show the date thereof, the name of the seller, the amount of the sale, and the matter or tiling to which it refers; and any person<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for failure to deliver stamped bill, etc.</p></sidenote> or persons liable to pay the tax as herein provided, or anyone who acts in the matter as agent or broker for such person or persons, who shall make any such sale or agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, or who shall, in pursuance of any such sale, agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, deliver any such products or merchandise without a bill, memorandum, or other evidence thereof as herein required, or who shall deliver such bill, memorandum, or other evidence of sale, or agreement to sell, without having the proper stamps affixed thereto, with intent to evade the foregoing provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not exceeding $ 1,000, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no bill, memorandum, agreement, or other evidence of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash sales for immediate delivery not taxed.</p></sidenote> sale, or agreement of sale, or agreement to sell, in case of cash sales of products or merchandise for immediate or prompt delivery which in good faith are actually intended to be delivered shall be subject to this tax.</p>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6">6. </num>
<content class="inline">Drafts or checks payable otherwise than at sight or on demand,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drafts, promissory notes, etc.</p></sidenote> promissory notes, except bank notes issued for circulation, and for each renewal of the same, for a sum not exceeding $100, 2 cents; and for each additional $100 or fractional part thereof, 2 cents.
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7">7. </num>
<content class="inline">Conveyance: Deed, instrument, or writing, whereby any lands,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Real estate conveyances, etc.</p></sidenote> tenements, or other realty sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed to, or vested in, the purchaser or purchasers, or any other person or persons, by his, her, or their direction, when the consideration or value of the interest or property conveyed, exclusive of the value of any lien or encumbrance remaining thereon at the time of sale, exceeds $100 and does not exceed $500, 50 cents; and for each additional $500 or fractional part thereof 50 cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing contained in this paragraph shall be so construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trust deeds, etc., exempt.</p></sidenote> as to impose a tax upon any instrument or writing given to secure a debt.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8">8. </num>
<content class="inline">Entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise at any custom-house,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customhouse entries.</p></sidenote> either for consumption or warehousing, not exceeding $100 in value, 25 cents; exceeding $100 and not exceeding $500 in value, 50 cents; exceeding $500 in value, $1.
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9">9. </num>
<content class="inline">Entry for the withdrawal of any goods or merchandise from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warehouse withdrawals.</p></sidenote> customs bonded warehouse, 50 cents.
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10">10. </num>
<content class="inline">Passage ticket, one way or round trip, for each passenger, sold<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign passage tickets.</p></sidenote> or issued in the United States for passage by any vessel to a port or place not in the United States, Canada, or Mexico, if costing not exceeding $30, $1; costing more than $30 and not exceeding $60, $3; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/324">324</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war stamp taxes.</inline></p></sidenote>costing more than $60, $5: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such passage tickets, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption.</p></sidenote>costing $10 or less, shall be exempt from taxation.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11">11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proxies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Proxy for voting at any election for officers, or meeting for the transaction of business, of any incorporated company or association, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>except religious, educational, charitable, fraternal, or literary societies, or public cemeteries, 10 cents.
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12">12. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of attorney.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Power of attorney granting authority to do or perform some act for or in behalf of the grantor, which authority is not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions, etc., exempt.</p></sidenote>otherwise vested in the grantee, 25 cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no stamps shall be required upon any papers necessary to be used for the collection of claims from the United States or from any State for pensions, back pay, bounty, or for property lost in the military or naval service or upon powers of attorney required in bankruptcy cases.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13">13. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Playing cards.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 560.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Playing cards: Upon every pack of playing cards containing not more than fifty-four cards, manufactured or imported, and sold, or removed for consumption or sale, after the passage of this Act, a tax of 5 cents per pack in addition to the tax imposed under existing law.
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14">14. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parcel-post packages.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Parcel-post packages: Upon every parcel or package transported from one point in the United States to another by parcel post on which the postage amounts to 25 cents or more, a tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents or fractional part thereof charged for such transportation, to be paid by the consignor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting without stamps forbidden.</p></sidenote>No such parcel or package shall be transported until a stamp or stamps representing the tax due shall have been affixed thereto.</p>
</content>
</level>
</level>
</title>
<title>
<num value="IX">Title IX.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war estate tax.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">War Estate Tax.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="900"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 900. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional levy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 777, 1002, amended.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That in addition to the tax imposed by section two hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended—</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on transfers of estates of deceased persons hereafter.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 777.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1096.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">A tax equal to the following percentages of its value is hereby imposed upon the transfer of each net estate of every decedent dying after the passage of this Act, the transfer of which is taxable under such section (the value of such net estate to be determined as provided in Title II of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen):</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote>One-half of one per centum of the amount of such net estate not in excess of $50,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $50,000 and does not exceed $150,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">One and one-half per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $150,000 and does not exceed $250,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $250,000 and does not exceed $450,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Two and one-half per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $450,000 and does not exceed $1,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Three per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $1,000,000 and does not exceed $2,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Three and one-half per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $2,000,000 and does not exceed $3,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $3,000,000 and does not exceed $4,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Four and one-half per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $4,000,000 and does not exceed $5,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Five per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $5,000,000 and does not exceed $8,000,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Seven per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds $8,000,000 and does not exceed $10,000,000; and<page identifier="/us/stat/40/325">325</page></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Ten per centum of the amount by which such net estate exceeds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">war estate tax.</inline></p></sidenote> $10,000,000.</listContent></listItem>
</list>
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="901"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 901. </num>
<content class="inline">That the tax imposed by this title shall not apply to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable if person died while in military or naval service during the war, etc.</p></sidenote> transfer of the net estate of any decedent dying while serving in the military or naval forces of the United States, during the continuance of the war in which the United States is now engaged, or if death results from injuries received or disease contracted in such service, within one year after the termination of such war. For the purposes of this section the termination of the war shall be evidenced by the proclamation of the President.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="X"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> X.—</num><heading class="smallCaps centered">Administrative Provisions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">administrative provisions.</inline></p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1000"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1000. </num>
<content class="inline">That there shall be levied, collected, and paid in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles from Virgin Islands to pay domestic internal revenue tax.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1150.</p></sidenote> United States, upon articles coming into the United States from the West Indian Islands acquired from Denmark, a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon like articles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from island tax.</p></sidenote> of domestic manufacture; such articles shipped from said islands to the United States shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of said islands: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles from United States to pay island tax.</p></sidenote> there shall be levied, collected, and paid in said islands, upon articles imported from the United States, a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in said islands upon like articles there manufactured; and such articles going into said islands from the United States shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from United States tax.</p></sidenote> be exempt from payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of the United States.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1001"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1001. </num>
<content class="inline">That all administrative, special, or stamp provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General revenue laws applicable to this Act.</p></sidenote> law, including the law relating to the assessment of taxes, so far as applicable, are hereby extended to and made a part of this Act, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Records, returns, etc., required.</p></sidenote> every person, corporation, partnership, or association liable to any tax imposed by this Act, or for the collection thereof, shall keep such records and render, under oath, such statements and returns, and shall comply with such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may from time to time prescribe.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1002"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1002. </num>
<content class="inline">That where additional taxes are imposed by this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns of taxable articles subject to additional rates.</p></sidenote> upon articles or commodities, upon which the tax imposed by existing law has been paid, the person, corporation, partnership, or association required by this Act to pay the tax shall, within thirty days after its passage, make return under oath in such form and under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. Payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of payment allowed.</p></sidenote> of the tax shown to be due may be extended to a date not exceeding seven months from the passage of this Act, upon the filing of a bond for payment in such form and amount and with such sureties as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1003"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1003. </num>
<content class="inline">That in all cases where the method of collecting the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other methods of collection authorized.</p></sidenote> tax imposed by this Act is not specifically provided, the tax shall be collected in such manner as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. All administrative and penalty provisions of Title VIII of this Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamp tax penalties, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 320.</p></sidenote> in so far as applicable, shall apply to the collection of any tax which the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determines or prescribes shall be paid by stamp.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1004"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1004. </num>
<content class="inline">That whoever fails to make any return required by this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violating requirements of Act.</p></sidenote> Act or the regulations made under authority thereof within the time prescribed or who makes any false or fraudulent return, and whoever evades or attempts to evade any tax imposed by this Act or fails to collect or truly to account for and pay over any such tax, shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $1 ,000, or to imprisonment for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional penalty.</p></sidenote> not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court, and in addition thereto a penalty of double the tax evaded, or not col<page identifier="/us/stat/40/326">326</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">administrative provisions.</inline></p></sidenote>lected, or accounted for and paid over, to be assessed and collected in the same manner as taxes are assessed and collected, in any case in which the punishment is not otherwise specifically provided.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1005"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1005. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1006"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1006. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary use of existing stamps for new rates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That where the rate of tax imposed by this Act, payable by stamps, is an increase over previously existing rates, stamps on hand in the collectors’ offices and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue may continue to be used until the supply on hand is exhausted, but shall be sold and accounted for at the rates provided by this Act, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for stamps on hand.</p></sidenote>and assessment shall be made against manufacturers and other taxpayers having such stamps on hand on the day this Act takes effect for the difference between the amount paid for such stamps and the tax due at the rates provided by this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1007"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1007. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of tax on articles under contracts prior to May 9, 1917, by vendee.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That (a) if any person, corporation, partnership, or association has prior to May ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, made a bona fide contract with a dealer for the sale, after the tax takes effect, of any article (or, in the case of moving picture films, such a contract with a dealer, exchange, or exhibitor, for the sale or lease thereof) upon which a tax is imposed under Title III, IV, or VI, or under subdivision thirteen of Schedule A of Title VIII, or under this section, and (b) if such contract does not permit the adding of the whole of such tax to the amount to be paid under such contract, then the vendee or lessee shall, in lieu of the vendor or lessor, pay so much of such tax as is not so permitted to be added to the contract price.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 315.</p></sidenote>The taxes payable by the vendee or lessee under this section shall be paid to the vendor or lessor at the time the sale or lease is consummated, and collected, returned, and paid to the United States by such vendor or lessor in the same manner as provided in section five hundred and three.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Dealer”construed.</p></sidenote>The term “dealer” as used in this section includes a vendee who purchases any article with intent to use it in the manufacture or production of another article intended for sale.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1008"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1008. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fractions of a cent.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the payment of any tax under this Act not payable by stamp a fractional part of a cent shall be disregarded unless it amounts to one-half cent or more, in which case it shall be increased to one cent.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1009"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1009. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance payments of estimated tax in installments.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, under rules and regulations prescribed by him, shall permit taxpayers liable to income and excess profits taxes to make payments m advance in installments or in whole of an amount not in excess of the estimated taxes which will be due from them, and upon determination of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of excess.</p></sidenote>taxes actually due any amount paid in excess shall be refunded as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of payments.</p></sidenote>taxes erroneously collected: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when payment is made in installments at least one-fourth of such estimated tax shall be paid before the expiration of thirty days after the close of the taxable year, at least an additional one-fourth within two months after the close of the taxable year, at least an additional one-fourth within four months after the close of the taxable year, and the remainder of the tax due on or before the time now fixed by law for such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit for advanced payments.</p></sidenote>payment:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury, under rules and regulations prescribed by him, may allow credit against such taxes so paid in advance of an amount not exceeding three per centum per annum calculated upon the amount so paid from the date of such payment to the date now fixed by law for such pay ment; but no such credit shall be allowed on payments in excess of taxes determined to be due, nor on payments made after the expira <page identifier="/us/stat/40/327">327</page>tion of four and one-half months after the close of the taxable year.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">administrative provisions.</inline></p></sidenote> All penalties provided by existing law for failure to pay tax when due<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties for nonpayment.</p></sidenote> are hereby made applicable to any failure to pay the tax at the time or times required in this section.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1010"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1010. </num>
<content class="inline">That under rules and regulations prescribed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of indebtedness receivable for income and excess profits taxes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 36, 290.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury, collectors of internal revenue may receive, at par and accrued interest, certificates of indebtedness issued under section six of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the’ prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any subsequent Act or Acts, and uncertified checks in payment of income<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also uncertified checks.</p></sidenote> and excess-profits taxes, during such time and under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe; but if a check so received<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability if unpaid.</p></sidenote> is not paid by the bank on which it is drawn the person by whom such check has been tendered shall remain hable for the payment of the tax and for all legal penalties and additions the same as if such check had not been tendered.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XI">Title XI.—</num><heading class="smallCaps centered">Postal Rates.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">postal rates.</inline></p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1100"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1100. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the rate of postage on all mail matter of the first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase rate on first class matter.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1150.</p></sidenote> class, except postal cards, shall thirty days after the passage of this Act be, in addition to the existing rate, 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the rate of postage on drop letters of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drop letters at present.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal cards, etc., increased.</p></sidenote> first class shall be 2 cents an ounce or fraction thereof. Postal cards, and private mailing or post cards when complying with the requirements of existing law, shall be transmitted through the mails at 1 cent each in addition to the existing rate.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That letters written and mailed by soldiers, sailors, and marines <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters from armed forces abroad free.</p></sidenote>assigned to duty in a foreign country engaged in the present war may be mailed free of postage, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1101"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1101. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second class matter.</p></sidenote> eighteen, the rates of postage on publications entered as second-class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates payable by publisher or agent.</p></sidenote> matter (including sample copies to the extent of ten per centum of the weight of copies mailed to subscribers during the calendar year) when sent by the publisher thereof from the post office of publication or other post office, or when sent by a news agent to actual subscribers thereto, or to other news agents for the purpose of sale:</chapeau>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">In the case of the portion of such publication devoted to matter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On portion not advertisements.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flat rates.</p></sidenote> other than advertisements, shall be as follows: (1) On and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and until July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, 1¼ cents per pound or fraction thereof; (2) on and after July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, 1½ cents per pound or fraction thereof.
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">In the case of the portion of such publication devoted to advertisements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertisement portion.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Zone rates applicable.</p></sidenote> the rates per pound or fraction thereof for delivery within the several zones applicable to fourth-class matter shall be as follows (but where the space devoted to advertisements does not exceed five per centum of the total space, the rate of postage shall be the same as if the whole of such publication was devoted to matter other than advertisements): (1) On and after July first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From July 1, 1918, to July 1, 1919.</p></sidenote> and eighteen, and until July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, for the first and second zones, 1¼ cents; for the third zone, 1½ cents; for the fourth zone, 2 cents; for the fifth zone, 2¼ cents; for the sixth zone, 2½ cents; for the seventh zone, 3 cents; for the eighth zone, 3¼ cents; (2) on and after July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From July 1, 1919, to July 1, 1920.</p></sidenote> and until July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, for the first and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/328">328</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">postal rates.</inline></p></sidenote>second zones, 1½ cents; for the third zone, 2 cents; for the fourth zone, 3 cents; for the fifth zone 3½ cents; for the sixth zone, 4 cents; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From July 1, 1920, to July 1, 1921.</p></sidenote>for the seventh zone, 5 cents; for the eighth zone, 5½ cents; (3) on and after July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and until July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, for the first and second zones, 1¾ cents; for the third zone, 2½ cents; for the fourth zone, 4 cents; for the fifth zone, 4¾ cents; for the sixth zone, 5½ cents; for the seventh zone, 7 cents; for the eighth zone, 7¾ cents; (4) on and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">After July 1, 1921.</p></sidenote>after July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, for the first and second zones, 2 cents; for the third zone, 3 cents; for the fourth zone, 5 cents; for the fifth zone, 6 cents; for the sixth zone, 7 cents; for the seventh zone, 9 cents; for the eighth zone, 10 cents;
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statements for determining rates to be filed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">With the first mailing of each issue of each such publication, the publisher shall file with the postmaster a copy of such issue, together with a statement containing such information as the Post master General may prescribe for determining the postage chargeable thereon.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1102"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1102. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Daily newspapers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present rate when deposited at carrier office for delivery.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the rate of postage on daily newspapers, when the same are deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by its carriers, shall be the same as now provided by law; and nothing in this title shall affect existing law as to free circulation and existing rates on second-class mail matter within the comity of publication: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separation for zone mailing.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster General may hereafter require publishers to separate or make up to zones in such a manner as he may direct all mail matter of the second class when offered for mailing.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1103"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1103. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Religious, educational, etc., publications.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flat rates established for.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the case of newspapers and periodicals entitled to be entered as second-class matter and maintained by and in the interest of religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, or fraternal organizations or associations, not organized for profit and none of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual, the second-class postage rates shall be, irrespective of the zone in which delivered (except when the same are deposited in a letter carrier office for delivery by its carriers, in which case the rates shall be the same as now provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">After July 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>by law), 1⅛ cents a pound or fraction thereof on and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and until July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and on and after July first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence required to secure rates.</p></sidenote>nineteen, 1¼ cents a pound or fraction thereof. The publishers of such newspapers or periodicals before being entitled to the foregoing rates shall furnish to the Postmaster General, at such times and under such conditions as he may prescribe, satisfactory evidence that none of the net income of such organization inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1104"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1104. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates for small issues.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That where the total weight of any one edition or issue of any publication mailed to any one zone does not exceed one pound, the rate of postage shall be 1 cent.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1105"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1105. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates on entire bulk mailed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The zone rates provided by this title shall relate to the entire bulk mailed to any one zone and not to individually addressed packages.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1106"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1106. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present rates if not sent by publisher, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That where a newspaper or periodical is mailed by other than the publisher or his agent or a news agent or dealer, the rate shall be the same as now provided by law.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1107"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1107. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly payment of increased first-class receipts into general fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1150.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General, on or before the tenth day of each month, shall pay into the general fund of the Treasury an amount equal to the difference between the estimated amount received during the preceding month for the transportation of first class matter through the mails and the estimated amount which would have been received under the provisions of the law in force at the time of the passage of this Act.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1108"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1108. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No salary increase of postmasters during the war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the salaries of postmasters at offices of the first, second, and third classes shall not be increased after July first, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/329">329</page>nineteen hundred and seventeen, during the existence of the present<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">postal rates.</inline></p></sidenote> war. The compensation of postmasters at offices of the fourth class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay for fourth class offices.</p></sidenote> shall continue to be computed on the basis of the present rates of postage.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1109"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1109. </num>
<content class="inline">That where postmasters at offices of the third class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerk hire at third class offices if postmaster in military service.</p></sidenote> have been since May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or hereafter are granted leave without pay for military purposes, the Postmaster General may allow, in addition to the maximum amounts which may now be allowed such offices for clerk hire, in accordance with law, an amount not to exceed fifty per centum of the salary of the postmaster.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1110"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1110. </num>
<content class="inline">That section five of the Act approved March third,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicating liquors by mail, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1069.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ethyl alcohol for Government use, etc., not prohibited.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen,” shall not be construed to apply to ethyl alcohol for governmental, scientific, medicinal, mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial purposes, and the Postmaster General shall prescribe suitable rules and regulations to carry into effect this section in connection with the Act of which it is amendatory, nor shall said section be held to prohibit the use of the mails by regularly ordained ministers of religion, or by officers of regularly established churches, for ordering wines for sacramental uses, or by manufacturers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wines for sacramental use, allowed.</p></sidenote> and dealers for quoting and billing such wines for such purposes only.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XII"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> XII.—</num><heading class="smallCaps centered">Income Tax Amendments.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1200"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1200. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That subdivision (a) of section two of such Act of September eighth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 757, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1150.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That, subject only to such exemptions and deductions as are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Net income defined.</p></sidenote> hereinafter allowed, the net income of a taxable person shall include gains, profits, and income, derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in real or personal property, also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever.”
</content>
</subdivision>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Section four of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 758, amended.</p></sidenote> and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">The following income shall be exempt from the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions.</p></sidenote> of this title:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The proceeds of life insurance policies paid to individual beneficiaries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life insurance policies.</p></sidenote> upon the death of the insured; the amount received by the insured, as a return of premium or premiums paid by him under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at the maturity of the term mentioned in the contract or upon surrender of the contract; the value of property acquired by gift,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gifts, etc.</p></sidenote> bequest, devise, or descent (but the income from such property shall be included as income); interest upon the obligations of a State or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on State, Federal, etc., obligations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> any political subdivision thereof or upon the obligations of the United States (but, in the case of obligations of the United States issued after September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, only if and to the extent provided in the Act authorizing the issue thereof) or its possessions or securities issued under the provisions of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 360.</p></sidenote> Federal Farm Loan Act of July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; the compensation of the present President of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President during present term.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judges, State officials, etc.</p></sidenote> States during the term for which he has been elected and the judges of the supreme and inferior courts of the United States now in office, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/330">330</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>and the compensation of all officers and employees of a State, or any political subdivision thereof, except when such compensation is paid y the United States Government.”</p>
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1201"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1201. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed citizens or residents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 39, p. 759, amended.</p></sidenote>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That paragraphs second and third of subdivision (a) of section five of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“Second. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest paid on debts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">All interest paid within the year on his indebtedness except on indebtedness incurred for the purchase of obligations or securities the interest upon which is exempt from taxation as income under this title;
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General taxes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income and excess profits excepted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Taxes paid within the year imposed by the authority of the United States (except income and excess profits taxes) or of its Territories, or possessions, or any foreign country, or by the authority of any State, county, school district, or municipality, or other taxing subdivision of any State, not including those assessed against local benefits;”
</content>
</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 759, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section five of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended by adding at the end of subdivision (a) a further paragraph, numbered nine, to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9">“Ninth. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contributions to religious, charitable, etc., associations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Contributions or gifts actually made within the year to corporations or associations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes, or to societies for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual, to an amount not in excess of fifteen per centum of the taxpayer’s taxable net income as computed without the benefit of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>this paragraph. Such contributions or gifts shall be allowable as deductions only if verified under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.”
</content>
</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1202"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1202. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed nonresident aliens.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 760, amended.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That</chapeau>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">paragraphs second and third of subdivision (a) of section six of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“Second. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Share of interest paid on debts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The proportion of all interest paid within the year by such person on his indebtedness (except on indebtedness incurred for the purchase of obligations or securities the interest upon which is exempt from taxation as income under this title) which the gross amount of his income for the year derived from sources within the United States bears to the gross amount of his income for the year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, p. 761.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote>derived from all sources within and without the United States, but this deduction shall be allowed only if such person includes in the return required by section eight all the information necessary for its calculation;
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General taxes in United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income and excess profits excepted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Taxes paid within the year imposed by the authority of the United States (except income and excess profits taxes), or of its Territories, or possessions, or by the authority of any State, county, school district, or municipality, or other taxing subdivision of any State, paid within the United States, not including those assessed against local benefits;”
</content>
</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New provision.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 761, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Section six of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is also further amended by adding a new subdivision to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Complete returns of total United States income required.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">A nonresident alien individual shall receive the benefit of the deductions and credits provided for in this section only by filing or causing to be filed with the collector of internal revenue a true and accurate return of his total income, received from all sources, corporate or otherwise, in the United States, in the manner prescribed by this title; and in case of his failure to file such return the collector <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax, etc., in case of failure.</p></sidenote>shall collect the tax on such income, and all property belonging to such nonresident alien individual shall be liable to distraint for the tax.”
</content>
</subdivision>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/331">331</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1203"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1203. </num>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That section seven of such Act of September eighth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal exemptions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 761, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions for normal tax of $3,000 for citizens or residents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 301.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of the normal tax only, there shall be allowed as an exemption in the nature of a deduction from the amount of the net income of each citizen or resident of the United States, ascertained as provided herein, the sum of $3,000, plus $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a head of a family or a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional $1,000 if head of family.</p></sidenote> married man with a wife living with him, or plus the sum of $1,000 additional if the person making the return be a married woman with a husband living with her; but in no event shall this additional exemption of $1,000 be deducted by both a husband and a wife: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That only one deduction of $4,000 shall be made from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> aggregate income of both husband and wife when living together:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That if the person making the return is the head of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for minor or dependent children.</p></sidenote> family there shall be an additional exemption of $200 for each child dependent upon such person, if under eighteen years of age, or if incapable of self-support because mentally or physically defective, but this provision, shall operate only in the case of one parent in the same family:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That guardians or trustees shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guardians or trustees.</p></sidenote> allowed to make this personal exemption as to income derived from the property of which such guardian or trustee has charge in favor of each ward or cestui que trust:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in no event<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> shall a ward or cestui que trust be allowed a greater personal exemption than as provided in this section, from the amount of net income received from all sources. There shall also be allowed an exemption<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estates during administration.</p></sidenote> from the amount of the net income of estates of deceased citizens or residents of the United States during the period of administration or settlement, and of trust or other estates of citizens or residents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trust estates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 756, 759.</p></sidenote> of the United States the income of which is not distributed annually or regularly under the provisions of subdivision (b) of section two, the sum of $3,000, including such deductions as are allowed under section five.</proviso>”
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Subdivision (b) of section seven of such Act of September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to nonresident alien repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 39, p. 761, repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns to be made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 762, amended.</p></sidenote> eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby repealed.
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1204"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1204. </num>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That subdivisions (c) and (e) of section eight of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“(c) </num>
<content class="inline">Guardians, trustees, executors, administrators, receivers, conservators,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guardians and other fiduciaries.</p></sidenote> and all persons, corporations, or associations, acting in any fiduciary capacity, shall make and render a return of the income of the person, trust, or estate for whom or which they act, and be subject to all the provisions of this title which apply to individuals. Such fiduciary shall make oath that he has sufficient knowledge of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavits required.</p></sidenote> the affairs of such person, trust, or estate to enable him to make such return and that the same is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, true and correct, and be subject to all the provisions of this title which apply to individuals: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a return made by one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint fiduciaries.</p></sidenote> two or more joint fiduciaries filed in the district where such fiduciary resides, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall be a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this paragraph:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no return of income not exceeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incomes not over $3,000 excepted.</p></sidenote> $3,000 shall be required except as in this title otherwise provided.</proviso>
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</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">“(e) </num>
<content class="inline">Persons carrying on business in partnership shall be liable for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partnerships.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Individual liability only.</p></sidenote> income tax only in their individual capacity, and the share of the profits of the partnership to which any taxable partner would be entitled if the same were divided, whether divided or otherwise, shall be returned for taxation and the tax paid under the provisions of this title: <i>Provided</i>, That from the net distributive interests on which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions allowed members.</p></sidenote> the individual members shall be liable for tax, normal and additional, there shall be excluded their proportionate shares received from <page identifier="/us/stat/40/332">332</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote>interest on the obligations of a State or any political or taxing subdivision thereof, and upon the obligations of the United States (if and to the extent that it is provided in the Act authorizing the issue of such obligations of the United States that they are exempt from taxation), <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits for tax-paid dividends, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 759.</p></sidenote>and its possessions, and that for the purpose of computing the normal tax there shall be allowed a credit, as provided by section five, subdivision (b), for their proportionate share of the profits derived from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns required.</p></sidenote>dividends. Such partnership, when requested by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or any district collector, shall render a correct <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 758.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 302.</p></sidenote>return of the earnings, profits, and income of the partnership, except income exempt under section four of this Act, setting forth the item of the gross income and the deductions and credits allowed by this title, and the names and addresses of the individuals who would be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fiscal year returns.</p></sidenote>entitled to the net earnings, profits, and income, if distributed. A partnership shall have the same privilege of fixing and making returns upon the basis of its own fiscal year as is accorded to corporations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax at rate for year in which earned.</p></sidenote>under this title. If a fiscal year ends during nineteen hundred and sixteen or a subsequent calendar year for which there is a rate of tax different from the rate for the preceding calendar year, then (1) the rate for such preceding calendar year shall apply to an amount of each partner’s share of such partnership profits equal to the proportion which the part of such fiscal year falling within such calendar year bears to the full fiscal year, and (2) the rate for the calendar year during which such fiscal year ends shall apply to the remainder.
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</subdivision>
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</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deduction of tax by corporations, repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 762, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Subdivision (d) of section eight of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby repealed.
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1205"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1205. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment and administration.</p></sidenote>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That subdivisions (b), (c), (f), and (g) of section nine of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withholding normal tax on nonresidents at source of income.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 763, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">All persons, corporations, partnerships, associations, and insurance companies, in whatever capacity acting, including lessees or mortgagors of real or personal property, trustees acting in any trust capacity, executors, administrators, receivers, conservators, employers, and all officers and employees of the United States, having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, remuneration, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable annual or periodical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-paid dividends excepted.</p></sidenote>gains, profits, and income of any nonresident alien individual, other than income derived from dividends on capital stock, or from the net earnings of a corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, which is taxable upon its net income as provided in this title, are hereby authorized and required to deduct and withhold from such annual or periodical gains, profits, and income such sum as will be sufficient to pay the normal tax imposed thereon by this title, and shall make return thereof on or before March first of each year and, on or before the time fixed by law for the payment of the tax, shall pay the amount withheld to the officer of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for paying at source.</p></sidenote>States Government authorized to receive the same: and they are each hereby made personally liable for such tax, and they are each hereby indemnified against every person, corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company, or demand whatsoever for all payments which they shall make in pursuance and by virtue of this title.
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</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“(c) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax to be withheld from interest on bonds, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The amount of the normal tax hereinbefore imposed shall also be deducted and withheld from fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, profits and income derived from interest upon bonds and mortgages, or deeds of trust or other similar obligations of corporations, joint-stock companies, associations, and insurance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>companies, (if such bonds, mortgages, or other obligations contain a contract or provision by which the, obligor agrees to pay any portion <page identifier="/us/stat/40/333">333</page>of the tax imposed by this title upon the obligee or to reimburse the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote> obligee for any portion of the tax or to pay the interest without deduction for any tax which the obligor may be required or permitted to pay thereon or to retain therefrom under any law of the United States) whether payable annually or at shorter or longer periods and whether such interest is payable to a non-resident alien individual or to an individual citizen or resident of the United States, subject to the provisions of the foregoing subdivision (b) of this section requiring the tax to be withheld at the source and deducted from annual income and returned and paid to the Government, unless the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unless exemption notice filed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote> person entitled to receive such interest shall file with the withholding agent, on or before February first, a signed notice in writing claiming the benefit of an exemption under section seven of this Title.
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</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">“(f) </num>
<content class="inline">All persons, corporations, partnerships, or associations, undertaking<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses for collecting foreign coupons, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 765, amended.</p></sidenote> as a matter of business or for profit the collection of foreign payments of interest or dividends by means of coupons, checks, or bills of exchange shall obtain a license from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and shall be subject to such regulations enabling the Government to obtain the information required under this title, as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and whoever knowingly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for collecting without license, etc.</p></sidenote> undertakes to collect such payments as aforesaid without having obtained a license therefor, or without complying with such regulations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense be fined in a sum not exceeding $5,000, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
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</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">“(g) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">The tax herein imposed upon gains, profits, and incomes not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal returns of other incomes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 765.</p></sidenote> falling under the foregoing and not returned and paid by virtue of the foregoing or as otherwise provided by law shall be assessed by personal return under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The intent and purpose of this title is that all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No taxable liability of owner released.</p></sidenote>gains, profits, and income of a taxable class, as defined by this title, shall be charged and assessed with the corresponding tax, normal and additional, prescribed by this title, and said tax shall be paid by the owner of such income, or the proper representative having the receipt, custody, control, or disposal of the same. For the purpose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ownership determined.</p></sidenote> of this title ownership or liability shall be determined as of the year for which a return is required to be rendered.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The provisions of this section, except subdivision (c), relating to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on deducting tax at source.</p></sidenote> the deduction and payment of the tax at the source of income shall only apply to the normal tax hereinbefore imposed upon nonresident alien individuals.”</p>
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</subdivision>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Subdivisions (d) and (e) of section nine of such Act of September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other provisions repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 764, 765.</p></sidenote> eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby repealed.
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1206"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1206. </num>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That the first paragraph of section ten of such Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 39, p. 765, amended.</p></sidenote> of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Normal tax on net incomes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic.</p></sidenote> paid annually upon the total net income received in the preceding calendar year from all sources by every corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, organized in the United States, no matter how created or organized, but not including partnerships, a tax of two per centum upon such income; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign, from United States sources.</p></sidenote> a like tax shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid annually upon the total net income received in the preceding calendar year from all sources within the United States by every corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, organized, authorized, or existing under the laws of any foreign country, including interest on bonds, notes, or other interest-bearing obligations of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/334">334</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote>residents, corporate or otherwise, and including the income derived from dividends on capital stock or from net earnings of resident corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, or insurance companies, whose net income is taxable under this title.”
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</paragraph>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New provision.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 766, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Section ten of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby further amended by adding a new subdivision as follows: 
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tax on undistributed net earnings.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">In addition to the income tax imposed by subdivision (a) of this section there shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid annually an additional tax of ten per centum upon the amount, remaining undistributed six months after the end of each calendar or fiscal year, of the total net income of every corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, received during the year, as determined for the purposes of the tax imposed by such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income taxes not included.</p></sidenote>subdivision (a), but not including the amount of any income taxes paid by it within the year imposed by the authority of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable for portion retained for business use.</p></sidenote>“The tax imposed by this subdivision shall not apply to that portion of such undistributed net income which is actually invested and employed in the business or is retained for employment in the reasonable requirements of the business or is invested in obligations of the United States issued after September first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surtax if not so employed.</p></sidenote>seventeen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if the Secretary of the Treasury ascertains and finds that any portion of such amount so retained at any time for employment in the business is not so employed or is not reasonably required in the business a tax of fifteen per centum shall be levied, assessed, collected, and paid thereon.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicable to each taxable year.</p></sidenote>“The foregoing tax rates shall apply to the undistributed net income received by every taxable corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company in the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen and in each year thereafter, except that if it has fixed its own fiscal year under the provisions of existing law, the foregoing rates shall apply to the proportion of the taxable undistributed net income returned for the fiscal year ending prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, which the period between January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the end of such fiscal year bears to the whole of such fiscal year.”</p>
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</subdivision>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1207"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1207.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed domestic corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 768, amended.</p></sidenote>
<level class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That paragraphs third and fourth of subdivision (a) of section twelve of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest paid on indebtedness.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions and limitations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The amount of interest paid within the year on its indebtedness (except on indebtedness incurred for the purchase of obligations or securities the interest upon which is exempt from taxation as income under this title) to an amount of such indebtedness not in excess of the sum of (a) the entire amount of the paid-up capital stock outstanding at the close of the year, or, if no capital stock, the entire amount of capital employed in the business at the close of the year, and (b) one-half of its interest-bearing indebtedness then <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferred, stock not included.</p></sidenote>outstanding: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the purpose of this title preferred capital stock shall not be considered interest-bearing indebtedness, and interest or dividends paid upon this stock shall not be deductible from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shares without nominal value.</p></sidenote>gross income:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in cases wherein shares of capital stock are issued without par or nominal value, the amount of paid-up capital stock, within the meaning of this section, as represented by such shares, will be the amount of cash, or its equivalent, paid or transferred to the corporation as a consideration for such shares:</proviso>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secured by collateral.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the case of indebtedness wholly secured by property collateral, tangible or intangible, the subject of sale or hy ecation in the ordinary business of such corporation, joint-stock company or association as a dealer only in the property constituting such collateral, or in loaning the funds thereby procured, the total <page identifier="/us/stat/40/335">335</page>interest paid by such corporation, company, or association within the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote> year on any such indebtedness may be deducted as a part of its expenses of doing business, but interest on such indebtedness shall only<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> be deductible on an amount of such indebtedness not in excess of the actual value of such property collateral:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No allowance for bonds guaranteed free from tax.</p></sidenote> the case of bonds or other indebtedness, which have been issued with a guaranty that the interest payable thereon shall be free from taxation, no deduction for the payment of the tax herein imposed, or any other tax paid pursuant to such guaranty, shall be allowed; and in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on bank deposits allowed.</p></sidenote> the case of a bank, banking association, loan or trust company, interest paid within the year on deposits or on moneys received for investment and secured by interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness issued by such bank, banking association, loan or trust company shall be deducted;</proviso>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“Fourth. </num>
<content class="inline">Taxes paid within the year imposed by the authority<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General taxes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income and excess profits excepted.</p></sidenote> of the United States (except income and excess profits taxes), or of its Territories, or possessions, or any foreign country, or by the authority of any State, county, school district, or municipality, or other taxing subdivision of any State, not including those assessed against local benefits.”
</content>
</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Paragraphs third and fourth of subdivision (b) of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 769 amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions from in come in United States.</p></sidenote> twelve of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<content class="inline">The amount of interest paid within the year on its indebtedness<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest paid on indebtedness.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions and limitations.</p></sidenote> (except on indebtedness incurred for the purchase of obligations or securities the interest upon which is exempt from taxation as income under this title) to an amount of such indebtedness not in excess of the proportion of the sum of (a) the entire amount of the paid-up capital stock outstanding at the close of the year, or, if no capital stock, the entire amount of the capital employed in the business at the close of the year, and (b) one-half of its interest-bearing indebtedness then outstanding, which the gross amount of its income for the year from business transacted and capital invested within the United States bears to the gross amount of its income derived from all sources within and without the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No allowance for bonds guaranteed free from tax.</p></sidenote> That in the case of bonds or other indebtedness which have been issued with a guaranty that the interest payable thereon shall be free from taxation, no deduction for the payment of the tax herein imposed or any other tax paid pursuant to such guaranty shall be allowed; and in case of a bank, banking association, loan or trust<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on bank deposits allowed.</p></sidenote> company, or branch thereof, interest paid within the year on deposits by or on moneys received for investment from either citizens or residents of the United States and secured by interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness issued by such bank, banking association, loan or trust company, or branch thereof;</proviso>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“Fourth. </num>
<content class="inline">Taxes paid within the year imposed by the authority of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General taxes in United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income and excess profits excepted.</p></sidenote> the United States (except income and excess profits taxes), or of its Territories, or possessions, or by the authority of any State, county, school district, or municipality, or other taxing subdivision of any State, paid within the United States, not including those assessed against local benefits.”
</content>
</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1208"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1208. </num>
<content class="inline">That subdivision (e) of section thirteen of such Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 771, amended.</p></sidenote> September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">“(e) </num>
<content class="inline">All the provisions of this title relating to the tax authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for nonresident aliens applicable to tax-paid dividends.</p></sidenote> and required to be deducted and withheld and paid to the officer of the United States Government authorized to receive the same from the income of nonresident alien individuals from sources within the United States shall be made applicable to the tax imposed by subdivision (a) of section ten upon incomes derived from interest upon <page identifier="/us/stat/40/336">336</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote>bonds and mortgages or deeds of trust or similar obligations of domestic or other resident corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, and insurance companies by nonresident alien firms, copartnerships, companies, corporations, joint-stock companies or associations, and insurance companies, not engaged in business or trade within the United States and not having any office or place of business therein.”
</content>
</subdivision>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1209"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1209. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty provisions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section eighteen of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for not making returns, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application extended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any person, corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company, liable to pay the tax, to make a return or to supply information required under this title, who refuses or neglects to pay such tax, to make such return or to supply such information at the time or times herein specified in each year, shall be liable, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false returns, etc.</p></sidenote>except as otherwise specially provided in this title, to a penalty of not less than $20 nor more than $1,000. Any individual or any officer of any corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company, required by law to make, render, sign, or verify any return or to supply any information, who makes any false or fraudulent return or statement with intent to defeat or evade the assessment required by this title to be made, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding $2,000 or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court, with the costs of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax duly paid not to be withheld at source.</p></sidenote>prosecution: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where any tax heretofore due and payable has been duly paid by the taxpayer, it shall not be re-collected from any withholding agent required to retain it at its source, nor shall any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty restricted to fraudulent evasions.</p></sidenote>penalty be imposed or collected in such cases from the taxpayer, or such withholding agent whose duty it was to retain it, for failure to return or pay the same, unless such failure was fraudulent and for the purpose of evading payment.</proviso>”
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1210"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1210. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation returns.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 777, 1004, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section twenty-six of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions of fortifications, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="26">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sworn returns to be made of all dividend payments.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Every corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company subject to the tax herein imposed, when required by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shall render a correct return, duly verified under oath, of its payments of dividends, whether made in cash or its equivalent or in stock, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Names, etc., of stockholders included.</p></sidenote>names and addresses of stockholders and the number of shares owned by each, and the tax years and the applicable amounts in which such dividends were earned, in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.”
</content>
</section>
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</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1211"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1211. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative provisions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 777, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New sections.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange brokers to make returns of all dealings and customers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended by adding to Part III six new sections, as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="27">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27. </num>
<content class="inline">That every person, corporation, partnership, or association, doing business as a broker on any exchange or board of trade or other similar place of business shall, when required by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, render a correct return duly verified under oath, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe, showing the names of customers for whom such person, corporation, partnership, or association has transacted any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details of profits and losses.</p></sidenote>business, with such details as to the profits, losses, or other information which the commissioner may require, as to each of such cus<page identifier="/us/stat/40/337">337</page>tomers, as will enable the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to determine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote>whether all income tax due on profits or gains of such customers has been paid.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="28">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 28. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That all persons, corporations, partnerships, associations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons paying fixed incomes to others of $800 and over to make returns thereof.</p></sidenote> and insurance companies, in whatever capacity acting, including lessees or mortgagors of real or personal property, trustees acting in any trust capacity, executors, administrators, receivers, conservators, and employers, making payment to another person, corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company, of interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, remuneration, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits, and income (other than payments described in sections twenty-six and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> twenty-seven), of $800 or more in any taxable year, or, in the case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns from United States officials.</p></sidenote> of such payments made by the United States, the officers or employees of the United States having information as to such payments and required to make returns in regard thereto by the regulations hereinafter provided for, are hereby authorized and required to render a true and accurate return to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, under such rules and regulations and in such form and maimer as may be prescribed by him, with the approval of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, setting forth the amount of such gains, profits, and income, and the name and address of the recipient of such payment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such returns shall be required, regardless of amounts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All payments of interest on bonds, etc., required.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of foreign bonds, dividends, etc.</p></sidenote> in the case of payments of interest upon bonds and mortgages or deeds of trust or other similar obligations of corporations, joint-stock companies, associations, and insurance companies, and in the case of collections of items (not payable in the United States) of interest upon the bonds of foreign countries and interest from the bonds and dividends from the stock of foreign corporations by persons, corporations, partnerships, or associations, undertaking as a matter of business or for profit the collection of foreign payments of such interest or dividends by means of coupons, checks, or bills of exchange.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“When necessary to make effective the provisions of this section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name and address.</p></sidenote> the name and address of the recipient of income shall be furnished upon demand of the person, corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company paying the income.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The provisions of this section shall apply to the calendar year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicable each year.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seventeen and each calendar year thereafter,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> but shall not apply to the payment of interest on obligations of the United States.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="29">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 29. </num>
<content class="inline">That in assessing income tax the net income embraced<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess profits tax to be credited in income returns.</p></sidenote> in the return shall also be credited with the amount of any excess profits tax imposed by Act of Congress and assessed for the same calendar or fiscal year upon the taxpayer, and, in the case of a member of a partnership, with his proportionate share of such excess profits tax imposed upon the partnership.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="30">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 30. </num>
<content class="inline">That nothing in section II of the Act approved October<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment of foreign governments in United States not taxed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 166.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p></sidenote> third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled ‘An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,’ or in this title, shall be construed as taxing the income of foreign governments received from investments in the United States in stocks, bonds, or other domestic securities, owned by such foreign governments, or from interest on deposits in banks in the United States of moneys belonging to foreign governments.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="31">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 31. </num>
<subdivision class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That the term ‘dividends’ as used in this title shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All dividends accruing since March 1, 1913, included in income.</p></sidenote> be held to mean any distribution made or ordered to be made by a corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, out of its earnings or profits accrued since March first, nineteen <page identifier="/us/stat/40/338">338</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">income tax amendments.</inline></p></sidenote>hundred and thirteen, and payable to its shareholders, whether in cash or in stock of the corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, which stock dividend shall be considered income, to the amount of the earnings or profits so distributed.
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distributions taxed at rate for year earned, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Any distribution made to the shareholders or members of a corporation, joint-stock company, or association, or insurance company, in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or subsequent tax years, shall be deemed to have been made from the most recently accumulated undivided profits or surplus, and shall constitute a part of the annual income of the distributee for the year in which received, and shall be taxed to the distributee at the rates prescribed by law for the years in which such profits or surplus were accumulated by the corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Earnings prior to March 1, 1913, not taxed.</p></sidenote>company, but nothing herein shall be construed as taxing any earnings or profits accrued prior to March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, but such earnings or profits may be distributed in stock dividends or otherwise, exempt from the tax, after the distribution of earnings and profits accrued since March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>has been made. This subdivision shall not apply to any distribution made prior to August sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, out of earnings or profits accrued prior to March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
</content>
</subdivision>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="32">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 32. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life insurance by corporations, etc., of employees not deducted from income.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That premiums paid on life insurance policies covering the lives of officers, employees, or those financially interested in any trade or business conducted by an individual, partnership, corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, shall not be deducted in computing the not income of such individual, corporation, joint-stock company or association, or insurance company, or in computing the profits of such partnership for the purposes of subdivision (e) of section nine.”
</content>
</section>
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</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1212"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1212. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax of citizens withheld at source for 1917, released.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 762.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any amount heretofore withheld by any withholding agent as required by Title I of such Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, on account of the tax imposed upon the income of any individual, a citizen or resident of the United States, for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, except <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 332.</p></sidenote>in the cases covered by subdivision (c) of section nine of such Act, as amended by this Act, shall be released and paid over to such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection from individuals.</p></sidenote>individual, and the entire tax upon the income of such individual for such year shall be assessed and collected in the manner prescribed by such Act as amended by this Act.
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num value="XIII"><inline class="smallCaps">Title</inline> XIII.—</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">general provisions.</inline></p></sidenote><heading class="smallCaps centered">General Provisions.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1300"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1300. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalidity of any clause, etc., not to affect remainder of Act.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of said Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in winch such judgment shall have been rendered.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1301"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1301. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special preparedness fund repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1000, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Title I of the Act entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extension of fortifications, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1302"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1302. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In effect day after passage.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That unless otherwise herein specially provided, this Act shall take effect on the day following its passage.
</content>
</section>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 3, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 64: To authorize the Gulf Ports Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, to construct a bridge over and across the headwaters of Mobile Bay and such navigable channels as are between the east side of the Bay and Blakely Island, in Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>64</docNumber>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>64.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Gulf Ports Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, to construct a bridge over and across the headwaters of Mobile Bay and such navigable channels as are between the east side of the Bay and Blakely Island, in Baldwin and Mobile Counties, Alabama.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2813">S. 2813</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/51">Public, No. 51</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Gulf Ports Terminal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile Bay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gulf Ports Terminal Railway Company may bridge, Mobile, Ala.</p></sidenote>Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge or bridges and trestles over and across the navigable channels of the mouth of Mobile River from Bay Port, in township four south, range two east, on the east shore of the waters of Mobile Bay, in Baldwin County, Alabama, on a direct line, to a point on Blakely Island, in Mobile County, on the east shore of Mobile River, opposite the municipal docks of the city of Mobile, Alabama, at a point or points suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, and repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 65: Granting the consent of Congress to the Gainesville Red River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across Red River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>65</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>65.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Gainesville Red River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across Red River.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2816">S. 2816</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/52">Public, No. 52</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress <sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gainesville Red</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River Bridge Company may bridge.</p></sidenote>is hereby granted to the Gainesville Red River Bridge Company, or its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River at Sacras Ferry, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>Cooke County, Texas, and Love County, Oklahoma, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content> That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 66: Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Elgin, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River at Elgin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>66</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 339</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>66.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Elgin, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Fox River at Elgin.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2823">S. 2823</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/53">Public, No. 53</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fox River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elgin, Ill., may bridge.</p></sidenote>is hereby granted to the city of Elgin, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Fox River from the westerly end of Kimball Street to the easterly end of Lawrence Avenue, in the city of Elgin, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 67: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Logan Township, State of Minnesota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>67</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/340">340</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>67.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River in Aitkin County, Logan Township, State of Minnesota.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5839">H. R. 5839</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/54">Public, No. 54</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, in Aitkin County, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 724, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge, authorized by Act of Congress approved September fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be built across the Mississippi River at its intersection with the division line between sections twenty-six and twenty-seven, township forty-nine north, range twenty-five west, fourth principal meridian, in the county of Aitkin, Logan Township, in the State of Minnesota, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date hereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 68: Defining the status of citizens of the United States who have entered the military or naval services of certain countries during the existing war in Europe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>68</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>68.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Defining the status of citizens of the United States who have entered the military or naval services of certain countries during the existing war in Europe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2623">S. 2623</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/55">Public, No. 55</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of América in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizenship.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repatriation of persons after military service of nations at war with United States enemies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1228.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 546.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That any person, formerly an American citizen, who may be deemed to have expatriated himself under the provisions of the first paragraph of section two of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad,” by taking, since August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, an oath of allegiance to any foreign State engaged in war with a country with which the United States is at war, and who took such oath in order to be enabled to enlist in the armed forces of such foreign State, and who actually enlisted in such armed forces, and who has been or may be duly and honorably discharged from such armed forces, may, upon complying with the provisions of this Act, reassume and acquire the character and privileges of a citizen of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pension, etc., obligations for foreign service.</p></sidenote>States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no obligation in the way of pensions or other grants because of service in the army or navy of any other country, or disabilities incident thereto, shall accrue to the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application for resumption of status, etc.</p></sidenote>Any such person who desires so to reacquire and reassume the character and privileges of a citizen of the United States shall, if abroad, present himself before a consular officer of the United States, or, if in the United States, before any court authorized by law to confer American citizenship upon aliens, shall offer satisfactory evidence that he comes within the terms of this Act, and shall take an oath declaring his allegiance to the United States and agreeing to support the Constitution thereof and abjuring and disclaiming allegiance to such foreign State and to every foreign prince, potentate, State, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of certificates.</p></sidenote>sovereignty. The consular officer or court officer having jurisdiction shall thereupon issue in triplicate a certificate of American citizenship, giving one copy to the applicant, retaining one copy for his <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights restored.</p></sidenote>files, and forwarding one copy to the Secretary of Labor. Thereafter such person shall m all respects be deemed to have acquired the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote>character and privileges of a citizen of the United States. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly issue regulations for the proper administration of this Act.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 69: Authorizing the county of Clallam, in the State of Washington, to convey to the city of Port Angeles certain lands.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>69</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/341">341</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>69.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the county of Clallam, in the State of Washington, to convey to the city of Port Angeles certain lands.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/309">S. 309</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/56">Public, No. 56</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the county of Clallam, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clallam County, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reconveyance of lands to Port Angeles, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 770.</p></sidenote>in the State of Washington, through its proper officials duly authorized to convey real estate for the county, is hereby authorized to convey to the city of Port Angeles, in said county and State, in fee simple, any part of that parcel of land situated in said city, county, and State described in the Act of Congress of January twelve, nineteen hundred and three, as a parcel of land two hundred and twenty feet in width off the east side of suburban block numbered twenty-six, as shown on official plats of the town site of Port Angeles, in said county, and as subsequently conveyed in the patent of the United States of America to the said county of Clallam, dated March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 70: Authorizing the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River between said counties.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>70</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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</meta><preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>70.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the counties of Cass and Itasca, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River between said counties.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2434">S. 2434</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/57">Public, No. 57</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the counties of Cass <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cass and Itasca Counties may bridge.</p></sidenote>and Itasca, in the State of Minnesota, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at a point suitable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>to the interests of navigation on or near the line between townships one hundred and forty-four and one hundred and forty-five north, range twenty-six west, fifth principal meridian, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>“An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content> That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 71: Authorizing the counties of Itasca and Cass, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said counties.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>71</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>71.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the counties of Itasca and Cass, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River in said counties.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2435">S. 2435</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/58">Public, No. 58</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the counties of Itasca <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Itasca and Cass Counties may bridge.</p></sidenote>and Cass, in the State of Minnesota, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at a point suitable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>to the interests of navigation in township one hundred and forty-four north, on or near the range line between ranges twenty-five and twenty-six west, fifth principal meridian, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 72: Granting the consent of Congress to Webbers Falls Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, between the towns of Webbers Falls and Gore, in the State of Oklahoma.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>72</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/342">342</page>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>72.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to Webbers Falls Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, to construct a bridge across the Arkansas River, between the towns of Webbers Falls and Gore, in the State of Oklahoma.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2710">S. 2710</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/59">Public, No. 59</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Webbers Falls Railroad Company may bridge, Webbers Falls, Okla.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to Webbers Falls Railroad Company, a corporation, and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the town of Webbers Falls, in the county of Muskogee, in the State of Oklahoma, in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 73: Granting the consent of Congress to The Whiteville Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Waccamaw River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>73</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>73.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to The Whiteville Lumber Company to construct a bridge across Waccamaw River.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2878">S. 2878</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/60">Public, No. 60</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waccamaw River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Whiteville Lumber Company may bridge, Pireway Ferry, N. C.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to The Whiteville Lumber Company and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Waccamaw River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Pireway Ferry, in the counties of Columbus and Brunswick, in the State of North Carolina, in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"> That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 74: To amend the laws relating to the denominations of circulating notes by national banks and to permit the issuance of notes of small denominations, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>74</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>74.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the laws relating to the denominations of circulating notes by national banks and to permit the issuance of notes of small denominations, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2922">S. 2922</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/61">Public, No. 61</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National bank notes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Prohibition on issuing, of loss denomination than $5, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<ref href="/us/rs/sec5175/p1000">R. S., sec. 5175, p. 1000, repealed</ref>.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, Revised Statutes, section fifty-one hundred and seventy-five, which prohibits national banks from being furnished with notes of less denomination than $5, be, and it is hereby, repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on amount of $5 notes repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Vol. 31, p. 49, repealed.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"> That that part of the Act of March fourteenth, nineteen hundred, which provides; “that no national banking association shall, after the passage of this Act, be entitled to receive from the Comptroller of the Currency, or to issue or reissue, or place in circulation more than one-third in amount of its circulating notes of the denomination of $5,” be, and it is hereby, repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denominations authorized.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"> That from and after the passage of this Act any national banking association, upon compliance with the provisions of law applicable thereto, shall be entitled to receive from the Comptroller of the Currency, or to issue or reissue, or place in circulation notes in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $, and $100 in such proportion as to each of said denominations as the bank may elect:
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/343">343</page>
<proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no bank shall receive or have in circulation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Limit for ones and twos.</p></sidenote>at any one time more than $25,000 in notes of the denominations of $1 and $2.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num><content> That all Acts or parts of Acts which are inconsistent with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p></sidenote>this Act are hereby repealed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 75: To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>75</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>75.—</docNumber>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To suspend the requirements of annual assessment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/78">S. J. Res. 78</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/12">Pub. Res., No. 12</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in order that labor may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining claims assessments suspended for 1917 and 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec2324/p426">R. S., sec. 2324, p. 426</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1055.</p></sidenote>be most effectively used in raising and producing those things needed in the prosecution of the present war with Germany, that the provision of section twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor to be performed or improvements to be made during each year, be, and the same is hereby, suspended during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That every claimant of any such mining claim in order to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of retention of claim to be filed.</p></sidenote>obtain the benefits of this resolution shall file or cause to be filed in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded on or before December thirty-first, of each of the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil placer locations not included.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That this resolution shall not apply to oil placer locations or claims.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">This resolution shall not be deemed to amend or repeal the public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former Resolution not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 243</p></sidenote>resolution entitled “Joint resolution to relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service,” approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
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</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 76: Authorizing the payment of October salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment of the present session.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>76</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>76.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the payment of October salaries to officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the day of adjournment of the present session.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-05">October 5, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/102">S. J. Res. 102</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/13">Pub. Res., No. 13</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional officers, etc., to be paid October salaries on day of adjournment.</p></sidenote>Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and the House of Representatives, including the Capitol police and pages, borne upon the annual and session rolls, their respective salaries and per diem for the month of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on the day of adjournment; and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire of Members and Delegates.</p></sidenote> Clerk of the House is authorized to pay on said day to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners their allowances for clerk hire for said month of October: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the session employees <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for session employees for entire month.</p></sidenote>of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be paid hereunder for the entire month of October, and a sufficient sum is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for that purpose.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, October 5, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 77: To provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>77</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 344</citableAs>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>77.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2437">S. 2437</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/62">Public, No. 62</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape May, N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Appropriation for acquiring naval air station site at.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<i>Post</i>, p. 720.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, including all easements, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, for use for naval purposes, the tract of land situate at Cape May, New Jersey, lying between Princeton and Kansas Avenues and the water front and Cape May Avenue, comprising, exclusive of Pennsylvania Avenue, which intersects the tract and is to remain a public thoroughfare, approximately fifty-seven and seventy-three one-hundredths acres, or such enlarged area for which he may be able to contract within the appropriation, and there is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the acquisition of said property and of all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures limit</p></sidenote>easements, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, the sum of $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy shall authorize the payment of no part of this sum, except for perfecting the title and dredging Cold Spring Harbor and the entrance thereto, in order <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition of additional lands without increased cost.</p></sidenote>to make it more available for naval purposes:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further, </i>That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, empowered in his discretion to acquire, if possible, additional acreage without increased cost and within the appropriation herein authorized, and to exact guarantees for the maintenance of the electric railway now <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation authorized.</p></sidenote>running through the above-described land; and power is hereby conferred upon the Secretary of the Navy to condemn the said tract of land for naval, aviation, and kindred purposes on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>New Jersey coast adjacent to Cold Spring Harbor; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed, in conducting his negotiations with the Cape May Real Estate Company, to maintain intact the obligation existing between the United States and the Cape May Real Estate Company, executed by the said company June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven; and that this contract shall not be regarded as a waiver of either the obligation of the company or the rights of the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 78: Granting the consent of Congress to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company to construct a bridge across the Little Kanawha River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>78</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 344</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>78.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company to construct a bridge across the Little Kanawha River.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2774">S. 2774</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/63">Public, No. 63</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Kanawha River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company may bridge, Gilmer, W. Va.</p></sidenote><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company, or its successor and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Little Kanawha River at a point suitable to the interest of navigation, at or near Gilmer Station on the Coal and Coke Railway, in the County of Gilmer, in the State <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>of West Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"> That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 79: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>79</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/345">345</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>79.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5949">H. R. 5949</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/64">Public, No. 64</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 182.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 459, 594, 821, 1020, 1161.</p></sidenote> appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the two additional commissioners, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of additional commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 270.</p></sidenote> by the Act approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $10,000 per annum each, $16,666.66.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Shipping Fund,</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasing, etc., shipping plants, ships,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 182.</p></sidenote> plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $250,000,000 to $515,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $200,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The cost of construction of ships authorized by the urgent deficiency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 184.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 650.</p></sidenote> appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $500,000,000 to $1,234,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $250,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of ships, other than those heretofore or herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of other ships.</p></sidenote> authorized, $150,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition, etc., of plants for ship building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 651, 1022.</p></sidenote> or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now, or may be hereafter acquired or established, $35,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational Education.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation provided by section seven of the Act creating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses allowed Board.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 933.</p></sidenote> the Federal Board for Vocational Education, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is also made available for printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, and postage on foreign mail.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In any State the legislature of which met in nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of State board designated by governor if legislature id not act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 932.</p></sidenote> seventeen and failed for any reason to accept the provisions of the vocational education Act, as provided in section five of said Act, if the governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall accept the provisions of said Act and designate or create a State board of not less than three members to act in cooperation with the Federal Board for Vocational Education and shall designate the State treasurer as custodian for all moneys allotted to that State under said Act, the Federal board shall, if such legislature took no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditional recognition.</p></sidenote> adverse action on the acceptance of said Act in nineteen hundred and seventeen, recognize such State board for the purposes of said Act until the legislature of that State meets in regular session in due course and has been in session sixty days.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay limitation.</p></sidenote>For additional employees in the Department of State, $85,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, repairs and material for repairs, and miscellaneous items, including expenses of the passport office in New York, $25,000.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign intercourse.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">foreign intercourse.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular prisoners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost for feeding, not operative dining fiscal year 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1058.</p></sidenote>That portion of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, which provides “ that no more than 50 cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding,” shall not be operative during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks of embassies and legations.</p></sidenote>For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $88,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire at consulates.</p></sidenote>For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $325,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, missions.</p></sidenote>To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs, as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, drago-mans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispatch agents.</p></sidenote>compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing in Department.</p></sidenote>embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $132,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, Consulates.</p></sidenote>Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 463.</p></sidenote>To pay the actual and necessary expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates, in going to and returning from their posts or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diplomatic and consular officers in China.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances of additional compensation for</p></sidenote>To enable the President in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in China, including the officers at Hongkong, Saigon, Tsingtau, Dairen, and Vladivostok, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $100,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the relief of American citizens in Germany or German occupied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of American citizens in Germany, etc.</p></sidenote> territory and American prisoners of war who may be taken by German forces, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of American seamen.</p></sidenote> and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">secretary’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two additional Assistant Secretaries.</p></sidenote>appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who are authorized at the rate of $5,000 per annum each from the date of this Act to the close of the present war and six months thereafter, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles D. Hamner.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> to credit in the accounts of Charles D. Hamner, disbursing agent of the Joint Committee on Rural Credits, the sum of $353.33 paid on vouchers approved by the chairman of the Joint Committee and suspended by the accounting officers because the services were rendered after the close of the fiscal year for which the appropriations were available.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Files.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of comptroller of the treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote> seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Five law clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $12,930.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of treasurer of the united states.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, ten of class one, eight at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; expert counters—three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; in all, $30,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For additional for rent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlotte, N. C.</p></sidenote> of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evansville, Ind.</p></sidenote>Evansville, Indiana, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Millersburg, Ohio.</p></sidenote>Millersburg, Ohio, post office (site): For completion under the present limit of cost, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskegon, Mich.</p></sidenote>Muskegon, Michigan, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y., customhouse.</p></sidenote>New York, New York, customhouse: For changes, remodeling, repairs, and new vaults, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., to buildings on squares 226 and 228, Washington, D. C., for temporary use.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Department Buildings: For repairs, alterations, and extensions of such of the buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States, on squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six and two hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, to fit them for temporary use by the Treasury Department, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>internal revenue.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal revenue.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, collecting taxes under War Revenue Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p></sidenote>For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, as provided in an Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October , nineteen hundred and seventeen, including the employment of necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters, postage, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $4,583,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for punishing violations of revenue laws.</p></sidenote>$375,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for expenses of Bureau, D. C.</p></sidenote>detection of such violations:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more than $850,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, m the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of duties.</p></sidenote>The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to assign to deputy commissioners such duties as he may prescribe, and the Secretary of the Treasury may designate any one of them to act as Commissioner of Internal Revenue during the commissioner’s absence.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, gaugers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1090.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $2,200,000 for salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, made in the Act of Mardi third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the employment of revenue agents, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy collectors and inspectors under Avar revenue act payable from appropriations for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p></sidenote>storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers, and gaugers is hereby made available also for the salaries and expenses of deputy collectors and inspectors in assessing and collecting internal-revenue taxes, as provided by the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October , nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and printing bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional work authorized for 1917.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 5.</p></sidenote>The limitation in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as to the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is increased from eighty-eight million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six <page identifier="/us/stat/40/349">349</page>to ninety-nine million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six, and the limitation in the sundry civil appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 275.</p></sidenote> Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from two million four hundred and fifty thousand to two million six hundred and fifty thousand.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote> distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further use of power presses during present war authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 430.</p></sidenote> the continuance of the war with Germany, to have all bonds, notes, checks, or other printed papers, now or hereafter authorized to be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, printed in such manner and by whatever process and on any style of presses that he may consider suitable for the issue of such securities and other papers in the form that will properly safeguard the interests of the Government, except that such presses as are used in printing from intaglio plates shall be operated by plate printers: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the execution of such work only such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to retention of plate printers.</p></sidenote> part of it shall be transferred from the present method of executing it as will permit of the retention in the service of such permanent plate printers as are now engaged in the execution of such work, or such temporary plate printers, similarly employed and who can qualify under civil-service regulations for permanent appointment, and all Acts or parts of Acts heretofore enacted relative to the use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of restrictions as to hand and power presses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 430.</p></sidenote> power and hand presses in the printing of securities of the Government are hereby suspended and declared to be not in effect during the continuance of said war, and at the termination of the war such Acts or parts of Acts shall be in effect and force as heretofore.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public health service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for pay of acting assistant surgeons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acting assistant surgeons.</p></sidenote> (noncommissioned medical officers), $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate quarantine service.</p></sidenote> municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $300,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarantine service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boston Quarantine Station: For six barracks buildings, two mess<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> halls, hospital building, officers’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, heating and plumbing, lighting, sewage, drainage, and water works, $113,000; boarding and disinfecting vessel, $40,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment and disinfecting equipment, $34,800; in all, $187,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Charles Quarantine Station: For seven barracks buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Charles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1025.</p></sidenote> three mess halls, officer’s quarters, remodeling building for attendants, heating plant and plumbing, lighting plant and equipment, disinfection building and equipment, laundry building and equipment, sewage, drainage, and approach work, hospital building and equipment, $143,500; disinfecting and boarding vessel, $40,000; miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $42,326; in all, $225,826.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reedy Island Quarantine Station: For attendants’ quarters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reedy Island.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post, p. 1025.</p></sidenote> officers’ quarters, and laundry and equipment, $25,000; miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $7,000; in all, $32,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1025.</p></sidenote>Savannah Quarantine Station: For four barracks buildings, two mess halls, hospital building, attendants’ quarters, heating and plumbing, fighting, sewage and water, laundry and equipment, $79,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $19,644; <inline class="underline">in</inline> all, $98,644.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of construction.</p></sidenote>The foregoing construction work under “Quarantine stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mints and assay offices.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint:</inline> For wages of workmen and other employees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $630.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Utilities Commission.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Public Utilities Commission</inline>: For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $352.03.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle tags.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:</inline> For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central garage.</p></sidenote>For tools and equipment, lighting fixtures, conduits, heating apparatus, and paving driveway for the central garage, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s expenses.</p></sidenote>For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $715.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote>For general advertising, authorized and required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car tickets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for tubercular pupils.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1026.</p></sidenote>The limitation upon the amount that may be expended for car tickets during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is increased by such sum as it may he necessary to expend for that purpose from the appropriation for “transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children.,”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calvert Street Bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 689.</p></sidenote>Bridges: The appropriation for preparation of plans for construction of a bridge to take the place of the existing Calvert Street Bridge crossing Rock Creek, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benning Road Viaduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1141.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 7.</p></sidenote>Benning Road Viaduct and Bridge: For an additional amount for the objects set forth in the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for constructing a suitable viaduct and bridge to carry Benning Road over the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highway Bridge.</p></sidenote>Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Playgrounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New swimming pools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 691.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Playgrounds:</inline> For the construction of two swimming pools, shower baths, appurtenances, and equipment, on sites to be selected by the commissioners, the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is continued available during the fecal year nineteen hundred and eighteen with the additional sum of $5,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Public Schools; For additional amount for installing heating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chevy Chase School.</p></sidenote> and ventilating plant in the Elizabeth V. Brown (Chevy Chase) School, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Health department: The appropriation of $4,000 for repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriation for laboratory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1031.</p></sidenote> and alterations to the building formerly occupied as an emergency hospital is made available for repairs and alterations to such public building as the commissioners may be able to secure for use as a laboratory.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Municipal court: For contingent expenses including books, law<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal court.</p></sidenote> books, books of reference, fuel, fight, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington Asylum and Jail: For payments to destitute women<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abandoned families.</p></sidenote> and children, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $375.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Refunding taxes: Authority is granted to pay out of the appropriation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auto Livery Company and Federal Taxicab Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote> “Refunding Taxes, District of Columbia,” the sum of $69.58 to the Auto Livery Company and the sum of $44.64 to the Federal Taxicab Company for overpaid personal taxes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and sixty-two and Three hundred and forty-two of this session, $18,097.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington Aqueduct:</inline> For operation, including salaries of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Aqueduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From water revenues.</p></sidenote> necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the Filtration Plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $64,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the water department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary employees.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary clerks,etc.</p></sidenote> and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,261,232: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement to be submitted.</p></sidenote> first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on higher compensations.</p></sidenote> further</i>, That not more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding ma<page identifier="/us/stat/40/352">352</page>chines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by Adjutant General’s Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building and other buildings; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons, motor trucks, and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $300,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armories and arsenals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benicia, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 474, 653.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Benicia Arsenal, California:</inline> For an addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two storehouses, $60,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a garage for motor trucks and automobile messenger wagon, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for an oil storehouse, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $82,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:</inline> For additional amount for a primer shop and planning room, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for a combination wall and picket fence along the north side and a picket fence along the east and south sides for the arsenal reservation, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the construction and repair of roads, including railroad siding, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for extension of high-explosive loading shop, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for paint shop, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for artillery firing range, including an explosion chamber, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for small-arms firing range, including a proof house and target, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire protection facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 283.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 653.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $24,000 for increasing facilities for fire protection, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a sea wall along the Delaware River, $36,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlargement of instrument department building and construction of a shrapnel shop, $292,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a general storehouse, $260,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional dry houses, $65,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three magazines, $60,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for assembling artillery ammunition, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the manufacture of small-arms ammunition, $205,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a target range, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an addition to the fuse-shop building, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $1,254,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Picatinny, N. J.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey:</inline> For buildings for assembling powder charges, including an igniter building, a storehouse for completed cartridge bags, an office building, covered passageway connecting the same, heating plant, and toilets, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proving ground.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, equipment, land, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Proving ground:</inline> For increasing facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms, and cor<page identifier="/us/stat/40/353">353</page>porations, resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose, and also the salaries and expenses of any agents appointed to assist in the procurement of said land or damages resulting from its taking, $7,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if the land and appurtenances and improvements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation of land authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1707, 1737.</p></sidenote> attached thereto, as contemplated under the foregoing appropriation, can not be procured by purchase, then the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be used for the carrying out of the purpose named in the aforesaid appropriation. That if said land and appurtenances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote> such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote> twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. Upon the taking over of said property by the President as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest immediately.</p></sidenote> aforesaid the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That section three hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote> and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditures authorized hereunder.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois:</inline> For additional amount for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote> increasing facilities for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, $1,295,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the water power plant, $175,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlargement of office building, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for a plant for the manufacture of rifle and hand grenades, including necessary buildings, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a synchronous motor for the armory shop, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lighting facilities for shops, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for woodworking and for manufacturing equipments, $300,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a building for storing lumber, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a railroad crane, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlargement and repair of the filtration plant, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $2,180,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">San Antonio Arsenal, Texas:</inline> For increasing railroad transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Antonio, Tex.</p></sidenote> facilities, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for fire protection, $21,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Springfield Arsenal, Massachusetts:</inline> For the installation of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Mass.</p></sidenote> plant for the generation and distribution of electric power at the water shops, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of a modern lighting system in shops, $25,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 654.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a physical and chemical laboratory, including buildings, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $145,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Terminal facilities:</inline> For terminal storage and shipping buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terminal facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 427.</p></sidenote> and other facilities, including rentals and purchase of land, $10,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $5,000,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made.</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, Mass.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts:</inline> For replacing roof and floors of machine shop, $160,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for increasing capacity for the manufacture of gun carriages, $360,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a building for storing patterns, including its equipment, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an extension of the office building, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for increasing facilities for the production of armor-piercing projectiles, $26,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for one locomotive crane, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $682,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing machines.</p></sidenote>Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For additional amount for necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watervliet, N. Y.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York:</inline> For alteration and improvement of office building, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a garage and oil storehouse, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for increasing facilities for fire protection, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the manufacture of mobile artillery cannon, including the necessary buildings, $750,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration and improvement of steam-heating system in large gun shop, $7,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rebuilding main roads inside the arsenal grounds, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $804,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $200,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery for manufacturing.</p></sidenote>or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $500,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>military posts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military posts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s depot.</p></sidenote>Saint Louis, Missouri, Quartermaster’s Depot: For the construction of buildings for additional storage, including the necessary mechanical equipment and handling devices, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge across Republican River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 644.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote>Bridge across the Republican River near Fort Riley, Kansas: For the completion of the bridge across the Republican River near Fort Riley, Kansas, according to the terms and upon the conditions of the Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000, and the $30,000 heretofore appropriated for said purpose is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and Quarters at seacoast defenses.</p></sidenote>Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction of temporary barracks and quarters at seacoast posts for the accommodation of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Artillery, $3,462,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairing hurricane damages at Gulf forts.</p></sidenote>Repairs to buildings, and so forth, at Gulf forts: For repairs to buildings, wharves, roads, and so forth, at Forts Barrancas, McRee, and Pickens, Florida, and Forts Morgan and Gaines, Alabama, damaged by the hurricanes of October seventeenth and eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $89,962.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote>Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: To enable the Secretary of War to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, a tract of land known as the Kalena tract, which is embraced within the boundary of the Schofield Barracks, Hawaiian Territory, Military Reservation, $10,300.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national cemeteries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National cemeteries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.</p></sidenote> For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $500,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national military parks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For the establishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guilford Courthouse.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 996.</p></sidenote> of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,100.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PANAMA CANAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fortifications.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extraordinary expenses heretofore and hereafter incurred by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protecting Canal, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under governor.</p></sidenote> the governor of the Panama Canal in protecting the canal and canal structures, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extraordinary expenses for military purposes heretofore and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army expenses.</p></sidenote> hereafter incurred in protecting the Panama Canal and canal structures, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance Depot: For additional amount for a building for storing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance depot.</p></sidenote> artillery vehicles, $5,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a set of quarters, single family cottage for armament machinist at Fort Grant, $2,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Submarine base (Coco Solo Point): For dredging inner basin<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine base.</p></sidenote> and channel to same, concrete dock, containing walls, finger docks, tracks, dry fill, municipal works, electrical work, officers quarters, barracks, shops, storehouses, stationary crane, magazines and torpedo storage, shop and power tools, furniture, and plant equipment, $902,625: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the construction work hereunder shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction work.</p></sidenote> performed under the direction of the governor of the Panama Canal.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Registration and selection:</inline> For additional amount for all expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration for draft.</p></sidenote> necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 79. 185.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 474, 851, 1027, 1170.</p></sidenote> into the military service, $4,000,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the chief of staff.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">chief of staff.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Information Section:</inline> For contingent expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military information section, office of.</p></sidenote> military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $489,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Service of the Army:</inline> For expenses of the Signal Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field <page identifier="/us/stat/40/356">356</page>electric telegraph, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War balloons, airships, etc.</p></sidenote>the office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (including exchange service at mobile Army posts) and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants, etc.</p></sidenote>maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $40,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of airplane materials, during the war, to foreign governments, etc., aiding the United States.</p></sidenote>The President, during the present emergency, is authorized, through the head of any department of the Government, to sell any war materials used in the construction of airplanes which may have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States for the purpose of the Army or Navy, or for the prosecution of war, to any person, firm, or corporation, or to any foreign state or government engaged with the United States Government in the prosecution of war against a common enemy or its allies, in such manner and upon such terms, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reuse of moneys received.</p></sidenote>at not less than cost, as he in his discretion may deem best: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any moneys received by the United States hereunder shall become available as part of the appropriation by which said property was purchased by the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone service for Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts:</inline> For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of the army.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of the army.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line officers.</p></sidenote>Officers of the line: For pay of officers of the line, including staff corps of the National Guard, $10,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line.</p></sidenote>Enlisted men of the line: For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $250,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Department:</inline> For pay of enlisted men, $6,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster Corps:</inline> For pay of enlisted men, $12,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department:</inline> For pay of enlisted men, $25,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters of departments, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerks.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools:</inline> For additional clerks, from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Fifteen at $2,000 each, thirty-two at $1,800 each, one hundred and twenty at $1,600 each, three hundred and eighteen at $1,400 each, eight hundred and ninety-five at $1,200 each, three hundred and seventy at $1,000 each; in all, $1,626,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty in Department forbidden.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty hi any bureau in the War Department.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staff officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corps of Engineers.</p></sidenote>Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $6,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote>Ordnance Department: For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $10,000,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quartermaster Corps: For pay of officers of the Quartermaster<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote> Corps, $5,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Signal Corps: For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $15,870,833.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Medical Department: For pay of officers of the Medical Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote> $23,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For nurses (female), $6,369,298.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Retired Officers: For increased pay to retired officers on active<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers and enlisted men on active duty.</p></sidenote> duty, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Retired Enlisted Men: For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on active<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservists.</p></sidenote> duty, $17,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous:</inline> For commutation of quarters and of heat<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, etc.</p></sidenote> and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote> Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, foreign service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> service, $4,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted men<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> on foreign service, $18,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss by exchange.</p></sidenote> countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $74,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six months’ pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaths by wounds, etc.</p></sidenote> die while on active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $10,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one year’s pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation accident deaths.</p></sidenote> who die as the result of aviation accidents, $495,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts specified.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps, as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps shall be available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Troop A, North Carolina Cavalry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., for one day.</p></sidenote> for the pay of one captain, one first lieutenant, and forty-three enlisted men of Troop A, North Carolina Cavalry, for one day in April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the subsistence of the enlisted men at 40 cents each for one day.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Subsistence of the Army</inline>: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases for issue.</p></sidenote> issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/358">358</page>troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales.</p></sidenote> for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations.</p></sidenote>For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men, and male and female nurses, when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men, selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders; for payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote>applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes for bakers and cooks.</p></sidenote>for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, accounting, etc.</p></sidenote>schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $250,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote>necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of em<page identifier="/us/stat/40/359">359</page>ployees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> for the post schools and libraries and for textbooks for noncommissioned officers’ schools, including subscriptions for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines for use of enlisted men, as may be authorized by the Secretary of War; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc., for animals,</p></sidenote> oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>reports, $125,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> Postage; cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra duty pay, etc.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist tor the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 <page identifier="/us/stat/40/360">360</page>for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; tor a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote>martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $9,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of the Army and its supplies:</inline> For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel allowances, etc., on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 217.</p></sidenote>between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard officers on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 903.</p></sidenote>United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to landgrant roads.</p></sidenote>of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computation.</p></sidenote>amount of service be paid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such compensation shall be. computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote>as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and mili<page identifier="/us/stat/40/361">361</page>tary road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full pay to excepted roads.</p></sidenote> in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals.</p></sidenote> such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote> purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, etc.</p></sidenote> ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transports.</p></sidenote> various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $375,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel expenses of foreign officers and enlisted men attached to the Army allowed herefrom.</p></sidenote> and in such manner as he may prescribe, to employ such portion of the appropriations made for transportation of the Army and its supplies as in his judgment may be necessary to defray the expenses of travel incurred by officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Army of the United States during the present emergency, and that those officers and enlisted men, who may have been performing duties in this connection, be reimbursed from this appropriation for the expenditures they have already been obliged to make.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Land-grant railroads organized under the Act of July twenty-eighth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to certain land grant railroads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 338.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter three hundred, shall receive the same compensation for transportation during the existing war emergency of property and troops of the United States as may be paid to land-grant railroads, organized under the land-grant Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 772.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 292.</p></sidenote> of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the Act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter two hundred and seventy-eight, for such transportation during said emergency: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this paragraph shall not he construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> changing in any other way or for any other period of time the rights and duties of the land-grant railroads first above mentioned.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Water and sewers at military posts:</inline> For procuring and introducing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, sewers, etc.</p></sidenote> water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations: for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, includ<page identifier="/us/stat/40/362">362</page>ing fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $23,886,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage:</inline> For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.</p></sidenote>court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $350,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, services, and transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Combination fund Constituted of.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence of the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases of, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers:</inline> For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open market purchases.</p></sidenote>of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at not exceeding a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standard required.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Polo ponies.</p></sidenote>States Military Academy:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $40,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and quarters:</inline> For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/363">363</page>and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; for barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $49,155,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation restrictions.</p></sidenote> of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Shooting galleries and ranges:</inline> For shelter, shooting galleries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting galleries and ranges.</p></sidenote> ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $6,014,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military post exchanges:</inline> For continuing the construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges.</p></sidenote> equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote> to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restrictions.</p></sidenote> more than $125,000 of this appropriation may be expended for personal services and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage:</inline> For the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, wharves, drainage, etc.</p></sidenote> and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $12,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and repair of hospitals:</inline> For construction and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident <page identifier="/us/stat/40/364">364</page>thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; and, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and roads and walks for the same, $35,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of buildings, D. C., 1918.</p></sidenote>Rent of buildings:</inline> For additional for rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of attending surgeon, $1,125;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recruiting station, $750;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Storehouse for field medical supply depot, from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $36,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $37,875.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target practice damage claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 59.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Claims for damages to and loss of private property:</inline> For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, and operations of the Army that have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement by Auditor.</p></sidenote>accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $15,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>civilian military training.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian military training.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of instruction camps, etc.</p></sidenote>For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>therewith, including textbooks and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 194,</p></sidenote> by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,240,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, gas masks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 480.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Medical and Hospital Department:</inline> For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies; gas masks; motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor ambulances.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; disinfectants; typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital <page identifier="/us/stat/40/365">365</page>ships, and transports; supplies required for mosquito destruction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mosquito destruction.</p></sidenote> in and about the military posts in the Canal Zone; veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; expenses of medical supply depots; medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private treatment.</p></sidenote> are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases expenses.</p></sidenote> diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; pay of other employees of the Medical Department; payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs Hospital, Ark.</p></sidenote> force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $100,000,000.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military surveys and maps:</inline> For the execution of topographic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military surveys and maps.</p></sidenote> or other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other Government officials to assist.</p></sidenote> authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work, and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer equipment of troops:</inline> For pontoon material, tools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of troops.</p></sidenote> instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motorcycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $12,100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer operations in the field:</inline> For expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field operations expenses.</p></sidenote> incident to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field operations expenses.</p></sidenote> military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $186,000,000</p>
.</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Service:</inline> For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriters, adding machines, office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals; mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $11,825,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for smell arms.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores, ammunition:</inline> For manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, $69,750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small-arms target practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, targets, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Small-arms target practice:</inline> For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At educational institutions, etc.</p></sidenote>prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $89,676,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Manufacture of arms:</inline> For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms, $16,690,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $16,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc., ordnance.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance stores and supplies:</inline> For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc.</p></sidenote>of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote>manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requirements of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $113,520,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic machine rifles.</p></sidenote>Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>their manufacture, $220,277,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $118,020,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armored motor cars.</p></sidenote>Armored motor cars: For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>and maintenance of armored motor cars, $36,750,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $75,550,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional obligations for ordnance authorized.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is authorized, during the present emergency and in addition to the appropriations and obligations specifically authorized by law, to incur obligations for ordnance and ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount limited.</p></sidenote>supplies and materials: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time shall not exceed the sum of $100,009,000.</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., services in, authorized.</p></sidenote> employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Not to exceed $11,000 of the appropriations herein or heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent allowance.</p></sidenote> made for the Ordnance Department may be expended for rent of space in the District of Columbia for the use of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material to be of American manufacture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery for rifles: For the purchase or manufacture of machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery for rifle manufacture.</p></sidenote> and other facilities for the manufacture of rifles, including the necessary buildings, range, and other expenses incident thereto, $9,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">During the present emergency, under such regulations as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance officers may designate agents for disbursements, etc.</p></sidenote> prescribed by the Secretary of War, officers of the Ordnance Department accountable for public moneys may intrust moneys to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and the officers to whom the money is intrusted, as well as the officers who intrust it to them, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, field, and siege cannon.</p></sidenote> cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $695,100,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote> to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $225,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for.</p></sidenote> field, and siege cannon, including experiments in connection therewith, machinery for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $663,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote> States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $777,182,750 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., mobile artillery.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $158,334,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote> States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $50,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines, nets for closing channels, etc.</p></sidenote> to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $700,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ACADEMY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For coal, wood, charcoal,stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating and coal-conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, and repair, improvement, and maintenance of power plant, $15,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote>
For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking, and electric lamps and supplies, and for operating the gas plant, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet hospital.</p></sidenote>For removing, replacing, and resetting white tile in the cadet hospital, $3,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mess accommodations, etc.</p></sidenote>For temporary mess accommodations, $6,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alterations and additions to organ in cadet chapel, $1,600.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admissions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 853, amended.</p></sidenote>So much of the Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes, so far as it designates the classes of persons entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, is amended so as to read as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benefits extended to Organized Militia and National Guard called into service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4832/p937">R. S., sec. 4832, p. 937</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote>follows: The following persons only shall hereafter be entitled to the benefits of the National Horne for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the regular, volunteer, or other forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been or is engaged, including the Spanish American War, the provisional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 977.</p></sidenote>Army (authorized by Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine), in any of the campaigns against hostile Indians, or who have served in the Philippines, in China, or in Alaska, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into the Federal service to enforce the laws, suppress insurrection, or repel invasion, who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise and have no adequate means of support, and who are not otherwise provided for by law, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds, D. C.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional park watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote>Park watchmen: For additional park watchmen from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Second sergeant of park watchmen, $900; eighteen park watchmen for duty at the Highway Bridge, District of Columbia, at $840 each; in all, $12,015.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $316.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, monument, and bridge watchmen, $950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and grounds, the sum of $6,640.50 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary buildings for War and Navy Departments in.</p></sidenote>For temporary office buildings, including heating and lighting, for the use of the War and Navy Departments, to contain approximately one million and fifty-five thousand square feet, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of War in Henry Park, reservation numbered four, Sixth and B Streets, $2,000,000. Space in said building shall be allotted by the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds upon the joint order of the Secretary of War and the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Washington Memorial Hall.</p></sidenote> of the Navy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That within two years after the conclusion of the existing war, the land above referred to shall again be reserved for the erection of the George Washington Memorial Hall.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/369">369</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, etc., Department Building.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of an additional boiler in the State, War, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional boiler.</p></sidenote> Navy Department Building for heating and lighting the Mills Building, $15,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>aviation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft; maintenance of aircraft stations;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aircraft stations.</p></sidenote> including not to exceed $315,000 for the acquisition of land by purchase or condemnation; and for experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $45,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $175,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Such portion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completion of laboratory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1170.</p></sidenote> appropriation “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics” earned in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as may be necessary, not to exceed $40,000, is made available for the completion of the committee’s research laboratory now under construction, and for the construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval emergency fund.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval emergency fund.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to secure the more economical and expeditious<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At discretion of the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1192.</p></sidenote> delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions, and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized, and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo boat destroyers, submarine chasers, and such other naval small craft, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $100,000,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>civilian naval consulting board.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian consulting board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> Naval Consulting Board, $75,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, comfort,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation for enlisted men.</p></sidenote> and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay limitation.</p></sidenote> That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $700,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance and ordnance stores:</inline> For procuring, producing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote> preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work <page identifier="/us/stat/40/370">370</page>of the Ordnance Department; for necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, Naval Gun Factory, and naval ammunition depots, $12,446,480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>Ammunition for vessels: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $40,146,120: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $15,146,120 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Batteries and outfits.</p></sidenote>Batteries and outfits for vessels: For batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote> $50,059,523.50: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $28,059,523.50 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supplies.</p></sidenote>Reserve ordnance supplies: For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>supplies, $47,500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $17,500,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Gun Factory, D.C.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia, Naval Gun Factory: For tools and machinery plant, $2,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor and projectile plant, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Option for fuel lands.</p></sidenote>Fuel lands for armor and projectile plants: For the investigation and acquisition of options to mineral rights on about twenty-six thousand acres of gas and oil lands in the State of West Virginia, located within reasonable distance of the Government armor plant, $25,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>Contingent: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $1,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary hospitals, etc.</p></sidenote>Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction and repairs, as may be necessary, at points not provided with suitable hospital facilities, and for buildings for naval medical supplies, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London submarine base.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional lands for.</p></sidenote>New London, Connecticut, submarine base: For the acquisition, by purchase or condemnation, of the tract of land, comprising approximately twenty-six and eighty-eight one-hundredths acres, owned by the C. M. Shay Fertilizer Company, in the immediate vicinity of the property now owned and occupied by the United States as a submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yard improvements.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia, Navy Yard: For yard improvements, $5,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heavy cranes.</p></sidenote>Handling appliances: For three fifty-ton cranes for use at navy yards, $450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training camps.</p></sidenote>Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $6,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine railways.</p></sidenote>Marine railways: For marine railways at navy yards and stations, $375,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance stations.</p></sidenote>Ordnance stations: For improvements at stations under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $2,250,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/371">371</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $10,000 for expenses of a commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission on yards, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 571.</p></sidenote> of naval officers to investigate the question of navy yards and naval stations, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: For cold<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton Roads, Va.</p></sidenote> storage, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $1,000,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary storage.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance: For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of steam engineering.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineering:</inline> For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.</p></sidenote> and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the establishment of a high-power radio<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico radio station.</p></sidenote> station on the island of Porto Rico, $200,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval academy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of professors and instructors, including one professor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Professors, etc.</p></sidenote> as librarian, $18,900.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote> authorized by law. $2,650,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs of barracks: For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of barracks.</p></sidenote> the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $500,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>increase of the navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of the navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For acquiring and providing facilities for the expeditious construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo-boat destroyers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facilities for expeditious construction of additional.</p></sidenote> of additional torpedo-boat destroyers, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and toward their construction, to cost in all not more than $350,000,000, $225,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition of lands etc., tor construction.</p></sidenote> the amount hereinbefore authorized, to acquire or provide facilities additional to those now in existence for the construction of torpedo-boat<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1193.</p></sidenote> destroyers, their hulls, machinery, and appurtenances, including the immediate taking over for the United States of the possession of and title to land, its appurtenances and improvements, which he may find necessary in this connection.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote> thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/372">372</page>shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per centum will make up such amount <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest immediately.</p></sidenote>Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the accommodation of the Patent Office models now stored on reservation thirteen in the District of Columbia and for necessary expenses, including labor of removal of the models and their storage, $2,300.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Department Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, 1918.</p></sidenote>Interior Department Building (New): For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: For three substation operators at $1,200 each and three assistant substation operators at $900 each, $4,725.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courthouse, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to temporary quarters.</p></sidenote>Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For general repairs to the temporary quarters (known as the Emery Building) occupied by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia during the reconstruction of the courthouse, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>general land office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Land Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing cases.</p></sidenote>For the purchase or construction, including necessary labor, of filing cases tor photolithographic copies of township plats, $10,600.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public land service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon and California railroad land suits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of Coos Bay Road lands.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $25,000 for the protection of lands involved in the Oregon and California forfeiture suit, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is also made available for the protection of the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company versus United States, together with the additional sum of $10,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>patent office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees, 1918.</p></sidenote>For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiners—two principals at $2,700 each, four first assistants at $2,400 each, four second assistants at $2,100 each, four third assistants at $1,800 each, four fourth assistants at $1,500 each, five clerks of class one; two laborers at $600 each; in all, $34,875.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>territory of alaska.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska Engineering Commission.</p></sidenote>Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen <page identifier="/us/stat/40/373">373</page>(Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five) entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructing railroads, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 305.</p></sidenote> Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” $4,000,000, to continue available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted to expend from the appropriations for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle.</p></sidenote> construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, not exceeding $750, for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Seattle, Washington.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Care and custody of insane, Alaska: For care and custody of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane.</p></sidenote> persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $29,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>saint elizabeths hospital.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction, equipment, and furnishing of such semi-permanent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings.</p></sidenote> buildings at Saint Elizabeths Hospital as may be required to provide additional accommodations for patients, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized, during the existing emergency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers to other hospitals.</p></sidenote> to transfer to the various public hospitals for the care of the insane, patients of every class entitled to treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital and that are admitted on order of the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer from any military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of insane patients from military to other public hospitals.</p></sidenote> hospital to the nearest available public hospital for the care of the insane any insane patient who is in need of treatment, preference being given to the hospital nearest to the place of the patient’s enlistment. The superintendent of such public hospital shall possess<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of superintendents.</p></sidenote> the right to retain the aforementioned class of patients in his hospital in the same manner and to the same extent as now possessed by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, with the approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment from Congressional appropriations for Saint Elizabeths.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, shall transfer to the various public hospitals out of the various appropriations made by Congress for the support and treatment of patients in Saint Elizabeths Hospital a sum sufficient to pay for the support and treatment of patients sent to public hospitals as herein provided, based upon the per capita cost of maintenance in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, said payment not to exceed at any time the exact cost of support and treatment of such patients.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized to grant a revocable permit to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permit to use reclaimed, Anacostia Flats lands.</p></sidenote> the Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the use of such portions of land as are at present not under lease and such other portions thereof as leases thereof expire, of that portion of land lying along Anacostia Flats which has been reclaimed by the War Department and is valuable for farming purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interned persons and prisoners of war, under the jurisdiction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission of insane prisoners of war, etc.</p></sidenote> the War Department, who are or may become insane hereafter shall be entitled to admission for treatment to Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>columbia institution for the deaf.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Institution for the Deaf.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the removal of the college women’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New dormitory, etc.</p></sidenote> dormitory, and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $21,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/374">374</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POSTAL SERVICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading>Out of the Postal Revenues.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment shops.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary continuance at rented buildings.</p></sidenote>The Postmaster General is authorized to continue the rental of the buildings at First and K Streets, northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, known as the Post Office Department Annex, for the use of the Post Office Department, including the mail-bag repair shop and lock repair shop, at the rate of $32,000 per annum, until such time during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as the new equipment shops building now being constructed is ready for occupancy, and such sum as may be necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of third assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $22,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes and wrappers.</p></sidenote>For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $220,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity, lost domestic mail.</p></sidenote>For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $170,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of fourth assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipment of supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter at $1,200 per annum and nine requisition fillers, at $840 each per annum, for assignment in connection therewith, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food conservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for rent, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 274.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $650,000 for miscellaneous items, contained in section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for rent in the District of Columbia to the extent of not exceeding $15,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>federal horticultural board.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horticultural Board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pink bollworm of cotton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses for extermination, etc.</p></sidenote>On account of the menace to cotton culture in the United States arising from the existence of the pink bollworm in Mexico, the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to prevent the establishment and spread of such worm in Texas and other parts of the United States, is authorized to make surveys to determine its actual distribution in Mexico; to establish, in cooperation with the States concerned, a zone or zones free from cotton culture on or near the border of any State or States adjacent to Mexico; and to cooperate with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities in the extermination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, etc.</p></sidenote> of local infestations near the border of the United States. For rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for the employment of such persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, $250,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/375">375</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>Office of the Secretary: For an additional stenographer from October<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary’s Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional stenographer.</p></sidenote> first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $1,200 per annum, $900.</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of lighthouses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouses Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Lighthouses to pay additional compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay to draftsmen.</p></sidenote> to draftsmen employed on marine engineering work in the Bureau of Lighthouses, the pay of such draftsmen in no case to exceed the rate of $2,000 per annum, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aransas Pass Light Station, Texas: For repairing and rebuilding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aransas Pass Station, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> dwellings, outbuildings, and appurtenant structures damaged or destroyed in the hurricane of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of fisheries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alaska, general service: For an additional amount for protecting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska, general service.</p></sidenote> the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $35,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast and geodetic survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of a complete automatic sprinkler and alarm<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire protection of buildings.</p></sidenote> system for fire prevention in the buildings of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington, District of Columbia, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of necessary additional surveying instruments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying instruments.</p></sidenote> required in order to meet the extraordinary demands for greatly increased fieldwork incident to war conditions and to replenish the stock, $10,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>steam boat inspection service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboat Inspection Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two local inspectors, clerk hire, and contingent expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tampa, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 942.</p></sidenote> local board of steamboat inspectors, Tampa, Florida, authorized by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,925.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of standards.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standards Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Radio laboratory: For additional amount for the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Radio laboratory.</p></sidenote> fireproof laboratory building to provide space to be used for research and testing in radio communication, and to enable the Bureau of Standards to provide space and facilities for cooperative research and experimental work in radio communication by the War, Navy, Post Office, Treasury, and other departments, and for suitable aerials, $40,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> For two additional watchmen from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary’s office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen.</p></sidenote> October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $720 each per annum, $1,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commissioners of conciliation</inline>: To enable the Secretary of Labor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners of conciliation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 738.</p></sidenote> to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and traveling expenses, $100,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/376">376</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $7,566.</p></chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naturalization service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance to clerks of courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 171.</p></sidenote>For an additional amount for allotment to clerks of courts for clerical assistance in naturalization proceedings in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of amount forbidden.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen, $30,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the allotment for the foregoing purpose heretofore made from the appropriation of $275,000 for naturalization expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not be reduced during the said fiscal year:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All matter to be sent free of postage.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all mail matter, of whatever class, relating to naturalization, including duplicate papers required by law or regulation to be sent to the Bureau of Naturalization by clerks of State or Federal courts, addressed to the Department of Labor, or the Bureau of Naturalization, or to any official thereof, and indorsed “Official Business,” shall be transmitted free of postage, and by registered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for misuse.</p></sidenote>mail if necessary, and so marked:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That if any person shall make use of such indorsement to avoid payment of postage or registry fee on his or her private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of $300, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>standardization of first-aid methods.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standardizing first-aid methods.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of compilation of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 326.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of Labor to compile, edit, and prepare for publication, by industries, the material on first aid, in collaboration with the President’s Board for Standardization of First-Aid Methods in the United States, including the necessary temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers, and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $75 per month, $5,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>distribution of labor.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information, etc., to wage earners.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, in addition to existing facilities to furnish such information and to render such assistance in the employment of wage earners throughout the United States as may be deemed necessary in the prosecution of the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, and rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia, $250,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harry Lane.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fay to widow.</p></sidenote>To pay Lola A. Lane, widow of Honorable Harry Lane, late a Senator from the State of Oregon, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Russell Wrede.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for nineteen hundred and seventeen for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Russell Wrede, messenger to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce, from March thirteenth to April third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $1,200 per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/377">377</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is hereby given to expend not to exceed $250 of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inaugural ceremonies, 1917.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay for services.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1765/p314">R. S. sec. 1765, p. 314</ref>.</p></sidenote> appropriation of $35,000 to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies made in the Act approved February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, regardless of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate kitchens, etc.</p></sidenote> Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> of the Senate for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them from March fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,905.82.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The joint subcommittee heretofore appointed under Senate joint<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint Committee on Commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for report, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 387.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 25.</p></sidenote> resolution numbered sixty (public resolution numbered twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress), approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “Joint resolution creating a joint subcommittee from the membership of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to investigate the conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce, and the necessity of further legislation relating thereto, and defining the powers and duties of such subcommittee” be, and the same is, continued and is authorized to make its report to Congress on or before the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Daniel W. Comstock, late a Representative<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Daniel W. Comstock.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of Indiana, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote> per thousand, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance and repair of a motor truck for the use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor truck.</p></sidenote> the folding room, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items, etc.</p></sidenote> exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reporters of debates $500 each and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters and stenographers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> official stenographers to committees $300 each for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement of an oil portrait of Champ Clark, Speaker<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portrait of Speaker Champ Clark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1169.</p></sidenote> of the House of Representatives, $2,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.</p></sidenote> messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100.</chapeau>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/378">378</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>printing and binding.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding German patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for other countries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 174.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $20,000 for binding one set of German patents now in the Patent Office Library, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is also made available for binding in classified order the patents of other foreign countries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan American Union.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the International Union of American Republics, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $374,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 505.</p></sidenote>For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Three hundred, and which have not been appealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote>Under the War Department, $10,749.30;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, $2,599.42;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Department of Justice, $43.05;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $13,391.77, 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.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Court of Claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered Ninety-three and House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-eight, except the judgment in favor of the State of Massachusetts and the judgment in favor of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote>Under the Treasury Department, $1.95;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, $50,488.72;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, $10,772.24;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Post Office Department, $161.40;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $61,424.31.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-nine at its present session, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 853.</p></sidenote>$13,511; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary <page identifier="/us/stat/40/379">379</page>of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals.</p></sidenote> shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to appeal.</p></sidenote> the right of appeal shall have expired.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AUDITED CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Audited claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote> be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-four, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, $12.04.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, Public Health Service, $11.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, $182.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, $107,010.93.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, $379.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payments of judgments against internal revenue officers, $331,368.88.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $211.17.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Life-Saving Service, $40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operating supplies for public buildings, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $602.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operating supplies for public buildings, $31.63.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $214.76.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $44.01.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $9.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses of public buildings, $27.78.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $5,349.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men at Army division and department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor War Department.</p></sidenote> headquarters, $2,019.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $632.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $831.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, $39.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,263.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $84.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water and sewers at military posts, $17.68.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of arms, $10.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, $4.31.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $371.24.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/380">380</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, miscellaneous, $39.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, $1,053.93.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, $30.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Quartermaster Department, Marine Corps, $218.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $140.10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Naval Home, Philadelphia, $30.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $2,293.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $104.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $5,726.49.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 962.</p></sidenote>For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $6,939.96.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $2.50.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote>For surveying the public lands, $298.83.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian schools, support, $170.24.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school and agency buildings, $908.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,469.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $187.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Indian Service, $3.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees, $182.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, $39.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forbridge across San Juan River at Shiprock, Navajo Reservation, New Mexico (reimbursable), $880.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $943.86.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $66.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $7.84.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $37.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 89 cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc.. Departments.</p></sidenote>For salaries of Members and Delegates, House of Representatives, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $625.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment for holidays, Government Printing Office, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, $7.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For boundary line, Alaska and Canada and United States and Canada, 46 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $10.41.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $600.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Interstate Commerce Commission, $510.63.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/381">381</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $5.15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cooperative experiments in animal feeding and breeding, $96.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $20.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Forest Service, $577.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the food and drug Acts, $2.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $6.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $5,55.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $6.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of regulating immigration, $1.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For naturalization of aliens, 8 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, $15.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $18.15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $1.60.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shipment of supplies, $44.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $11.70.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnities, international registered mail, $164.43.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For parcel-post insurance, $2.83.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railroad transportation, $1,694.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star-route service, $2.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland mail transportation, $312.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For power-boat service, $350.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electric and cable car service, $707.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $218.83.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to assistant postmasters, $375,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel, $128.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For office appliances, $3.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $3.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separating mails, third and fourth class offices, $87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, first and second class post offices, $568.17.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $11.55.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Railway Mail Service, $112.53.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rural Delivery Service, $91.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For City Delivery Service, $3.61.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AUDITED CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Audited claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers..</p></sidenote> be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Eighty-nine, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of seamen, Public Health Service, $83.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For field investigations of public health, $5.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of Internal Revenue, $44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/40/382">382</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, $146,729.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, $4,886.89.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers,. $3,424.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $172.20.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,613.37.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $964.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $77.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses Quartermaster Department, $23.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $26,530.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical and hospital department, $120.42.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5.27.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, $1.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, Marine Corps, $131.32.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $45.88.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $5,574.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $4,484.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $95.03.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $95.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost clothing, $148.76.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, Naval Service, $1,587.57.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor Interior Department.</p></sidenote>For Geological Survey, $1.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For General Grant National Park, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 45 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rocky Mountain National Park, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2.43.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,043.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $158.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $20.09.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote>For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,925.37.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $55.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $46.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $11,055.93.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of convicts, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,183.90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Forest Service, $19.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $87.38.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/383">383</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $153.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 10 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inspection of prisons and prisoners, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $144.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,399.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $91.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $32.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $99.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $76.46.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnities, international registered mail, $117.57.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department,</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $148.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shipment of supplies, $43.01.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star-route service, $19.91.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $135.41.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railroad transportation, $528.73.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland-mail transportation, $197.29.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rural Delivery Service, $1.31.’</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel, $184.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twine and tying devices, $21.11.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For power-boat service, $15.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special-delivery service, fees, $1.04.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reimbursement for amount paid for loss of two boxes of supplies, and covered into the Treasury, $18.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That the appropriations contained herein under the Military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy appropriations available for existing emergencies.</p></sidenote> and Naval Establishments shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy contracts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances allowed on, during emergency.</p></sidenote> are authorized, during the period of the existing emergency, from appropriations available therefor to advance payments to contractors for supplies for their respective departments in amounts not exceeding thirty per centum of the contract price of such supplies: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such advances shall be made upon such terms as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, shall prescribe and they shall require adequate security for the protection of the Government for the payments so made.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content>That section five of the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive department employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer restrictions extended to independent establishments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 449.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, prohibiting the transfer of employees from one executive department to another, shall apply with equal force and effect to the transfer of employees from executive departments to independent establishments and vice versa and to the transfer of employees from one independent establishment to another: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Fleet Corporation included.</p></sidenote> That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>That no civil employee in any of the executive departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay under lump sum appropriations forbidden to employees transferred In one year.</p></sidenote> or other Government establishments, or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment, shall be employed hereafter and paid from a lump-sum appropriation in any other executive department or other Government establishment at an increased rate of compensation. <page identifier="/us/stat/40/384">384</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No increase in one year if employed in another department, etc.</p></sidenote>And no civil employee in any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment and who may be employed in another executive department or other Government establishment shall be granted an increase in compensation within the period of one year following such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Fleet Corporation included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer restrictions not repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 449.</p></sidenote>reemployment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this section shall not be construed to repeal section five of the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, which prohibits the transfer of employees from one department to another.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay allowed piecework employees,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of allowance.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in determining the right of employees to increased compensation as heretofore authorized by law at rates of five and ten per centum per annum for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, such employees as are employed on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, shall be entitled to receive, from July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, the increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum when the fixed rate of compensation for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and twelve days in said year would amount to less than $1,200, and at the rate of five per centum when not less than $1,200 and not more than <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable to annual per diem employees.</p></sidenote>$1,800: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this method of computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double salary restriction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia night and vacation schools not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 120, 582.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the naval appropriation Act, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not apply to teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia who are also employed as teachers of night schools and vacation schools.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 80: For the establishment of Northgate, in the State of North Dakota, as a port of entry for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>80</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>80.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the establishment of Northgate, in the State of North Dakota, as a port of entry for immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2203">S. 2203</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/65">Public, No. 65</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northgate, S. Dak., granted immediate transportation privileges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement, be, and are hereby, extended to the port of Northgate, in the State of North Dakota.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 81: Making further provision for the allotment of pay of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>81</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>81.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making further provision for the allotment of pay of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2883">S. 2883</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/66">Public, No. 66</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 981, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section sixteen of the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act for increasing the efficiency of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 896.</p></sidenote>Army of the United States, and for other purposes,” as amended by <page identifier="/us/stat/40/385">385</page>the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit, under such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extended to officers and enlisted men on active duty and civilians in military service abroad.</p></sidenote> regulations as he may prescribe, any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army, any retired officer or enlisted man of the Army on active duty, and any permanent civilian employee under the jurisdiction of the War Department on duty outside of the continental limits of the United States, to make allotments of his pay for the support of his wife, children, or dependent relatives, or for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper. All<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed for payments to designated allottees prior to notice of discontinuance.</p></sidenote> allotments of pay of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees that have been or shall be paid to designated allottees previous to the receipt by disbursing officer of notice of discontinuance of the same from the officer required by regulations to furnish such notice shall pass to the credit of the disbursing officer who has made or shall make such payments; and, if erroneous payment is made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of erroneous payments.</p></sidenote> because of the failure of an officer to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of War, the death of the grantor, or any fact which renders the allotment not payable, then the amount of such erroneous payment shall be collected by the Quartermaster General from the officer who fails to make such report, if such collection is practicable. Nothing herein shall be construed to invalidate allotments now<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing allotments valid.</p></sidenote> in force.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
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<dc:title>Chap. 82: To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at or near the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township eleven north, range six east.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>82</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>82.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge across Little River, in Poinsett County, Arkansas, at or near the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township eleven north, range six east.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2938">S. 2938</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/67">Public, No. 67</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Poinsett County, Arkansas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poinsett County, Ark., may bridge.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Little River, a tributary to Saint Francis River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> at or near the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township eleven north, range six east, fifth principal meridian, in Poinsett County, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 83: To prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>83</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>83.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3932">H. R. 3932</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/68">Public, No. 68</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That when the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Explosives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture, etc., restricted in time of war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1711.</p></sidenote> is at war it shall be unlawful to manufacture, distribute, store, use, or possess powder, explosives, blasting supplies, or ingredients thereof, in such manner as to be detrimental to the public safety, except as in this Act provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the words “explosive” and “explosives” when used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Explosive” and “explosives.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles included as.</p></sidenote> herein shall mean gun powders, powders used for blasting, all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuses, detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and any chemical compound or me<page identifier="/us/stat/40/386">386</page>chanical mixture that contains any oxidizing and combustible units, or other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonation of, or any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects, or of destroying life or limb, but shall not include small arms <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture for Government use, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote>or shotgun cartridges: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the manufacture, under the authority of the Government, of explosives for, their sale to or their possession by, the military or naval service of the United States of America.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Ingredients,”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials included as.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the word “ingredients” when used herein shall mean the materials and substances capable by combination of producing one or more of the explosives mentioned in section one hereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of term.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the word “person,” when used herein, shall include States, Territories, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and other dependencies of the United States, and municipal subdivisions thereof, individual citizens, firms, associations, societies and corporations of the United States and of other countries at peace with the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized possession, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after forty days after the passage and approval of this Act no person shall have in his possession or purchase, accept, receive, sell, give, barter or otherwise dispose of or procure <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ingredients in small quantities, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote>explosives, or ingredients, except as provided in this Act: <proviso><i>Provided, </i>That the purchase or possession of said ingredients when purchased or held in small quantities and not used or intended to be used in the manufacture of explosives are not subject to the provisions of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licensed use at mines, quarries, etc., for workmen allowed.</p></sidenote>Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the superintendent, foreman, or other duly authorized employee, at a mine, quarry, or other work, may, when licensed so to do, sell or issue, to any workman under him, such an amount of explosives, or ingredients, as may be required by that workman in the performance of his duties, and the workman may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote>purchase or accept the explosives, or ingredients, so sold or issued, but the person so selling or issuing same shall see that any unused explosives, or ingredients, are returned, and that no explosives, or ingredients, are taken by the workman to any point not necessary to the carrying on of his duties.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate transportation not affected.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That nothing contained herein shall apply to explosives or ingredients while being transported upon vessels or railroad cars in conformity with statutory law or Interstate Commerce Commission rules.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture without license forbidden.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after forty days after the passage of this Act no person shall manufacture explosives unless licensed so to do, as hereinafter provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information required from applicants and licensees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any licensee or applicant for license hereunder shall furnish such information regarding himself and his business, so far as such business relates to or is connected with explosives or ingredients <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secret processes excepted.</p></sidenote>at such time and in such manner as the Director of the Bureau of Mines, or his authorized representative, may request, excepting that those who have been or are at the time of the passage of tins Act regularly engaged in the manufacture of explosives shall not be compelled to disclose secret processes, costs, or other data unrelated to the distribution of explosives.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Itemized records to be kept by licensees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after forty days after the passage and approval of this Act every person authorized to sell, issue, or dispose of explosives shall keep a complete itemized and accurate record, showing each person to whom explosives are sold, given, bartered, or to whom or how otherwise disposed of, and the quantity and kind of explosives, and the date of each such sale, gift, barter, or other disposition; and this record shall be sworn to and furnished to the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/387">387</page>Director of the Bureau of Mines, or his authorized representatives, whenever requested.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<chapeau>That the Director of the Bureau of Mines is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of licenses.</p></sidenote> to issue licenses as follows:</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>Manufacturer’s license, authorizing the manufacture, possession,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturer’s.</p></sidenote> and sale of explosives and ingredients.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>Vendor’s license, authorizing the purchase, possession, and sale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vendor’s.</p></sidenote> of explosives or ingredients.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content>Purchaser’s license, authorizing the purchase and possession of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchaser’s.</p></sidenote> explosives and ingredients.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content>Foreman’s license, authorizing the purchase and possession of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreman’s.</p></sidenote> explosives and ingredients, and the sale and issuance of explosives and ingredients to workmen under the proviso to section five above.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content>Exporter’s license, authorizing the licensee to export explosives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exporter’s.</p></sidenote> but no such license shall authorize exportation in violation of any proclamation of the President issued under any Act of Congress.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content>Importer’s license, authorizing the licensee to import explosives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importer’s.</p></sidenote></content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<content>Analyst’s, educators, inventor’s, and investigator’s licenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc.</p></sidenote> authorizing the purchase, manufacture, possession, testing, and disposal of explosives and ingredients.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>That the Director of the Bureau of Mines shall issue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue by Director of Mines Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> licenses, upon application duly made, but only to citizens of the United States of America, and to the subjects or citizens of nations that are at peace with them, and to corporations, firms, and associations thereof, and he may, in his discretion, refuse to issue a license,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary refusal.</p></sidenote> when he has reason to believe, from facts of which he has knowledge or reliable information, that the applicant is disloyal or hostile to the United States of America, or that, if the applicant is a firm, association, society, or corporation, its controlling stockholders or members are disloyal or hostile to the United States of America. The director may, when he has reason to believe on like grounds that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation.</p></sidenote> any licensee is so disloyal or hostile, revoke any license issued to him. Any applicant to whom a license is refused or any licensee whose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals to Council of National Defense on refusal, etc.</p></sidenote> license is revoked by the said director may, at any time within thirty days after notification of the rejection of his application or revocation of his license, apply for such license or the cancellation of such revocation to the Council of National Defense, which shall make its order upon the director either to grant or to withhold the license.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That any person desiring to manufacture, sell, export,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sworn statement required in.</p></sidenote> import, store, or purchase explosives or ingredients, or to keep explosives or ingredients in his possession, shall make application for a license, which application shall state, under oath, the name of the applicant; the place of birth; whether native born or naturalized citizen of the United States of America ; if a naturalized citizen, the date and place of naturalization; business in which engaged; the amount and kind of explosives or ingredients which during the past six months have been purchased, disposed of, or used by him; the amount and kind of explosives or ingredients now on hand ; whether sales, if any, have been made to jobbers, wholesalers, retailers, or consumers; the kind of license to be issued, and the kind and amount of explosives or ingredients to be authorized by the license ; and such further information as the Director of the Bureau of Mines may, by rule, from time to time require.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Applications for vendor’s, purchaser’s, or foreman’s licenses shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers authorized to administer oaths.</p></sidenote> be made to such officers of the State, Territory, or dependency having jurisdiction in the district within which the explosives or ingredients are to be sold or used, and having the power to administer oaths as may be designated by the Director of the Bureau of Mines, who shall issue the same in the name of such director. Such officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, records, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be entitled to receive from the applicant a fee of 25 cents for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/388">388</page>each license issued. They shall keep an accurate record of all licenses issued in manner and form to be prescribed by the Director of the Bureau of Mines, to whom they shall make reports from time to time as may be by rule issued by the director required. The necessary blanks and blank records shall be furnished to such officers by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of licensing Officers, etc.</p></sidenote>said director. Licensing officers shall be subject to removal for cause by the Director of the Bureau of Mines, and all licenses issued <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 387.</p></sidenote>by them shall be subject to revocation by the director as provided in section eleven.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Explosives inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment author.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint in each State and in Alaska an explosives inspector, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the Director of the Bureau of Mines, to see that this Act is faithfully executed and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, details, etc.</p></sidenote>observed. Each such inspector shall receive a salary of $2,400 per annum. He may at any time be detailed for service by said director in the District of Columbia or in any State, Territory, or dependency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative employees.</p></sidenote>of the United States. All additional employees required in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be appointed by the Director of the Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified unlawful acts connected with licenses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful for any person to represent himself as having a license issued under this Act, when he has not such a license, or as having a license different in form or in conditions from the one which he in fact has, or without proper authority make, cause to be made, issue or exhibit anything purporting or pretending to be such license, or intended to mislead any person into believing it is such a license, or to refuse to exhibit his license to airy peace officer, Federal or State, or representative of the Bureau of Mines.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized divulging of information forbidden.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no inspector or other employee of the Bureau of Mines shall divulge any information obtained in the course of his duties under this Act regarding the business of any licensee, or applicant for license, without authority from the applicant for license or from the Director of the Bureau of Mines.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive marking of premises.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That every person authorized under this Act to manufacture or store explosives or ingredients shall clearly mark and define the premises on which his plant or magazine may be and shall conspicuously display thereon the words “Explosives—Keep Off.”</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized presence at premises, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no person, without the consent of the owner or his authorized agents, except peace officers, the Director of the Bureau of Mines and persons designated by him in writing, shall be in or upon any plant or premises on which explosives are manufactured or stored, or be in or upon any magazine premises on which explosives <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharging firearms, etc.</p></sidenote>are stored; nor shall any person discharge any firearms or throw or place any explosives or inflammable bombs at, on, or against any such plant or magazine premises, or cause the same to be done.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective rules, etc., to be made.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Director of the Bureau of Mines is hereby authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying into effect this Act, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or any rules or regulations made thereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations to be made of all explosions and fires.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Director of the Bureau of Mmes is hereby authorized to investigate all explosions and fires which may occur in mines, quarries, factories, warehouses, magazines, houses, cars, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Localities, etc., specified.</p></sidenote>boats, conveyances, and all places in which explosives or the ingredients thereof are manufactured, transported, stored, or used, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of findings, etc.</p></sidenote>and shall, in his discretion, report his findings, in such manner as he may deem fit, to the proper Federal or State authorities, to the end that if such explosion has been brought about by a willful act the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/389">389</page>person or persons causing such act may be proceeded against and brought to justice; or, if said explosion has been brought about by accidental means, that precautions may be taken to prevent similar accidents from occurring. In the prosecution of such investigations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority conferred on employees.</p></sidenote> the employees of the Bureau of Mines are hereby granted the authority to enter the premises where such explosion or fire has occurred, to examine plans, books, and papers, to administer oaths to and to examine all witnesses and persons concerned, without let or hindrance on the part of the owner, lessee, operator, or agent thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num>
<content>That the Director of the Bureau of Mines, with the approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utilization of Federal, State, etc., agencies.</p></sidenote> of the President, is hereby authorized to utilize such agents, agencies, and all officers of the United States and of the several States, Territories, dependencies, and municipalities thereof, and the District of Columbia, in the execution of this Act, and all agents,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority conferred for official acts.</p></sidenote> agencies, and all officers of the United States and of the several<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for all expenses.</p></sidenote> States and Territories, dependencies, and municipalities thereof, and the District of Columbia, shall hereby have full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of this Act when acting by the direction of the Bureau of Mines.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num>
<content>That for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and including supplies, equipment, expenses of traveling and subsistence, and for the purchase and hire of animal-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and upkeep of same, and for every other expense incident to the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for motor vehicles.</p></sidenote> exceed $10,000 shall be expended in the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 84: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across Flint River, in the State of Georgia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>84</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 389</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>84.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across Flint River, in the State of Georgia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4232">H. R. 4232</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/69">Public, No. 69</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flint River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Mitchell County or Baker County, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 52, amended.</p></sidenote> and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by Act of Congress approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be built across the Flint River, Georgia, by Mitchell County, or by Baker County, Georgia, jointly or separately, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date hereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 85: To provide for the reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States for property lost or destroyed in such service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>85</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 389</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>85.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States for property lost or destroyed in such service.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5647">H. R. 5647</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/70">Public, No. 70</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Paymaster General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for losses of personal property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications.</p></sidenote> of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to reimburse such officers, enlisted men, and others in the naval service of the United States as may have suffered, or may hereafter suffer, loss or destruction of or damage to their personal property and effects in the naval service due to the operations of war or by shipwreck or other marine disaster when such loss, destruction, or damage was without <page identifier="/us/stat/40/390">390</page>fault or negligence on the part of the claimant, or where the private property so lost, destroyed, or damaged was shipped on board an unseaworthy vessel by order of an officer authorized to give such order or direct such shipment, or where it appears that the loss, destruction, or damage of or to the private property of the claimant was in consequence of his having given his attention to the saving of the lives of others or of property belonging to the United States which was in danger at the same time and under similar circumstances. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles limited.</p></sidenote>And the liability of the Government under this Act shall be limited to such articles of personal property as the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, with reference to the personnel of the Navy, or the major general commandant of the Marine Corps, with reference to the personnel of that corps, in his discretion, shall decide to be reasonable, useful, and proper for such officer, enlisted man, or other person while engaged in the public service in line of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official certificate.</p></sidenote>duty, and the certificate of said chief of bureau or major general commandant, as the case may be, shall be sufficient voucher for and shall be final as to all matters necessary to the establishment and payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of officer upon claims final.</p></sidenote>or settlement of any claim filed hereunder; and the action of the said chief of bureau or major general commandant, as the case may be, upon all claims arising under this Act shall be final, and no right to prosecute a claim or action in the Court of Claims or in any other court of the United States, or before any accounting officer of the United States, or elsewhere, except as herein provided, shall accrue <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to Navy claims</p></sidenote>to any person by virtue of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the liability of the Government under this Act shall be limited to such articles of personal property as are required by the United States Naval Regulations and in force at the time of loss or destruction for such officers, petty officers, seamen, or others engaged in the public service in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps claims.</p></sidenote>line of duty:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That with reference to claims of persons in the Marine Corps filed under the terms of this Act the paymaster of the Marine Corps shall make the reimbursement in money, and the quartermaster of the Marine Corps shall make the reimbursement in kind herein provided for:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for presenting claims.</p></sidenote>That all claims now existing under this Act shall be presented within two years from the passage hereof and not thereafter; and all such claims hereafter arising shall be presented within two years from the occurrence of the loss, destruction, or damage:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval service recognized.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That the term “in the naval service,” as herein employed, shall be held to include service performed on board any vessel, whether of the Navy or not, provided the claimant is serving on such vessel pursuant to the orders of duly constituted naval authority:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submission of claims.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That all claimants under this Act shall be required to submit their claims in writing and under oath to the said Chief of the Bureau of Navigation or major general commandant, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of prior claims final.</p></sidenote>as the case may be:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That claims arising in the manner indicated in this Act and which have been settled under the terms of previously existing law shall be regarded as finally determined and no other or further right of recovery under the provisions hereof shall accrue to persons who have submitted such claims as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s288–290/p48">R. S., secs. 288–290, p. 48</ref>, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 962, repealed.</p></sidenote>aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That sections two hundred and eighty-eight, two hundred and eighty-nine, and two hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, and the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement in kind or money.</p></sidenote>sixty-two), are hereby repealed:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That reimbursement for loss, destruction, or damage sustained and determined as herein provided shall be made in kind for such articles as are customarily issued to the service and shall be made in money for other articles at the valuation thereof at the time of their loss, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified appropriations chargeable therefor.</p></sidenote>destruction, or damage:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That in cases involving persons in the Navy reimbursement in money shall be made from the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/391">391</page>appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” and reimbursement in kind shall be made from the appropriation “Outfits on first enlistment,” and in cases involving persons in the Marine Corps reimbursement in money shall be made from the appropriation “Pay, Marine Corps,” and reimbursement in kind shall be made from the appropriation “ Clothing, Marine Corps,” respectively, current at the time the claim covering such loss, damage, or destruction is paid:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions applicable to.</p></sidenote> That the provisions of this Act shall apply to the personnel of the Coast Guard in like manner as to the personnel of the Navy, whether the Coast Guard is operating under the Treasury Department or operating as a part of the Navy, and all of the duties, which, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of officers.</p></sidenote> this Act, devolve upon the major general commandant of the Marine Corps with reference to the personnel of that corps, shall devolve upon the captain commandant of the Coast Guard, and in cases involving persons in the Coast Guard reimbursement in money shall be made by a disbursing officer of the Coast Guard from the appropriation “Coast Guard” and reimbursement in kind shall be made by the captain commandant from the appropriation “Coast Guard.”</proviso>
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<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 86: Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>86</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>86.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for an amendment to section twenty-two hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, allowing homestead and other public land affidavits to be taken before the military commander of any person engaged in military or naval service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5082">H. R. 5082</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/71">Public, No. 71</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That during the continuance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavits of persons in service during the war may be made before officer of armed force.</p></sidenote> of the present war with Germany, and until his discharge from service, any man serving in the armed forces of the United States, who, prior to the beginning of his services was a settler, an applicant, or entryman under the land laws of the United States, or who has, prior to enlistment, filed a contest, with the view of exercising preference right of entry therefor, may make any affidavit required by law or regulation of the department, affecting such application, entry, or contest, or necessary to the making of entry in the case of the succesful termination of such contest awarding him preference right of entry, before his commanding officer as provided in section twenty-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s2293/p421">R. S., sec. 2293, p. 421.</ref></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal effect, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which affidavits shall be as binding in law and with like penalties as if taken before the Register of the United States Land Office.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 87: Amending the Act to increase the limit of the cost of certain public buildings, and so forth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>87</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>87.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending the Act to increase the limit of the cost of certain public buildings, and so forth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6094">H. R. 6094</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/72">Public, No. 72</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the public buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Durant, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of funds for public building at, extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 875, amended.</p></sidenote> Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes” (Public Numbered four hundred and thirty-two), and all other authorizations and appropriations passed in pursuance thereof for the construction of a post office at Durant, Oklahoma, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to <page identifier="/us/stat/40/392">392</page>authorize and appropriate the use of funds apportioned to Durant, Oklahoma, for the construction and equipment of a United States post office and other Government offices at Durant, Oklahoma.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 88: Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter, except the coastwise trade with Alaska.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>88</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>88.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Giving the United States Shipping Board power to suspend present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry and foreign-built vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise trade during the present war and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter, except the coastwise trade with Alaska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6175">H. R. 6175</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/73">Public, No. 73</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coastwise trade permitted to registered foreign-built vessels, etc., during the war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the present war with Germany and for a period of one hundred and twenty days thereafter the United States Shipping Board may, if in its judgment the interests of the United States require, suspend the present provisions of law and permit vessels of foreign registry, and foreign-built<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 562; Vol. 38, p. 698.</p></sidenote> vessels admitted to American registry under the Act of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to engage in the coastwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits required.</p></sidenote> trade of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no such vessel shall engage in the coastwise trade except upon a permit issued by the United States Shipping Board, which permit shall limit or define the scope of the trade and the time of such employment:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference to American owned, etc.</p></sidenote> That in issuing permits the board shall give preference to vessels of foreign registry owned, leased, or chartered by citizens of the United States or corporations thereof:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska trade not included.</p></sidenote>That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the coastwise trade with Alaska or between Alaskan ports.</proviso>
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</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 89: To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>89</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>89.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6306">H. R. 6306</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/74">Public, No. 74</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six months’ gratuity to beneficiaries of officers, etc., dying in service extended to retired officers, etc., on active duty in the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 329, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 938.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the paragraph of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, which provides for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow or children or other previously designated dependent relative of a deceased officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “on the active list of the Navy or Marine Corps” a comma and the words “or of any retired officer or enlisted man serving on active duty during the continuance of the present war.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 90: Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>90</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>90.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6310">H. R. 6310</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/75">Public, No. 75</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mahoning River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trumbull Steel Company may bridge, Warren, Ohio.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Trumbull Steel Company and its <page identifier="/us/stat/40/393">393</page>successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, near the city of Warren, in the county of Trumbull, in the State of Ohio, in accordance with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 91: To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>91</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>91.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6350">H. R. 6350</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/76">Public, No. 76</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula>
<i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That during the existing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional appointments in lower grades of Officers’ Reserve Corps and National Guard staff corps during the war.</p></sidenote> emergency the President is authorized, in addition to the grades now authorized, to appoint in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the National Army in the grades of second and first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps; second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps and Signal Corps; second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain in The Adjutant General’s Department, such citizens as shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified for appointment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">During the existing emergency no member of the Officers’ Reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limit for discharge suspended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 190.</p></sidenote> Corps shall be discharged by reason of reaching the age limits provided in section thirty-seven of the national defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 92: To promote the efficiency of the United States Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>92</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>92.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To promote the efficiency of the United States Navy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6362">H. R. 6362</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/77">Public, No. 77</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in construing the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prohibitions on intoxicants, bawdy houses, etc., extended to places under naval Jurisdiction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 82, 83.</p></sidenote> of sections twelve and thirteen of the selective-draft Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the word “Army” shall extend to and include “Navy”; the word “military” shall include “naval”; “Article of War” shall include “Articles for the Government of the Navy”; the words “camps, station, cantonment, camp, fort, post, officers’ or enlisted men’s club,” in section twelve, and “camp, station, fort, post, cantonment, training, or mobilization place,” in section thirteen, shall include such places under naval jurisdiction as the President may prescribe, and the powers therein conferred upon the Secretary of War with regard to the military service are hereby conferred upon the Secretary of the Navy with regard to the naval service.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 93: To provide for the service of officers of auxiliary naval forces on naval courts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>93</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>93.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the service of officers of auxiliary naval forces on naval courts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6363">H. R. 6363</ref>. ]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/78">Public, No. 78</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That when actively serving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval courts martial, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers of auxiliary forces to serve on, in time of war, etc.</p></sidenote> under the Navy Department in time of war or during the existence of an emergency, pursuant to law, as a part of the naval forces of the United States, commissioned officers of the Naval Reserve Force, Marine Corps Reserve, National Naval Volunteers, Naval Militia, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/394">394</page>Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service are hereby empowered to serve on, naval courts-martial and deck courts under such regulations necessary for the proper administration of justice and in the interests of the services involved, as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p></sidenote>Navy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page five hundred and fifty-six), as reads as follows:</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<quotedContent><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Volunteers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of officers on courts martial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 597, repealed.</p></sidenote>“That when serving under the call of the President, officers of said Volunteers may serve on courts-martial for the trial of officers and men of the United States Naval or Naval Militia service, or of said Volunteers, but in the cases of courts-martial convened for the trial of officers or enlisted men of the United States Navy or Marine Corps, the majority of the members shall be officers of the Regular Naval service, and officers and enlisted men of the said Volunteers may be tried by courts-martial, the members of which are members of the Regular Naval service, or of said Volunteers, or any or all of the same,”</quotedContent> is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Militia.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That so much of the Naval Militia Act of February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page two hundred and eighty-three), as reads as follows:</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<quotedContent><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of officers on courts martial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 285, repealed.</p></sidenote>“That when in the service of the United States officers of the Naval Militia may serve on courts-martial for the trial of officers and men of the Regular or Naval Militia service, but in the cases of courts-martial convened for the trial of officers of the Regular service, the majority of the members shall be officers of the Regular service; and officers and men of the Naval Militia may be tried by courts-martial the members of which are officers of the Regular or Naval Militia service, or both,”</quotedContent> is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conflicting laws repealed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That any Act or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 94: Authorizing appointment of chaplains at large for the United States Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>94</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 394</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>94.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing appointment of chaplains at large for the United States Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2527">S. 2527</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/79">Public, No. 79</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains at large.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number increased during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 176.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President may appoint for service during the present emergency not exceeding twenty chaplains at large for the United States Army representing religious sects not recognized in the apportionment of chaplains now <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Only citizens eligible.</p></sidenote>recognized by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be eligible to such appointment unless he be at the time of his appointment a citizen of the United States.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 95: To prevent the publication of inventions by the grant of patents that might be detrimental to the public safety or convey useful information to the enemy, to stimulate invention, and provide adequate protection to owners of patents, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>95</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 394</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>95.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prevent the publication of inventions by the grant of patents that might be detrimental to the public safety or convey useful information to the enemy, to stimulate invention, and provide adequate protection to owners of patents, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2531">S. 2531</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/80">Public, No. 80</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withheld during war if disclosure of invention detrimental, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 422.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That whenever during a time when the United States is at war the publication of an invention by the granting of a patent might, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Patents, be detrimental to the public safety or defense or might assist the enemy or endanger the successful prosecution of the war he may order that the invention be kept secret and withhold the grant of a patent until the termination of the war: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Held to be abandoned if published, etc.</p></sidenote>the invention disclosed in the application for said patent may be <page identifier="/us/stat/40/395">395</page>held abandoned upon it being established before or by the commissioner that in violation of said order said invention has been published or that an application for a patent therefor has been filed in a foreign country by the inventor or his assigns or legal representatives, without the consent or approval of the Commissioner of Patents, or under a license of the Secretary of Commerce as provided by law.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">When an applicant whose patent is withheld as herein provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation if invention tendered to the Government by patentee.</p></sidenote> and who faithfully obeys the order of the Commissioner of Patents above referred to shall tender his invention to the Government of the United States for its use, he shall, if and when he ultimately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized.</p></sidenote> received a patent, have the right to sue for compensation in the Court of Claims, such right to compensation to begin from the date of the use of the invention by the Government.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 96: Granting the consent of Congress to the Wolf Creek Lumber Company to maintain a bridge already constructed across Tug River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>96</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>96.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Wolf Creek Lumber Company to maintain a bridge already constructed across Tug River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2663">S. 2663</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/81">Public, No. 81</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tug River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wolf Creek Lumber Company may operate, etc., bridge across, Kermit, W. Va.</p></sidenote> is hereby granted to the Wolf Creek Lumber Company, and its successors and assigns, to maintain and operate, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, a bridge and approaches thereto<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction approved.</p></sidenote> already constructed across the Tug River at or near Wolf Creek near Kermit, West Virginia, in the county of Mingo, in the State of West Virginia, which bridge is hereby declared to have been constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 97: To amend sections twenty-four and two hundred and fifty-six of the Judicial Code, relating to the jurisdiction of the district courts, so as to save to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>97</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>97.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend sections twenty-four and two hundred and fifty-six of the Judicial Code, relating to the jurisdiction of the district courts, so as to save to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2916">S. 2916</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/82">Public, No. 82</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That clause three of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial Code.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1091, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction in admiralty and maritime causes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extended to State workmen’s compensation laws.</p></sidenote> twenty-four of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows;<quotedContent>
<clause class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<content>Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State; of all seizures on land or waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; of all prizes brought into the United States; and of all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize.”</content>
</clause>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That clause three of section two hundred and fifty-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exclusive jurisdiction of United States courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1161, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admiralty and maritime causes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State workmen’s compensation laws added.</p></sidenote> of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows:<quotedContent>
<clause class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num>
<content>Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen’s compensation law of any State.”</content>
</clause></quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 98: Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the State of North Carolina two brass cannon, with carriage.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>98</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/396">396</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>98.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate to the State of North Carolina two brass cannon, with carriage.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2920">S. 2920</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/83">Public, No. 83</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete cannon granted to, for McConnell Monument, Carthage.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the State of North Carolina two brass or bronze cannon, with carriage, and suitable outfit of cannon balls, condemned or not needed for present service, to be placed at the foot of the monument now being erected at Carthage, North Carolina, in honor of James R. McConnell, an American aviator, who was killed while flying for France.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 99: Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>99</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>99.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River between the cities of Little Rock and Argenta.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2937">S. 2937</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/84">Public, No. 84</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pulaski County, Ark., may bridge, Little Rock.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted for the county of Pulaski, in the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Arkansas River at the city of Little Rock on the site now occupied by the free highway bridge constructed by said county in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in accordance with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 100: Granting the consent of Congress to the city of El Paso, Texas, to construct a bridge across the Rao Grande River within or near the city limits of El Paso, Texas, such construction to be made with the consent and cooperation of the Republic of Mexico.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>100</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>100.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the city of El Paso, Texas, to construct a bridge across the Rao Grande River within or near the city limits of El Paso, Texas, such construction to be made with the consent and cooperation of the Republic of Mexico.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2947">S. 2947</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/85">Public, No. 85</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">El Paso, Tex., may bridge.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the city of El Paso, in the State of Texas, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation within or near the city limits of El Paso, Texas, in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, such construction to be made only with the consent and cooperation of the Republic of Mexico, and such bridge to be free of any toll.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent, etc., of Mexico required.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commencement, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this act shall be null and void unless the construction of said bridge is commenced within one year and completed within five years from the date of approval hereof.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 101: To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>101</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/397">397</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>101.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4897">H. R. 4897</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/86">Public, No. 86</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That during the existing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency promotions in Medical Corps of, and National Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 171.</p></sidenote>emergency first lieutenants in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army and of the National Guard shall be eligible to promotion as captain upon such examination as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Hereafter the Dental Corps of the Army shall consist of commissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dental Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personnel, etc., modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 173, amended.</p></sidenote>officers of the same grade and proportionally distributed among such grades as are now or may be hereafter provided by law for the Medical Corps, who shall have the rank, pay, promotion and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the Medical Corps, including the right to retirement as in the case of other officers, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number authorized.</p></sidenote>there shall be one dental officer for every thousands of the total strength of the Regular Army authorized from time to time by law: <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That dental examining and review boards shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examining boards.</p></sidenote>consist of one officer of the Medical Corps and two officers of the Dental Corps:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That immediately following the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recommissions to present officers.</p></sidenote>approval of this Act all dental surgeons then in active service shall be recommissioned in the Dental Corps in the grades herein authorized in the order of their seniority and without loss of pay or allowances or of relative rank in the Army:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That no dental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmation required.</p></sidenote>surgeon shall be recommissioned who has not been confirmed by the Senate.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">All regulations concerning the enlistment of medical students in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of students in college course.</p></sidenote>the Enlisted Reserve Corps and their continuance in their college course while subject to call to active service, shall apply similarly to dental students.</p>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 102: To amend section fifteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>102</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>102.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section fifteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5646">H. R. 5646</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/87">Public, No. 87</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section fifteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1585/p271">R. S., sec. 1585, p. 271, amended</ref>.</p></sidenote>and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1585"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 1585. </num>
<content class="inline">Forty cents shall in all cases be deemed the commutation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ration commutation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction after January 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>price of the Navy ration: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, <i>however</i>, That after January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the commutation price shall not exceed the average cost of the ration during the preceding six months, not to exceed 40 cents.</proviso>
</content></section>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 103: To establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>103</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>103.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To establish certain new ratings in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5648">H. R. 5648</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/88">Public, No. 88</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the ratings of engineman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New ratings in artificer branch.</p></sidenote>first class, engineman, second class; blacksmith, first class, blacksmith, second class; coppersmith, first class, coppersmith, second class; pattern maker, first class, pattern maker, second class; molder, first class, molder, second class; chief special mechanic and special mechanic, first class, be, and they are hereby, established in the artificer branch of the Navy with the following rates of base pay <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Base pay.</p></sidenote>per month: Engineman, first class, $45; engineman, second class, $40; blacksmith, first class, $65; blacksmith, second class, $50; copper<page identifier="/us/stat/40/398">398</page>smith, first class, $65; coppersmith, second class, $50; pattern maker, first class $65; pattern maker, second class, $50 ; molder, first class, $65;molder, second class, $50; chief special mechanic, $127; special <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Base pay increases.</p></sidenote>mechanic, first class, $80: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the base pay of machinists’ mates, second class, and water tenders be, and it is hereby, increased <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subject to service Increase, etc.</p></sidenote>from $40 to $45 per month:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That all the aforesaid rates of pay shall be subject to such increases of pay and allowances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc., regulations to be proscribed.</p></sidenote>as are, or may hereafter be, authorized by law for enlisted men of the Navy:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That appointments or enlistments in the said ratings may be made from enlisted men in the Navy or from civil life, respectively, and the qualifications of candidates for any of said ratings shall be determined in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe</proviso>
.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 104: To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>104</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 398</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>104.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5918">H. R. 5918</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/89">Public, No. 89</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavalry may serve as Field Artillery or Infantry during existing emergency.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the present emergency the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reorganization as Cavalry afterwards.</p></sidenote>Cavalry as he may designate: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That immediately after the termination of the existing emergency such regiments shall be reorganized as Cavalry regiments in accordance with the prescribed organization of such regiments.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 105: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>105</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 398</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>105.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5723">H. R. 5723</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/90">Public No. 90</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 711, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 102, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<article>
<num value="I" class="centered">“Article I.</num>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">“Section</inline> 1. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau established in Treasury Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That there is established in the Treasury Department a Bureau to be known as the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the director of which shall receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Divisions created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner for each.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 102.</p></sidenote>“ That there be in such bureau a Division of Marine and Seamen’s Insurance and a Division of Military and Naval Insurance in charge of a commissioner of Marine and Seamen’s Insurance and a commissioner of Military and Naval Insurance, respectively, each of whom shall receive a salary of $4,000 per annum.”</p>
</content>
</section>
</article>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New sections.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 712, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That such Act of September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended, is hereby amended by adding new sections, as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine and seamen’s insurance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 711, 712.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 102.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That sections two to seven, inclusive, and section nine, shall be construed to refer only to the Division of Marine and Seamen’s Insurance.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/399">399</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">That the director, subject to the general direction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative, etc., powers conferred on director.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 555.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury, shall administer, execute, and enforce the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose have full power and authority to make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, necessary or appropriate to carry out its purposes, and shall decide all questions arising under the Act, except as otherwise provided in sections five and four hundred and five. Whereever <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote>under any provision or provisions of the Act regulations are directed or authorized to be made, such regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, shall or may be made by the director, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The director <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure, etc.</p></sidenote>shall adopt reasonable and proper rules to govern the procedure of the divisions, to regulate the matter of the compensation, if any, but in no case to exceed ten per centum, to be paid to claim agents and attorneys for services in connection with any of the matters provided for in articles two, three, and four, and to regulate and provide <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 102.</p></sidenote>for the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence and the method of taking and furnishing the same in order to establish the right to benefits of allowance, allotment, compensation, or insurance provided for in this Act, the forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to such benefits, the method of making investigations and medical examinations, and the manner and form of adjudications and awards.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content class="inline">That the bureau and its divisions shall have such deputies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote>assistants, actuaries, clerks, and other employees as may be from time to time provided by Congress. The bureau shall, by arrangement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical services.</p></sidenote>with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, make use of the services of surgeons in the Army and Navy. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory board to assist in death and disability insurance.</p></sidenote>establish an advisory board consisting of three members skilled in the practice of insurance against death or disability for the purpose of assisting the Division of Military and Naval Insurance in fixing premium rates and in the adjustment of claims for losses under the contracts of insurance provided for in article four and in adjusting claims for compensation under article three; compensation for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>persons so appointed to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not to exceed $ a day each while actually employed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purposes of this Act, the director, commissioners, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers to secure testimony, etc.</p></sidenote>and deputy commissioners shall have power to issue subpoenas for and compel the attendance of witnesses within a radius of one hundred miles, to require the production of books, papers, documents, and other evidence, to administer oaths and to examine witnesses upon any matter within the jurisdiction of the bureau. The director may obtain such information and such reports from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance from departments, etc.</p></sidenote>officials and employees of the departments of the Government of the United States and of the States as may be agreed upon by the heads of the respective departments. In case of disobedience <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid from district courts.</p></sidenote>to a subpoena, the bureau may invoke the aid of any district court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, and such court, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on, may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any officer, agent, or employee of any corporation or other person, issue an order requiring such corporation or other person to appear before the bureau, or to give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. Any person so required to attend <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p></sidenote>as a witness shall be allowed and paid the same fees and mileage as are paid witnesses in the district courts of the United States.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/400">400</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual estimates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the director shall submit annually to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates of the appropriations necessary for the work of the bureau.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for salaries, expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $100,000, for the payment of all expenses incident to the work authorized under this Act, including salaries of the director and commissioners and of such deputies, assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, traveling expenses, rent and equipment of offices, typewriters and exchange of same, purchase of law books and books of reference, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and all other necessary expenses. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees from civil service eligibles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>With the exception of the director, the commissioners, and such special experts as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of the work of the bureau, all employees of the bureau shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote>with the civil-service law. Such fees, allowances, and salaries shall be the same as are paid for similar services in other departments of the Government.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for family allowances.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $141,000,000, to be known as the military and naval family allowance appropriation, for the payment of the family allowances provided by Article II. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from.</p></sidenote>Payments out of this appropriation shall be made upon and in accordance with awards by the Commissioner of the Division of Military and Naval Insurance.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for compensation, funerals, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $12,150,000, to be known as the military and naval compensation appropriation, for the payment of the compensation, funeral expenses, services, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from.</p></sidenote>supplies provided by Article III. Payments out of this appropriation shall be made upon and in accordance with awards by the director.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for insurance.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $23,000,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Premiums credited hereto.</p></sidenote>to be known as the military and naval insurance appropriation. All premiums that may be collected for the insurance provided by the Provisions of Article IV shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from.</p></sidenote>“Such sum, including all premium payments, is hereby made available for the payment of the liabilities of the United States incurred under contracts of insurance made under the provisions of Article IV. Payments from this appropriation shall be made upon and in accordance with awards by the director.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay deposit fund to be set aside.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 403.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That there shall be set aside as a separate fund in the Treasury, to be known as the military and naval pay deposit fund, all sums held out of pay as provided by section two hundred and three of this Act. Such fund, including all additions, is hereby made <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest appropriated for.</p></sidenote>available for the payment of the sums so held and deposited, with interest, as provided in section two hundred and three, and the amount necessary to pay interest is hereby appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marriage evidence required.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That for the purpose of this amendatory Act the marriage of the claimant to the person on account of whom the claim is made shall be shown—</chapeau>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">“(1) </num>
<content class="inline">By a duly verified copy of a public or church record; or</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“(2) </num>
<content class="inline">By the affidavit of the clergyman or magistrate who officiated; or</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“(3) </num>
<content class="inline">By the testimony of two or more eyewitnesses to the ceremony; or</content>
</paragraph>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/401">401</page>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“(4) </num>
<content class="inline">By a duly verified copy of the church record of baptism of the children; or</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5">“(5) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">By the testimony of two or more witnesses who know that the parties lived together as husband and wife, and were recognized as such, and who shall state how long, within their knowledge, such relation continued: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That marriages, except such as are mentioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of legality by law of domicile.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4705/p91">R. S., sec. 4705, p. 916</ref>.</p></sidenote>in section forty-seven hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall be proven in compensation or insurance cases to be legal marriages according to the law of the place where the parties resided at the time of marriage or at the time when the right to compensation or insurance accrued; and the open and notorious illicit cohabitation of a widow who is a claimant shall operate to terminate her right to compensation or insurance from the commencement of such cohabitation:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That for the purpose of the administration <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presumption accepted.</p></sidenote>of Article II of this Act marriage shall be conclusively presumed, in the absence of proof, that there is a legal spouse living, if the man and woman have lived together in the openly acknowledged relation of husband and wife during the two years immediately preceding the date of the declaration of war, or the date of enlistment or of entrance into or employment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States if subsequent to such declaration.”</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">In Articles II, III, and IV of this Act unless the context otherwise <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms construed.</p></sidenote>requires—</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">“(1) </num>
<chapeau>The term ‘child’ includes—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Child.”</p></sidenote></chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“(a) </num>
<content class="inline">A legitimate child.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<content class="inline">A child legally adopted more than six months before the enactment of this amendatory Act or before enlistment or entrance into or employment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States, whichever of these dates is the later.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“(c) </num>
<content class="inline">A stepchild, if a member of the man’s household.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">“(d) </num>
<content class="inline">An illegitimate child, but, as to the father, only, if acknowledged by instrument in writing signed by him, or if he has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute to such child’s support, and if such child, if born after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall have been born in the United States, or in its insular possessions.</content>
</level>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“(2) </num>
<content class="inline">The term ‘grandchild’ means a child as above defined of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Grandchild.”</p></sidenote>child as above defined.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“(3) </num>
<content class="inline">Except as used in section four hundred and one and in section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>four hundred and two the terms ‘ child ’ and ‘ grandchild ’ are limited to unmarried persons either (a) under eighteen years of age, or (b) of any age, if insane, idiotic, or otherwise permanently helpless.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“(4) </num>
<content class="inline">The term ‘parent’ includes a father, mother, grandfather, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Parent.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 609.</p></sidenote>grandmother, stepfather, and stepmother, either of the person in the service or of the spouse.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5">“(5) </num>
<content class="inline">The terms ‘brother’ and ‘sister’<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Brother”and “sister.”</p></sidenote> include brothers and sisters of the half blood as well as those of the whole blood, stepbrothers and stepsisters, and brothers and sisters through adoption.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6">“(6) </num>
<content class="inline">The term ‘commissioned officer’ includes a warrant officer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Commissioned officer.”</p></sidenote>but includes only an officer in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7">“(7) </num>
<content class="inline">The terms ‘man’ and ‘enlisted man’ mean a person, whether <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Man” or “enlisted man.”</p></sidenote>male or female, and whether enlisted, enrolled, or drafted into active service in the military or naval forces of the United States, and include noncommissioned and petty officers, and members of training camps authorized by law.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8">“(8) </num>
<content class="inline">The term ‘enlistment’ includes voluntary enlistment, draft, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Enlistment.”</p></sidenote>and enrollment in active service in the military or naval forces of the United States.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9">“(9) </num>
<content class="inline">The term ‘ commissioner’ means the Commissioner of Military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Commissioner.”</p></sidenote>and Naval Insurance.</content>
</paragraph>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/402">402</page>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10">“(10) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Injury.”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The term ‘ injury ’ includes disease.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11">“(11) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Pay.”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The term ‘pay’ means the pay for service in the United States according to grade and length of service, excluding all allowances.</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12">“(12) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Military or naval forces.”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The term ‘military or naval forces’ means the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Naval Reserves, the National Naval Volunteers, and any other branch of the United States service while serving pursuant to law with the Army or the Navy.</content>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to minors</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That when, by the terms of this amendatory Act, any payment is to be made to a minor, other than a person in the military or naval forces of the United States, or to a person mentally incompetent, such payment shall be made to the person who is constituted guardian or curator by the laws of the State or residence of claimant, or is otherwise legally vested with responsibility or care of the claimant.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="24">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burean to furnish information as to any contracts of insurance.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, so far as practicable, shall upon request furnish information to and act for persons in the military or naval service, with respect to any contracts of insurance whether with the Government or otherwise, as may be prescribed by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Records, etc., to be kept.</p></sidenote>regulations. Said bureau may upon request procure from and keep a record of the amount and kind of insurance held by every commissioned and appointive officer and of every enlisted man in the military or naval service of the United States, including the name and principal place of business of the company, society, or organization in which such insurance is held, the date of the policy, amount of premium, name and relationship of the beneficiary, and such other data as may be deemed of service in protecting the interests of the insured and beneficiaries.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="25">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false statements in claims, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That whoever in any claim for family allowance, compensation, or insurance, or in any document required by this Act or by regulation made under this Act, makes any statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, shall be guilty of perjury and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="26">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for accepting payments after right thereto ceases.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if any person entitled to payment of family allowance or compensation under this Act, whose right to such payment under this Act ceases upon the happening of any contingency, thereafter fraudulently accepts any such payment, he shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<article>
<num value="II" class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">Article</inline> II.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments and family allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All enlisted men Included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 610.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compulsory allotments.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">allotments and family allowances.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="200"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 200. </num>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this article shall apply to all enlisted men in the military or naval forces of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="201"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 201. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That allotment of pay shall, subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinafter specified, be compulsory as to wife, a former wife divorced who has not remarried and to whom <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Voluntary.</p></sidenote>alimony has been decreed, and a child, and voluntary as to any other person; but on the written consent of the wife or former wife divorced, supported by evidence satisfactory to the bureau of her ability to support herself and the children in her custody, the allotment for her and for such children may be waived; and on the enlisted man’s <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption.</p></sidenote>application or otherwise for good cause shown, exemption from the allotment may be granted upon such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bases of computation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 610.</p></sidenote>The monthly compulsory allotment shall be in an amount equal to the family allowance hereinafter specified except that it shall not be more than one-half the pay, or less than $15; but for a wife living <page identifier="/us/stat/40/403">403</page>separate and apart under court order or written agreement or for a former wife divorced, it shall not exceed the amount specified in the court order, decree, or written agreement to be paid to her. For an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illegitimate children.</p></sidenote>illegitimate child, to whose support the father has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute, it shall not exceed the amount fixed in the order or decree.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">If there be an allotment for a wife or child, a former wife divorced <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former wife divorced.</p></sidenote>and who has not remarried shall be entitled to a compulsory allotment only out of the difference, if any, between the allotment for the wife or child or both and one-half of the pay.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="202"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 202. </num>
<content class="inline">That the enlisted man may allot any proportion or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other allotments permitted.</p></sidenote>proportions or any fixed amount or amounts of his monthly pay or of the proportion thereof remaining after the compulsory allotment, for such purposes and for the benefit of such person or persons as he may direct, subject, however, to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed under regulations to be made by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="203"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 203. </num>
<content class="inline">That in case one-half of an enlisted man’s monthly pay is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unallotted portion to be deposited to his credit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 610.</p></sidenote>not allotted, regulations to be made by the secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, may require, under such circumstances and conditions as may be prescribed in such regulations, that any proportion of such one-half pay as is not allotted shall be deposited to his credit, to be held during such period of his service as may be prescribed. Such deposits shall bear interest at the rate of four <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>per centum per annum, with semiannual rests and, when payable, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>shall be paid principal and interest to the enlisted man, if living, otherwise to any beneficiary or beneficiaries he may have designated, or if there be no such beneficiary, then to the person or persons who would under the laws of the State of his residence be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="204"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 204. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">That a family allowance of not exceeding $50 per month <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Family allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid on application therefor.</p></sidenote>shall be granted and paid by the United States upon written application to the bureau by such enlisted man or by or on behalf of any prospective beneficiary, in accordance with and subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinafter specified.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The family allowance shall be paid from the time of enlistment to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Period payable, etc.</p></sidenote>death in or one month after discharge from the service, but not for more than one month after the termination of the present war emergency. No family allowance shall be made for any period preceding November first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. The payment shall be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed relative to cases of desertion and imprisonment and of missing men.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Subject to the conditions, limitations, and exceptions hereinabove <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts allowed.</p></sidenote>and hereinafter specified, the family allowance payable per month shall be as follows:</p>
</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="A">Class A. </num>
<chapeau>In the case of a man, to his wife (including a former wife <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class A.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To wife and children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 610.</p></sidenote>divorced) and to his child or children:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be a wife but no child, $15.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be a wife and one child, $25.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be a wife and two children, $32.50, with $5 per month additional for each additional child.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be no wife, but one child, $5.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be no wife, but two children, $12.50.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be no wife, but three children, $20.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be no wife, but four children, $30, with $5 per month additional for each additional child.</content>
</level>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="B">Class B. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">In the case of a man or woman, to a grandchild, a parent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class B.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other relatives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 610.</p></sidenote>brother, or sister:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be one parent, $10.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be two parents, $20.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For each grandchild, brother, sister, and additional parent, $5.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/404">404</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children of woman.</p></sidenote>In the case of a woman, to a child or children:</p>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be one child, $5.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be two children, $12.50.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be three children, $20.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<content class="inline">If there be four children, $30, with $5 per month additional for each additional child.</content>
</level>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="205"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 205. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments under Class A.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That family allowances for members of Class A shall be paid only if and while a compulsory allotment is made to a member or members of such class. The monthly family allowance to a former wife divorced shall be payable only out of the difference, if any, between the monthly family allowance to the other members of Class A and the sum of $50, and only then if alimony shall have been decreed to her. For a wife living separate and apart under court order or written agreement or to a former wife divorced the monthly allowance, together with the allotment, if any, shall not exceed the amount specified in the court order, decree, or written agreement to be paid to her. For an illegitimate child, to whose support the father has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute, it shall not exceed the amount fixed in the order or decree.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="206"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 206. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments under</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 611.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That family allowances to members of Class B shall be granted only if and while the member is dependent in whole or in part on the enlisted man, and then only if and while the enlisted man makes a monthly allotment of his pay for such member or members equal to the amount of the monthly family allowance as hereinabove specified, except that—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The maximum monthly allotment so required to be made to members of Class B shall be one-half of his pay.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">If he is making no allotment to a member of Class A, the minimum monthly allotment so designated to be made to members of Class B shall be $15 per month.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">If he is making the compulsory allotment to a member of Class A, the minimum monthly allotment so designated to be made to members of Class B shall be one-seventh of his pay, but not less than $5 per month.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions granted.</p></sidenote>On the enlisted man’s application, or otherwise for good cause shown, exemption from this additional allotment under Class B as a condition to the allowance may be granted, upon such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="207"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 207. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations to Class B, allowances.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That the amount of the family allowance to members .of Class B shall be subject to each of the following limitations:</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">If an allowance is paid to one or more beneficiaries of Class A, the total allowance to be paid to the beneficiaries of Class B shall not exceed the difference between the allowance paid to the beneficiaries of Class A and the sum of $50.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">The total monthly allowance to beneficiaries of Class B added to the enlisted man’s monthly allotment to them shall not exceed the average sum habitually contributed by him to their support monthly during the period of dependency but not exceeding a year immediately preceding his enlistment or the enactment of this amendatory Act.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="208"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 208. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That as between the members of Class A and as between the members of Class B, the amount of the allotment and family allowance shall be apportioned as may be prescribed by regulations.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="209"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 209. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly payments from War and Navy Departments to the Treasury for distribution.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The War and Navy Departments, respectively, shall pay over to the Treasury Department monthly the entire amount of such allotments for distribution to the beneficiaries, and the allotments and family allowances shall be paid by the Bureau to or for the beneficiaries.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="210"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 210. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certification of allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 611.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That upon receipt of any application for family allowance the commissioner shall make all proper investigations and shall make an award, on the basis of which award the amount of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/405">405</page>allotments to be made by the man shall be certified to the War Department or Navy Department, as may be proper. Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that an allowance has been improperly made or that the conditions have changed, he shall investigate or reinvestigate and may modify the award. The amount of each monthly allotment and allowance shall be determined according to the conditions then existing.</content>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="III" class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">Article III.</inline></num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for death or disability.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">compensation for death or disability.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="300"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 300. </num>
<content>That for death or disability resulting from personal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of officers, enlisted men, etc., entitled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 611.</p></sidenote>injury suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty, by any commissioned officer or enlisted man or by any member of the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed in the active service under the War Department or Navy Department, the United States shall pay compensation as hereinafter provided; but no compensation shall be paid if the injury or disease<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal misconduct excluded.</p></sidenote> has been caused by his own willful misconduct.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="301"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 301. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">That if death results from injury—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaths.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 611.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">If the deceased leaves a widow or child, or if he leaves a widowed mother dependent upon him for support, the monthly compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts payable.</p></sidenote>shall be the following amounts:</p></chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>For a widow alone, $25.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>For a widow and one child, $35.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content>For a widow and two children, $47.50, with $5 for each additional child up to two.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content>If there be no widow, then for one child, $20.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content>For two children, $30.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content>For three children, $40, with $5 for each additional child up to two.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For a widowed mother, $20. The amount payable under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widowed mother.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>subdivision shall not be greater than a sum which, when added to the total amount payable to the widow and children, does not exceed $75. This compensation shall be payable for the death of but one child, and no compensation for the death of a child shall be payable if such widowed mother is in receipt of compensation under the provisions of this article for the death of her husband. Such compensation shall be payable whether her widowhood arises before or after the death of the person and whenever her condition is such that if the person were living the widowed mother would have been dependent upon him for support.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">If the death occur before discharge or resignation from service, the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial expenses.</p></sidenote>United States shall pay for burial expenses and the return of body to his home a sum not to exceed $100, as may be fixed by regulations.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The payment of compensation to a widow or widowed mother shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term for widow or mother.</p></sidenote>continue until her death or remarriage.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The payment of compensation to or for a child shall continue until <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to children.</p></sidenote>such child reaches the age of eighteen years or marries, or if such child be incapable, because of insanity, idiocy, or being otherwise permanently helpless, then during such incapacity.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Whenever the compensation payable to or for the benefit of any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of right.</p></sidenote>person under the provisions of this section is terminated by the happening of the contingency upon which it is limited, the compensation thereafter for the remaining beneficiary or beneficiaries, if any, shall be the amount which would have been payable to them if they had been the sole original beneficiaries.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">As between the widow and the children not in her custody, and as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment of children not with mother.</p></sidenote>between children, the amount of the compensation shall be appor<page identifier="/us/stat/40/406">406</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widow restriction.</p></sidenote>tioned as may be prescribed by regulations. The word “widow” as used in this section shall not include one who shall have married the deceased later than ten years after the time of injury.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="302"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 302. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disability.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That if disability results from the injury—</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 612.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau>If and while the disability is total, the monthly compensation shall be the following amounts:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has neither wife nor child living, $30.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has a wife but no child living, $45.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has a wife and one child living, $55.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has a wife and two children living, $65.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has a wife and three or more children living, $75.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content class="inline">If he has no wife but one child living, $40, with $10 for each additional child up to two.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="h">(g) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">If he has a widowed mother dependent on him for support, then, in addition to the above amounts, $10.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requiring constant attendant.</p></sidenote>To an injured person who is totally disabled and in addition so helpless as to be in constant need of a nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not exceeding $20 per month, as the director <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances at $100 a month.</p></sidenote>may deem reasonable: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That for the loss of both feet or both hands or both eyes, or for becoming totally blind or helplessly and permanently bedridden from causes occurring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">None for attendant.</p></sidenote>in the line of duty in the service of the United States, the rate of compensation shall be $100 per month:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided, further</i>, That no allowance shall be made for nurse or attendant.</proviso></p>
</content>
</level>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partial disability</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of degree.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">If and while the disability is partial, the monthly compensation shall be a percentage of the compensation that would be payable for his total disability, equal to the degree of the reduction in earning capacity resulting from the disability, but no compensation shall be payable for a reduction in earning capacity rated at less than ten per centum.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedules.</p></sidenote>A schedule of ratings of reductions in earning capacity from specific injuries or combinations of injuries of a permanent nature shall be adopted and applied by the bureau. Ratings may be as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of ratings.</p></sidenote>high as one hundred per centum. The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations and not upon the impairment in earning capacity in each individual case, so that there shall be no reduction in the rate of compensation for individual success in overcoming the handicap of a permanent injury. The bureau shall from time to time readjust this schedule of ratings in accordance with actual experience.</p>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">(3) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical services, etc., to be furnished.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">In addition to the compensation above provided, the injured person shall be furnished by the United States such reasonable governmental medical, surgical, and hospital services and with such supplies, including artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appliances, as the director may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status before discharge.</p></sidenote> <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the necessary military control over any member of the military or naval establishments before he shall have been discharged from the military or naval service.</proviso>
</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">(4) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of monthly payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 613.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical examinations of applicants.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The amount of each monthly payment shall be determined according to the family conditions then existing.</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="303"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 303. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That every person applying for or in receipt of compensation for disability under the provisions of this article shall, as frequently and at such times and places as may be reasonably required, submit himself to examination by a medical officer of the United States or by a duly qualified physician designated or approved by the director. He may have a duly qualified physician designated and paid by him present to participate in such examination. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for expense.</p></sidenote>For all examinations he shall, in the discretion of the director, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/407">407</page>be paid his reasonable traveling and other expenses and also loss of wages incurred in order to submit to such examination. If he refuses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim suspended on refusing examination.</p></sidenote>to submit himself for, or in any way obstructs, any examination, his right to claim compensation under this article shall be suspended until such refusal or obstruction ceases. No compensation shall be payable while such refusal or obstruction continues, and no compensation shall be payable for the intervening period.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Every person in receipt of compensation for disability shall submit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsequent medical treatment.</p></sidenote>to any reasonable medical or surgical treatment furnished by the bureau whenever requested by the bureau; and the consequences of unreasonable refusal to submit to any such treatment shall not be deemed to result from the injury compensated for.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="304"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 304. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in cases of dismemberment, of injuries to sight or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational training to be provided.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 620.</p></sidenote>hearing, and of other injuries commonly causing permanent disability, the injured person shall follow such course or courses of rehabilitation, reeducation, and vocational training as the United States may provide or procure to be provided. Should such course prevent the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistment while taking course.</p></sidenote>injured person from following a substantially gainful occupation while taking same, a form of enlistment may be required which shall bring the injured person into the military or naval service. Such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote>enlistment shall entitle the person to full pay as during the last month of his active service, and his family to family allowances and allotment as hereinbefore provided, in lieu of all other compensation for the time being.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">In case of his willful failure properly to follow such course or so to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of compensation if course not taken.</p></sidenote>enlist, payment of compensation shall be suspended until such willful failure ceases and no compensation shall be payable for the intervening period.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="305"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 305. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon its own motion or upon application the bureau <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review of awards, etc.</p></sidenote>may at any time review an award, and, in accordance with the facts found upon such review, may end, diminish, or increase the compensation previously awarded, or, if compensation has been refused or discontinued, may award compensation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="306"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 306. </num>
<content class="inline">That no compensation shall be payable for death or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not payable unless occurring within one year after leaving service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> disability which does not occur prior to or within one year after discharge or resignation from the service, except that where, after a medical examination made pursuant to regulations, at the time of discharge or resignation from the service, or within such reasonable time thereafter, not exceeding one year, as may be allowed by regulations, a certificate has been obtained from the director to the effect that the injured person at the time of his discharge or resignation was suffering from injury likely to result in death or disability, compensation shall be payable for death or disability, whenever occurring, proximately resulting from such injury.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="307"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 307. </num>
<content class="inline">That compensation shall not be payable for death in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death to be officially recorded.</p></sidenote>course of the service until the death be officially recorded in the department under which he may be serving. No compensation shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction if “missing.”</p></sidenote>be payable for a period during which the man has been reported “ missing ” and a family allowance has been paid for him under the provisions of Article II.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="308"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 308. </num>
<content class="inline">That no compensation shall be payable for death inflicted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaths for crimes excluded.</p></sidenote>as a lawful punishment for a crime or military offense except when inflicted by the enemy. A dismissal or dishonorable or bad conduct <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dishonorable discharge.</p></sidenote>discharge from the service shall bar and terminate all right to any compensation under the provisions of this article.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="309"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 309. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That no compensation shall be payable unless a claim <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit for presenting claims.</p></sidenote>therefor be filed, in case of disability, within five years after discharge or resignation from the service, or, in case of death during the service, within five years after such death is officially recorded in the depart<page identifier="/us/stat/40/408">408</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death, etc., after discharge.</p></sidenote>ment under which he may be serving: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That where compensation is payable for death or disability occurring after discharge or resignation from the service, claim must be made within five years after such death or the beginning of such disability.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension permitted.</p></sidenote>The time herein provided may be extended by the director not to exceed one year for good cause shown. If at the time that any right <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minors, etc.</p></sidenote>accrues to any person under the provisions of this article, such person is a minor, or is of unsound mind or physically unable to make a claim, the time herein provided shall not begin to run until such disability ceases.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="310"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 310. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Back payments restricted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no compensation shall be payable for any period more than two years prior to the date of claim therefor, nor shall increased compensation be awarded to revert back more than one year prior to the date of claim therefor.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="311"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 311. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 613.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That compensation under this article shall not be assignable, and shall be exempt from attachment and execution and from all taxation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="312"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 312. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not allowed if receiving service, etc., pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 613.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws for gratuities not applicable hereafter.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That compensation under this article shall not be paid while the person is in receipt of service or retirement pay. The laws providing for gratuities or payments in the event of death in the service and existing pension laws shall not be applicable after the enactment of this amendment to persons now in or hereafter entering the military or naval service, or to their widows, children, or their dependents, except in so far as rights under any such law shall have heretofore accrued.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to female nurses in lieu of that for injuries to employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 742.</p></sidenote>Compensation because of disability or death of members of the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) shall be in lieu of any compensation for such disability or death under the Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="313"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 313. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Injuries caused by other persons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of action to be assigned to United States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 613.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if an injury or death for which compensation is payable under this amendatory Act is caused under circumstances creating a legal liability upon some person other than the United States or the enemy to pay damages therefor, the director, as a condition to payment of compensation by the United States, shall require the beneficiary to assign to the United States any right of action he may have to enforce such liability of such other person or any right which he may have to share in any money or other property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution, etc.</p></sidenote>received in satisfaction of such liability of such other person. The cause of action so assigned to the United States may be prosecuted or compromised by the director and any money realized thereon shall be placed to the credit of the compensation fund.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="314"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 314. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widows’ pensions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum rate for Civil War, etc., service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage of this Act the rate of pension for a widow of an officer or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States who served in the Civil War, the War with Spain, or the Philippine Insurrection, now on the pension roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll, and entitled to receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be $25 per month; and nothing herein shall be construed to affect the additional allowance provided by existing pension laws on account of a helpless child <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of present pension.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration by Commissioner of Pensions.</p></sidenote>or child under sixteen years of age: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That this Act shall not be so construed as to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That the provisions of this section shall be administered, executed, and enforced by the Commissioner of Pensions.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
</article>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/409">409</page>
<article>
<num value="IV" class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">Article</inline> IV.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">insurance.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="400"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 400. </num>
<content class="inline">That in order to give to every commissioned officer and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granted to all persons in service under War or Navy Departments upon application.</p></sidenote> enlisted man and to every member of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed in active service under the War Department or Navy Department greater protection for themselves and their dependents than is provided in Article III, the United States, upon application to the bureau and without medical examination, shall grant insurance against the death <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>or total permanent disability of any such person in any multiple of $500, and not less than $1,000 or more than $10,000, upon the payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Premiums to be paid.</p></sidenote>of the premiums as hereinafter provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="401"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 401. </num>
<content class="inline">That such insurance must be applied for within <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for making applications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 438, 502, 614.</p></sidenote>one hundred and twenty days after enlistment or after entrance into or employment in the active service and before discharge or resignation, except that those persons who are in the active war service at the time of the publication of the terms and conditions of such contract of insurance may apply at any time within one hundred and twenty days thereafter and while in such service. Any person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons in service disabled or dying without applying.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance if disabled.</p></sidenote>in the active service on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, who, while in such service and before the expiration of one hundred and twenty days from and after such publication, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled or dies, or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life in monthly installments of $25 each. If he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in death cases.</p></sidenote>shall die either before he shall have received any of such monthly installments or before he shall have received two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, then $25 per month shall be paid to his wife from the time of his death and during her widowhood, or to his child, or widowed mother if and while they survive him: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments limited.</p></sidenote>That not more than two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, including those received by such person during his total and permanent disability, shall be so paid; and in that event the amount of the monthly installments shall be apportioned between them as may be provided by regulations.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="402"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 402. </num>
<content class="inline">That the director, subject to the general direction of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form of policy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 615.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Treasury, shall promptly determine upon and publish the full and exact terms and conditions of such contract of insurance. The insurance shall not be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Non assignable, etc.</p></sidenote>assignable, and shall not be subject to the claims of creditors of the insured or of the beneficiary. It shall be payable only to a spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister, and also during total and permanent disability to the injured person, or to any or all of them. The insurance shall be payable in two hundred and forty equal monthly installments. Provisions for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for alternative policies.</p></sidenote> maturity at certain ages, for continuous installments during the life of the insured or beneficiaries, or both, for cash, loan, paid-up and extended values, dividends from gains and savings, ana such other provisions for the protection and advantage of and for alternative benefits to the insured and the beneficiaries as may be found to be reasonable and practicable, may be provided for in the contract of insurance, or from time to time by regulations. All calculations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of premiums.</p></sidenote>shall be based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and interest at three and one-half per centum per annum, except that no deduction shall be made for continuous installments during the life of the insured in case his total and permanent disability continues more than two hundred and forty months. Subject to regulations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beneficiaries.</p></sidenote>the insured shall at all times have the right to change the beneficiary <page identifier="/us/stat/40/410">410</page>or beneficiaries of such insurance without the consent of such beneficiary or beneficiaries, but only within the classes herein provided. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment after death if no beneficiary designated, etc.</p></sidenote>If no beneficiary within the permitted class be designated by the insured, either in his lifetime or by his last will and testament, or if the designated beneficiary does not survive the insured, the insurance shall be payable to such person or persons, within the permitted class of beneficiaries as would under the laws of the State of the residence of the insured, be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy. If no such person survive the insured, then there shall be paid to the estate of the insured an amount equal to the reserve value, if any, of the insurance at the time of his death, calculated on the basis or the American Experience Table of Mortality and three and one-half per centum interest in full of all obligations under the contract of insurance.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="403"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 403. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses borne by United States.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the United States shall bear the expenses of administration and the excess mortality and disability cost resulting from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Premium rates.</p></sidenote>the hazards of war. The premium rates shall be the net rates based upon the American Experience Table of Mortality and interest at three and one-half per centum per annum.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="404"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 404. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term Insurance during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion after termination.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That during the period of war and thereafter until converted the insurance shall be term insurance for successive terms of one year each. Not later than five years after the date of the termination of the war as declared by proclamation of the President of the United States, the term insurance shall be converted, without medical examination, into such form or forms of insurance as may be prescribed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion rights.</p></sidenote> by regulations and as the insured may request. Regulations shall provide for the right to convert into ordinary life, twenty payment life, endowment maturing at age sixty-two and into other usual forms of insurance and shall prescribe the time and method of payment of the premiums thereon, but payments of premiums in advance shall not be required for periods of more than one month each and may be deducted from the pay or deposit of the insured or be otherwise made at his election.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="405"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 405. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction In cases of disagreements as to claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 556.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the event of disagreement as to a claim under the contract of insurance between the bureau and any beneficiary or beneficiaries thereunder, an action on the claim may be brought against the United States in the district court of the United States in and for the district in which such beneficiaries or any one of them <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney’s fees restricted.</p></sidenote>resides. The court, as part of its judgment, shall determine and allow such reasonable attorney’s fees, not to exceed ten per centum of the amount recovered, to be paid by the claimant on behalf of whom such proceedings are instituted to his attorney; and it shall be unlawful for the attorney or for any other person acting as claim agent or otherwise to ask for, contract for, or receive any other compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee restriction.</p></sidenote>because of such action. No other compensation or fee shall be charged or received by any person except such as may be authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment tor violations.</p></sidenote>by the commissioner in regulations to be promulgated by him. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding $, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.</content>
</section>
</article>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General and lieutenant general.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ranks revived tor existing emergency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 81.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be held and construed to authorize the President, in accordance with the provisions of said Act and for the period of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments to be made.</p></sidenote>the existing emergency only, to appoint as generals the Chief of Staff and the commander of the United States forces in France; and as lieutenant general each commander of an army or army corps organ<page identifier="/us/stat/40/411">411</page>ized as authorized by existing law: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the pay of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and allowances.</p></sidenote>grades of general and lieutenant general shall be $10,000 and $9,000 a year, respectively, with allowances appropriate to said grades as determined by the Secretary of War:</proviso>
<proviso>
<i>And provided</i>, That brigadier <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brigadier generals to rank with rear admirals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chiefs of bureaus, etc., made major generals.</p></sidenote>generals of the Army shall hereafter rank relatively with rear admirals of the lower half of the grade. And, hereafter, the chief of any existing staff corps, department, or bureau, except as is otherwise provided for the Chief of Staff, shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of major general.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 106: To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>106</docNumber>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>106.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4960">H. R. 4960</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/91">Public, No. 91</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That this Act shall be known <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trading with the Enemy Act.</p></sidenote>as the “<shortTitle role="act">Trading with the enemy Act.</shortTitle>”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<chapeau>That the word “enemy,” as used herein, shall be deemed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms defined.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Enemy.”</p></sidenote>to mean, for the purposes of such trading and of this Act—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>Any individual, partnership, or other body of individuals, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons residing in enemy country or trading therein.</p></sidenote>any nationality, resident within the territory (including that occupied by the military and naval forces) of any nation with which the United States is at war, or resident outside the United States and doing business within such territory, and any corporation incorporated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations.</p></sidenote>within such territory of any nation with which the United States is at war or incorporated within any country other than the United States and doing business within such territory.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>The government of any nation with which the United States is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government, officials, etc.</p></sidenote>at war, or any political or municipal subdivision thereof, or any officer, official agent, or agency thereof.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other designated per sons.</p></sidenote>be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing business, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term “ enemy.”</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The words “ally of enemy,” as used herein, shall be deemed to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Ally of enemy.”</p></sidenote>mean—</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>Any individual, partnership, or other body of individuals, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons residing, or trading, in country thereof.</p></sidenote>any nationality, resident within the territory (including that occupied by the military and naval forces) of any nation which is an ally of a nation with which the United States is at war, or resident outside the United States and doing business within such territory, and any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporations.</p></sidenote>corporation incorporated within such territory of such ally nation, or incorporated within any country other than the United States and doing business within such territory.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>The government of any nation which is an ally of a nation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government, officials, etc.</p></sidenote>with which the United States is at war, or any political or municipal subdivision of such ally nation, or any officer, official, agent, or agency thereof.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other designated persons.</p></sidenote>be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation which is an ally of a nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States, wherever resident or wherever doing business, as the President, if he shall find the safety of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war shall so require, may, by proclamation, include within the term “ally of enemy,”</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/412">412</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person.”</p></sidenote>The word “person,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean an individual, partnership, association, company, or other unincorporated body of individuals, or corporation or body politic.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“United States.”</p></sidenote>The words “United States,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States or occupied by the military or naval forces thereof.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Beginning of the war.”</p></sidenote>The words “the beginning of the war,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean midnight ending the day on which Congress has declared or shall declare war or the existence of a state of war.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“End of the war.”</p></sidenote>The words “end of the war,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean the date of proclamation of exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace, unless the President shall, by proclamation, declare a prior date, in which case the date so proclaimed shall be deemed to be the “end of the war” within the meaning of this Act.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Bank or banks.”</p></sidenote>The words “bank or banks,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean and include national banks, State banks, trust companies, or other banks or banking associations doing business under the laws of the United States, or of any State of the United States.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“To trade.”</p></sidenote>The words “ to trade,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean—</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying, etc., debts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Pay, satisfy, compromise, or give security for the payment or satisfaction of any debt or obligation.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making, etc., negotiable paper.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Draw, accept, pay, present for acceptance or payment, or indorse any negotiable instrument or chose in action.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Enter into, carry on, complete, or perform any contract, agreement, or obligation.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property transactions.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Buy or sell, loan or extend credit, trade in, deal with, exchange, transmit, transfer, assign, or otherwise dispose of, or receive any form of property.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business intercourse.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To have any form of business or commercial communication or intercourse with.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts unlawful.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That it shall be unlawful—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trading in United States with enemy or ally, or for benefit thereof, without a license.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">For any person in the United States, except with the license of the President, granted to such person, or to the enemy, or ally of enemy, as provided in this Act, to trade, or attempt to trade, either directly or indirectly, with, to, or from, or for, or on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any other person, with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that such other person is an enemy or ally of enemy, or is conducting or taking part in such trade, directly or indirectly, for, or on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, an enemy or ally of enemy.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting enemy or ally to or from United States without a license.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">For any person, except with the license of the President, to transport or attempt to transport into or from the United States, or for any owner, master, or other person in charge of a vessel of American registry to transport or attempt to transport from any place to any other place, any subject or citizen of an enemy or ally of enemy nation, with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the person transported or attempted to be transported is such subject or citizen.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized sending or receiving letters, except by mail.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">For any person (other than a person in the service of the United States Government or of the Government of any nation, except that of an enemy or ally of enemy nation, and other than such persons or classes of persons as may be exempted hereunder by the President or by such person as he may direct), to send, or take out of, or bring into, or attempt to send, or take out of, or bring into the United States, any letter or other writing or tangible form of communication, except in the regular course of the mail; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transmitting writings, plans, messages, etc., to enemy or ally.</p></sidenote>and it shall be unlawful for any person to send, take, or transmit, or attempt to send, take, or transmit out of the United States, any letter or other writing, book, map, plan, or other paper, picture, or any telegram, cablegram, or wireless message, or other form of com<page identifier="/us/stat/40/413">413</page>munication intended for or to be delivered, directly or indirectly, to an enemy or ally of enemy: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That any person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed If license therefor obtained.</p></sidenote>may send, take, or transmit out of the United States anything herein forbidden if he shall first submit the same to the President, or to such officer as the President may direct, and shall obtain the license or consent of the President, under such rules and regulations, and with such exemptions, as shall be prescribed by the President.</proviso>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever, during the present war, the President shall deem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Censoring for public safety of communications to foreign countries.</p></sidenote>that the public safety demands it, he may cause to be censored under such rules and regulations as he may from time to time establish, communications by mail, cable, radio, or other means of transmission passing between the United States and any foreign country he may from time to time specify, or which may be carried by any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By vessels, etc.</p></sidenote>vessel or other means of transportation touching at any port, place, or territory of the United States and bound to or from any foreign country. Any person who willfully evades or attempts to evade the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for evasions, using codes, etc.</p></sidenote>submission of any such communication to such censorship or willfully uses or attempts to use any code or other device for the purpose of concealing from such censorship the intended meaning of such communication shall be punished as provided in section sixteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 425.</p></sidenote>of this Act.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Every enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enemy insurance companies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To make applications for licenses to continue business in United States.</p></sidenote>company, and every enemy or ally of enemy, doing business within the United States through an agency or branch office, or otherwise, may, within thirty days after the passage of this Act, apply to the President for a license to continue to do business; and, within thirty days after such application, the President may enter an order either <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Character of license.</p></sidenote>granting or refusing to grant such license. The license, if granted, may be temporary or otherwise, and for such period of time, and may contain such provisions and conditions regulating the business, agencies, managers and trustees and the control and disposition of the funds of the company, or of such enemy or ally of enemy, as the President shall deem necessary for the safety of the United States; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation, etc.</p></sidenote>and any license granted hereunder may be revoked or regranted or renewed in such manner and at such times as the President shall determine: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That reasonable notice of his intent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice to other companies, of intent to refuse or revoke a license.</p></sidenote>to refuse to grant a license or to revoke a license granted to any reinsurance company shall be given by him to all insurance companies incorporated within the United States and known to the President to be doing business with such reinsurance company:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abrogation of contracts made before the war by American companies.</p></sidenote>That no insurance company, organized within the United States, shall be obligated to continue any existing contract, entered into prior to the beginning of the war, with any enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company, but any such company may abrogate and cancel any such contract by serving thirty days’ notice in writing upon the President of its election to abrogate such contract.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For a period of thirty days after the passage of this Act, and further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary continuance of German insurance companies.</p></sidenote>pending the entry of such order by the President, after application made by any enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company, within such thirty days as above provided, the provisions of the President’s proclamation of April sixth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1654, 1684.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War-risk and marine prohibitions.</p></sidenote>seventeen, relative to agencies in the United States of certain insurance companies, as modified by the provisions of the President’s proclamation of July thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, relative to marine and war-risk insurance, shall remain in full force and effect so far as it applies to such German insurance companies, and the conditions of said proclamation of April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as modified by said proclamation of July thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall also during said period of thirty days after the passage of this Act, and pending the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No license for prohibited business.</p></sidenote>order of the President as herein provided, apply to any enemy or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/414">414</page>ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company, anything in this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transmitting funds abroad, etc., unlawful.</p></sidenote>Act to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall be unlawful for any enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company, to whom license is granted, to transmit out of the United States any funds belonging to or held for the benefit of such company or to use any such funds as the basis for the establishment directly or indirectly of any credit within or outside of the United States to, or for the benefit of, or on behalf of, or on account of, an enemy or ally of enemy.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary continuance of other enemy business allowed.</p></sidenote>For a period of thirty days after the passage of this Act, and further pending the entry of such order by the President, after application made within such thirty days by any enemy or ally of enemy, other than an insurance or reinsurance company as above provided, it shall be lawful for such enemy or ally of enemy to continue to do business in this country and for any person to trade with, to, from, for, on account of, on behalf of or for the benefit of such enemy or ally of enemy, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transmitting funds abroad, unlawful.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 412.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 425.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That the provisions of sections three and sixteen hereof shall apply to any act or attempted act of transmission or transfer of money or other property out of the United States and to the use or attempted use of such money or property as the basis for the establishment of any credit within or outside of the United States to, or for the benefit of, or on behalf of, or on account of, an enemy or ally of enemy.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing business without license, unlawful.</p></sidenote>If no license is applied for within thirty days after the passage of this Act, or if a license shall be refused to any enemy or ally of enemy, whether insurance or reinsurance company, or other person, making <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 412.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 425.</p></sidenote>application, or if any license granted shall be revoked by the President, the provisions of sections three and sixteen hereof shall forthwith apply to all trade or to any attempt to trade with, to, from, for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of such company <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments on account of policies in force, etc., permitted.</p></sidenote>or other person: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That after such refusal or revocation, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful for a policyholder or for an insurance company, not an enemy or ally of enemy, holding insurance or having effected reinsurance in or with such enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company, to receive payment of, and for such enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company to pay any premium, return premium, claim, money, security, or other property due or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing Insurance not vitiated.</p></sidenote>which may become due on or in respect to such insurance or reinsurance in force at the date of such refusal or revocation of license; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for insurance money held by custodian.</p></sidenote>nothing in this Act shall vitiate or nullify then existing policies or contracts of insurance or reinsurance, or the conditions thereof; and any such policyholder or insurance company, not an enemy or ally of enemy, having any claim to or upon money or other property of the enemy or ally of enemy insurance or reinsurance company in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized.</p></sidenote>custody or control of the alien property custodian, hereinafter provided for, or of the Treasurer of the United States, may make application <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 419.</p></sidenote>for the payment thereof and may institute suit as provided in section nine hereof.</proviso></p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assuming name other than used prior to war, restricted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That, during the present war, no enemy, or ally of enemy, and no partnership of which he is a member or was a member at the beginning of the war, shall for any purpose assume or use any name other than that by which such enemy or partnership was ordinarily known at the beginning of the war, except under license from the President.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary prohibition on all foreign insurance companies.</p></sidenote>Whenever, during the present war, in the opinion of the President the public safety or public interest requires, the President may prohibit any or all foreign insurance companies from doing business in the United States, or the President may license such company or companies to do business upon such terms as he may deem proper.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/415">415</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the President, if he shall find it compatible with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of restrictions allowed for ally of enemy.</p></sidenote>safety of the United States and with the successful prosecution of the war, may, by proclamation, suspend the provisions of this Act so far as they apply to an ally of enemy, and he may revoke or renew such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts, etc., included.</p></sidenote>suspension from time to time; and the President may grant licenses, special or general, temporary or otherwise, and for such period of time and containing such provisions and conditions as ho shall prescribe, to any person or class of persons to do business as provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 413, 412.</p></sidenote>in subsection (a) of section four hereof, and to perform any act made unlawful without such license in section three hereof, and to file and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 420.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation, etc.</p></sidenote>prosecute applications under subsection (b) of section ten hereof; and he may revoke or renew such licenses from time to time, if he shall be of opinion that such grant or revocation or renewal shall be compatible with the safety of the United States and with the successful prosecution of the war; and ho may make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be necessary and proper to carry <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delegation of power.</p></sidenote>out the provisions of this Act; and the President may exercise any power or authority conferred by this Act through such officer or officers as he shall direct.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">If the President shall have reasonable cause to believe that any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of acts pending investigation.</p></sidenote>act is about to be performed in violation of section three hereof he shall have authority to order the postponement of the performance of such act for a period not exceeding ninety days, pending investigation of the facts by him.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">That the President may investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation, etc., of foreign exchange, coin exports, property transfers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 966.</p></sidenote>such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, export or earmarkings of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, transfers of credit in any form (other than credits relating solely to transactions to be executed wholly within the United States), and transfers of evidences of indebtedness or of the ownership of property between the United States and any foreign country, whether enemy, ally of enemy or otherwise, or between residents of one or more foreign countries, by any person within the United States; and he may require <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compulsory testimony.</p></sidenote>any such person engaged in any such transaction to furnish, under oath, complete information relative thereto, including the production of any books of account, contracts, letters or other papers, in connection therewith in the custody or control of such person, either before or after such transaction is completed.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">That the President is authorized to appoint, prescribe the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien property custodian authorized.</p></sidenote>duties of, and fix the salary (not to exceed $5,000 per annum) of an official to be known as the alien property custodian, who shall be empowered to receive all money and property in the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred.</p></sidenote>due or belonging to an enemy, or ally of enemy, which may be paid, conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to said custodian under the provisions of this Act; and to hold, administer, and account for the same under the general direction of the President and as provided in this Act. The alien property custodian shall give such bond or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote>bonds, and in such form and amount, and with such security as the President shall prescribe. The President may further employ in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative employees.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia and elsewhere and fix the compensation of such clerks, attorneys, investigators, accountants, and other employees as he may find necessary for the due administration of the provisions of this Act: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That such clerks, investigators, accountants, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil service eligibles to be used.</p></sidenote>and other employees shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil-service law:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the President shall cause a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed annual reports required.</p></sidenote>detailed report to be made to Congress on the first day of January of each year of all proceedings had under this Act during the year preceding. Such report shall contain a list of all persons appointed or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/416">416</page>employed, with the salary or compensation paid to each, and a statement of the different kinds of property taken into custody and the disposition made thereof.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporations, etc., to transmit list of stockholders, etc., believed to be enemies.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That every corporation incorporated within the United States, and every unincorporated association, or company, or trustee, or trustees within the United States, issuing shares or certificates representing beneficial interests, shall, under such rules and regulations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details.</p></sidenote>as the President may prescribe and, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, and at such other times thereafter as the President may require, transmit to the alien property custodian a full list, duly sworn to, of every officer, director, or stockholder known to be, or whom the representative of such corporation, association, company, or trustee has reasonable cause to believe to be an enemy or ally of enemy resident within the territory, or a subject or citizen residing outside of the United States, of any nation with which the United States is at war, or resident within the territory, or a subject or citizen residing outside of the United States, of any ally of any nation with which the United States is at war, together with the amount of stock or shares owned by each such officer, director, or stockholder, or in which he has any interest.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">List of stock owned February 3, 1917.</p></sidenote>The President may also require a similar list to be transmitted of all stock or shares owned on February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by any person now defined as an enemy or ally of enemy, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standing in name of another.</p></sidenote>or in which any such person had any interest; and he may also require a list to be transmitted of all cases in which said corporation, association, company, or trustee has reasonable cause to believe that the stock or shares on February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, were owned or are owned by such enemy or ally of enemy, though <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erroneous names to be stricken off.</p></sidenote>standing on the books in the name of another: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That the name of any such officer, director, or stockholder shall be stricken permanently or temporarily from such list by the alien property custodian when he shall be satisfied that he is not such enemy or ally of enemy.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holders of property of, or debtors to, persons believed to be enemies, to submit list of names, etc.</p></sidenote>Any person in the United States who holds or has or shall hold or have custody or control of any property beneficial or otherwise, alone or jointly with others, of, for, or on behalf of an enemy or ally of enemy, or of any person whom he may have reasonable cause to believe to be an enemy or ally of enemy and any person in the United States who is or shall be indebted in any way to an enemy or ally of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions, etc.</p></sidenote>enemy, or to any person whom he may have reasonable cause to believe to be an enemy or ally of enemy, shall, with such exceptions and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, and within thirty days after the passage of this Act, or within thirty days after such property shall come within his custody or control, or after such debt shall become due, report the fact to the alien-property custodian by written statement under oath containing such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Held, etc., February 3, 1917.</p></sidenote>particulars as said custodian shall require. The President may also require a similar report of all property so held, of, for, or on behalf of, and of all debts so owed to, any person now defined as an enemy or ally of enemy, on February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erroneous names to be stricken off.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided</i>, That the name of any person shall be stricken from the said report by the alien-property custodian, either temporarily or permanently, when he shall be satisfied that such person is not an enemy <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of time.</p></sidenote>or ally of enemy. The President may extend the time for fifing the lists or reports required by this section for an additional period not exceeding ninety days.</proviso></p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized trading with an enemy since beginning of the war, invalid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Nothing in this Act contained shall render valid or legal, or be construed to recognize as valid or legal, any act or transaction constituting trade with, to, from, for or on account of, or on behalf or for the benefit of an enemy performed or engaged in since the beginning of the war and prior to the passage of this Act, or any such act <page identifier="/us/stat/40/417">417</page>or transaction hereafter performed or engaged in except as authorized hereunder, which would otherwise have been or be void, illegal, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No legal right conferred by acts, etc., hereafter without licenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 412.</p></sidenote>or invalid at law. No conveyance, transfer, delivery, payment, or loan of money or other property, in violation of section three hereof, made after the passage of this Act, and not under license as herein provided shall confer or create any right or remedy in respect thereof; and no person shall by virtue of any assignment, indorsement, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By assignment, etc., unless prior to war or under license.</p></sidenote>delivery to him of any debt, bill, note, or other obligation or chose in action by, from, or on behalf of, or on account of, or for the benefit of an enemy or ally of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments unlawful.</p></sidenote>enemy have any right or remedy against the debtor, obligor, or other person liable to pay, fulfill, or perform the same unless said assignment, indorsement, or delivery was made prior to the beginning of the war or shall be made under license as herein provided, or unless, if made after the beginning of the war and prior to the date of passage of this Act, the person to whom the same was made shall prove lack of knowledge and of reasonable cause to believe on his part that the same was made by, from or on behalf of, or on account of, or for the benefit of an enemy or ally of enemy; and any person who knowingly pays, discharges, or satisfies any such debt, note, bill, or other obligation or chose in action shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed to violate section three hereof: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completion of contracts assigned prior to war to other than enemy allowed.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the carrying out, completion, or performance of any contract, agreement, or obligation originally made with or entered into by an enemy or ally of enemy where, prior to the beginning of the war and not in contemplation thereof, the interest of such enemy or ally of enemy devolved by assignment or otherwise upon a person not an enemy or ally of enemy, and no enemy or ally of enemy will be benefited by such carrying out, completion, or performance otherwise than by release from obligation thereunder.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent payment of money <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment permitted of money of enemy received prior to the war.</p></sidenote>belonging or owing to an enemy or ally of enemy to a person within the United States not an enemy or ally of enemy, for the benefit of such person or of any other person within the United States not an enemy or ally of enemy, if the funds so paid shall have been received prior to the beginning of the war and such payments arise out of transactions entered into prior to the beginning of the war, and not in contemplation thereof: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That such payment shall not be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License required.</p></sidenote>made without the license of the President, general or special, as provided in this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorize the prosecution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No legal action allowed enemy prior to end of war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 420.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under license in United States permitted.</p></sidenote>of any suit or action at law or in equity in any court within the United States by an enemy or ally of enemy prior to the end of the war, except as provided in section ten hereof: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That an enemy or ally of enemy licensed to do business under this Act may prosecute and maintain any such suit or action so far as the same arises solely out of the business transacted within the United States under such license and so long as such license remains in full force <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counsel allowed.</p></sidenote>and effect:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That an enemy or ally of enemy may defend by counsel any suit in equity or action at law which may be Drought against him.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Receipt of notice from the President to the effect that he has <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice that person is an enemy admitted as evidence in prior contracts suits.</p></sidenote>reasonable ground to believe that any person is an enemy or ally of enemy shall be prima facie defense to any one receiving the same, in any suit or action at law or in equity brought or maintained, or to any right or set-off or recoupment asserted by, such person and based on failure to complete or perform since the beginning of the war any contract or other obligation. In any prosecution under section sixteen hereof, proof of receipt of notice from the President to the effect <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In criminal actions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 425.</p></sidenote>that he has reasonable cause to believe that any person is an enemy <page identifier="/us/stat/40/418">418</page>or ally of enemy shall be prima facie evidence that the person receiving such notice has reasonable cause to believe such other person to be an enemy or ally of enemy within the meaning of section three hereof.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money, etc., of unlicensed enemy to be conveyed, etc., to custodian.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1020.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If the President shall so require, any money or other property owing or belonging to or held for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of an enemy or ally of enemy not holding a license granted by the President hereunder, which the President after investigation shall determine is so owing or so belongs or is so held, shall be conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid over to the alien property custodian.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of debts, etc., due unlicensed enemy may be made to custodian.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If not required to pay, convey, transfer, assign, or deliver under the provisions of subsection (c) hereof, any person not an enemy or ally of enemy who owes to, or holds for, or on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of an enemy or of an ally of enemy not holding a license granted by the President hereunder, any money or other property, or to whom any obligation or form of liability to such enemy or ally of enemy is presented for payment, may, at his option, with the consent of the President, pay, convey, transfer, assign, or deliver to the alien property custodian said money or other property under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No legal liability for acts hereby authorized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">No person shall be held liable in any court for or in respect to anything done or omitted in pursuance of any order, rule, or regulation made by the President under the authority of this Act.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments, conveyance’s, etc., to custodian a full discharge of obligation.</p></sidenote>Any payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery of money or property made to the alien property custodian hereunder shall be a full acquittance and discharge for all purposes of the obligation of the person making the same to the extent of same. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution of release, etc.</p></sidenote>The alien property custodian and such other persons as the President may appoint shall have power to execute, acknowledge, and deliver any such instrument or instruments as may be necessary or proper to evidence upon the record or otherwise such acquittance and discharge, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delivery of notes, etc., by custodian.</p></sidenote>and shall, in case of payment to the alien property custodian of any debt or obligation owed to an enemy or ally of enemy, deliver up any notes, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness or obligation, or any security therefor in which such enemy or ally of enemy had any right or interest that may have come into the possession of the alien property custodian, with like effect as if he or they, respectively, were duly appointed by the enemy or ally of enemy, creditor, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of authority.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal effect as evidence.</p></sidenote>obligee. The President shall issue to every person so appointed a certificate of the appointment and authority of such person, and such certificate shall be received in evidence in all courts within the United States. Whenever any such certificate of authority shall be offered to any registrar, clerk, or other recording officer, Federal or otherwise, within the United States, such officer shall record the same in like manner as a power of attorney, and such record or a duly certified copy thereof shall be received in evidence in all courts of the United States or other courts within the United States.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mortgages, etc., of enemy terminable on notice, demand, etc.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="inline">That any person not an enemy or ally of enemy holding a lawful mortgage, pledge, or lien, or other right in the nature of security in property of an enemy or ally of enemy which, by law or by the terms of the instrument creating such mortgage, pledge, or lien, or right, may be disposed of on notice or presentation or demand, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts terminable on notice, etc.</p></sidenote>and any person not an enemy or ally of enemy who is a party to any lawful contract with an enemy or ally of enemy, the terms of which provide for a termination thereof upon notice or for acceleration of maturity on presentation or demand, may continue to hold said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of property after default, etc., by notice to custodian.</p></sidenote>property, and, after default, may dispose of the property in accordance with law or may terminate or mature such contract by notice <page identifier="/us/stat/40/419">419</page>or presentation or demand served or made on the alien property custodian in accordance with the law and the terms of such instrument or contract and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe; and such notice and such presentation and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote>demand shall have, in all respects, the same force and effect as if duly served or made upon the enemy or ally of enemy personally: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no such rule or regulation shall require that notice <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on notice, etc., requirements.</p></sidenote>or presentation or demand shall be served or made in any case in which, by law or by the terms of said instrument or contract, no notice, presentation, or demand was, prior to the passage of this Act, required; and that in case where, by law or by the terms of such instrument or contract, notice is required, no longer period of notice shall be required:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That if, on any such disposition <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of surplus after satisfaction, etc.</p></sidenote>of property, a surplus shall remain after the satisfaction of the mortgage, pledge, lien, or other right in the nature of security, notice of that fact shall be given to the President pursuant to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and such surplus shall be held subject to his further order.</proviso>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>That any contract entered into prior to the beginning of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abrogation of contracts made prior to the war with an enemy, of American products, etc.</p></sidenote>war between any citizen of the United States or any corporation organized within the United States, and an enemy or ally of an enemy, the terms of which provide for the delivery, during or after any war in which a present enemy or ally of enemy nation has been or is now engaged, of anything produced, mined, or manufactured in the United States, may be abrogated by such citizen or corporation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice to custodian.</p></sidenote>by serving thirty days’ notice in writing upon the alien property custodian of his or its election to abrogate such contract.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content>The running of any statute of limitations shall be suspended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statutes of limitation suspended as to contracts for pitying notes, etc., of enemies abroad.</p></sidenote>with reference to the rights or remedies on any contract or obligation entered into prior to the beginning of the war between parties neither of whom is an enemy or ally of enemy, and containing any promise to pay or liability for payment which is evidenced by drafts or other commercial paper drawn against or secured by funds or other property situated in an enemy or ally of enemy country, and no suit shall be maintained on any such contract or obligation in any court within the United States until after the end of the war, or until the said funds or property shall be released for the payment or satisfaction of such contract or obligation: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That nothing herein contained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other suspensions not affected.</p></sidenote>shall be construed to prevent the suspension of the running of the statute of limitations in all other cases where such suspension would occur under existing law.</proviso>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That any person, not an enemy, or ally of enemy, claiming <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims by other than enemies against property held by custodian.</p></sidenote>any interest, right, or title in any money or other property which may have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian hereunder, and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, or to whom any debt may be owing from an enemy, or ally of enemy, whose property or any part thereof shall have been conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian hereunder, and held by him or by the Treasurer of the United States, may file with the said custodian a notice of his claim under oath and in such form and containing such particulars as the said custodian shall require; and the President, if <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President may order payment, conveyance, etc.</p></sidenote>application is made therefor by the claimant, may, with the assent of the owner of said property and of all persons claiming any right, title, or interest therein, order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment or delivery to said claimant of the money or other property so held by the alien property custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States or of the interest therein to which the President shall determine said claimant is entitled: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no such order by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights against claimants not barred.</p></sidenote>the President shall bar any person from the prosecution of any suit at law or in equity against the claimant to establish any right, title <page identifier="/us/stat/40/420">420</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit allowed after the war to establish interest, etc.</p></sidenote>or interest which he may have in such money or other property. If the President shall not so order within sixty days after the filing of such application, or if the claimant shall have filed the notice as above required and shall have made no application to the President, said claimant may, at any time before the expiration of six months after the end of the war, institute a suit in equity in the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides, or, if a corporation, where it has its principal place of business (to which suit the alien property custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall be made a party <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retention of property until Judgment, etc.</p></sidenote>defendant), to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed, and if suit shall be so instituted then the money or other property of the enemy, or ally of enemy, against whom such interest, right, or title is asserted, or debt claimed, shall be retained in the custody of the alien property custodian, or in the Treasury of the United States, as provided in this Act, and until any final judgment or decree which shall be entered in favor of the claimant shall be fully satisfied by payment or conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery by the defendant or by the alien property custodian or Treasurer of the United States on order of the court, or until final judgment or decree shall be entered against the claimant, or suit otherwise terminated.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No other lien enforceable.</p></sidenote>Except as herein provided, the money or other property conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian shall not be liable to lien, attachment, garnishment, trustee process, or execution, or subject to any order or decree of any court.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra.</i></p></sidenote>This section shall not apply, however, to money paid to the alien property custodian under section ten hereof.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts permissible.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That nothing contained in this Act shall be held to make unlawful any of the following Acts:</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications for United States patents, copyrights, etc., by an enemy.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">An enemy, or ally of enemy, may file and presecute in the United States an application for letters patent, or for registration of trade-mark, print, label, or copyright, and may pay any fees therefor in accordance with and as required by the provisions of existing law and fees for attorneys or agents for filing and prosecuting such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of time.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 516.</p></sidenote>applications. Any such enemy, or ally of enemy, who is unable during war, or within six months thereafter, on account of conditions arising out of war, to file any such application, or to pay any official fee, or to take any action required by law within the period prescribed by law, may be granted an extension of nine months beyond <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>the expiration of said period, provided the nation of which the said applicant is a citizen, subject, or corporation shall extend substantially similar privileges to citizens and corporations of the United States.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees, etc., permitted citizens, etc., to enemy country.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Any citizen of the United States, or any corporation organized within the United States, may, when duly authorized by the President, pay to an enemy or ally of enemy any tax, annuity, or fee which may be required by the laws of such enemy or ally of enemy nation in relation to patents and trade-marks, prints, labels, and copyrights; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications may be filed.</p></sidenote>and any such citizen or corporation may file and prosecute an application for letters patent or for registration of trade-mark, print, label, or copyright in the country of an enemy, or of an ally of enemy <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License required, etc.</p></sidenote>after first submitting such application to the President and receiving license so to file and prosecute, and to pay the fees required by law and customary agents’ fees, the maximum amount of which in each case shall be subject to the control of the President.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., under patents, etc., owned by enemy.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Any citizen of the United States or any corporation organized within the United States desiring to manufacture, or cause to be manufactured, a machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or design, or to carry on, or to use any trade-mark, print, label or cause to be carried on, a process under any patent or copyrighted <page identifier="/us/stat/40/421">421</page>matter owned or controlled by an enemy or ally of enemy at any time during the existence of a state of war may apply to the President for a license; and the President is hereby authorized to grant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of license permitting.</p></sidenote>such a license, nonexclusive or exclusive as he shall deem best, provided he shall be of the opinion that such grant is for the public welfare, and that the applicant is able and intends in good faith to manufacture, or cause to be manufactured, the machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or design, or to carry on, or cause to be carried on, the process or to use the trade-mark, print, label or copyrighted matter. The President may prescribe the conditions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions, etc.</p></sidenote>of this license, including the fixing of prices of articles and products necessary to the health of the military and naval forces of the United States or the successful prosecution of the war, and the rules and regulations under which such license may be granted and the fee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> which shall be charged therefor, not exceeding $100, and not exceeding one per centum of the fund deposited as hereinafter provided. Such license shall be a complete defense to any suit at law or in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal effect of licenses.</p></sidenote>equity instituted by the enemy or ally of enemy owners of the letters patent, trade-mark, print, label or copyright, or otherwise, against the licensee for infringement or for damages, royalty, or other money award on account of anything done by the licensee under such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra.</i></p></sidenote>license, except as provided in subsection (f) hereof.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content class="inline">The licensee shall file with the President a full statement of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full statement from licensee of use,etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to custodian of royalties, etc.</p></sidenote>the extent of the use and enjoyment of the license, and of the prices received in such form and at such stated periods (at least annually) as the President may prescribe; and the licensee shall pay at such times as may be required to the alien property custodian not to exceed five per centum of the gross sums received by the licensee from the sale of said inventions or use of the trade-mark, print, label or copyrighted matter, or, if the President shall so order, five per centum of the value of the use of such inventions, trade-marks, prints, labels or copyrighted matter to the licensee as established by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys to constitute a trust fund.</p></sidenote>the President; and sums so paid shall be deposited by said alien property custodian forthwith in the Treasury of the United States as a trust fund for the said licensee and for the owner of the said patent, trade-mark, print, label or copyright registration as hereinafter provided, to be paid from the Treasury upon order of the court, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra.</i></p></sidenote>as provided in subdivision (f) of this section, or upon the direction of the alien property custodian.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content class="inline">Unless surrendered or terminated as provided in this Act, any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duration of licenses.</p></sidenote>license granted hereunder shall continue during the term fixed in the license or in the absence of any such limitation during the term of the patent, trade-mark, print, label, or copyright registration under which it is granted. Upon violation by the licensee of any of the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceled for violations.</p></sidenote>of this Act, or of the conditions of the license, the President may, after due notice and hearing, cancel any license granted by him.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">The owner of any patent, trade-mark, print, label, or copyright <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owner may bring suit at end of war for royalties, etc.</p></sidenote>under which a license is granted hereunder may, after the end of the war and until the expiration of one year thereafter, file a bill in equity against the licensee in the district court of the United States for the district in which the said licensee resides, or, if a corporation, in which it has its principal place of business (to which suit the Treasurer of the United States shall be made a party), for recovery from the said licensee for all use and enjoyment of the said patented invention, trade-mark, print, label, or copyrighted matter: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice to custodian in advance.</p></sidenote>That whenever suit is brought, as above, notice shall be filed with the alien property custodian within thirty days after date of entry of suit:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the licensee may make any and all defenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure, etc.</p></sidenote>which would be available were no license granted. The court on due proceedings had may adjudge and decree to the said owner payment of a reasonable royalty. The amount of said judgment and decree, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/422">422</page>when final, shall be paid on order of the court to the owner of the patent from the fund deposited by the licensee, so far as such deposit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of payment.</p></sidenote>will satisfy said judgment and decree; and the said payment shall be in full or partial satisfaction of said judgment and decree, as the facts <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance to licensee.</p></sidenote>may appear; and if, after payment of all such judgments and decrees, there shall remain any balance of said deposit, such balance shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of deposit, etc., if no suit brought.</p></sidenote>repaid to the licensee on order of the alien property custodian. If no suit is brought within one year after the end of the war, or no notice is filed as above required, then the licensee shall not be liable to make any further deposits, and all funds deposited by him shall be repaid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No deposits after entry of suit, etc.</p></sidenote>to him on order of the alien property custodian. Upon entry of suit and notice filed as above required, or upon repayment of funds as above provided, the liability of the licensee to make further reports to the President shall cease.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of license, etc., by court.</p></sidenote>If suit is brought as above provided, the court may, at any time, terminate the license, and may, in such event, issue an injunction to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance under royalties, etc.</p></sidenote>restrain the licensee from infringement thereafter, or the court, in case the licensee, prior to suit, shall have made investment of capital based on possession of the license, may continue the license for such period and upon such terms and with such royalties as it shall find to be just and reasonable.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="g">(g) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enemy owner may sue other than licensee to enjoin infringements.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Any enemy, or ally of enemy, may institute and prosecute suits in equity against any person other than a licensee under this Act to enjoin infringement of letters patent, trade-mark, print, label, and copyrights in the United States owned or controlled by said enemy or ally of enemy, in the same manner and to the extent that he would <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance notice to custodian.</p></sidenote>be entitled so to do if the United States was not at war: <i>Provided</i>, That no final judgment or decree shall be entered in favor of such enemy or ally of enemy by any court except after thirty days’ notice to the alien property custodian. Such notice shall be in writing and shall be served in the same manner as civil process of Federal courts.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="h">(h) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of attorney for legal acts, valid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">All powers of attorney heretofore or hereafter granted by an enemy or ally of enemy to any person within the United States, in so far as they may be requisite to the performance of acts authorized in subsections (a) and (g) of this section, shall be valid.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="i">(i) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents may be withheld if disclosing invention detrimental, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 394.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Whenever the publication of an invention by the granting of a patent may, in the opinion of the President, be detrimental to the public safety or defense, or may assist the enemy or endanger the successful prosecution of the war, he may order that the invention be kept secret and withhold the grant of a patent until the end of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Held abandoned if published by inventor, etc.</p></sidenote>war: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the invention disclosed in the application for said patent may be held abandoned upon it being established before or by the Commissioner of Patents that, in violation of said order, said invention has been published or that an application for a patent therefor has been filed in any other country, by the inventor or his assigns or legal representatives, without the consent or approval of the commissioner or under a license of the President.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation if patented invention tendered to the Government.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized.</p></sidenote>When an applicant whose patent is withheld as herein provided and who faithfully obeys the order of the President above referred to shall tender his invention to the Government of the United States for its use, he shall, if he ultimately receives a patent, have the right to sue for compensation in the Court of Claims, such right to compensation to begin from the date of the use of the invention by the Government.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importing articles designated unlawful by proclamation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Whenever during the present war the President shall find that the public safety so requires and shall make proclamation thereof it shall be unlawful to import into the United States from any country named in such proclamation any article or articles mentioned in such proclamation except at such time or times, and under such regulations or orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/423">423</page>President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That no preference shall be given to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No port preference.</p></sidenote>the ports of one State over those of another.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That all moneys (including checks and drafts payable on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys received by custodian to be deposited in the Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment, etc.</p></sidenote>demand) paid to or received by the alien property custodian pursuant to this Act shall be deposited forthwith in the Treasury of the United States, and may be invested and reinvested by the Secretary of the Treasury in United States bonds or United States certificates of indebtedness, under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe for such deposit, investment, and sale of securities; and as soon after the end of the war as the President shall deem practicable, such securitiesshall be sold and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">All other property of an enemy, or ally of enemy, conveyed, transferred, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of other enemy property.</p></sidenote>assigned, delivered, or paid to the alien property custodian hereunder shall be safely held and administered by him except as hereinafter provided; and the President is authorized to designate as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositaries for, to be designated.</p></sidenote>a depositary, or depositaries, of property of an enemy or ally of enemy, any bank, or banks, or trust company, or trust companies, or other suitable depositary or depositaries, located and doing business in the United States. The alien property custodian may deposit with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of property designated.</p></sidenote>such designated depositary or depositaries, or with the Secretary of the Treasury, any stocks, bonds, notes, time drafts, time bills of exchange, or other securities, or property (except money or checks or drafts payable on demand which are required to be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury) and such depositary or depositaries shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of dividends, etc.</p></sidenote>be authorized and empowered to collect any dividends or interest or income that may become due and any maturing obligations held for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of moneys.</p></sidenote>the account of such custodian. Any moneys collected on said account shall be paid and deposited forthwith by said depositary or by the alien property custodian into the Treasury of the United States as hereinbefore provided.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The President shall require all such designated depositaries to execute <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds from depositaries.</p></sidenote>and file bonds sufficient in his judgment to protect property on deposit, such bonds to be conditioned as he may direct.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The alien property custodian shall be vested with all of the powers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodian trustee of property other than money.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 460.</p></sidenote>of a common-law trustee in respect of all property, other than money, which shall come into his possession in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and, acting under the supervision and direction of the President, and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, may manage such property and do any act or things in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ownership, management, etc.</p></sidenote>respect thereof or make any disposition thereof or of any part thereof, by sale or otherwise, and exercise any rights which may be or become appurtenant thereto or to the ownership thereof, if and when necessary to prevent waste and protect such property and to the end that the interests of the United States in such property and rights or of such person as may ultimately become entitled thereto, or to the proceeds thereof, may be preserved and safeguarded. It shall be the duty of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enemy stock to be transferred to custodian.</p></sidenote>every corporation incorporated within the United States and every unincorporated association, or company, or trustee, or trustees within the United States issuing shares or certificates representing beneficial interests to transfer such shares or certificates upon its, his, or their books into the name of the alien property custodian upon demand, accompanied by the presentation of the certificates which represent such shares or beneficial interests. The alien property custodian shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of receipts.</p></sidenote>forthwith deposit in the Treasury of the United States, as hereinbefore provided, the proceeds of any such property or rights so sold by him.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Any money or property required or authorized by the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Treasurer on order of custodian.</p></sidenote>of this Act to be paid, conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to the alien property custodian shall, if said custodian shall so direct by <page identifier="/us/stat/40/424">424</page>written order, be paid, conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to the Treasurer of the United States with the same effect as if to the alien property custodian.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for money, etc., after the war to be settled by Congress.</p></sidenote>After the end of the war any claim of any enemy or of an ally of enemy to any money or other property received and held by the alien property custodian or deposited in the United States Treasury, shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on order of the President, or of the court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 419, 420.</p></sidenote>be settled as Congress shall direct: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That on order of the President as set forth in section nine hereof, or of the court, as set forth in sections nine and ten hereof, the alien property custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, as the case may be, shall forthwith convey, transfer, assign, and pay to the person to whom the President shall so order, or in whose behalf the court shall enter final judgment or decree, any property of an enemy or ally of enemy held by said custodian or by said Treasurer, so far as may be necessary to comply with said order of the President or said final judgment or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment to licenses of patents, etc.</p></sidenote>decree of the court:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided</i> further, That the Treasurer of the United States, on order of the alien property custodian, shall, as provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 420.</p></sidenote>in section ten hereof, repay to the licensee any funds deposited by said licensee.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping manifests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4197/4198/4200/p809/810">R. S., secs. 4197, 4198, 4200, pp. 809, 810</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 222.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That, during the present war, in addition to the facts required by sections forty-one hundred and ninety-seven, forty-one hundred and ninety-eight, and forty-two hundred of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be set out in the master’s and shipper’s manifests <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional sworn statements of no illegal shipments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By master.</p></sidenote>before clearance will be issued to vessels bound to foreign ports, the master or person in charge of any vessel, before departure of such vessel from port, shall deliver to the collector of customs of the district wherein such vessel is located a statement duly verified by oath that the cargo is not shipped or to be delivered in violation of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By shipper.</p></sidenote>Act, and the owners, shippers, or consignors of the cargo of such vessels shall in like maimer deliver to the collector like statement under oath as to the cargo or the parts thereof laden or shipped by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details.</p></sidenote>them, respectively, which statement shall contain also the names and addresses of the actual consignees of the cargo, or if the shipment is made to a bank or other broker, factor, or agent, the names and addresses of the persons who are the actual consignees on whose <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copy to consul on reaching port.</p></sidenote>account the shipment is made. The master or person in control of the vessel shall, on reaching port of destination of any of the cargo, deliver a copy of the manifest and of the said master’s, owner’s, shipper’s, or consignor’s statement to the American consular officer
of the district in which the cargo is unladen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departure forbidden if manifest, etc., believed false.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That, during the present war, whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that the manifest or the additional statements under oath required by the preceding section are false or that any vessel, domestic or foreign, is about to carry out of the United States any property to or for the account or benefit of an enemy, or ally of enemy, or any property or person whose export, taking out, or transport will be in violation of law, the collector of customs for the district in which such vessel is located is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to review by the President to refuse clearance to any such vessel, domestic or foreign, for which clearance is required by law, and by formal notice served upon the owners, master, or person or persons in command or charge of any domestic vessel for which clearance is not required by law, to forbid the departure of such vessel from the port, and it shall thereupon be unlawful for such vessel to depart.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Each export of coin, etc., to be reported.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details.</p></sidenote>The collector of customs shall, during the present war, in each case report to the President the amount of gold or silver coin or bullion or other moneys of the United States contained in any cargo intended for export. Such report shall include the names and addresses of the consignors and consignees, together with any facts known to the col<page identifier="/us/stat/40/425">425</page>lector with reference to such shipment and particularly those which may indicate that such gold or silver coin or bullion or moneys of the United States may be intended for delivery or may be delivered, directly or indirectly, to an enemy or an ally of enemy.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">That the sum of $450,000 is hereby appropriated, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for salaries, expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used in the discretion of the President for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for the payment of salaries of all persons employed under this Act, together with the necessary expenses for transportation, subsistence, rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, typewriters and exchanges thereof, miscellaneous supplies, printing to be done at the Government Printing Office, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content class="inline">That whoever shall willfully violate any of the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violating provisions, licenses, regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>of this Act or of any license, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, and whoever shall willfully violate, neglect, or refuse to comply with any order of the President issued in compliance with the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for natural persons.</p></sidenote>natural person, imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both, and any property, funds, securities, papers, or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of property, etc.</p></sidenote> articles or documents, or any vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and equipment, concerned in such violation shall be forfeited to the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content class="inline">That the district courts of the United States are hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of district courts.</p></sidenote>given jurisdiction to make and enter all such rules as to notice and otherwise, and all such orders and decrees, and to issue such process as may be necessary and proper in the premises to enforce the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1133, 1157.</p></sidenote>of this Act, with a right of appeal from the final order or decree of such court as provided in sections one hundred and twenty-eight and two hundred and thirty-eight of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content class="inline">That the several courts of first instance in the Philippine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of courts of Philippine Islands and Canal Zone.</p></sidenote>Islands and the district court of the Canal Zone shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this Act committed within their respective districts, and concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts of the United States of offenses under this Act committed upon the high <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conspiracies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1096.</p></sidenote>seas and of conspiracies to commit such offenses as defined by section thirty-seven of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the provisions of such section for the purpose of this Act are hereby extended to the Philippine Islands and to the Canal Zone.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That ten days after the approval of this Act and until the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing, etc., in foreign language, matter respecting Government policies, etc., unlawful.</p></sidenote>end of the war, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, to print, publish, or circulate, or cause to be printed, published, or circulated in any foreign language, any news item, editorial or other printed matter, respecting the Government of the United States, or of any nation engaged in the present war, its policies, international relations, the state or conduct of the war, or any matter relating thereto: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That this section shall not apply <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable if sworn translation filed with postmaster, and printed therewith.</p></sidenote>to any print, newspaper, or publication whore the publisher or distributor thereof, on or before offering the same for mailing, or in any manner distributing it to the public, has filed with the postmaster at the place of publication, in the form of an affidavit, a true and complete translation of the entire article containing such matter proposed to be published in such print, newspaper, or publication, and has <page identifier="/us/stat/40/426">426</page>caused to be printed, in plain type in the English language, at the head of each such item, editorial, or other matter, on each copy of such print, newspaper, or publication, the words “True translation filed with the postmaster at on (naming the post office where the translation was filed, and the date of filing thereof) as required by the Act of (here giving the date of this Act).</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matter nonmailable otherwise.</p></sidenote>Any print, newspaper, or publication in any foreign language which does not conform to the provisions of this section is hereby declared to be nonmailable, and it shall be unlawful for any person, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circulating nonmailable matter unlawful.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 230.</p></sidenote>firm, corporation, or association, to transport, carry, or otherwise publish or distribute the same, or to transport, carry or otherwise publish or distribute any matter which is made nonmailable by the provisions of the Act relating to espionage, approved June fifteenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits to print,etc., in foreign language, it not detrimental to Government, may be is sued.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen: <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That upon evidence satisfactory to him that any print, newspaper, or publication, printed in a foreign language may be printed, published, and distributed free from the foregoing restrictions and conditions without detriment to the United States in the conduct of the present war, the President may cause to be issued to the printers or publishers of such print, newspaper, or publication, a permit to print, publish, and circulate the issue or issues of their print, newspaper, or publication, free from such restrictions and requirements, such permits to be subject <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Posting of permits in post offices.</p></sidenote>to revocation at his discretion. And the Postmaster General shall cause copies of all such permits and revocations of permits to be furnished to the postmaster of the post office serving the place from which the print, newspaper, or publication, granted the permit is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printed notice In English on publication.</p></sidenote>to emanate. All matter printed published and distributed under permits shall bear at the head thereof in plain type in the English language, the words, “Published and distributed under permit authorized by the Act of (here giving date of this Act), on file at the post office of (giving name of office).”</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false translations, etc.</p></sidenote>Any person who shall make an affidavit containing any false statement in connection with the translation provided for in this section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1111.</p></sidenote>shall be guilty of the crime of perjury and subject to the punishment provided therefor by section one hundred and twenty-five of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States” and any person, film, corporation, or association, violating any other requirement of this section shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment of not more than one year, or, in the discretion of the court, may be both fined and imprisoned.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 107: To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>107</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 426</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>107.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of Interior to expend funds in New Mexico and Texas for drainage purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/89">S. J. Res. 89</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/14">Pub. Res., No. 14</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande project, N. Mex., Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 148, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage expenditures allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in order to provide for immediate and necessary drainage of lands in the Rio Grande reclamation project, New Mexico and Texas, the provisions of the sundry civil act, approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as far as applicable to said project, are hereby modified and amended so as to authorize and permit the Secretary of the Interior to expend not exceeding $15,000 in drainage work upon that portion of the project located within the State of New Mexico pending the formation of an irrigation district covering the lands within New Mexico under this project, and to expend upon that portion of the project located within the State of Texas such amount, within tire limit of available appropriations, as the existing irrigation district may obligate itself to repay.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 108: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses under bond, conditioned for the export of such distilled spirits to some foreign country within one year from the date of entry into the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>108</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 427</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/427">427</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>108.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the entry of distilled spirits into bonded warehouses under bond, conditioned for the export of such distilled spirits to some foreign country within one year from the date of entry into the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/99">S. J. Res. 99</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/15">Pub. Res. No. 15</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distilled spirits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry in bond of shipments prior to September 1, 1917.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 282, 308.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to permit the entry of distilled spirits shipped from any foreign country to the United States prior to September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, into bonded warehouses in the United States, under bond to be given by the importer of such distilled spirits, conditioned for the export of such goods to some foreign country within the period of one year from and after the entry thereof into the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 109: Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>109</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 427</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-10-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>109.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-10-06">October 6, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/162">H. J. Res. 162</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/16">Pub. Res., No. 16</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section three hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of land for Ordnance prior to title vested.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 353.</p></sidenote>and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditure of appropriations for the Ordnance Department of the Army now available for the purchase of land and for improvements upon such land.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, October 6, 1917.</actionDescription>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="smallCaps centered">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline>
<i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, 1917, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November, 1918.</i>
<inline class="smallCaps">Woodrow Wilson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Thomas</inline> R. <inline class="smallCaps">Marshall</inline>, Vice President ;<inline class="smallCaps">Willard Saulsbury</inline>, President of the Senate <i>pro tempore</i>; <inline class="smallCaps">John</inline> H. <inline class="smallCaps">Bankhead</inline>, Acting President <i>pro tempore</i>, January 17, July 5, 22 to 29, August 1 to 12, September 30, October 17 to 21, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Josiah</inline> H. <inline class="smallCaps">Wolcott</inline>, Acting President <i>pro tempore</i>, March 26 and 27, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Joseph</inline> T. <inline class="smallCaps">Robinson</inline>, Acting President <i>pro tempore</i>, October 24 to November 1, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Oscar</inline> W. <inline class="smallCaps">Underwood</inline>, Acting President <i>pro tempore</i>, November 2, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Morris Sheppard</inline>, Acting President <i>pro tempore</i>, November 4, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Champ Clark</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives; <inline class="smallCaps">Claude Kitchin</inline>, Speaker <i>pro tempore</i>, April 16 to 20, May 11, August 8, 19, and 29, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Finis</inline> J. <inline class="smallCaps">Garrett</inline>, Speaker <i>pro tempore</i>, September 11 and 12, November 1 to 7, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Charles</inline> R. <inline class="smallCaps">Crisp</inline>, Speaker <i>pro tempore</i>, September 21, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Courtney</inline> W. <inline class="smallCaps">Hamlin</inline>, Speaker pro tempore, September 25, 1918; <inline class="smallCaps">Martin</inline> T. <inline class="smallCaps">Foster</inline>, Speaker <i>pro tempore</i>, September 28 and 30, 1918.</enrolledDateline>
</preface>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 1: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and the people of the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>1</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/429" renderingPosition="bottom">429</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>1.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and the people of the United States, and making provision to prosecute the same.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-07">December 7, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/169">H. J. Res. 169</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/17">Pub. Res., No. 17</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent0 fontsize10">Whereas the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote>has committed repeated acts of war against the Government and the people of the United States of America: Therefore be it</recital>
</preamble>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a state of war is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War with Austria-Hungary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declaration of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1739.</p></sidenote>declared to exist between the United States of America and the Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President authorized to use Army, Navy, etc., to prosecute.</p></sidenote>the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 7, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 3: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>3.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-15">December 15, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/7572">H. R. 7572</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/92">Public, No. 92</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote>sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes, namely:</content></section>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EXECUTIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $100,000,000 “for the national security and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuation of appropriation for national defense.</p></sidenote>defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President,” contained in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 28.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/430">430</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>For mileage of Senators, $51,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 15, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 4: Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>4</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 430</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>4.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the payment of salaries of officers and employees of Congress for December, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-18">December 18, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/67/hjres/193">H. J. Res. 193</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/18">Pub. Res., No. 18</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional officers, etc., to be paid December, 1917, salaries on day of adjournment for holiday recess.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives are authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on the day of adjournment of the present session for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire of Members and Delegates.</p></sidenote>holiday recess; and the Clerk of the House is authorized to pay on the same day to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners their allowance for clerk hire for the said month of December.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 18, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 5: To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>5</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 430</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>5.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-20">December 20, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6967">H. R. 6967</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/93">Public, No. 93</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of midshipmen increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1513/p260">R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260, amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 9, 570, 1182.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter there shall be allowed at the United States Naval Academy five midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one for Porto Rico, two for the District of Columbia, fifteen appointed each year at large, and one hundred appointed annually from enlisted men of the Navy, as now authorized by law.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 20, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 6: To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 430</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>6.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize absence by homestead settlers and entrymen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-20">December 20, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2334">S. 2334</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/91">Public, No. 94</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homesteaders allowed leave of absence for farm labor elsewhere.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the pendency of the existing war any homestead settler or entryman shall be entitled to a leave of absence from his land for the purpose of performing farm labor, and such absence, while actually engaged in farm labor, shall, upon compliance with the terms of this Act, be counted as constructive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice before leaving claim.</p></sidenote>residence: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That each settler or entryman within fifteen days after leaving his claim for the purpose herein provided shall file notice thereof in the United States Land Office, and at the expiration of the calendar year file in said land office of the district wherein his claim is situated a written statement, under oath and corroborated by two witnesses, giving the date or dates when he left his claim, date or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/431">431</page>dates of return thereto, and where and for whom he was engaged in farm labor during such period or periods of absence:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cultivation, etc., required.</p></sidenote>That nothing herein shall excuse any homestead settler or entryman from making improvements or performing the cultivation required by applicable law upon his claim or entry:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted to present applications.</p></sidenote>provisions of this Act shall apply only to homestead settlers and entrymen who may have filed their application prior to the passage of this Act. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to provide rules and regulations for carrying this Act into effect.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 20, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 7: Extending the commission provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with the same authorities, powers, and provisions until on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1917-12-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>7.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the commission provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with the same authorities, powers, and provisions until on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1917-12-26">December 26, 1917</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/114">S. J. Res. 114</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/19">Pub. Res., No. 19</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the personnel of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic-tube service investigation commission continued to March 1, 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 39, p. 1063.</p></sidenote>membership of the commission created and provided for in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and authorized and directed to investigate the value of the pneumatic-tube service, their properties, franchises, and other equipment, shall continue with the same authorities, powers, and provisions for expenses until final report is made to Congress, which shall be made on or before March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, December 26, 1917.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 8: Extending until January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the effective date of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-01-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>8.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending until January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the effective date of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-01-12">January 12, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/10">S. J. Res. 106</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/20">Pub. Res., No. 20</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the effective date on and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antitrust Act, 1914.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Common carrier prohibited dealing with corporation in which officers interested.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective date extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 734.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 674, 1201.</p></sidenote>after which the provisions of section ten of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall become and be effective is hereby deferred and extended to January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That said section shall become effective on January eighth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to new corporations.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen, as to any corporations hereafter organized.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 12, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 9: Amending section thirty-two, Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-01-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>9.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending section thirty-two, Federal Farm Loan Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-01-18">January 18, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3235">S. 3235</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/95">Public, No. 95</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Federal Farm Loan <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Farm Loan Act, 1916.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 384, amended.</p></sidenote>Act, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended by adding at the end of section thirty-two the following:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized, in his discretion, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm loan bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase by Treasury from bank issuing.</p></sidenote>upon the request of the Federal Farm Loan Board, from time <page identifier="/us/stat/40/432">432</page>to time during the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, respectively, to purchase at par and accrued interest with any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, from any Federal land bank, farm loan bonds issued by such bank.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>“Such purchases shall not exceed the sum of $100,000,000 in either of such fiscal years. Any Federal land bank may at any time, repurchase at par and accrued interest for the purpose of redemption or resale any bonds so purchased from it and held in the Treasury.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption after war terminates.</p></sidenote>“The bonds of any Federal land bank so purchased by the Secretary of the Treasury, and held in the Treasury under the provisions of this amendment one year after the termination of the pending war, shall upon thirty days’ notice from the Secretary of the Treasury be redeemed or repurchased by such bank at par and accrued interest.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization of banks continued while bonds so held, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 362.</p></sidenote>“The temporary organization of any Federal land bank as provided in section four of said Federal Farm Loan Act shall be continued so long as any farm loan bonds purchased from it under the provisions of this amendment shall be held by the Treasury, and until the subscriptions to stock in such bank by national farm Ioan associations shall equal the amount of stock held in such bank by the Government of the United States. ”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, and tins Act shall take effect upon its passage. The right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 18, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 10: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>10</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-01-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>10.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-01-26">January 26, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/6176">H. R. 6176</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/96">Public, No. 96</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, Fairmont, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 52, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by the Act of Congress approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be built across the Monongahela River at or near the city of Fairmont, West Virginia, by the city of Fairmont, are hereby extended to one year and three years, respectively, from the seventeenth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 26, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 11: To authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>11</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-01-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>11.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the calling into the service of the United States the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-01-26">January 26, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/7697">H. R. 7697</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/97">Public, No. 97</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia, etc., of, may be called into United States service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 500, 1890.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands may be called into the service of the United States, and all members thereof may be drafted into said service and organized in such manner as is or may be provided by law for calling or drafting the National Guard into said service, and shall in all respects while therein be upon the same footing with members of the National Guard so called or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., limitation.</p></sidenote>drafted; <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the pay and allowances of officers and men of the Philippine Militia and other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands called into the service of the United States <page identifier="/us/stat/40/433">433</page>under the provisions of this Act when serving in the Philippine Islands shall in no case exceed the pay and allowances for corresponding grades of Philippine Scouts.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 26, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 12: Providing for the sale of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>12</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 433</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>12.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the sale of the coal and asphalt deposits in the segregated mineral land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-08">February 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/195">H. R. 195</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/98">Public, No. 98</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaw and Chickasaw lands. Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and asphalt de posits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 653.</p></sidenote>Interior is hereby authorized to sell the coal and asphalt deposits, leased and unleased, in the segregated mineral area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in Oklahoma, in the manner hereinafter set forth.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Before offering such coal and asphalt deposits for sale the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisal of lands, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, shall cause the same to be appraised. Such appraisement, both as to leased and unleased lands, shall be described in tracts to conform to the descriptions of the legal subdivisions heretofore designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be completed within six months after the passage of this Act.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the sale of such deposits shall be thoroughly advertised, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale at auction to highest bidder, etc.</p></sidenote>and shall not later than six months from the final appraisement be offered for sale to the highest bidder at public auction in tracts to conform with such appraisement at not less than the appraised value so fixed, except that isolated tracts of less than nine hundred and sixty acres may be sold separately under like provisions: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>That twenty per centum of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and the remainder shall be paid in four equal annual payments from the date of the sale, and alt deferred payments on all deposits sold under the provisions of this Act shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, and shall mature and become due before the expiration of four years after the date of such sale.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That immediately after the expiration of one year after <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of deposits undisposed of after one year.</p></sidenote>the coal and asphalt deposits shall have been offered for sale, or forfeited for nonpayment under the terms of the sale, the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, shall readvertise and cause to be sold to the highest bidder at public auction, in tracts to conform to the descriptions of the legal subdivisions heretofore designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and at not less than said appraised value, retaining the right to reject any or all bids, all coal and asphalt deposits remaining unsold and all coal and asphalt deposits forfeited by reason of such nonpayment of any part of the purchase price: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That at the expiration of six <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final sale.</p></sidenote>months thereafter the Secretary of the Interior may again readvertise and offer the same for final sale to the highest bidder at public auction, upon such terms as he may prescribe and at such valuation, independent of the appraised value, as he may fix.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That such deposits of coal or asphalt on the leased lands <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits on leased lands subject to rights of lessees.</p></sidenote>shall be sold subject to all rights of the lessee and that any person acquiring said deposits of coal or asphalt shall take the same subject to said rights and acquire the same under the express understanding and agreement that the Department of the Interior will cancel <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian ownership canceled.</p></sidenote>and withdraw all rules and regulations and relinquish all authority heretofore exercised over the operation of said mines by reason of the Indian ownership of said property and that said properties thereafter shall be operated under and in conformity with such laws as may be applicable thereto, and that advance royalty paid by any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Royalties to purchaser.</p></sidenote>lessee and standing to the credit of said lessee shall be credited by <page identifier="/us/stat/40/434">434</page>said purchaser to the extent of the amount thereof, and that no royalties shall be paid by said lessee to said purchaser until the credit so given shall be exhausted at the rate of 8 cents per ton mine run, and that the royalty to be paid thereafter by said lessee to said purchaser shall be 8 cents per ton mine run of coal, and that any lessee may, at any time after completion of such sale, transfer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of lessee to purchase surface and deposits.</p></sidenote>or dispose of his leasehold interest without any restriction whatever; and that any lessee shall have the preferential right, provided the same is exercised within ninety days after the approval of the completion of the appraisement of the minerals as herein provided, to purchase at the appraised value any or all of the surface of the lands lying within such lease held by him and heretofore reserved by order of the Secretary of the Interior and upon the terms as above provided, and shall also have the preferential right, except as herein otherwise provided, to purchase the coal deposits embraced in any lease held by such lessee by taking same at the highest <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit for payments.</p></sidenote>price offered by any responsible bidder at public auction at not less than appraised value; and if any lessee becomes the purchaser of any coal deposits on any undeveloped lease owned by him, then one-half of the advance royalties paid by any lessee on such lease shall be credited on the purchase price thereof, and any residue of advance royalties heretofore paid by any lessee shall be credited to such lessee on account of any production of coal on any other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional lands.</p></sidenote>lease which he may own and operate: <proviso>
<i>And provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as limiting or curtailing the rights of any lessee or owner of mineral deposits from acquiring additional surface lands for mining operations as provided by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 65.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum area.</p></sidenote>Act of Congress of February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That no person or corporation shall be permitted to acquire more than four tracts of nine hundred and sixty acres each, except where such person, firm, or corporation has such tracts under existing valid lease.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands for State, etc., uses, Subject only to coal and asphalt reserved.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the surface of any segregated coal and asphalt lands in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 805.</p></sidenote>State of Oklahoma, which may have been, or may be, condemned under the laws of the State of Oklahoma for State penal institutions, or for county or municipal purposes, as authorized by the Indian appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine, shall be construed to include the entire estate, save the coal and asphalt reserved and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits on State penitentiary grounds.</p></sidenote>existing valid leases thereon: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the State of Oklahoma shall have the preferential right of purchase, at the appraised value thereof, upon the same terms as apply to other coal and asphalt deposit sales under this Act, all coal and asphalt deposits underlying the surface heretofore purchased by the said State of Oklahoma, for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining restriction.</p></sidenote>the grounds of the State penitentiary:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That said coal deposit under said land shall not be mined by convict labor for the purpose of sale to any private agencies, individual person, or corporation, or to be sold for private or commercial purposes.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules, regulations, terms, and conditions, not inconsistent with this Act, as he may deem necessary to carry out its provisions and shall establish an office for such purpose at McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance of Indian title.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That when the full purchase price for any property sold hereunder is paid, the chief executives of the two tribes shall execute and deliver, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to each purchaser an appropriate patent, conveying to the purchaser the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance payment to secure patent.</p></sidenote>property so sold: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the purchaser of any coal or asphalt deposits shall have the right at any time before final payment is due to pay the full purchase price on said coal and asphalt <page identifier="/us/stat/40/435">435</page>deposits, with accrued interest, and shall thereupon be entitled to a patent therefor as herein provided.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, out of any Choctaw <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>and Chickasaw funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 to pay the expenses of appraisement, advertisement, and sale herein provided for, and the proceeds derived from the sales <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds to credit of Indians.</p> </sidenote>hereunder shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Choctaws and Chickasaws.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 13: For the purpose of promoting efficiency, for the utilization of the resources and industries of the United States, for lessening the expenses of the war, and restoring the loss caused by the war by providing for the employment of a discovery or invention called the “Garabed,” claiming to make possible the utilization of free energy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>13</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 435</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>13.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the purpose of promoting efficiency, for the utilization of the resources and industries of the United States, for lessening the expenses of the war, and restoring the loss caused by the war by providing for the employment of a discovery or invention called the “Garabed,” claiming to make possible the utilization of free energy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-08">February 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/174">H. J. Res. 174</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/21">Pub. Res., No. 21</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Garabed.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of use of Invention of Garabed T. K. Giragossian may be accepted.</p></sidenote>Interior is hereby authorized to accept, as trustee for the United States Government, from Garabed T. K. Giragossian an assignment of the right to utilize for the Government’s own use his discovery or invention to be known as the “Garabed.” Said assignment to and utilization of said discovery or invention by the United States Government shall be free of charge or expense.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to perform <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote>any and all acts, and to make such rules and regulations, and enter into such contracts as may be necessary to carry this resolution into effect; <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Demonstration of practicability, etc., required.</p></sidenote>shall demonstrate the practicability of his discovery or invention, and that it can substantially effect the purposes set out in section one of this resolution, to a commission of five eminent scientists, who shall be appointed by the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian and be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The United States Government shall be under no expense in connection with the demonstration of the “Garabed.”</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That if such demonstration shall in the opinion of the said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recognition as original inventor if proven.</p></sidenote>scientists prove the practicability of said discovery or invention, and that it can substantially effect the purposes set out in section one of this resolution, and that he is the first and original discoverer or inventor thereof, the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian shall be recognized by the United States Government as the original discoverer, inventor, and legal owner of the invention or discovery and of any improvements pertaining thereto that may be made by the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian. The certificate of said commission of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal rights acknowledged by certificate.</p></sidenote>scientists, to the effect that said discovery or invention is practicable, as aforesaid, and that he is the original discoverer or inventor thereof, shall constitute the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian the legal owner of and entitle him to all the rights and benefits of said discovery or invention for a period of seventeen years. The right is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents authorized.</p></sidenote>reserved to the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian, his heirs and assigns, to take out patents for his aforesaid discovery, invention, or for any improvement or device pertaining thereto.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That the United States Government shall not issue to anyone else any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No patent involving principle to be issued to anyone else.</p></sidenote>patent involving or relating to the distinctive principle of the “Garabed” free energy generator regardless of its form or shape, or for any device, improvement, process, equipment, or apparatus based upon the distinctive principle of the said discovery or invention, or for any improvement or change developed in the use of the said “Garabed,” and shall prevent the construction, importation, use, or exploitation thereof, in whole or in part, in the United <page identifier="/us/stat/40/436">436</page>States, and shall protect the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian, his heirs and assigns, in the rights and interests in the “Garabed” in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection for seventeen years.</p></sidenote>above respect for a period of seventeen years in the United States and in foreign countries where such protection is afforded by treaty obligation, international law, or diplomatic representation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of improvements if made by others.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any essential improvement or contrivance by any person or persons other than Garabed T. K. Giragossian relating to the “Garabed,” or its principle, which shall prove valuable and essential thereto in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior during the period of the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian’s special protection shall be bought by the United States Government for its own use in conjunction with its use of the said “Garabed,” with adequate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use by Giragossian.</p></sidenote>compensation to the inventor or contriver thereof. If, however, the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian wishes to utilize any such invention or contrivance so acquired by the United States Government, he or his assigns, and no other person or corporation, shall be entitled thereto upon the payment of a fair, just, and reasonable royalty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements by inventor.</p></sidenote>therefor. In consideration of this right the United States Government shall have, without expense, the right to use for its own purpose any new improvement or device made by the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of exclusive use.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That after the successful demonstration of the “ Garabed,” if the United States Government wishes to purchase the right and title for the exclusive use and ownership of said discovery or invention, the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian will comply with the request <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remuneration.</p></sidenote>of the United States Government: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That he shall be remunerated to the extent commensurate with the value of his discovery or invention, which shall be appraised by a committee of even number, one-half of the membership of which shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior and one-half selected by the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian, and the finding of said committee shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and of the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights not impaired if Congress fails to purchase.</p></sidenote>If the United States Congress in session at the time of the demonstration, or at the latest during the following session, does not decide to avail itself of this privilege, the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian’s legal rights and powers shall continue unimpaired as prescribed and set forth in this resolution.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc., prior to approval by commission void.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any sale, or attempted sale, by the said Garabed T. K. Giragossian, or by his representatives or assigns, of any interest in or any title to said discovery or invention, or any part thereof, prior to the approval of the same by said commission of scientists, shall be illegal, invalid, and void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Priority of Government use.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the United States Government will have the right to exercise the aforesaid right to utilize said discovery or invention for its own use simultaneously with the beginning of the public and general use of the said “Garabed” system.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 14: To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, by the city of Saint Louis, within the States of Illinois and Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>14</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>14.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for the completion of the municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, by the city of Saint Louis, within the States of Illinois and Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-11">February 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3081">S. 3081</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/99">Public, No, 99</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Saint Louis, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 461; Vol. 35, p. 585; Vol. 36, p, 185; Vol. 37, p. 67; Vol. 38, p. 810.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time for the construction and completion of the municipal bridge approaches and also extensions or additions thereto, which said construction and completion was authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State <page identifier="/us/stat/40/437">437</page>of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the period of three years from the date of the passage of this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation, etc, authorized.</p></sidenote>this Act, the city of Saint Louis may receive, purchase, and also acquire by lawful appropriation and condemnation in the States of Illinois and Missouri upon making proper compensation therefor, to be ascertained according to the laws of the State within which the same is located, real and personal property and rights of property, and in order to facilitate and support interstate commerce, may make any and every use of the same necessary and proper for the acquirement, construction, maintenance, and operation of said municipal bridge approaches, and extensions or additions thereto, consistent with the laws of the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 15: To authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>15</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 437</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>15.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize and empower officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps to serve under the Government of the Dominican Republic, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-11">February 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3006">S. 3006</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/100">Public, No. 100</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dominican Republic.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Navy and Marine Corps to assist.</p></sidenote>United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to detail to assist the Dominican Republic, officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation permitted.</p></sidenote>officers and enlisted men so detailed be, and they are hereby, authorized to accept from the Government of the Dominican Republic offices under said Government with compensation and emoluments from the said Dominican Republic, subject to the approval of the President of the United States:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That while 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular service pay, etc., continued.</p></sidenote>so detailed such officer’s and enlisted men shall receive, in addition to the compensation and emoluments allowed them by the Dominican Republic, the pay and allowances of their rank or rating in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps, as the case may be, and they shall be entitled to the same credit, while so serving, for longevity, retirement, foreign-service pay, and for all other purposes that they would receive if they were serving with the United States Navy or Marine Corps in said Dominican Republic.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 16: To amend section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project Arizona.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>16</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 437</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>16.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project Arizona.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-11">February 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3135">H. R. 3135</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/101">Public, No. 101</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the first sentence of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma reclamation project, Arizona.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p, 869, amended.</p></sidenote>section four of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for an auxiliary reclamation project in connection with the Yuma project, Arizona” approved January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“That the money in said auxiliary reclamation fund of the Yuma <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of fund modified.</p></sidenote>project, Arizona, shall be available for the construction or completion of irrigation works of the said auxiliary project or unit.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 17: Granting to certain persons in the active war service an extension of time within which application for insurance may be made under section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>17</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/438">438</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>17.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to certain persons in the active war service an extension of time within which application for insurance may be made under section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-02-12">February 12, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/128">S. J. Res. 128</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/22">Pub. Res., No. 22</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance applications accepted to April 12, 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ante, p. 409, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 614.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time within which application for insurance may be made as set forth in section four hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby extended, with respect to every person in the active war service as to whom the time for making application would expire before the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and eighteen, so that every such person may make application for insurance up to and including the said twelfth day of April, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic insurance not extended.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall be construed to effect an extension of the automatic insurance provided for in the said section four hundred and one beyond the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 12, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 19: To authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>19</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>19.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize and empower the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-01">March 1, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3389">S. 3389</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/102">Public, No. 102</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Houses, etc., for shipyard employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of Fleet Corporation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 535.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation is hereby authorized and empowered within the limits of the amounts herein authorized—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of sites for houses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To purchase, lease, requisition, including the requisition of the temporary use of, or acquire by condemnation or otherwise any improved or unimproved land or any interest therein suitable for the construction thereon of houses for the use of employees and the families of employees of shipyards in which ships are being constructed for the United States.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Build houses for employees and families on acquired sites.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To construct on such land for the use of such employees and their families houses and all other necessary or convenient facilities, upon such conditions and at such price as may be determined by it, and to sell, lease, or exchange such houses, land, and facilities upon such terms and conditions as it may determine.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquire houses, etc., for use of employees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To purchase, lease, requisition, including the requisition of, the temporary use of, or acquire by condemnation or otherwise any houses or other buildings for the use of such employees and their families, together with the land on which the same are erected, or any interest therein, all necessary and proper fixtures and furnishings therefor, and all necessary and convenient facilities incidental thereto; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Management of property, etc.</p></sidenote>to manage, repair, sell, lease, or exchange such lands, houses, buildings, fixtures, furnishings and facilities upon such terms and conditions as it may determine to carry out the purposes of this Act.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loans to persons providing houses, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">To make loans to persons, firms, or corporations in such manner upon such terms and security, and for such time not exceeding ten years, as it may determine to provide houses and facilities for the employees and the families of employees of such shipyards.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determine and pay for property taken.</p></sidenote>Whenever said United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall acquire by requisition or condemnation such property or any interest therein, it shall determine and make just compensation therefor, and if the amount thereof so determined is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such <page identifier="/us/stat/40/439">439</page>person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote>determined, and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to such seventy-five per centum will make such an amount as will be just compensation for the property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>or interest therein so taken, in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">That whenever the said United States Shipping Board Emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession of property authorized.</p></sidenote> Fleet Corporation shall requisition any property or rights, or upon the filing of a petition for condemnation hereunder, immediate possession may be taken by it of such land, houses, or other property, rights, and facilities, to the extent of the interests to be acquired therein, and the same may be immediately occupied and used, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction as to title, etc., suspended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p6">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote>the provisions of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing that no public money shall be expended upon such land until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land is located has been given, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended as to all land acquired hereunder.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The power to acquire property by purchase, lease, requisition, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers to cease on termination of war.</p></sidenote>condemnation, or to construct houses, or other buildings, and to make loans, or otherwise extend aid as herein granted shall cease with the termination of the present war with Germany. The date of the conclusion of the war shall be declared by proclamation of the President.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The word “person” used herein shall include a trustee, firm, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms construed.</p></sidenote>corporation. The word “shipyard” shall include any factory, workshop, warehouse, engine works, buildings, or grounds used for manufacturing, assembling, construction, or other process in shipyards and dockyards and discharging terminals, and other facilities connected therewith, now or hereafter used in connection with shipbuilding.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 651.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>expenditure of $50,000,000 is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted by this Act, the said United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall not expend or obligate the United States to expend more than the said sum, nor shall any contract for construction be entered into which provides that the compensation of the contractor shall be the cost of construction plus a percentage thereof for profit, unless such contract shall also fix the reasonable cost of such construction as determined by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and provide that upon any increase in cost above the reasonable cost so fixed by such board, the percentage of profit shall decrease as the cost increases in accordance with a rate to be fixed by said board and expressed in the contract. No contract shall be let without the approval of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Premiums, etc., for speedy completion.</p></sidenote>That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent said board from contracting for the payment of premiums or bonuses for the speedy completion of the work contracted for:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote>Fleet Corporation shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December of each year the names of all persons or corporations with whom it has made contracts and of such subcontractors as may be employed in furtherance of this Act, including a statement of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement of all expenditures in excess of $10,000.</p></sidenote>purposes and amounts thereof, together with a detailed statement of all expenditures by contract or otherwise for land, buildings, material, labor, salaries, commissions, demurrage, or other charges in excess of $10,000.</proviso>
</p>
</content></subsection>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 1, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 20: To extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>20</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 440</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-08</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/440">440</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>20.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-08">March 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/636">H. R. 6361</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/103">Public, No. 103</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<article>
<num value="I"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article I.</inline></num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">general provisions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General provisions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="100"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 100. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of civil legal proceedings, etc., against persons in military service during the war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of enabling the United States the more successfully to prosecute and carry on the war in which it is at present engaged, protection is hereby extended to persons in military service of the United States in order to prevent prejudice or injury to their civil rights during their term of service and to enable them to devote their entire energy to the military needs of the Nation, and to this end the following provisions are made for the temporary suspension of legal proceedings and transactions which may prejudice the civil rights of persons in such service during the continuance of the present war.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="101"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 101. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Definitions of terms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Persons in military service.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army organizations.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That the term “persons in military service,” as used in this Act, shall include the following persons and no others: All officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Regular Army Reserve, the Officers’ Reserve Corps, and the Enlisted Reserve Corps; all officers and enlisted men of the National Guard and National Guard Reserve recognized by the Militia Bureau of the War Department; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote>all forces raised under the Act entitled “ An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; all officers and enlisted men of the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy organizations.</p></sidenote>all officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia, Naval Reserve force, Marine Corps Reserve, and National Naval Volunteers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health. Lighthouse. and Coast Survey.</p></sidenote>recognized by the Navy Department; all officers of the Public Health Service detailed by the Secretary of the Treasury for duty either with the Army or the Navy; any of the personnel of the Lighthouse Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey transferred by the President to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurse Corps, field clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Navy Department; members of the Nurse Corps; Army field clerks; field clerks, Quartermaster Corps; civilian clerks and employees on duty with the military forces detailed for service abroad in accordance with provisions of existing law; and members of any other body who have heretofore or may hereafter become a part of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted to active service.</p></sidenote>the military or naval forces of the United States. The term “ military service,” as used in this definition, shall signify active service in any branch of service heretofore mentioned or referred to, but reserves and persons on the retired list shall not be included in the term “persons <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension during period of specified absence.</p></sidenote>in military service” until ordered to active service. The term “active service” shall include the period during which a person in military service is absent from duty on account of sickness, wounds, leave, or other lawful cause.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Period of military service. ”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The term “ period of military service,” as used in this Act, shall include the time between the following dates: For persons in active service at the date of the approval of this Act it shall begin with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dates included.</p></sidenote>date of approval of this Act; for persons entering active service after the date of this Act, with the date of entering active service. It shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination.</p></sidenote>terminate with the date of discharge from active service or death while in active service, but in no case later than the date when this Act ceases to be in force.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">(3) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The term “person,” as used in this Act, with reference to the holder of any right alleged to exist against a person in military service or against a person secondarily liable under such right, shall include <page identifier="/us/stat/40/441">441</page>individuals, partnerships, corporations, and any other forms of business association.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="4">(4) </num>
<content class="inline">The term “court ” as used in this Act shall include any court of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Court.”</p></sidenote>competent jurisdiction of the United States or of any State, whether or not a court of record.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="5">(5) </num>
<content class="inline">The term “termination of the war” as used in this Act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Termination of the war.”</p></sidenote> mean the termination of the present war by the treaty of peace as proclaimed by the President.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="102"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 102. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this Act shall apply to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Territory in which Act enforceable.</p></sidenote>United States, the several States and Territories, the District of Columbia, and all territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and to proceedings commenced in any court therein, and shall be enforced through the usual forms of procedure obtaining in such courts or under such regulations as may be by them prescribed.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">When under this Act any application is required to be made <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of courts.</p></sidenote>to a court in which no proceeding has already been commenced with respect to the matter, such application may be made to any court.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="103"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 103. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Whenever pursuant to any of the provisions of this Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stay, etc., extended to persons secondarily liable.</p></sidenote>the enforcement of any obligation or liability, the prosecution of any suit or proceeding, the entry or enforcement of any order, writ, judgment, or decree, or the performance of any other act, may be stayed, postponed, or suspended, such stay, postponement, or suspension may, in the discretion of the court, likewise be granted to sureties, guarantors, indorsers, and others subject to the obligation or liability, the performance or enforcement of which is stayed, postponed, or suspended.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">When a judgment or decree is vacated or set aside in whole or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacating judgment, etc., allowed as to sureties, etc.</p></sidenote>in part, as provided in this Act, the same may, in the discretion of the court, likewise be set aside and vacated as to any surety, guarantor, indorser, or other person liable upon the contract or liability for the enforcement of which the judgment or decree was entered.</p>
</content>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="II"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article II.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">general relief.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General relief.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="200"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 200. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in any action or proceeding commenced in any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of persons in military service against judgment in default, etc.</p></sidenote>court if there shall be a default of an appearance by the defendant the plaintiff before entering judgment shall file in the court an affidavit setting forth facts showing that the defendant is not in military service. If unable to file such affidavit plaintiff shall in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit as to status of defendant required.</p></sidenote>lieu thereof file an affidavit setting forth either that the defendant is in the military service or that plaintiff is not able to determine whether or not defendant is in such service. If an affidavit is not filed showing that the defendant is not in the military service, no judgment shall be entered without first securing an order of court directing such entry, and no such order shall be made if the defendant is in such service until after the court shall have appointed an attorney to represent defendant and protect his interest and the court shall on application make such appointment. Unless it appears <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond before Judgment unless defendant not in service.</p></sidenote>that the defendant is not in such service the court may require as a condition before judgment is entered that the plaintiff file a bond approved by the court conditioned to indemnify the defendant, if in military service, against any loss or damage that he may suffer by reason of any judgment should the judgment be thereafter set aside in whole or in part. And the court may make such other and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other relief.</p></sidenote>further order or enter such judgment as in its opinion may be necessary to protect the rights of the defendant under this Act.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Any person who shall make or use an affidavit required under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false affidavit, etc.</p></sidenote>this section knowing it to be false shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by imprisonment not to exceed one year or by fine not to exceed $1,000, or both.</content>
</subsection>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/442">442</page>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(3) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney to represent person in service if not present, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">In any action or proceeding in which a person in military service is a party if such party does not personally appear therein or is not represented by an authorized attorney, the court may appoint an attorney to represent him; and in such case a like bond may be required and an order made to protect the rights of such person. But no attorney appointed under this Act to protect a person in military servicie shall have power to waive any right of the person for whom he is appointed or bind him by his acts.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="4">(4) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against person in service may be reopened after termination thereof it prejudiced thereby.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If any judgment shall be rendered in any action or proceeding governed by this section against any person in military service during the period of such service or within thirty days thereafter, and it appears that such person was prejudiced by reason of his military service in making his defense thereto, such judgment may, upon application, made by such person or his legal representative, not later than ninety days after the termination of such service, be opened by the court rendering the same and such defendant or his <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>legal representative let in to defend; provided it is made to appear that the defendant has a meritorious or legal defense to the action <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bona fide rights preserved.</p></sidenote>or some part thereof. Vacating, setting aside, or reversing any judgment because of any of the provisions of this Act shall not impair any right or title acquired by any bona fide purchaser for value under such judgment.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="201"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 201. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stay of proceedings allowed unless interests not affected by service of party.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That at any stage thereof any action or proceeding commenced in any court by or against a person in military service during the period of such service or within sixty days thereafter may, in the discretion of the court in which it is pending, on its own motion, and shall, on application to it by such person or some person on his behalf, be stayed as provided in this Act, unless, in the opinion of the court, the ability of plaintiff to prosecute the action or the defendant to conduct his defense is not materially affected by reason of his military service.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="202"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 202. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief against fines and penalties on contracts, etc., while in service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That when an action for compliance with the terms of any contract is stayed pursuant to this Act no fine or penalty shall accrue by reason of failure to comply with the terms of such contract during the period of such stay, and in any case where a person fails to perform any obligation and a fine or penalty for such nonperformance is incurred a court may, on such terms as may be just, relieve against the enforcement of such fine or penalty if it shall appear that the person who would suffer by such fine or penalty was in the military service when the penalty was incurred and that by reason of such service the ability of such person to pay or perform was thereby materially impaired.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="203"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 203. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actions against persons in service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of court.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That in any action or proceeding commenced in any court against a person in military service, before or during the period of such service, or within sixty days thereafter, the court may, in its discretion, on its own motion, or on application to it by such person or some person on his behalf shall, unless in the opinion of the court the ability of the defendant to comply with the judgment or order entered or sought is not materially affected by reason of his military service:</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May stay execution of judgment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Stay the execution of any judgment or order entered against such person, as provided in this Act, and</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacate attachment, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Vacate or stay any attachment or garnishment of property, money, or debts in the hands of another, whether before or after judgment, as provided in this Act.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="204"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 204. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of stay, etc., may be for period of service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any stay of any action, proceeding, attachment, or execution, ordered by any court under the provisions of this Act may, except as otherwise provided, be ordered for the period of military service and three months thereafter or any part of such period, and subject to such terms as may be just, whether as to payment in installments of such amounts and at such times as the court may fix <page identifier="/us/stat/40/443">443</page>or otherwise. Where the person in military service is a codefendant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Codefendants not in service.</p></sidenote>with others the plaintiff may nevertheless by leave of court proceed against the others.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="205"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 205. </num>
<content class="inline">That the period of military service shall not be included <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military service not included in time of statutes of limitations.</p></sidenote>in computing any period now or hereafter to be limited by any law for the bringing of any action by or against any person in military service or by or against his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, whether such cause of action shall have accrued prior to or during the period of such service.</content>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="III"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article III.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">rent, installment contracts, mortgages.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Real property.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="300"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 300. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That no eviction or distress shall be made during the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eviction from dwellings of persons in service restrained.</p></sidenote>period of military service in respect of any premises for which the agreed rent does not exceed $ per month, occupied chiefly for dwelling purposes by the wife, children, or other dependents of a person in military service, except upon leave of court granted upon application therefor or granted in an action or proceeding affecting
the right of possession.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">On any such application or in any such action the court may, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stay of proceedings, etc., by court.</p></sidenote>in its discretion, on its own motion, and shall, on application, unless in the opinion of the court the ability of the tenant to pay the agreed rent is not materially affected by reason of such military service, stay the proceedings for not longer than three months, as provided in this Act, or it may make such other order as may be just.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">(3) </num>
<content class="inline">Any person who shall knowingly take part in any eviction or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for unlawful eviction.</p></sidenote>distress otherwise than as provided in subsection (1) hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by imprisonment not to exceed one year or by fine not to exceed $1,000, of both.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="4">(4) </num>
<content class="inline">The Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments for rent from Army or Navy pay of persons in service.</p></sidenote>case may be, is hereby empowered, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, to order an allotment of the pay of a person in military service in reasonable proportion to discharge the rent of premises occupied for dwelling purposes by the wife, children, or other dependents of such person.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="301"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 301. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That no person who has received, or whose assignor <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases by installments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on rescinding contracts by persons in service on failing to make payment.</p></sidenote>has received, under a contract for the purchase of real or personal property, or of lease or bailment with a view to purchase of such property, a deposit or installment of the purchase price from a person or from the assignor of a person who, after the date of payment of such deposit or installment, has entered military service, shall exercise any right or option under such contract to rescind or terminate the contract or resume possession of the property for nonpayment of any installment falling due during the period of such military service, except by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1a">(1a) </num>
<content class="inline">Any person who shall knowingly resume possession of property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for retaking property except under court action.</p></sidenote>which is the subject of this section otherwise than as provided in subsection (1) hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment not to exceed one year or by fine not to exceed $1,000, or both.</content>
</level>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Upon the hearing of such action the court may order the repayment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial proceedings for termination of contract, etc.</p></sidenote>of prior installments or deposits or any part thereof, as a condition of terminating the contract and resuming possession of the property, or may, in its discretion, on its own motion, and shall, on application to it by such person in military service or some person on his behalf, order a stay of proceedings as provided in this Act unless, in the opinion of the court, the ability of the defendant to comply with <page identifier="/us/stat/40/444">444</page>the terms of the contract is not materially affected by reason of such service ; or it may make such other disposition of the case as may be equitable to conserve the interests of all parties.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 302. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mortgages, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Security of property owned by persons in service.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this section shall apply only to obligations originating prior to the date of approval of this Act and secured by mortgage, trust deed, or other security in the nature of a mortgage upon real or personal property owned by a person in military service at the commencement of the period of the military service and still so owned by him.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of court in cases of nonpayment, etc.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">In any proceeding commenced in any court during the period of military service to enforce such obligation arising out of nonpayment of any sum thereunder due or out of any other breach of the terms thereof occurring prior to or during the period of such service, the court may, after hearing, in its discretion, on its own motion, and shall, on application to it by such person in military service or some person on his behalf, unless in the opinion of the court the ability of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stay of proceedings.</p></sidenote>the defendant to comply with the terms of the obligation is not materially affected by reason of his military service—</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other equitable disposition.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Stay the proceedings as provided in this Act; or</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content class="inline">Make such other disposition of the case as may be equitable to conserve the interests of all parties.</content>
</level>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">(3) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions of sales under warrant to confess judgment, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">No sale under a power of sale or under a judgment entered upon warrant of attorney to confess judgment contained in any such obligation shall be valid if made during the period of military service or within three months thereafter, unless upon an order of sale previously granted by the court and a return thereto made and approved by the court.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="IV"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article IV.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">insurance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="400"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 400. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of life insurance contracts included in “policy.”</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in this Article the term “policy” shall include any contract of life insurance on the level premium or legal reserve plan. It shall also include any benefit in the nature of life insurance arising out of membership in any fraternal or beneficial association; the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dues, etc., included as “premium.”</p></sidenote>term “premium” shall include membership dues or assessments in such association, and the date of issuance of policy as herein limited shall refer to the date of admission to membership in such association; the term “insured” shall include any person who is the holder of a policy as defined in this Article: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Definition of “insured ” and “insurer.”</p></sidenote>the term “insured” shall include any corporation, partnership, or other form of association which secures or provides insurance under any policy as defined in this Article.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="401"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 401. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons in service entitled to benefits hereof.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the benefits of this Article shall apply to any person in military service who is the holder of a policy of life insurance, when such holder shall apply for such benefits on a form prepared in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application, etc., conditions.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury. Such form shall set forth particularly that the application therein made is a consent to such modification of the terms of the original contract of insurance as are made necessary by the provisions of this Article and by receiving and filing the same the insurer shall be deemed to have assented thereto, to the extent, if any, to which the policy on which the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposition of.</p></sidenote>application is made is within the provisions of this Article. The original of such application shall be sent by the insured to the insurer, and a copy thereof to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of forms, etc.</p></sidenote>The Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall issue through suitable military and naval channels a notice explaining the provisions of this Article and shall furnish forms to be distributed to those desiring to make application for its benefits.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="402"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 402. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum amount of policies allowed benefits of Act,</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the benefits of this Act shall be available to any person in military service in respect of contracts of insurance in orce under their terms up to but not exceeding a face value of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/445">445</page>$5,000, irrespective of the number of policies held by such person whether in one or more companies, when such contracts were made and a premium was paid thereon before September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen; but in no event shall the provisions of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction as to unpaid premiums.</p></sidenote>Article apply to any policy on which premiums are duo and unpaid for a period of more than one year at the time when application for the benefits of this Article is made or in respect of any policy on which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outstanding loans, etc.</p></sidenote>there is outstanding a policy loan or other indebtedness equal to or greater than fifty per centum of the cash surrender value of the policy.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="403"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 403. </num>
<content class="inline">That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall, subject <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action by War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p></sidenote>to regulations, which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, compile and maintain a list of such persons in military service as have made application for the benefits of this Article, and shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications to be rejected.</p></sidenote>(1) reject any applications for such benefits made by persons who are not persons in military service; (2) reject any applications for such benefits in excess of the amount permitted by section four hundred and two; and (3) reject any applications in respect of contracts of insurance otherwise not entitled to the benefits of this Article. Said bureau shall immediately notify the insurer and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of rejection or approval.</p></sidenote>insured in writing of every rejection or approval.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="404"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 404. </num>
<content class="inline">That when one or more applications are made under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of policies exceeding $5,000, etc.</p></sidenote>this Article by any one person in military service in respect of insurance exceeding a total face value of $5,000, whether on one or more policies or in one or more companies, and the insured shall not in his application indicate an order of preference, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall reject such policies as have the inferior cash surrender value, so as to reduce the total benefits conferred within the face value of $5,000, and where necessary for this purpose shall direct the insurer to divide any policy into two separate policies. The said bureau shall immediately notify the insurer and the insured in writing of such selection.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="405"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 405. </num>
<content class="inline">That no policy which has not lapsed for the nonpayment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies accepted not to lapse for nonpayment dining service period, etc.</p></sidenote>of premium before the commencement of the period of military service of the insured, and which has been brought within the benefits of this Article, shall lapse or be forfeited for the nonpayment of premium during the period of such service or during one year after the expiration of such period: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That in no case shall this prohibition <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>extend for more than one year after the termination of the war.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="406"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 406. </num>
<chapeau class="inline">That within the first fifteen days of each calendar month <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly reports from insurance companies as to policies subject to benefits.</p></sidenote>after the date of approval of this Act until the expiration of one year after the termination of the war, every insurance corporation or association to which application has been made as herein provided, for the benefits of this Article, shall render to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance a report, duly verified, setting forth the following facts:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">First. </num>
<content class="inline">The names of the persons who have applied for such benefits, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicants and amounts applied for.</p></sidenote>and the face value of the policies in respect of which such benefits have been applied for by such persons, during the preceding calendar month;</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">Second.</num>
<content class="inline"> A list as far as practicable of the premiums in respect of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">List of unpaid premiums.</p></sidenote>policies entitled to the benefits of this Article which remain unpaid on the last day of the preceding calendar month, which day is at least thirty-one days after the due date of the premiums, provided such premiums have not previously been so reported as in default;</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">Third. </num>
<content class="inline">A list of premiums which, having been previously reported as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defaulted premiums paid.</p></sidenote>in default, have been paid by the policyholder or someone on his behalf in whole or in part during the preceding calendar month;</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">Fourth. </num>
<content class="inline">A computation of the difference between the total amount <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of monthly difference between defaults and repayments.</p></sidenote>of defaulted premiums therein reported and the total amount of premiums paid as therein reported, after having been previously reported <page identifier="/us/stat/40/446">446</page>as in default. From this sum shall be deducted the total sum of any premiums previously reported as in default, upon policies in respect of which the Bureau of War Risk Insurance has, since the date of such report, rejected an application for the benefits of this Article. The final sum so arrived at shall be denominated the monthly difference.</content>
</level>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="407"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 407. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Verification of statement, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall verify the computation of monthly difference reported by each insurer, and shall certify it, as corrected, to the Secretary of the Treasury and the insurer.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="408"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 408. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States bonds to insurer for monthly difference.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within ten days thereafter, deliver each month to the proper officer of each insurer, bonds of the United States to the amount of that multiple of $100 nearest to the monthly difference certified in respect of each insurer. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on use of bond, etc.</p></sidenote>Such bonds shall be registered in the names of the respective insurers, who shall be entitled to receive the interest accruing thereon, and such bonds shall not be transferred, or again registered, except upon the approval of the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and shall remain in the possession of the insurer until settlement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of obligations to insolvent insurers.</p> </sidenote>is made in accordance with this Article: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That whenever the fact of insolvency shall be ascertained by the Director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance all obligation on the part of the United States, under this Article, for future premiums on policies of such insurer shall thereupon terminate. An insurer shall furnish semiannual statements to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="409"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 409. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds as security for unpaid premiums.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the bonds so delivered shall be held by the respective insurers as security for the payment of the defaulted premiums <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien on policy, etc.</p></sidenote>with interest. To indemnify it against loss the United States shall have a first lion upon any policy receiving the benefits of this Article, subject only to any lien existing at the timo the policy became subject to this Act, and no loan or settlement or payment of dividend shall be made by the insurer on such policy which may prejudice the security of such lien. Before any dividend is paid or any loan or settlement is made tho written consent of tho Bureau of War Risk Insurance must be obtained.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="410"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 410. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions from proceeds of policy in case of death during service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the event that the military service of any person being the holder of a policy receiving the benefits of this Article shall be terminated by death, the amount of any unpaid premiums, with interest at the rate provided for in the policy for policy loans, shall be deducted from the proceeds of the policy and shall be included in the next monthly report of the insurer as premiums paid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="411"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 411. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies to lapse if past due premiums unpaid one year after end of military service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if the insured does not within one year after the termination of his period of military service pay to the insurer all past due premiums with interest thereon from their several due dates at the rate provided in the policy for policy loans, the policy shall at the end of such year immediately lapse and become void, and the insurer shall thereupon become hable to pay the cash surrender <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If insured in service at end of war.</p></sidenote>value thereof, if any: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i> That if the insured is in the military service at the termination of the war such lapse shall occur and surrender value be payable at the expiration of one year after the termination of the war.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="412"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 412. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final statement of account.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That at the expiration of one year after the termination <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to insurers.</p></sidenote>of the war there shall be an account stated between each insurer and the United States, in which the following items shall be credited to the insurer:</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly differences.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The total amount of the monthly differences reported under this Article;</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest differences.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The difference between the total interest received by the insurer upon the bonds held by it as security and the total interest upon such monthly differences at the rate of five per centum per annum; and in <page identifier="/us/stat/40/447">447</page>which there shall be credited to the United States the amount of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit to United States.</p></sidenote>cash surrender value of each policy lapsed or forfeited as provided in section four hundred and eleven, but not in any case a greater amount on any policy than the total of the unpaid premiums with interest thereon at the rate provided for in the policy for policy loans.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="413"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 413. </num>
<content class="inline">That the balance in favor of the insurer shall, in each <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance to be paid on surrender of bonds.</p></sidenote>case, be paid to it by the United States upon the surrender by the insurer of the bonds delivered to it from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of this Article.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="414"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 414. </num>
<content class="inline">That this Article shall not apply to any policy which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies not subject to benefits.</p></sidenote>is void or which may at the option of the insurer be voidable, if the insured is in military service, either in this country or abroad, nor to any policy which as a result of being in military service, either in this country or abroad, provides for the payment of any sum less than the face thereof or for the payment of an additional amount as premium.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="415"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 415. </num>
<content class="inline">That this Article shall apply only to insurance companies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Companies with reserves, etc., only allowed benefits of Act.</p></sidenote> or associations which are required by the law under which they are organized or doing business to maintain a reserve, or, which if not so required, have made or shall make provision for the collection from all those insured hi such insurer of a premium to cover the special war risk of those insured persons who are in military service.</content>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="V"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article V.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">taxes and public lands.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes and public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="400"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 500. </num>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this section shall apply when <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Real property of persons in service.</p></sidenote>any taxes or assessments, whether general or special, falling due during the period of military service in respect of real property owned and occupied for dwelling or business purposes by a person in military service or his dependents at the commencement of his period of military service and still so occupied by his dependents or employees are not paid.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">When any person in military service, or any person in his <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit to be filed to restrict sale, etc., for unpaid taxes.</p></sidenote>behalf, shall file with the collector of taxes, or other officer whose duty it is to enforce the collection of taxes or assessments, an affidavit showing (a) that a tax or assessment has been assessed upon property which is the subject of this section, (b) that such tax or assessment is unpaid, and (c) that by reason of such military service the ability of such person to pay such tax or assessment is materially affected, no sale of such property shall be made to enforce the collection of such tax or assessment, or any proceeding or action for such purpose commenced, except upon leave of court granted upon an application made therefor by such collector or other officer. The court thereupon may stay such proceedings or such sale, as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of court.</p></sidenote>provided in this Yet, for a period extending not more than six months after the termination of the war.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">(3) </num>
<content class="inline">When by law such property may be sold or forfeited to enforce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption after termination of service if property sold.</p></sidenote>the collection of such tax or assessment, such person in military service shall have the right to redeem or commence an action to redeem such property, at any time not later than six months after the termination of such service, but in no case later than six months after the termination of the war ; but this shall not be taken to shorten any period, now or hereafter provided by the laws of any State or Territory for such redemption.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="4">(4) </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever any tax or assessment shall not be paid when due, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest for unpaid taxes, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote>such tax or assessment due and unpaid shall bear interest until paid at the rate of six per centum per annum, and no other penalty or interest shall be incurred by reason of such nonpayment. Any lien for such unpaid taxes or assessment shall also include such interest thereon.</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/448">448</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="501"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 501. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No rights forfeited, etc., by reason of service, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no right to any public lands initiated or acquired prior to entering military service by any person under the homestead aws, the desert-land laws, the mining-land laws, or any other laws of the United States, shall be forfeited or prejudiced by reason of his absence from such land, or of his failure to perform any work or make any improvements thereon, or to do any other act required by any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former relief acts not impaired.</p></sidenote>such law during the period of such service. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to deprive a person in military service <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homesteads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 248.</p></sidenote>or his heirs or devisees of any benefits to which he or they may be entitled under the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of homestead entrymen or settlers who enter the military or naval service of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 250.</p></sidenote>United States in time of war,” approved July twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; the Act entitled “An Act for the protection of desert-land entrymen who enter the military or naval service of the United States in time of war,” approved August <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 276.</p></sidenote>seventh, nineteen hundred and seventeen; the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 243, 343.</p></sidenote>the joint resolution “To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 430.</p></sidenote>during the term of such service,” approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; or any other Act or resolution of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perfection of rights while in service.</p></sidenote>Congress: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to limit or affect the right of a person in the military service to take any action during his term of service that may be authorized by law, or the regulations of the Interior Department thereunder, for the perfection, defense, or further assertion of rights <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavits, etc., may be made before officer abroad.</p></sidenote>initiated prior to the date of entering military service, and it shall be lawful for any person while in military service to make any affidavit or submit any proof that may be required by law, or the practice of the General Land Office in connection with the entry, perfection, defense, or further assertion of any rights initiated prior to entering military service, before the officer in immediate command and holding a commission in the branch of the service in which the party is engaged, which affidavits shall be as binding in law and with tike penalties as if taken before the Register of the United States Land Office.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
</article>
<article>
<num value="VI"><inline class="smallCaps centered">Article VI.</inline></num>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">administrative remedies.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative remedies.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="600"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 600. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evasive transfers of interests not recognised.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That where in any proceeding to enforce a civil right in any court it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the court that any interest, property, or contract has since the date of the approval of this Act been transferred or acquired with intent to delay the just enforcement of such right by taking advantage of this Act, the court shall enter such judgment or make such order as might lawfully be entered or made the provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="601"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 601. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates as to service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote>
<subsection class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That in any proceeding under this Act a certificate signed by The Adjutant General of the Army as to persons in the Army or in any branch of the United States service while serving pursuant to law with the Army, signed by the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department as to persons in the Navy or in any other branch of the United States service while serving <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps.</p></sidenote>pursuant to law with the Navy, and signed by the Major General, Commandant, United States Marine Corps, as to persons in the Marine Corps, or in any other branch of the United States service while serving pursuant <page identifier="/us/stat/40/449">449</page>to law with the Marine Corps, or signed by an officer designated by any of them, respectively, for the purpose, shall when produced be prima facie evidence as to any of the following facts stated in such certificate:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">That a person named has not been, or is, or has been in military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prima facie evidence of specified facts.</p></sidenote>service; the time when and the place where such person entered military service, his residence at that time, and the rank, branch, and unit of such service that he entered, the dates within which he was in military service, the monthly pay received by such person at the date of issuing the certificate, the time when and place where such person died in or was discharged from such service.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">It shall be the duty of the foregoing officers to furnish such certificate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates on application.</p></sidenote>on application, and any such certificate when purporting to be signed by any one of such officers or by any person purporting upon the face of the certificate to have been so authorized shall be prima facie evidence of its contents and of the authority of the signer to issue the same.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num>
<content class="inline">Where a person in military service has been reported missing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presumption as to persons reported missing.</p></sidenote>he shall be presumed to continue in the service until accounted for, and no period herein limited which begins or ends with the death of such person shall begin or end until the death of such person is in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of death.</p></sidenote>fact reported to or found by the Department of War or Navy, or any court or board thereof, or until such death is found by a court of competent jurisdiction: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no period herein limited <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>which begins or ends with the death of such person shall be extended hereby beyond a period of six months after the termination of the war.</proviso>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="602"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 602. </num>
<content>That any interlocutory order made by any court under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of court on interlocutory orders.</p></sidenote>the provisions of this Act may, upon the court’s own motion or otherwise, be revoked, modified, or extended by it upon such notice to the parties affected as it may require.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="603"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 603. </num>
<content>That this Act shall remain in force until the termination of the war, and for six months thereafter: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That wherever <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of authorized transactions, etc.</p></sidenote>under any section or provision of this Act a proceeding, remedy, privilege, stay, limitation, accounting, or other transaction has been authorized or provided, the due exercise or enjoyment of which may extend beyond the period herein fixed for the termination of this Act, such section or provision shall be deemed to continue in full force and effect so long as may be necessary to the exercise or enjoyment of the proceeding, remedy, privilege, stay, limitation, accounting, or transaction aforesaid.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="604"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 604. </num>
<content>That this Act may be cited as the <shortTitle role="act">Soldiers’ and Sailors’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title.</p></sidenote>Civil Relief Act</shortTitle>.</content>
</section>
</article>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 21: Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries within the former Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>21</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 449</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>21.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries within the former Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-11">March 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/92">S. J. Res, 92</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/23">Pub. Res., No, 23</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Indian Reservation, Wash.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to extend for a period of no longer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of time for annual installments for ceded lands on.</p></sidenote>than one year the time for the payment of any annual installment due, or hereafter to become due, on the purchase price for lands sold under the Act of Congress approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eighty), entitled “An <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 80.</p></sidenote>Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the diminished Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes”: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the last payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final payment.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/450">450</page>and all other payments must be made within a period not exceeding one year after the payment becomes due, by the terms of the Act under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications for extension, etc.</p></sidenote>which the entry was made:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That any and all payments must be made when due, unless the entryman applies for an extension and pays interest for one year in advance at five per centum per annum upon the amount due as herein provided, and patent shall be withheld until full and final payment of the purchase price is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of entry for nonpayment.</p></sidenote>made in accordance with the provisions hereof:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That failure to make any payment that may be due, unless the same be extended, as herein provided, shall forfeit the entry, and the same shall be canceled, and any and all payments theretofore made shall be forfeited.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 22: Granting the consent of Congress to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee to construct a bridge across the Fox River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>22</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>22.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee to construct a bridge across the Fox River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-13">March 13, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/7998">H. R. 7998</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/104">Public, No. 104</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fox River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East and West Dundee, Ill., may bridge.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the village of East Dundee and the village of West Dundee, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Fox River from Main Street in East Dundee to Main Street in West Dundee, in the county of Kane, in the State of Illinois, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-three, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 13, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 23: To authorize the Secretary of War to grant furloughs without pay and allowances to enlisted men of the Army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>23</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>23.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to grant furloughs without pay and allowances to enlisted men of the Army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-16">March 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3471">S. 3471</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/105">Public, No. 105</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furloughs without pay, etc., allowed enlisted men for civil work during the war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, whenever during the continuance of the present war in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of the service or the national security and defense render it necessary or desirable, the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to grant furloughs to enlisted men of the Army of the United States with or without pay and allowances or with partial pay and allowances, and, for such periods as he may designate, to permit said enlisted men to engage in civil occupations and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications, etc.</p></sidenote>pursuits: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That such furloughs shall be granted only upon the voluntary application of such enlisted men under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 24: To save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>24</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>24.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-19">March 19, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1854">S. 1854</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/106">Public, No. 106</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Daylight saving.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standard timo for territorial zones.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, for the purpose of establishing the standard time of the United States, the territory of continental United States shall be divided into five zones in the manner hereinafter provided. The standard time of the first zone <page identifier="/us/stat/40/451">451</page>shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich; that of the second zone on the ninetieth degree; that of the third zone on the one hundred and fifth degree; that of the fourth zone on the one hundred and twentieth degree; and that of the fifth zone, which shall include only Alaska, on the one hundred and fiftieth degree. That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Definition of zone limits.</p></sidenote>limits of each zone shall be defined by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, having regard for the convenience of commerce and the existing junction points and division points of common carriers engaged in commerce between the several States and with foreign nations, and such order may be modified from time to time.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That within the respective zones created under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standard to govern movements of common carriers.</p></sidenote>authority hereof the standard time of the zone shall govern the movement of all common carriers engaged in commerce between the several States or between a State and any of the Territories of the United States, or between a State or the Territory of Alaska and any of the insular possessions of the United States or any foreign country. In all statutes, orders, rules, and regulations relating to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official acts to be regulated thereby.</p></sidenote>the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the United States, whether in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the Government, or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the United States standard time of the zone within which the act is to be performed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That at two o’clock antemeridian of the last Sunday in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time to be advanced one hour from March to November each year.</p></sidenote>March of each year the standard time of each zone shall be advanced one hour, and at two o’clock antemeridian of the last Sunday in October in each year the standard time of each zone shall, by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return to astronomical time thereafter.</p></sidenote>retarding of one hour, be returned to the mean astronomical time of the degree of longitude governing said zone, so that between the last Sunday in March at two o’clock antemeridian and the last Sunday in October at two o’clock antemeridian in each year the standard time in each zone shall be one hour in advance of the mean astronomical time of the degree of longitude governing each zone, respectively.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">That the standard time of the first zone shall be known <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standards designated.</p></sidenote>and designated as United States Standard Eastern Time; that of the second zone shall be known and designated as United States Standard Central Time; that of the third zone shall be known and designated as United States Standard Mountain Time; that of the fourth zone shall be known and designated as United States Standard Pacific Time; and that of the fifth zone shall be known and designated as United States Standard Alaska Time.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conflicting laws repealed.</p></sidenote>hereby repealed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 19, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 25: To provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>25</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 451</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>25.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-21">March 21, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3752">S. 3752</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/107">Public, No. 107</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal railroad control.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement to guarantee compensation to interstate carriers taken possession of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1733, 1763, 1769.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the President, having in time of war taken over the possession, use, control, and operation (called herein Federal control) of certain railroads and systems of transportation (called herein carriers), is hereby authorized to agree with and to guarantee to any such carrier making operating returns <page identifier="/us/stat/40/452">452</page>to the Interstate Commerce Commission, that during the period of such Federal control it shall receive as just compensation an annual sum, payable from time to time in reasonable installments, for each <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to exceed average operating income.</p></sidenote>year and pro rata for any fractional year of such Federal control, not exceeding a sum equivalent as nearly as may be to its average annual railway operating income for the three years ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess income the property of United States.</p></sidenote>That any railway operating income accruing during the period of Federal control in excess of such just compensation shall remain the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent included as income.</p></sidenote>property of the United States. In the computation of such income, debits and credits arising from the accounts called in the monthly reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission equipment rents and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street electric railways excluded.</p></sidenote>joint facility rents shall be included, but debits and credits arising from the operation of such street electric passenger railways, including railways commonly called interurbana, as are at the time of the agreement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computations of in come of lines acquired, etc., since July 1, 1914.</p></sidenote>not under Federal control, shall be excluded. If any lines were acquired by, leased to, or consolidated with such railroad or system between July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, both inclusive, and separate operating returns to the Interstate Commerce Commission were not made for such lines after such acquisition, lease, or consolidation, there shall (before the average is computed) be added to the total railway operating income of such railroad or system for the three years ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the total railway operating income of the lines so acquired, leased, or consolidated, for the period beginning July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and ending on the date of such acquisition, lease, or consolidation, or on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of annual average income.</p></sidenote>seventeen, whichever is the earlier. The average annual railway operating income shall be ascertained by the Interstate Commerce Commission and certified by it to the President. Its certificate shall, for the purpose of such agreement, be taken as conclusive of the amount of such average annual railway operating income.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of war taxes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1076.</p></sidenote>Every such agreement shall provide that any Federal taxes under the Act of October third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or Acts in addition thereto or in amendment thereof, commonly called war taxes, assessed for the period of Federal control beginning January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, or any part of such period, shall be paid by the carrier out of its own funds, or shall be charged against <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other taxes.</p></sidenote>or deducted from the just compensation; that other taxes assessed under Federal or any other governmental authority for the period of Federal control or any part thereof, either on the property used under such Federal control or on the right to operate as a carrier, or on the revenues or any part thereof derived from operation (not including, however, assessments for public improvements or taxes assessed on property under construction, and chargeable under the classification of the Interstate Commerce Commission to investment in road and equipment), shall be paid out of revenues derived <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessments prior to January 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>from railway operations while under Federal control; that all taxes assessed under Federal or any other governmental authority for the period prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, whenever levied or payable, shall be paid by the carrier out of its own funds or shall be charged against or deducted from the just compensation.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for maintenance, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Every such agreement shall also contain adequate and appropriate provisions for the maintenance, repair, renewals, and depreciation of the property, for the creation of any reserves or reserve funds found necessary in connection therewith, and for such accounting and adjustments of charges and payments, both during and at the end of Federal control as may be requisite in order that the property <page identifier="/us/stat/40/453">453</page>of each earner may be returned to it in substantially as good repair and in substantially as complete equipment as it was in at the beginning of Federal control, and also that the United States may, by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for additions, etc.</p></sidenote>deductions from the just compensations or by other proper means and charges, be reimbursed for the cost of any additions, repairs, renewals, and betterments to such property not justly chargeable to the United States; in making such accounting and adjustments, due <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of accounting.</p></sidenote>consideration shall be given to the amounts expended or reserved by each carrier for maintenance, repairs, renewals, and depreciation during the three years ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to the condition of the property at the beginning and at the end of Federal control and to any other pertinent facts and circumstances.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The President is further authorized in such agreement to make all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement for further regulation, etc., to be made.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 645.</p></sidenote>other reasonable provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, that he may deem necessary or proper for such Federal control or for the determination of the mutual rights and obligations of the parties to the agreement arising from or out of such Federal control.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">If the President shall find that the condition of any carrier was <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to carriers on other basis than average income.</p></sidenote>during all or a substantial portion of the period of three years ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, because of non-operation, receivership, or where recent expenditures for additions or improvements or equipment were not fully reflected in the operating railway income of said three years or a substantial portion thereof, or because of any undeveloped or abnormal conditions, so exceptional as to make the basis of earnings hereinabove provided for plainly inequitable as a fair measure of just compensation, then the President may make with the carrier such agreement for such amount as just compensation as under the circumstances of the particular case he shall find just.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">That every railroad not owned, controlled, or operated by another <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions extended to roads connecting with those taken over by the President.</p></sidenote>carrier company, and which has heretofore competed for traffic with a railroad or railroads of which the President has taken the possession, use, and control, or which connects with such railroads and is engaged as a common carrier in general transportation, shall be held and considered as within “Federal control,” as herein defined, and necessary for the prosecution of the war, and shall be entitled to the benefit of all the provisions of this Act: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street electric railways not included.</p></sidenote>nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as including any street or interurban electric railway which has as its principal source of operating revenue urban, suburban, or interurban passenger traffic, or sale of power, heat and light, or both.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The agreement shall also provide that the carrier shall accept all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers to accept all terms, regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>the terms and conditions of this Act and any regulation or order made by or through the President under authority of this Act or of that portion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 645.</p></sidenote>of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which authorizes the President in time of war to take possession, assume control, and utilize systems of transportation.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That if no such agreement is made, or pending the execution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount payable if agreement not made, etc.</p></sidenote>of an agreement, the President may nevertheless pay to any carrier while under Federal control an annual amount, payable in reasonable installments, not exceeding ninety per centum of the estimated annual amount of just compensation, remitting such carrier, in case where no agreement is made, to its legal rights for any balance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of balance claimed.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/454">454</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on amount found due.</p></sidenote>claimed to the remedies provided in section three hereof. Any amount thereafter found due such carrier above the amount paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrier to pay Interest on overpayments.</p></sidenote>shall bear interest at the rate of six per centum per annum. The acceptance of any benefits under this section shall constitute an acceptance by the carrier of all the provisions of this Act and shall obligate the earner to pay to the United States, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from a date or dates fixed in proceedings under section three, the amount by which the sums received under this section exceed the sum found due in such proceedings.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for just compensation submitted boards of referees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all claims for just compensation not adjusted (as provided in section one) shall, on the application of the President or of any carrier, be submitted to boards, each consisting of three referees to be appointed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, members of which and the official force thereof being eligible for service on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred.</p></sidenote>such boards without additional compensation. Such boards of referees are hereby authorized to summon witnesses, require the production of records, books, correspondence, documents, memoranda, and other papers, view properties, administer oaths, and may hold hearings in Washington and elsewhere, as their duties and the convenience <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance of district courts to procure testimony, etc.</p></sidenote>of the parties may require. In case of disobedience to a subpoena the board may invoke the aid of any district court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, and such court within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on may, in case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, corporation, partnership, or association, issue an order requiring appearance before the board, or the production of documentary evidence if so ordered, or the giving of evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings.</p></sidenote>punished by such court as a contempt thereof. Such cases may be heard separately or together or by classes, by such boards as the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first instance, or any board of referees to which any such cases shall be referred may determine. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to the President.</p></sidenote>Said boards shall give full hearings to such carriers and to the United States; shall consider all the facts and circumstances, and shall report as soon as practicable in each case to the President the just compensation, calculated on an annual basis and otherwise in such form as to be convenient and available for the making of such agreement as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement authorized.</p></sidenote>is authorized in section one. The President is authorized to enter into an agreement with such carrier for just compensation upon a basis not in excess of that reported by such board, and may include therein provisions similar to those authorized under section one. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination by Court of Claims it agreement fails.</p></sidenote>Failing such agreement, either the United States or such earner may file a petition in the Court of Claims for the purpose of determining the amount of such just compensation, and in the proceedings in said court the report of said referees shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of just compensation and of the facts therein stated. Proceedings in the Court of Claims under this section shall be given precedence and expedited in every practicable way.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for additions, betterments, extensions, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the just compensation that may be determined as hereinbefore provided by agreement or that may be adjudicated by the Court of Claims, shall be increased by an amount reckoned at a reasonable rate per centum to be fixed by the President upon the cost of any additions and betterments, less retirements, and upon the cost of road extensions to the property of such carrier made by such carrier with the approval of or by order of the President while such property is under Federal control.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividend restrictions.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no carrier while under Federal control shall, without the prior approval of the President, declare or pay any dividend in excess of its regular rate of dividends during the three years ended <page identifier="/us/stat/40/455">455</page>June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of issues.</p></sidenote>That such carriers as have paid no regular dividends or no dividends during said period may, with the prior approval of the President, pay dividends at such rate as the President may determine.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the sum of $500,000,000 is hereby appropriated, out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote>of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which, together with any funds available from any operating income of said carriers, may be used by the President as a revolving fund for the purpose of paying the expenses of the Federal control, and so far as necessary the amount of just compensation, and to provide <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terminals, cars, equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>terminals, motive power, cars, and other necessary equipment, such terminals, motive power, cars, and equipment to be used and accounted for as the President may direct and to be disposed of as Congress may hereafter by law provide.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The President may also make or order any carrier to make any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions, terminals, equipment, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote>additions, betterments, or road extensions, and to provide terminals, motive power, cars and other equipment necessary or desirable for war purposes or in the public interest on or in connection with the property of any carrier. He may from said revolving fund advance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to carriers for expenses of, ordered.</p></sidenote>to such carrier all or any part of the expense of such additions, betterments, or road extensions, and to provide terminals, motive power, cars, and other necessary equipment so ordered and constructed by such carrier or by the President, such advances to be charged against such carrier and to boar interest at such rate and be payable on such terms as may be determined by the President, to the end that the United States may be fully reimbursed for any sums so advanced.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Any loss claimed by any carrier by reason of any such additions, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of losses claimed by carriers by additions, etc.</p></sidenote>betterments, or road extensions so ordered and constructed may be determined by agreement between the President and such carrier: failing such agreement the amount of such loss shall be ascertained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 454.</p></sidenote>as provided in section three hereof.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">From said revolving fund the President may expend such an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of water transportation facilities.</p></sidenote>amount as he may deem necessary or desirable” for the utilization and operation of canals, or for the purchase, construction, or utilization and operation of boats, barges, tugs, and other transportation facilities on the inland, canal, and coastwise waterways, and may in the operation and use of such facilities create or employ such agencies and enter into such contracts and agreements as he shall deem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1290.</p></sidenote>in the public interest.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of providing funds requisite for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of securities by carriers during Federal control.</p></sidenote>maturing obligations or for other legal and proper expenditures, or for reorganizing railroads in receivership, carriers may, during the period of Federal control, issue such bonds, notes, equipment trust certificates, stock, and other forms of securities, secured or unsecured by mortgage, as the President may first approve as consistent with the public interest. The President may, out of the revolving <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, sale, etc., thereof by the Government.</p></sidenote>fund created by this Act, purchase for the United States all or any part of such securities at prices not exceeding par, and may sell such securities whenever in his judgment it is desirable at prices not less than the cost thereof. Any securities so purchased shall be held by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, under the direction of the President, represent the United States in all matters in connection therewith in the same manner as a private holder thereof. The <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote>President shall each year as soon as practicable after January first, cause a detailed report to be submitted to the Congress of all receipts and expenditures made under this section and section six during the preceding calendar year.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That the President may execute any of the powers herein <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agencies for execution of powers, authorized.</p></sidenote>and heretofore granted him with relation to Federal control through <page identifier="/us/stat/40/456">456</page>such agencies as he may determine, and may fix the reasonable compensation for the performance of services in connection therewith, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation of Government establishments, etc.</p></sidenote>and may avail himself of the advice, assistance, and cooperation of the Interstate Commerce Commission and of the members and employees thereof, and may also call upon any department, commission, or board of the Government for such services as he may deem expedient. But no such official or employee of the United States shall receive any additional compensation for such services except as now permitted by law.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control of transportation systems for war purposes, continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 645.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall remain in force and effect except as expressly modified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further powers conferred.</p></sidenote>and restricted by this Act; and the President, in addition to the powers conferred by this Act, shall have and is hereby given such other and further powers necessary or appropriate to give effect to the powers herein and heretofore conferred. The provisions of this Act shall also apply to any carriers to which Federal control may be hereafter extended.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers subject to present laws, etc., not inconsistent herewith.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That carriers while under Federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or Federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other Act applicable to such Federal control or with any order of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No defense as governmental agency.</p></sidenote>President. Actions at law or suits in equity may be brought by and against such carriers and judgments rendered as now provided by law; and in any action at law or suit in equity against the carrier, no defense shall be made thereto upon the ground that the carrier <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actions not transferable from State to Federal courts.</p></sidenote>is an instrumentality or agency of the Federal Government. Nor shall any such carrier be entitled to have transferred to a Federal court any action heretofore or hereafter instituted by or against it, which action was not so transferable prior to the Federal control of such carrier; and any action which has heretofore been so transferred because of such Federal control or of any Act of Congress or official <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No process against property under Federal Control.</p></sidenote>order or proclamation relating thereto shall upon motion of either party be retransferred to the court in which it was originally instituted. But no process, mesne or final, shall be levied against any property under such Federal control.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates, etc., may by initiated by the President.</p></sidenote>That during the period of Federal control, whenever in his opinion the public interest requires, the President may initiate rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices by filing the same with the Interstate Commerce Commission, which said rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall not be suspended by the commission pending final determination.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consideration by Interstate Commerce Commission of reasonableness, etc.</p></sidenote>Said rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall be reasonable and just and shall take effect at such time and upon such notice as he may direct, but the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, upon complaint, enter upon a hearing concerning the justness and reasonableness of so much of any order of the President as establishes or changes any rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice of any carrier under Federal control, and may consider all the facts and circumstances existing at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Noncompetition in operation to be considered.</p></sidenote>time of the making of the same. In determining any question concerning any such rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, or practices or changes therein, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall give due consideration to the fact that the transportation systems are being operated under a unified and coordinated national control and not in competition.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Findings, etc., of Commission.</p></sidenote>After full hearing the commission may make such findings and orders as are authorized by the Act to regulate commerce as amended, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/457">457</page>and said findings and orders shall be enforced as provided in said Act: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That when the President shall find and certify <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of President of necessity to increase operating revenues.</p></sidenote>to the Interstate Commerce Commission that in order to defray the expenses of Federal control and operation fairly chargeable to railway operating expenses, and also to pay railway tax accruals other than war taxes, net rents for joint facilities and equipment, and compensation to the carriers, operating as a unit, it is necessary to increase the railway operating revenues, the Interstate Commerce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consideration by Commission as to rates, etc.</p></sidenote>Commission in determining the justness and reasonableness of any rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall take into consideration said finding and certificate by the President, together with such recommendations as he may make.</proviso>
</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">That every person or corporation, whether carrier or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violating provisions hereof.</p></sidenote>shipper, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by a carrier or shipper, or other person, who shall knowingly violate or fail to observe any of the provisions of this Act, or shall knowingly interfere with or impede the possession, use, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interfering with use of railroad property, etc.</p></sidenote>operation, or control of any railroad property, railroad, or transportation system hitherto or hereafter taken over by the President, or shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of any order or regulation made in pursuance of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or, if a person, by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Each independent transaction constituting a violation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent transaction a separate offence.</p></sidenote>of, or a failure to observe, any of the provisions of this Act, or any order entered in pursuance hereof, shall constitute a separate offense. For the taking or conversion to his own use or the embezzlement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Embezzlement, etc., punishable by Federal or State statutes.</p></sidenote>of money or property derived from or used in connection with the possession, use, or operation of said railroads or transportation systems, the criminal statutes of the United States, as well as the criminal statutes of the various States where applicable, shall apply to all officers, agents, and employees engaged in said railroad and transportation service, while the same is under Federal control, to the same extent as to persons employed in the regular service of the United States. Prosecutions for violations of this Act or of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions in district courts.</p></sidenote>any order entered hereunder shall be in the district courts of the United States, under the direction of the Attorney General, in accordance with the procedure for the collection and imposing of fines and penalties now existing in said courts.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That moneys and other property derived from the operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money received declared United States property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting as before Federal control.</p></sidenote>of the carriers during Federal control are hereby declared to be the property of the United States. Unless otherwise directed by the President, such moneys shall not be covered into the Treasury, but such moneys and property shall remain in the custody of the same officers, and the accounting thereof shall be in the same manner and form as before Federal control. Disbursements therefrom <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements therefrom without specific appropriation.</p></sidenote>shall, without further appropriation, be made in the same manner as before Federal control and for such purposes as under the Interstate Commerce Commission classification of accounts in force on December twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are chargeable to operating expenses or to railway tax accruals and for such other purposes in connection with Federal control as the President may direct, except that taxes under Titles One and Two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of war taxes from funds of carriers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1076.</p></sidenote>of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or any Act in addition thereto or in amendment thereof, shall be paid by the carrier out of its own funds. If Federal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment of taxes.</p></sidenote>control begins or ends during the tax year for which any taxes so chargeable to railway tax accruals are assessed, the taxes for such year shall be apportioned to the date of the beginning or ending <page identifier="/us/stat/40/458">458</page>of such Federal control, and disbursements shall be made only for that portion of such taxes as is due for the part of such tax year which falls within the period of Federal control.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of balances, etc.</p></sidenote>At such periods as the President may direct, the books shall be closed and the balance of revenues over disbursements shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meeting of deficits.</p></sidenote>revolving fund created by this Act. If such revenues are insufficient to meet such disbursements, the deficit shall be paid out of such revolving fund in such manner as the President may direct.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending interstate commerce and antitrust cases not affected hereby.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all pending cases in the courts of the United States affecting railroads or other transportation systems brought under the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and supplemented, including the commodities clause, so called, or under the Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and amendments thereto, shall proceed to final determination as soon as may be, as if the United States had not assumed control of transportation systems; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stay of execution authorized.</p></sidenote>but in any such case the court having jurisdiction may, upon the application of the United States, stay execution of final judgment or decree until such time as it shall deem proper.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of Federal control.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Federal control of railroads and transportation systems herein and heretofore provided for shall continue for and during the period of the war and for a reasonable time thereafter, which shall not exceed one year and nine months next following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchange of ratifications <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relinquishment of systems not needed.</p></sidenote>of the treaty of peace: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That the President may, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, relinquish control of all or any part of any railroad or system of transportation, further Federal control of which the President shall deem not needful or desirable; and the President may at any time during the period of Federal control agree with the owners thereof to relinquish all or any part of any railroad or system of transportation. The President may relinquish all railroads and systems of transportation under Federal control at any time he shall deem such action needful or desirable. No right to compensation shall accrue to such owners from and after the date of relinquishment for the property so relinquished.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State tax laws, etc., not impaired.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall be contraed to amend, repeal, impair, or affect the existing laws or powers of the States in relation to taxation or the lawful police regulations of the several <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>States, except wherein such laws, powers, or regulations may affect the transportaton of troops, war materials, Government supplies, or the issue of stocks and bonds.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency character of Act declared.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No future policy to be assumed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this Act is expressly declared to be emergency legislation enacted to meet conditions growing out of war; and nothing herein is to be construed as expressing or prejudicing the future policy of the Federal Government concerning the ownership, control, or regulation of carriers or the method or basis of the capitalization thereof.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 21, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 26: To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>26</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-03-21</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>26.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-21">March 21, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/175">H. R. 175</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/108">Public, No. 108</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the last three paragraphs of section five of the Act of March fourth, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/459">459</page>nineteen hundred and fifteen, “An Act making appropriations to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for completing desert land entries prior to March 4, 1915.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1161.</p></sidenote>supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to any lawful pending desert-land entry made prior to March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That in cases where such entries have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments included.</p></sidenote>been assigned prior to the date of the Act the assignees shall, if otherwise qualified, be entitled to the benefit hereof.</proviso>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 21, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 27: Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil service examinations.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>27</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>27.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending the Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine, governing the holding of civil service examinations.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-27">March 27, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/117">S. J. Res. 117</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/24">Pub. Res., No. 24</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of July second, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil service examinations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicants for positions may be examined in District of Columbia during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 3, amended.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, Numbered One), is hereby amended so as to permit the United States Civil Service Commission, during the period of the present war, to hold examinations of applicants for positions in the Government service in the District of Columbia, and to permit applicants from the several States and Territories of the United States to take said examinations in the said District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States where examinations are usually held. Said examinations shall be permitted in addition to those required to be held by said Act of July second, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, Numbered One): <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall be so construed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment, etc., unchanged.</p></sidenote>as to abridge the existing law of apportionment or change the requirements of existing law as to legal residence and domicile of such applicants.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 28: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>28</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>28.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-28">March 28, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9867">H. R. 9867</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/109">Public, No. 109</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 594, 821, 1020, 1161.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:</content></section>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien Property Custodian.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses for services, supplies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 415.</p></sidenote>the Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, and necessary supplies and equipment, $225,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The President is authorized to acquire the title to the docks, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Docks, etc., on Hudson River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American lines to be taken.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1804.</p></sidenote>piers, warehouses, wharves, and terminal equipment and facilities on the Hudson River now owned by the North German Lloyd Dock Company and the Hamburg-American Line Terminal and Navigation Company, two corporations of the State of New Jersey, if he shall <page identifier="/us/stat/40/460">460</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession authorized.</p></sidenote>deem it necessary for the national security and defense: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That if such property can not be procured by purchase, then the President is authorized and empowered to take over for the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for.</p></sidenote>States the immediate possession and title thereof. If any such property shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor to be determined by the President. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest Immediately.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote>Upon the taking over of said property by the President, as aforesaid, the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to any expenditures heroin or hereafter authorized in connection with the property acquired.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property of enemy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 423, amended.</p></sidenote>The fourth paragraph of section twelve of the “Trading with the enemy Act,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is amended to read as follows:</p>
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<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodian made trustee of all property other than money.</p></sidenote>“The alien property custodian shall be vested with all of the powers of a common-law trustee in respect of all property, other than money, which has been or shall be, or which has been or shall be required to be, conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid over to him in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and, in addition thereto, acting under the supervision and direction of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vested with ownership, management, etc.</p></sidenote>President, and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, shall have power to manage such property and do any act or things in respect thereof or make any disposition thereof or of any part thereof, by sale or otherwise, and exercise any rights or powers which may be or become appurtenant thereto or to the ownership thereof in like manner as though he were the absolute <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales limited to citizens, highest bidder, etc.</p></sidenote>owner thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any property sold under this Act, except when sold to the United States, shall be sold only to American citizens, at public sale to the highest bidder, after public advertisement of time and place of sale which shall be where the property or a major portion thereof is situated, unless the President stating the reasons therefor, in the public interest shall otherwise determine:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretion to reject bids.</p></sidenote><proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That when sold at public sale, the alien property custodian upon the order of the President stating the reasons therefor, shall have the right to reject all bids and resell such property at public sale or otherwise as the President may direct. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for forbidden purchases.</p></sidenote>Any person purchasing property from the alien property custodian for an undisclosed principal, or for resale to a person not a citizen of the United States, or for the benefit of a person not a citizen of the United States, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000, or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both, and the property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stocks, etc., of aliens to be transferred to custodian by corporations issuing.</p></sidenote>shall be forfeited to the United States. It shall be the duty of every corporation incorporated within the United States and every unincorporated association, or company, or trustee, or trustees within the United States issuing shares or certificates representing beneficial interests to transfer such shares or certificates upon its, his, or their books into the name of the alien property custodian upon demand, accompanied by the presentation of the certificates <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p></sidenote>which represent such shares or beneficial interests. The alien property custodian shall forthwith deposit in the Treasury of the United States, as hereinbefore provided, the proceeds of any such property or rights so sold by him.”</proviso></p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Efficiency.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of investigations. etc., by.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 15.</p></sidenote>To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent es<page identifier="/us/stat/40/461">461</page>tablishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 37, pp. 413, 750.</p></sidenote>appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1008.</p></sidenote>duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Government service; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, and printing and binding; in all, $38,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council of National Defense.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of work by.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director, employees, etc.</p></sidenote>by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies; for the employment of a director, secretary, chief clerk, expert, clerical, and other assistance, equipment and supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; subsistence and travel, including the expenses of members of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies going to and attending meetings of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies; rent of offices and grounds; repairs and upkeep of buildings occupied by the council; and printing and binding done at the Government Printing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>Office, $250,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees Compensation Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of the commissioners, assistants, clerks, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>employees; traveling expenses; expenses of medical examinations; reasonable traveling and other expenses and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one; rent in the District of Columbia and equipment of offices; not exceeding $250 for professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals; stationery, and other supplies; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office; and other necessary expenses, $37,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational education.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Not to exceed $3,995 of the appropriation contained in section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent allowance for Board in District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 933.</p></sidenote>seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia for the said board from the date of its organization until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNITED STATES FOOD AND FUEL ADMINISTRATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food and Fuel Administrations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the United States Food and Fuel Administrations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of employees, supplies, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 276.</p></sidenote>created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, and necessary supplies and equipment, $1,750,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/462">462</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative reference.</p></sidenote>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, $2,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent allowance increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1170.</p></sidenote>The limitation upon the amount which may be expended for office rent in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, contained in the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $1,500 to $2,332.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national museum.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Museum.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, etc.</p></sidenote>For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $5,674.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR TRADE BOARD.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Trade Board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of operations entrusted to, by the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 217, 411.</p></sidenote>For the expenses of the War Trade Board, created by the Executive order of October twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, which Executive order was made under authority of the acts of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Espionage Act,” and the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Trading with the enemy Act,” for traveling expenses of officials and employees while traveling on official business, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 per day; purchase of periodicals and books of reference; purchase, operation, maintenance, fuel, and repairs of motor-propelled vehicles; payment of ground rent and rent of office buildings in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States where branch offices have heretofore been or may hereafter be established; foreign postage and expense of printing and publication of reports, circulars, journals, and other publicity matter; purchase of such material and equipment and employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington or elsewhere as may be necessary to carry on the operations intrusted to the War Trade Board by the President, $800,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>For additional employees in the Department of State, $50,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That not more than four persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, repairs and materia] for repairs, and miscellaneous items, including expenses of the passport office m New York, $20,000.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign intercourse.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign intercourse.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, missions.</p></sidenote>Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repaira, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/463">463</page>and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $250,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, foreign missions: For contingent expenses, foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $27,856.72.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for “transportation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 346.</p></sidenote>of diplomatic and consular officers, contained in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the terms of the appropriation for this purpose in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers: To enable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post allowances.</p></sidenote>the President, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $400,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Relief and protection of American seamen: For relief and protection 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief, etc., of American seamen.</p></sidenote>of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Terri tory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $60,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies and, neutrality expenses.</p></sidenote>To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s291/p49">R. S., sec. 291, p. 49</ref>.</p></sidenote>and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $50,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, United States consulates: Expenses of providing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, consulates.</p></sidenote>all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payments in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $35,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $2,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase of file holders and file cases, $1,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, etc.</p></sidenote>baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $7,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/464">464</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous supplies.</p></sidenote>For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $7,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor-saving machines, and supplies.</p></sidenote>For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $3,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $55,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of war risk insurance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>For salaries of officers and employees, $1,268,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, including not exceeding $100 for street car tickets, $121,000; traveling expenses, including not exceeding $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $24,000; telegraph and telephone service, $4,800; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, including subscriptions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing, rent, etc.</p></sidenote>to periodicals, $20,000; printing and binding, $60,000; rental of quarters, $40,000; in all, $1,537,800.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of auditor for treasury department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Accounting clerks—three (experts) at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; six check assortons at $1,200 each; four comptometer operators at $1,200 each; messenger, $840; in all, $9,080.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of auditor for navy department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—twenty of class one and ten at $1,000 each: in all, $11,333.33.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of auditor for state and other departments.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—one of class four, three of class three, four of class two, and two of class one; in all, $4,866.67.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/465">465</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>treasurer’s Office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—three of class four, seven of class three, four at $1,500 each, fifteen of class two, five at $1,300 each, thirty-four of class one, twenty-four at $1,000 each, six at $ each; expert counters—eighteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, twenty-four at $900 each; six messengers at $840 each; four laborers at $660 each; messenger boys—four at $600 each, five at $480 each, two at $360 each, in all, $69,700.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase of furniture, labor-saving and filing devices, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>exchange, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses of installation, for use in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>secret service division.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secret Service Division.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerks.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—one of class four and one of class one; in all, $1,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the surgeon general, public health service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional office employees.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Five clerks of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $2,280.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of director of mint.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of the Mint.</p></sidenote>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent exponses.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $200.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mints and assay offices.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Denver, Colorado, Mint: For wages of workmen and other employees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p></sidenote> $48,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $55,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: For wages of workmen and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> employees, $400.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mint: For wages of workmen and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> other employees, $340,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coming departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $185,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">San Francisco, California, Mint: For wages of workmen and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote> employees, $82,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $60,000.</p>
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<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote>New York assay office: For wages of workmen and other employees, $60,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">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.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings, construction, sites, extensions, and rent.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to laundry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 803.</p></sidenote>Bureau of Engraving and Printing: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 “For miscellaneous repairs to laundry, new roof, and so forth, damaged by fire,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Caruthersville, Mo.</p></sidenote>Caruthersville, Missouri, post office (site): For completion under the present limit of cost, $500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Stanton, N. Mex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanatorium boundary fence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 611.</p></sidenote>Fort Stanton, New Mexico, sanatorium: The appropriation of $800 for the construction of a wire fence along the southeastern boundary fine of the reservation, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is made available for the construction of a wire fence at any point on the said reservation.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harrisburg, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement, etc.</p></sidenote>Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For additional for completion of the enlargement, extension, and remodeling, $11,000; and the limit of cost of such enlargement, extension, and remodeling is increased by the foregoing sum.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moultrie, Ga.</p></sidenote>Moultrie, Georgia, post office: For additional for completion, $3,700; and the limit of cost of said building is increased by the foregoing sum.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nogales, Ariz.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge on customhouse land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 278.</p></sidenote>Nogales, Arizona, bridge: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,500 “For the construction of a permanent wagon and foot bridge across the creek at International Avenue, at Nogales, Arizona, on land reserved by the United States for customs purposes,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paris, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>Paris, Texas: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Annex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building Annex: For commencement, within the limit of cost heretofore authorized, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>$500,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum shall be expended on this building until after the acceptance of such plans, specifications, and bids as will complete the building within the authorized limit of cost.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Squares 226, 227, 228, District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use extended of sum for repairs to buildings on.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 348.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for repairs, alterations, and extensions of certain buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States on squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six and two hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, is made available for the repair, alteration, and extension of such buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States on square numbered two hundred and twenty-seven, in the city of Washington, as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, to fit them for temporary use by the Treasury Department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarantine stations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Charles Quarantine Station: The appropriation of $143,500 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Charles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remodeling buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 349.</p></sidenote>for improvements, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for the remodeling of existing buildings.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine hospitals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Boston, Massachusetts: For remodeling main building and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>erection of medical officers’ quarters, junior officers’ double quarters, pharmacists’ double quarters; female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, and a tuberculosis pavilion, approach work, for mechanical equipment, telephone and bedside call bell systems, $155,700; rent of temporary quarters, $3,000; for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $21,600; in all, $180,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Baltimore, Maryland: Remodeling and extending mess hall and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore, Md.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>kitchen building, two temporary hospital units, isolation ward building, officers’ quarters, pharmacists’ quarters, female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, remodeling administration building; approach work; for mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $189,000; for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $18,000; in all, $207,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Detroit, Michigan: Attendants’ quarters building, $31,500.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">New York (Stapleton): Remodehng old white house for attendants’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stapelton, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>quarters, psychiatric units, female nurses’ quarters, ambulance house, junior medical officers’ quarters (temporary), temporary hospital ward unit, and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $256,500; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $45,000; in all, $301,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">New Orleans, Louisiana: Two hospital ward units, remodeling <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>and extending kitchen and mess hall building, female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, isolation ward, approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $162,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $18,000; in all, $180,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">San Francisco, California: Three hospital ward units, kitchen and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buddings, etc.</p></sidenote>two mess halls; remodeling present building, officers’ quarters, attendants’ quarters; remodeling present outbuildings and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $216,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $22,500; in all, $238,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Savannah, Georgia: One additional hospital ward building, remodeling <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>present building, and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call bell systems, $126,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $9,000; in all, $135,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">In carrying the foregoing appropriations for marine hospitals <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction by contracts or direct employment.</p></sidenote>into effect the Secretary of the Treasury may enter into contracts or purchase materials in open market, or otherwise, and employ laborera and mechanics for executing the work as in his judgment may best meet the public exigencies, within the limits of the respective appropriations made herein.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings, operating expenses and equipment.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating supplies.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250,000.</p>
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<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,944.44.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaults and safes.</p></sidenote>Vaults and safes: For vaults and safes for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $60,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>customs service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses enforcing Espionage and Trading with the Enemy Acts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 217, 411.</p></sidenote>Enforcement of the Espionage Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act: For salaries and expenses for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Espionage Act,” and the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Trading with the Enemy Act,” $300,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote>For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $400,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public health service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $6,490.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other employees.</p></sidenote>For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $15,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>For fuel, light, and water, $20,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cases for study.</p></sidenote>under special heads, $100,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $25,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside treatment, etc.</p></sidenote>For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $44,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Communicable diseases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control of, in areas adjacent to camps, etc.</p></sidenote>For the control of malaria, cerebrospinal meningitis, and other communicable diseases in the areas adjoining military and naval reservations, and including not to exceed $25,000 to be expended on or adjoining other Government reservations or works for the protection of the civil population, and for the control of venereal infections, in order property to safeguard the health of the military forces, including personal services, $500,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Quarantine Service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations, and including not exceeding $500 for printing, $25,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District Building.</p></sidenote>District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $3,500 and miscellaneous supplies, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free Public Library.</p></sidenote>Free Public Library, including Takoma Park Branch: For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $2,500.</p>
</chapeau>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent and miscellaneous expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expanses.</p></sidenote>stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For postage for strictly official mail matter, $6,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing reports to Congress.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for submission to Congress for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote>tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $98.81.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>imrpovements and repairs.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suburban roads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $20,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For replacing the fenders <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highway Bridge.</p></sidenote>of the bridge, $50,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Paving Park Road: The appropriation of $17,500 for paving <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Park Road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation tor paving.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 687.</p></sidenote>Park Road, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourteenth Street northwest, contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sewers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pumping station, etc.</p></sidenote>repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $15,596.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>streets.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning, etc.</p></sidenote>sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $25 per month for an automobile, and $12 per month for a motorcycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $18,540.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public convenience stations.</p></sidenote>stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $2,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional amount required for the construction of a new <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New station.</p></sidenote>public convenience station, numbered five, to be located under roadway or partly under roadway and partly under sidewalks, in Eighth Street northwest, south of F Street, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public schools.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night schools.</p></sidenote>Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of
day schools, $25,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission of soldiers and sailors for special instruction.</p></sidenote>Soldiers and sailors of the United States not residents of the District of Columbia who are on duty at stations adjacent to the District of Columbia shall be admitted tor special instruction to the day schools and night schools of the District of Columbia without payment of tuition.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manual training.</p></sidenote>Manual training: For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $3,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and light.</p></sidenote>Fuel and light: For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $30,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies to pupils.</p></sidenote>Textbooks: For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Community forums and civic centers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses for, at buildings.</p></sidenote>Community forums and civic centers; For necessary expenses connected with the organization and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school buildings, including fixtures and supplies for lighting and equipping the buildings, janitor service, secretaries, teachers, and organizers, and employees of day schools may also be employees of the community forums and civic centers, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>Buildings: For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>metropolitan police.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>Miscellaneous: For fuel, $1,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For maintenance of motor vehicles, $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of detention.</p></sidenote>House of detention: For miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, $1,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbor patrol.</p></sidenote>Harbor patrol: For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $1,100.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fire department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote>For fuel, $10,693.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote>For forage, $12,700.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $470.14</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire boat.</p></sidenote>For repairs to and improvements of the fire boat, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>health department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage of lots.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 125.</p></sidenote>For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/471">471</page>abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abating nuisances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 114.</p></sidenote>and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disinfecting service.</p></sidenote>or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $1,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For maintaining and keeping in good order the chemical laboratory <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laboratory.</p></sidenote>and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $200.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pound.</p></sidenote>service, $200.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For maintenance, including personal services, of the public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crematory.</p></sidenote>crematory, $500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reformatories and correctional institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asylum and jail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $17,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of jail prisoners.</p></sidenote>the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $20,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For conveying prisoners to Washington Asylum and Jail, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting prisoners to jail.</p></sidenote>salary of driver, not to exceed $840, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $1,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and Infirm.</p></sidenote>and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $18,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical charities.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical charities.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Hospital.</p></sidenote>and installation of a new elevator in the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $12,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis Hospital.</p></sidenote>vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $6,200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>child-caring institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Child-caring Institutions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-minded <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Feeble-minded children.</p></sidenote>children (white and colored), $4,100.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board, etc., of children.</p></sidenote> of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, $50,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional to sectarian institutions.</p></sidenote>heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $4,100 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nine-teen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School for Colored Children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School.</p></sidenote>including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, $6,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/472">472</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary homes.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of indigent.</p></sidenote>Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, as provided by law, $100,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Workhouse.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Workhouse: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation: supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $40,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformarory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Reformatory: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>water service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extending mains to new buildings west of Seventeenth street.</p></sidenote>For constructing twenty-four-inch water mains in Twenty-first Street, from L Street to Virginia Avenue; in Virginia Avenue to Now York Avenue; in New York Avenue between Virginia Avenue and Nineteenth and E Streets; in E Street between Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets; and in Seventeenth Street between E Street and New York Avenue, $70,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional extensions.</p></sidenote>For constructing twenty-four-inch water main in Twenty-first Street from Virginia Avenue to B Street, and in B Street between Seventeenth and Twenty-first Streets, $39,600; and for constructing sixteen-inch water main in B Street between Twenty-first and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To Seaton Park buildings.</p></sidenote>Twenty-sixth Streets and in Twenty-sixth Street between B and D Streets, $18,700; and for constructing a twenty-inch water main in Missouri Avenue between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In the Mall.</p></sidenote>Northwest, $6,000; and for constructing twelve-inch water main in the Mall between Seventh and Ninth Streets and B Street north and B Street south, $2,400; in all, $66,700, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service expenses.</p></sidenote>For continuing the extension of and maintaining the highserv <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water meters, etc.</p></sidenote>ice system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services, to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From water revenues.</p></sidenote>execution of this work, $35,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the water department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>judgements.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of.</p></sidenote>For payment of the judgment, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered six <page identifier="/us/stat/40/473">473</page>hundred and ninety-eight of the present session, $640.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgment, as provided by law, from the date it became due until the date of payment.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise provided, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>additional employees.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional tem porary clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement to Congress.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on higher compensation.</p></sidenote>That no more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each, $3,000,000.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of chief of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Chief of Ordnance is authorized to appoint one of the Army <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing officer to pay civilian employees.</p></sidenote>officers serving in his office as disbursing officer to pay the civilian employees in the Ordnance Office authorized in this Act, the urgent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 367.</p></sidenote>deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the legislative, executive, and judicial <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1096.</p></sidenote>appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons, motor trucks and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiemsubsistence.</p></sidenote>subsistence, $600,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote>under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $289,899.95.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Authority is given the Secretary of War to erect a telephone <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone switchboard building.</p></sidenote>switchboard building on lots numbered five and six, block one hundred and sixty-nine, situated between Seventeenth and Eighteenth and F and G Streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/474">474</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armories and arsenals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benicia, Cal.</p></sidenote>Benicia Arsenal, California: For additional for an addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p></sidenote>Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For a small-arms ammunition storehouse and cart house, $175,000;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For an artillery case shop, 8490,000;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For an experimental shop building, $275,000;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For a storehouse for special ammunition, $70,000;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">In all, $1,010,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote>Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For additional amount for completing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition, $220,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional for improving water-power plant, Rock Island Arsenal, $95,000. </p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery tor manufacturing.</p></sidenote>$100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>military posts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military posts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters for seacoast defenses.</p></sidenote>Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction of temporary barracks and quarters at seacoast posts for the accommodation of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Artillery, including heating and lighting apparatus, water and sewer systems, plumbing, roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $3,565,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Monroe, Va.</p></sidenote>Fort Monroe, Virginia: For additional for pay of twelve laborers, from August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,363.49; and authority is granted to reimburse nonmilitary residents at Fort Monroe their pro rata share of the amount which should be borne by the Government.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote>Executive Mansion: For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $2,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating offices, etc.</p></sidenote>Heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and so forth: For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $1,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Monument.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elevator.</p></sidenote>Washington Monument: For purchase and installation of new cables for the elevator, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $2,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p></sidenote>Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patrol fleet.</p></sidenote>For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Lamont.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>For additional for the purchase and installation of a new dynamo, electrical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $8,500</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>provost marshal general’s office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provost Marshal Generaln’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft registration expenses.</p></sidenote>For additional amount for all expenses necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection <page identifier="/us/stat/40/475">475</page>of certain such persons and their draft into the military service, $8,476,490.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote>Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $5,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote>Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat,light,etc.</p></sidenote>light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to activo duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, and buildings for similar purposes on military reservations authorized by War Department regulation; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaming thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice machines, laundries, etc.</p></sidenote>and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation: authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>for the post schools and libraries; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc., for animals.</p></sidenote>and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bed<page identifier="/us/stat/40/476">476</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, printing, etc.</p></sidenote>ding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $26,358,176.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing restriction.</p></sidenote>
<proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after duo notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry C. Chappell.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote>Henry C. Chappell: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to pay to Henry C. Chappell, of New London, Connecticut, from proper appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps the sum of $58.50 paid by him for advertisements published in newspapers soliciting enlistments in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps of the Army for service in a motor-truck company of the Quartermaster Corps.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel allowances, etc.,on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 217.</p></sidenote>enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard officers on discharge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 903.</p></sidenote>of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to land grant roads.</p></sidenote>of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of compensation.</p></sidenote>full amount of service be paid: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the. tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall <page identifier="/us/stat/40/477">477</page>be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty percent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States Or postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full pay to excepted roads.</p></sidenote>That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals.</p></sidenote>of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote>and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, etc.</p></sidenote>the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transports.</p></sidenote>other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $125,000,000:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees on harbor boats.</p></sidenote>$75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">All the money herein appropriated under the titles Subsistence of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, services, and transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Combination fund constituted of amounts for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 865.</p></sidenote>the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,’ and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage and shipping facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, docks, land, etc.</p></sidenote>including all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and not to exceed $20,000,000 for the purchase of land, $100,000,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is authorized to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $50,000,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore and herein made:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title, etc., restriction waived.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote>That the foregoing sums may be expended without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/478">478</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Port Board, New York.</p></sidenote>War Port Board: For necessary expenses of the War Port Board, port of New York, $4,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote>Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For National Guard in service.</p></sidenote>for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $61,252,744.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation restriction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote>
<proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, sewers, etc.</p></sidenote>Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $18,681,820.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p></sidenote>Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; pay of employees; disposal of drainage; dredging channels; and care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $9,194,100.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alterations of permanent buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>and, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general ospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings <page identifier="/us/stat/40/479">479</page>for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads ana walks for the same, $19,654,300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting galleries and ranges.</p></sidenote>ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $984,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Military post exchanges: For continuing the construction, equipment, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges.</p></sidenote>and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote> approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be established hereafter, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $550,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That not more than $25,000 of this appropriation may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restriction.</p></sidenote>expended for personal services and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $ 1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The appropriations made herein for “Regular supplies, Quartermaster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified appropriations continued until December 31, 1918.</p></sidenote>Corps,” “Barracks and quarters,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” “Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage,” “Construction and repair of hospitals, ” “ Shooting galleries and ranges, ” “ Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, ” and “ Military post exchanges” shall continue available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Claims of officers and enlisted men for lose of private property <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss of private property in service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed to officers and enlisted men for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 880.</p></sidenote>destroyed in the military service: Property belonging to officers, enlisted men, and members of the Nurse Corps (female) of the Army, which they are required by law or regulations to own and use in field service in the performance of their duties, which since the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has been, or shall hereafter be, lost, damaged, or destroyed in the military service, shall be replaced, or the damage thereto, or its value, recouped to the owner as hereinafter provided, when such loss, damage, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>destruction has occurred or shall hereafter occur without fault or negligence on the part of the owner in any of the following circumstances:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">First. When such private property so lost or destroyed was <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipments on un seaworthy vessels, destroyed by enemy, etc.</p></sidenote>shipped on board an unseaworthy vessel by order of an officer authorized to give such order or direct such shipment, or destroyed by the enemy or by shipwreck.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Second. When it appears that such private property was so <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If owner was saving public property, etc.</p></sidenote>lost or destroyed in consequence of its owner having given his attention to the saving of property belonging to the United States which was in danger at the same time and in similar circumstances.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Third. When such private property is destroyed or captured by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If destroyed by enemy, etc.</p></sidenote>the enemy, or is destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, or is abandoned by reason of military emergency requiring its abandonment.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to examine into, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of value, etc.</p></sidenote>ascertain, and determine the value of such property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned as specified in the foregoing paragraphs, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/480">480</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment authorized.</p></sidenote>or the amount of the damage thereto, as the case may be; and the amount of such value or damage so ascertained and determined<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Replacement in kind.</p></sidenote> shall be paid from appropriations made therefor, or such property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned, or so damaged as to be unfit for service, may be replaced in kind from Government property on hand by the supply officer or quartermaster of the organization to which the person entitled thereto belongs or with which he is serving upon the order of the commanding officer thereof.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Finality of action by Secretary of War.</p></sidenote>Tender of replacement or the determination made by the Secretary of War upon a claim presented as provided for in the foregoing paragraphs shall constitute a final determination of any claim cognizable under this Act, and such claim shall not thereafter be reopened or considered by any accounting officer or court of the United States.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit for presenting claims.</p></sidenote>No claim arising under this Act shall be considered unless made within one year from the time that it accrued, or presented within six months after peace is established.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for awards.</p></sidenote>For the payment of any awards hereunder there is appropriated the sum of $200,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of troops at hospitals of.</p></sidenote>Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons: For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence payments.</p></sidenote>authority: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals, $20,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Museum.</p></sidenote>Army Medical Museum: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $2,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas masks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing expenses included in appropriations for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 196, 364.</p></sidenote>The provision made in the appropriations for the Medical and Hospital Department for the purchase of gas masks shall be deemed and construed, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to include the manufacture of said masks and all expenses involved in their factory production except the procurement of factory sites and the pay and allowances of commissioned and enlisted personnel engaged therein.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Depart ment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field operation expenses.</p></sidenote>Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>Department,” $70,000,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $70,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Departmeat.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for small arms.</p></sidenote>Ordnance stores, ammunition: For manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/481">481</page>$107,732,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>Army, is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $150,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Small-arms target practice: For manufacture and purchase of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small arms target practice.</p></sidenote>ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At educational institutions, etc.</p></sidenote>ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $900,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc., of ordnance.</p></sidenote>and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote>of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote>Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $19,826,585.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p></sidenote>and issuing arms, $27,996,100.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Terminal storage and shipping buildings: For terminal storage and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terminal storage buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>shipping buildings and other facilities, including rentals and purchases of lands, $5,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>continental united states.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights, etc., seacoast fortifications.</p></sidenote>power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $60,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>insulart possessions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries, Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote>$75,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo structures, etc., Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves at the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, $40,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire control stations.</p></sidenote>purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders.</p></sidenote>test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $2,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>filed artillery.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, field, and siege cannon.</p></sidenote>cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $676,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts for field, etc., cannon.</p></sidenote>into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/482">482</page>manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture for not to exceed $80,725,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote>The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, for not to exceed $33,100,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PANAMA CANAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>construction.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dock at Cristobal.</p></sidenote>For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama Canal, to be expended under the direction of the governor: For completing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 333.</p></sidenote>dock numbered six at Cristobal, $593,190, to continue available until expended; and the limit of cost fixed by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased from $1,500,000 to $2,093,190.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fortifications, panama canal.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, repair, etc., of fortifications.</p></sidenote>For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $9,400.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">State, War, and Navy Department Building</inline>: For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $25,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice plant.</p></sidenote>For the installation of additional brine tank in the ice plant, $4,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees for temporary Army and Navy Buildings in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 365.</p></sidenote>War and Navy Department Buildings (Henry Park Reservation): For the following employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,000; three messengers, at $720 each; electricians—chief $1,400, two at $1,200 each; three at $1,000 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman, $1,500; two painters, at $1,200 each; four carpenters, at $1,200 each; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators, at $1,000 each; ten general mechanics, at $1,000 each; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineers, four at $1,200 each; steamfitter, $1,080; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven at $720 each; laborers—foreman $1,000, fifty at $660 each; nine female laborers, at 4480 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,000 each, six sergeants at $840 each, one hundred and fifty-five at $720 each; charwomen—four forewomen at $300 each, eighty at $240 each; in all, $81,900.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendence.</p></sidenote>The superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall serve in a similar capacity in connection with these buildings.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For fuel, lights, repairs, furniture and office equipment, motorcycle and supplies, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $65,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing construction.</p></sidenote>For completing construction of the temporary office buildings for the War and Navy Departments in Henry Park, as authorized m the urgent deficiency Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/483">483</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TEMPORARY OFFICE BUILDINGS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary office buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For two three-story temporary office buildings of reinforced <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two buildings for Navy and War Departments in.</p></sidenote>concrete with wings sixty feet wide, one for the Navy Department to contain approximately nine hundred and forty thousand square feet and one for the War Department to contain approximately eight hundred and thirty-five thousand square feet, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in Potomac Park west of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>Seventeenth Street and south of B Street, beginning with the Navy Department Building at a point not less than two hundred and thirty-five feet west of the westerly curb line of Seventeenth Street and fifty feet south from the southerly curb line of B Street and extending southerly not more than six hundred and twenty feet from the said B street curb line and westerly to a point not beyond the easterly building line of Twenty-first Street, including electrical equipment and a temporary heating plant for both buildings, to be located south of D Street and west of Twenty-fifth Street, with necessary connecting mains, $5,775,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating contract.</p></sidenote>the Navy is authorized to contract for the heating of the buildings authorized in this paragraph in lieu of the erection and operation of a heating plant authorized therefor, if in his discretion the contracting for said heating is more economical and to the best interests of the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For two three-story temporary office buildings of the type erected <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings for War Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seaton Park (north).</p></sidenote>in Henry Park, one to be located in Seaton Park (north) between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets and south of Missouri Avenue and to contain approximately three hundred and seventy thousand <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mall.</p></sidenote>square feet and one to be located on the Mall between Seventh and Ninth Streets and B Street north and B Street south and to contain approximately three hundred thousand square feet, and for a three-story <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seaton Park (south).</p></sidenote>temporary office building of reinforced concrete to be located in Seaton Park (south) between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets and north of Maine Avenue and to contain approximately two hundred and seventy thousand square feet, including heating and lighting and the necessary connections, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of War for the use of the War Department, $2,377,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The maintenance and protection of all of the foregoing temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of the new buildings.</p></sidenote>buildings when completed shall be under the supervision and direction of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, monument, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniforms for park, etc., watchmen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>bridge watchmen, $1,800, one-half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional for support of the National Home for Disabled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for support of.</p></sidenote> Volunteer Soldiers, including the same objects specified in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen under the following respective heads:</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, $68,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $57,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For hospital, $7,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For farm, $2,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $134,000.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/484">484</page></listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p></sidenote>Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, $31,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $45,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For repairs, $2,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $78,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Togus, Me.</p></sidenote>Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For subsistence, $5,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $30,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For farm, $1,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $36,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton, Va.</p></sidenote>Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, $50,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $20,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $70,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, $40,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $25,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For hospital, $2,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For repairs, $8,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $76,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Monies, Cal.</p></sidenote>Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, $75,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $40,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For hospital, $6,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $121,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ind.</p></sidenote>Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, $30,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $30,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For farm, $5,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $65,000.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p></sidenote>Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, $25,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $36,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For repairs, $2,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $63,500.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p></sidenote>Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For subsistence, $25,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $30,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For farm, $3,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $58,600.</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For subsistence, $20;000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For household, $12,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">For hospital, $6,500;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">In all, $38,500.</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursing post fund.</p></sidenote>Miscellaneous: To reimburse the post fund of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for sums expended to meet deficiencies during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely: Clothing for all branches, $3,564.41; coal for the Northwestern Branch, $2,558.58; in all, $6,122.99.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $746,722.99.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary employees.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows:</p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote>Bureau of Steam Engineering, $15,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Bureau of Yards and Docks, $11,250;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $37.500;</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement to Congress.</p></sidenote>In all, $63,750: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/485">485</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable; purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, or exchange 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 other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $140,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use of naval appropriations.</p></sidenote>bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hydrographic office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote>directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of such additional printing presses as may be necessary; extra drawing and engraving; trans ating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pilot charte, etc.</p></sidenote>of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and teclmical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $50,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval observatory.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Observatory.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $250.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange); foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $750.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">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, $2,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $1,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds and roads.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent, navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies and exp traordinary expenses.</p></sidenote>personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/486">486</page>arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special allowance to officers abroad.</p></sidenote>$50,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers of the Navy serving under unusual conditions outside the United States and its insular possessions.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote>The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to approve payment of vouchers aggregating $14.52 for advertising for the Navy Department for sealed proposals, published without written <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3828/p749">R. S., sec. 3828, p. 749</ref>.</p></sidenote>authority from the head of that department, as required by section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits on first enlistments, etc.</p></sidenote>Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force, $50 each for officers and $30 each for men in time of peace and $150 each for officers and $60 each for men in time of war when called to active duty, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote>Naval Reserve Force: For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, stationery, and postage; printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $100,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Home.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable from naval pension fund.</p></sidenote>$25,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote>Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/487">487</page>the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory and for target practice; for the maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passenger vehicles.</p></sidenote>repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes at naval magazines, the naval proving ground, Indianhead, Maryland, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving grounds, etc.</p></sidenote>this appropriation shall be available for making necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, Naval Gun Factory, and naval ammunition depots:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $500,000; in all, $10,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: For tools <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Gun Factory.</p></sidenote>and machinery plant, $5,499,737.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Batteries and outfits for vessels: The Secretary of the Navy is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Batteries, etc., for ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen, not to exceed $13,200,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Ammunition for vessels: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels not to exceed $8,064,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Reserve ordnance supplies: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve ordnance supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts.</p></sidenote>to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for reserve and miscellaneous ordnance supplies not to exceed $13,000,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Maintenance, Bureau Yards and Docks: For general maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, operation or repair; purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants: incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $2,500,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $500,000:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That not exceeding $100,000 of this amount may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen, etc., in the Department.</p></sidenote>be expended for the services of draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, in the Bureau of Yards and Docks.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent, Bureau Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>and minor extensions and minor improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $2,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/488">488</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary hospitals and supply depots.</p></sidenote>Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction and repairs, as may be necessary, at points not provided with suitable hospital facilities, and for buildings for naval medical supplies, $2,750,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training camps.</p></sidenote>Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $12,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central power plants.</p></sidenote>Power plants: For improvements to central power plants and distributing systems, navy yards and stations, $3,500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance stations.</p></sidenote>Ordnance stations: For improvements at stations under jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $2,500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary storage.</p></sidenote>Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement and equipment of yards.</p></sidenote>Improvement and equipment of navy yards: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to add to the equipment of navy yards suitable and necessary machinery, implements, building ways, and other facilities for the construction of ships, $1,570,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton Roads, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property taken.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 207.</p></sidenote>Hampton Roads, Virginia, naval operating base: For additional for payment of compensation for property taken over under the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $55,072.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval prison.</p></sidenote>Naval prison: For a temporary prison, including all necessary equipment, auxiliary structures and facilities, $200,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land for terminal warehouses.</p></sidenote>Purchase of land for warehouses, South Brooklyn, New York: For the purchase of land for terminal warehouses between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-second Streets and Second and Third Avenues, South Brooklyn, New York, $560,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote>Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $1,000,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast guard cutters.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard cutters.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1185.</p></sidenote>The total limit of cost of the five Coast Guard cruising cutters, fixed at $2,250,000 by the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased to $3,500,000: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts for rapid construction.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided</i>, That if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy the most rapid and economical construction of the foregoing vessels can be obtained thereby, he may contract, within the limit of cost herein named, for the construction of said vessels upon the basis of actual cost plus a reasonable profit to be determined by him.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional allowance for clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1183.</p></sidenote>Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitation specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, on expenditures from the appropriation, “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service, is further increased by the sum of $150,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval academy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dairy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional purchases, etc.</p></sidenote>Dairy (reimbursable): For the purchase of the necessary additional cattle and work animals, machinery and implements, erection of additional buildings, and for all other purposes necessary to increase the stock and equipment of the Naval Academy dairy and farm, located at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>Gambrills, Maryland, $55,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy, to be ultimately <page identifier="/us/stat/40/489">489</page>returned to the United States:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That expenditures <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote>hereunder shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen’s store fund.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Midshipmen’s store fund (reimbursable): The Secretary of the Navy <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Midshipmen’s store fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances authorized to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 153.</p></sidenote>is authorized to advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy the sum of $50,000 under “General account of advances,” said sum to be used for the purchase of stores and to be accounted for in the same manner as is provided for the midshipmen’s store fund in the Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and to be repaid into the Treasury not later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins or bars including in terest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exorcise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy Mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $6,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote>and privates, authorized by law, $2,750,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, Wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/490">490</page>pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $1,180,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of building and grounds.</p></sidenote>Capitol Building and Grounds: For labor and material for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies, and for each and every item incident thereto, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to building.</p></sidenote>Court of Claims Building: For labor, materials, furniture, and for general repairs, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $550.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indian service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>For support of Indian day, boarding, and industrial schools, in addition to the general and specific appropriations made for that purpose in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250,000, or so much thereof as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita restriction suspended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 741.</p></sidenote>be necessary: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the operation of the Act of September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and forty-one), limiting annual expenditures for support and education of pupils in Indian schools to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>$200 per capita, is hereby suspended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Prowled further</i>, That no part of this sum shall be expended upon improvements or used to increase the compensation of employees.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>territory of alaska.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitarium Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for insane natives at.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 151, 373.</p></sidenote>Insane of Alaska: Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to pay from the appropriations for the care and custody of insane, Alaska, in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to The Sanitarium Company, of Portland, Oregon, the sum of $420 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>geological survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska mineral resources.</p></sidenote>For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $75,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc.</p></sidenote>For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, $200,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of mines.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mines Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing accounts allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 389.</p></sidenote>Authority is granted to pay from the appropriation contained in the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes, ” approved October <page identifier="/us/stat/40/491">491</page>sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $571.80 for printing done outside of the Government Printing Office.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">War materials investigations: For inquiries and scientific and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War materials.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations, etc., of mineral substances used in.</p></sidenote>technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances which are particularly needed for carrying on the war, in connection with military and manufacturing purposes, and which have heretofore been largely imported, with a view to developing domestic sources of supply and substitutes for such ores and mineral products as are particularly needed, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, and subsistence, and not exceeding $5,340 for personal services in the District of Columbia; to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $150,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national parks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yosemite.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power plant from park revenues.</p></sidenote>revenues derived from privileges in the Yosemite National Park not to exceed $3,500 in addition to appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the installation of the hydroelectric power plant authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 308.</p></sidenote>year nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>saint elizabeths hospital.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The annual compensation of the employees holding the following <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of des ignated employees fixed.</p></sidenote>positions shall be increased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen as follows: Head baker, from $780 to $924; assistant baker, from $420 to $660; first assistant baker, from $420 to $660; five special attendants, from $360 to $726 each; foreman of laundry, from $920 to $1,200; six launderers, from $300 to $480 each; three cooks, from $300 to $600 each; eight kitchen helpers, from $168 to $300 each; electrical engineer, from $1,200 to $1,600; and foreman <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts allowed.</p></sidenote>of electrical construction, from $1,100 to $1,400, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall credit the disbursing agent for payments made to employees filling the positions named at the annual compensation above stated.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>columbia institution for the deaf.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Institution for the Deaf.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $6,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional for the removal of the college women’s dormitory, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New dormitory, etc.</p></sidenote>and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $18,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>freedmen’s hospital.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmen’s Hospital.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $5,448.10.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/492">492</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PENSIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy.</p></sidenote>Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy from naval pension fund.</p></sidenote>$23,000,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separate accounts.</p></sidenote>fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post Office Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing restrictions on unlawful use of mails, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 230, 425.</p></sidenote>For enforcement of title twelve of the Espionage Act, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and section nineteen of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $20,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $15,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POSTAL SERVICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="intermediate">
<heading>Out of the Postal Revenues</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of first assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks.</p></sidenote>For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $1,800,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions.</p></sidenote>For unusual conditions at post offices, $30,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $300,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle allowance.</p></sidenote>For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of screenagon and city delivery and collection services, $500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger service.</p></sidenote>For mail messenger service, $300,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of second assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Censorship of mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use for mail from forces abroad.</p></sidenote>For censorship of the mails, $300,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended to pay the expense of censoring mail from the military forces connected with the American Expeditionary Force, which mail has been censored in Europe.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of third assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, and for coifing of stamps, $60,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes and wrappers.</p></sidenote>For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, $700,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for lost, etc., domestic mall.</p></sidenote>For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-dclivcry mail, $180,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/493">493</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of fourth assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For wrapping twine and tying devices, $60,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twine, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, etc.</p></sidenote>printed and engraved matter, binding and carbon paper, and other miscellaneous items for the money-order and registry systems; also the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of pamphlet containing general postal information; and also pay of one envelope inspector at $1,800 per annum, and one assistant at $900 per annum, $160,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmarking, etc, stamps.</p></sidenote>plates, and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, $10,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping supplies.</p></sidenote>including hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter at $1,200 per annum, and nine requisition fillers, at $900 each per annum, for assignment in connection therewith, $35,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For equipment for City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery equipment.</p></sidenote>letter-box fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, and the erecting and painting of same, also trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, time cards, and time-card frames, and the repairing of such equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies and manufacture of letter boxes, $40,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For mail bags and equipment, $125,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail hags, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>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, $750.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection and prosecution of crime.</p></sidenote>prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of the President.</p></sidenote>of the United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $70,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance at Washington.</p></sidenote>to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $500,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDICIAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>united states courts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys.</p></sidenote>United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including <page identifier="/us/stat/40/494">494</page>the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12,266.30.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners’, etc., fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1014/p160">R. S., sec. 1014, p. 160</ref>.</p></sidenote>For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $90,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote>For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>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 seventeen, $655.29.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $17,455.18.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p></sidenote>Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $25,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil island, Wash.</p></sidenote>McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Boys, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>National Training School for Boys: For support of inmates, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actual cost to be Charged.</p></sidenote>$1,500: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the per capita cost of persons committed from the District of Columbia and maintained in the said school hereafter shall not be less than the actual per capita cost of such maintenance:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for 1918.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to pay from available appropriations the actual per capita cost of maintenance during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen of boys committed from the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nitrate of soda.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of sales continued during the war.</p></sidenote>The proceeds heretofore or hereafter received from the disposition of nitrate of soda under the appropriation of $10,000,000 contained in section twenty-seven of the Act approved August tenth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 287, 283.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen, shall be credited to the said appropriation of $10,000,000 and be available for the purposes authorized in the said section during the period of the existing war as defined by section twenty-four of the said Act.</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>purchase of seeds.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of seeds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procuring, etc., for seeding.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 274.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1045.</p></sidenote>For additional for procuring, storing, and furnishing seeds as authorized by section three of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including <page identifier="/us/stat/40/495">495</page>not to exceed $5,000 for rent and personal services in the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of fund continued.</p></sidenote>Columbia, $4,000,000, which may he used as a revolving fund until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>forest service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For “General expenses, Forest Service,” including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the Agricultural appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $775,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Commercial attachés: To enable the Secretary of Commerce, in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commercial attachés.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p></sidenote>his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances during the balance of the present fiscal year by way of additional compensation to officers and employees of the commercial attaché service, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $9,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of standards.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standards Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Power plant: For repairs and alterations to the present lighting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power plant.</p></sidenote>and power plant, $12,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Military research: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standardizing military supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperative assistance to Army and Navy in.</p></sidenote>the War and Navy Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies, including personal services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the erection of temporary structures; books of reference and periodicals; and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $250,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Structural materials: For continuation of the investigation of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Structural materials investigations.</p></sidenote>structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Gauge standardization: To provide by cooperation of the Bureau <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standardizing gauges, screw threads, etc., for war service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 912.</p></sidenote>of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $75,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Mine scales: For investigating the condition and methods of use of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine scales, etc., in vestigations.</p></sidenote>scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions <page identifier="/us/stat/40/496">496</page>affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the held, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public utilities companies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations for improving efficiency, etc.</p></sidenote>Public utility companies: To enable the Bureau of Standards to make investigations urgently needed by public utility companies in order to improve their efficiency and adjust their methods of operation to meet the changed ecomomic conditions incident to the war, and to aid State and municipal administrative officers and the management of publicly owned utilities in adjusting standards of service when necessary to meet present conditions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coase and geodetic survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>For additional employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at not exceeding annual rates of compensation as follows: Six astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, $1,200 each; three topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, $1,200 each; three clerks, $1,200 each; three dynamo tenders, $1,080 each; three laborers, $840; in all, $5,040.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrical equipment.</p></sidenote>For additional electrical equipment, $750.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>lighthouse service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouses Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.</p></sidenote>For repairing the wharves at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $60,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gulf coast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hurricane repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico which have been damaged or destroyed by hurricane, $100,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nantucket, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fog signal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 687.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlantic coast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to structures, etc.</p></sidenote>For the installation of an electrically operated fog-signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, $15,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the Atlantic coast of the United States which have been damaged or destroyed by ice or storm, $150,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collision damages claims.</p></sidenote>To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 537.</p></sidenote>Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-nine, $598.58.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of fisheries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska fisheries vessel.</p></sidenote>Vessel service: For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $8,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairport, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rebuilding station.</p></sidenote>Fairport (Iowa) Biological Station: For rebuilding the laboratory building, including scientific apparatus and supplies, scientific library, furniture, and other necessary equipment, $80,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of labor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to wage earners for transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 696.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of Labor to advance to wage earners transportation to such places as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of securing employment in connection with the prosecution of the war, $250,000, which may be used as a revolving fund until <page identifier="/us/stat/40/497">497</page>June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That advances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote>hereunder shall be so made as to insure the return to the Treasury of sums so advanced:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That an accounting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed accounting.</p></sidenote>shall be kept of the operations under this paragraph which shall include as to each person transported the following: Name, vocation, starting point and destination, shipyard, factory, or other place for which transported, and amount of advance made.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay Irene M. Brady, widow of Hon. James II. Brady, late a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James H. Brady.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>Senator from the State of Idaho, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay Margaret Hughes, widow of Hon. William Hughes, late a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Hughes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>Senator from the State of New Jersey, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay Edith McAllister Newlands, widow of Hon. Francis G. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Francis G. Newlands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>Newlands, late a Senator from the State of Nevada, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay John P. Husting and Mary Husting, heirs at law of Hon. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paul O. Husting.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to heirs.</p></sidenote>Paul O. Husting, late a Senator from the State of Wisconsin, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: For two additional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone operators.</p></sidenote>telephone operators from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $900 per annum each, $450.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent expenses: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote>rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate kitchens and restaurants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $14,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building.</p></sidenote>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, $8,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representataives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Ellsworth R. Bathrick, late a Representative <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellsworth R. Bathrick.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ebenezer J. Hill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1037.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles Martin.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>from the State of Ohio, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Ebenezer J. Hill, late a Representative from the State of Connecticut, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Charles Martin, late a Representative from the State of Illinois, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For additional for driving, maintenance, and operation of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Speaker’s automobile.</p></sidenote>automobile for the Speaker, $300.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For continuing the investigation authorized by the deficiency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee on District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 27.</p></sidenote>appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be conducted by the Committee on the District of Columbia, or a subcommittee thereof, $5,000, to continue available during the Sixty-fifth Congress.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote>per thousand, $12,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Office of the Clerk: For two additional telephone operators from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone operators.</p></sidenote>April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $900 per annum each, $450.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reportera of debates and the official <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters and stenographers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>stenographers to committees for sums actually and necessarily expended by them to January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300 each, $3,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/498">498</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Printer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerks in office.</p></sidenote>Office of the Public Printer: For five additional clerks at the rate of $1,000 each per annum from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,250.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holidays.</p></sidenote>Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $53,856.34.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves of absence.</p></sidenote>Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $14,226.60.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. M. Moers and Sons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund to.</p></sidenote>To enable the Public Printer to refund to E. M. Moors and Sons, New York City, the amount of excess payment for condemned material received by him and deposited in the Treasury, $43.83.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of Documents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>Office of Superintendent of Documents: For additional employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—one at $1,000, one at $900, one at $840; cataloguers—one at $1,200, one at $1,000; for labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $500; in all, $1,735.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For furniture, fixtures, typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,250.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Document distribution.</p></sidenote>For equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $750.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>printing and binding.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of appropriation for draft expenses.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $1,200,000: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Public Printer is authorized to cause to be transferred from this appropriation to the credit of the appropriation “Registration and selection for military service” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 185, 355.</p></sidenote>$405,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to reimburse the last-named appropriation for printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office and paid for out of that appropriation in connection with the classification of registrants.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $50,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $25,000, all of which shall be available for the use of the Hydrographic Office.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan American Union.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 378.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $3,000 for printing and binding for the International Union of American Republics, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
</chapeau>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees considered as of a Government establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 383.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all branches of the government of the District of Columbia shall be considered a governmental establishment for the purposes of section seven of the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy appropriations available for existing emergencies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the appropriations contained herein under the Military and Naval Establishments shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.</content></section>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 29: Authorizing the assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>29</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 499</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/499">499</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>29.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-28">March 28, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/104">S. J. Res. 104</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/25">Pub. Res. No. 25</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the assistant to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Interior.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May direct assistant to sign official papers, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized to sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 30: To permit the use of certain refined products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>30</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 499</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>30.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To permit the use of certain refined products of petroleum as stores on steam vessels carrying passengers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-29">March 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1546">S. 1546</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/110">Public, No. 110</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-four <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passenger steamers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrying of dangerous articles on, prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4472/p865">R. S., sec. 4472, p. 865, amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1031; Vol. 34, p. 204; Vol. 37, p. 650; Vol. 38, p. 766.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kerosene, etc., allowed as stores.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States of America be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following provision: “<quotedText><proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That kerosene and lubricating oils made from, refined products of petroleum which will stand a fire test of not less than three hundred degrees Fahrenheit may be used as stores on board steamers carrying passengers, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce.</proviso>
</quotedText>”</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 31: To provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>31</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 499</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>31.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the disposition of the effects of deceased persons in the naval service.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-29">March 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3129">S. 3129</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/111">Public, No. 111</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter all moneys, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unclaimed effects of deceased persons to be kept for two years.</p></sidenote>articles of value, papers, keepsakes, and other similar effects belonging to deceased persons in the naval service, not claimed by their legal heirs or next of kin, shall be deposited in safe custody, and if any such moneys, articles of value, papers, keepsakes, or other similar effects so deposited have been, or shall hereafter be, unclaimed for a period of two years from the date of the death of such person, such articles and effects shall be sold and the proceeds thereof, together <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc.</p></sidenote>with the moneys above mentioned, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the Navy pension fund: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiries to be made for heirs, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to make diligent inquiry in every instance after the death of such person to ascertain the whereabouts of his heirs or next of kin, and to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That claims may be presented hereunder at any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of claims.</p></sidenote>time within five years after such moneys or proceeds have been so deposited in the Treasury, and, when supported by competent proof in any case after such deposit in the Treasury, shall be certified to Congress for consideration.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 32: To amend section fifteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>32</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 499</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>32.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section fifteen hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-29">March 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3130">S. 3130</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/112">Public, No. 112</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section fifteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1570/p269">R. S., sec. 1570, p. 269, amended</ref>.</p></sidenote>and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1570">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1570. </num>
<content class="inline">Every seaman, landsman, or marine who performs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay to seamen, etc., serving as firemen.</p></sidenote>the duty of a fireman on board any vessel of war shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his compensation as seaman, landsman, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/500">500</page>or marine, a compensation at the rate of 33 cents a day for the time he is employed as fireman.”</content></section>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 33: To authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>33</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 500</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>33.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the payment of gun pointers and gun captains while temporarily absent from their regular stations, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-29">March 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3445">S. 3445</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/113">Public, No. 113</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gun pointers, etc., pay continued during temporary absence.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the period of the present war any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who has qualified, or who may hereafter qualify, as a gun pointer or gun captain, and who has been, or may hereafter be, detailed as gun pointer or gun captain for a gun of the class for which qualified, shall be entitled to the additional pay now or hereafter provided for such qualification and detail while temporarily absent by proper authority from the place where ordinarily required to perform duty under such detail, or while performing temporary duty which is not connected with such detail as gun pointer or gun captain.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 34: Authorizing the erection of a memorial in Washington to the memory and in honor of the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, and on floating hospitals during the Civil War.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>34</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 500</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>34.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the erection of a memorial in Washington to the memory and in honor of the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, and on floating hospitals during the Civil War.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-29">March 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/154">H. J. Res. 154</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/26">Pub. Res., No. 26</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memorial to religious sisters serving as nurses in the Civil War may be erected in.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to the Ladies’ Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, for the erection on public grounds of the United States of America in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a memorial to the members of the various orders of sisters who gave their services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval by Commission of Fine Arts, etc.</p></sidenote>and on floating hospitals during the Civil War: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That the site chosen and the design of the memorial shall be approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of the said memorial.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 36: To authorize the appointment of officers of the Philippine Scouts as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces of the Philippine Islands drafted into the service of the United States, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>36</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 500</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>36.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the appointment of officers of the Philippine Scouts as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces of the Philippine Islands drafted into the service of the United States, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-30">March 30, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9571">H. R. 9571</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/114">Public, No. 114</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Scouts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers may serve in militia, etc., without vacating commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 432.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That officers of the Philippine Scouts be, and they hereby are, made eligible to appointment as officers in the militia or other locally created armed forces in the Philippine Islands which have been or shall hereafter be drafted into the service of the United States; and any such officer of the Philippine Scouts so appointed as an officer in said drafted forces shall not thereby vacate his commission in the Philippine Scouts, and in case his commission in said Philippine Scouts shall terminate while holding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappointment.</p></sidenote>a commission in said drafted forces as aforesaid, he shall thereupon be eligible to reappointment as an officer of said Philippine Scouts notwithstanding his retention of a commission in said drafted forces.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/501">501</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That in computing period of service for any purpose officers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credits.</p></sidenote>of the Philippine Scouts shall be credited with all time served as commissioned officers in the drafted forces mentioned in section one of this Act.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 30, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 37: To provide for restoration to their former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>37</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 501</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-03-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>37.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for restoration to their former grades of enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-03-30">March 30, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9903">H. R. 9903</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/115">Public, No. 115</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any enlisted man of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men discharged to accept commissions, may reenlist on termination thereof.</p></sidenote>the Army of the United States who has heretofore been, or shall hereafter be, discharged to accept a commission in any component part of the Army of the United States, and who shall tender himself or enlistment within three months after the termination of his commissioned service, shall, subject to such examination for enlistment as is provided by law or regulation, be accepted and be restored to the grade held by him before being discharged to accept such commission; and in computing service for retirement and continuous-service pay he shall be credited with all time served with the forces <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service Credits.</p></sidenote>of the United States, and his service shall be deemed continuous, notwithstanding the interruption thereof by the changes of status provided for herein.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 30, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 39: To authorize the President to drop from the rolls any naval or Marine Corps officer absent without leave for three months, or who has been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary by the civil authorities, and prohibiting such officer’s reappointment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>39</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 501</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>39.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to drop from the rolls any naval or Marine Corps officer absent without leave for three months, or who has been convicted of any offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary by the civil authorities, and prohibiting such officer’s reappointment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-02">April 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3404">S. 3404</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/116">Public, No. 116</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers to be dropped from the rolls if absent without leave, etc.</p></sidenote>authorized to drop from the rolls of the Navy or Marine Corps any officer thereof who is absent from duty without leave for a period of three months or more, or who, having been found guilty by the civil authorities of any offense, is finally sentenced to confinement in a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappointment forbidden.</p></sidenote>State or Federal penitentiary: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That no officer so dropped shall be eligible for reappointment.</proviso>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 40: To authorize the President to reduce temporarily the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>40</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 501</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>40.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to reduce temporarily the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-02">April 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3401">S. 3401</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/117">Public, No. 117</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President be, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Course of instruction temporarily reduced.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 73.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1520/p201">R. S., sec. 1520, p. 261</ref>.</p></sidenote>and ho is hereby, authorized, until August first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, to reduce, in his discretion, the course of instruction at the United States Naval Academy from four to three years and to graduate classes which have completed such reduced courses of instruction.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 41: Authorizing the granting of insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on application by a person other than the person to be insured.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-02</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>41</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/502">502</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>41.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the granting of insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on application by a person other than the person to be insured.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-02">April 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/133">S. J. Res. 133</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pubres/27">Pub. Res., No. 27</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War-Risk Insurance Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 409, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application for insurance permitted for persons in service by other than insured.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That insurance under the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be granted by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance on application made by the person to be insured or, subject to such regulations as the bureau may prescribe, by any person within the permitted class as specified in section four hundred and two of said Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If insured a prisoner of war before April 12. 1918.</p></sidenote>That the person to be insured has been taken a prisoner of war before April twelfth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: </proviso><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on designating beneficiary.</p></sidenote>That no one but the insured may designate a beneficiary, and nothing in this resolution shall be deemed to change or affect the permitted class of beneficiaries or impose any obligation on the insured against his will.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 42: To authorize the change of name of the steamship Caldera to A. T. Kinney.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-04</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>42</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>42.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the change of name of the steamship Caldera to A. T. Kinney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-04">April 4, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2469">S. 2469</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/118">Public, No. 118</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“A. T. Kinney,” steamer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name of “Caldera” changed to.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Navigation is hereby authorized and directed upon application of the owner, the Kinney Steamship Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, to change the name of the steamer Caldera, official number two hundred and four thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, to A. T. Kinney.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 4, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 43: Providing for the disposal of certain lands in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-04</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>43</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>43.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the disposal of certain lands in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-04">April 4, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5351">H. R. 5351</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/119">Public, No. 119</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Angeles, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salo of designated town site lots in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34 p.74.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all lots in block thirty-two, in the city of Port Angeles, State of Washington, now reserved for Government purposes under an Act entitled “An Act providing for the reappraisement and sale of certain lands in the town site of Port Angeles, Washington, and for other purposes,” approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, except lots one, eight, nine, ten, sixteen, and seventeen, shall be disposed of under and pursuant to the provisions of said Act of March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to proceed at once to carry out the provisions of this Act.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 4, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 44: To amend an Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-04</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>44</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>44.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-04">April 4, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11123">H. R. 11123</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/120">Public, No. 120</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Liberty Bond Act.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the first section of the Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and<page identifier="/us/stat/40/503">503</page>seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize an additional issue of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 288, amended.</p></sidenote> bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 844.</p></sidenote> extend additional credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes,” be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“That the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States securities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue authorized to borrow money for national security, etc.</p></sidenote> President, is hereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United States for the purposes of this Act, and to meet expenditures authorized for the national security and defense and other public purposes authorized by law, not exceeding in the aggregate $12,000,000,000, and to issue therefor bonds of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 844.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional to prior issues.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote> states, in addition to the $2,000,000,000 bonds already issued or offered for subscription under authority of the Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled ‘An Act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes’; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this sum $3,063,945,460 shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts in lieu of unissued first liberty bonds.</p></sidenote> in lieu of that amount of the unissued bonds authorized by sections one and four of the Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $225,000,000 shall be in lieu of that amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 117.</p></sidenote> of the unissued bonds authorized by section thirty-nine of the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, $150,000,000<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval emergency bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1201.</p></sidenote> shall be in lieu of the unissued bonds authorized by the joint resolution approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and $100,000,000 shall be in lieu of the unissued bonds authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">March 3, 1917, bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1002.</p></sidenote> section four hundred of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“The bonds herein authorized shall be in such form or forms and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forms, terms, etc., of bonds.</p></sidenote> denomination or denominations and subject to such terms and conditions of issue, conversion, redemption, maturities, payment, and rate or rates of interest, not exceeding four and one-quarter per centum per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest at 4 ½ per cent.</p></sidenote> annum, and time or times of payment of interest, as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time at or before the issue thereof may prescribe. The principal and interest thereof shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable in gold.</p></sidenote> payable in United States gold coin of the present standard of value.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“The bonds herein authorized shall from time to time first be offered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offer as popular loan.</p></sidenote> at not less than par as a popular loan, under such regulations, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, as will in his opinion give the people of the United States as nearly as may be an equal opportunity to participate therein, but he may make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary allotments to subscribers.</p></sidenote> allotment in full upon applications for smaller amounts of bonds in advance of any date which he may set for the closing of subscriptions and may reject or reduce allotments upon later applications and applications for larger amounts, and may reject or reduce allotments upon applications from incorporated banks and trust companies for their own account and make allotment in full or larger allotments to others, and may establish a graduated scale of allotments, and may from time to time adopt any or all of said methods, should any such action be deemed by him to be in the public interest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General rules to apply.</p></sidenote> That such reduction or increase of allotments of such bonds shall be made under general rules to be prescribed by said Secretary and shall apply to all subscribers similarly situated. And any portion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of unsubscribed-for portion.</p></sidenote> bonds so offered and not taken may be otherwise disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury in such manner and at such price or prices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy subscriptions.</p></sidenote> not less than par, as he may determine. The Secretary may make special arrangements for subscriptions at not less than par from persons in the military or naval forces of the United States, but any bonds issued to such persons shall be in all respects the same as other bonds of the same issue.”</proviso></p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/504">504</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to allied Governments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 289, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the last sentence of section two of said Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 844, 1312.</p></sidenote>“For the purposes of this section there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,500,000,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p></sidenote>the appropriations made by section two of said act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to cease at end of war.</p></sidenote>as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the authority granted by this section to the Secretary of the Treasury to establish credits for foreign Governments, as aforesaid, shall cease upon the termination of the war between the United States and the Imperial German Government.”</proviso></p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion of bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 290, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section four of said Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by adding two new paragraphs, as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds higher than 4 per cent not convertible.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 288, 35.</p></sidenote>“That holders of bonds bearing interest at a higher rate than four per centum per annum, whether issued (a) under section one, or (b) upon conversion of four per centum bonds issued under section one, or (c) upon conversion of three and one-half per centum bonds issued under said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or (d) upon conversion of four per centum bonds issued upon conversion of such three and one-half per centum bonds, shall not be entitled to any privilege of conversion under or pursuant to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 291.</p></sidenote>this section or otherwise. The provisions of section seven shall extend to all such bonds.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computing interest on converted bonds.</p></sidenote>“If bonds bearing interest at a higher rate than four per centum per annum shall be issued before July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, then any bonds bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum which shall, after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and before the expiration of the six months’ conversion period prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be presented for conversion into bonds bearing interest at such higher rate, shall, for the purpose of computing the amount of interest payable, be deemed to have been converted on the dates for the payment of the semiannual interest on the respective bonds so presented for conversion, last preceding the date of such presentation.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of indebtedness.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 291, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the last sentence of section five of said Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, ne, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 35.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1311.</p></sidenote>“The sum of such certificates outstanding hereunder and under section six of said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not at any one time exceed in the aggregate $8,000,000,000.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 291, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section eight of said Act approved September twentyfourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds may be deposited in banks, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to deposit, in such incorporated banks and trust companies as he may designate, the proceeds, or any part thereof, arising from the sale of the bonds and certificates of indebtedness and war-savings certificates authorized by this Act, and arising from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income, etc., tax receipts added.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>the payment of income and excess profits taxes, and such deposits shall bear such rate or rates of interest, and shall be secured in such manner, and shall be made upon and subject to such terms and conditions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserves not required for public money deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5191/p1004">R. S., sec. 5191, p. 1004</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 682.</p></sidenote>as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of section fifty-one hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Federal reserve Act, and the amendments thereof, with reference to the reserves required to be kept by national banking associations and other member banks of the Federal Reserve System, shall not apply to deposits of public<page identifier="/us/stat/40/505">505</page>moneys by the United States in designated depositaries. The<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositaries abroad for disbursements to armed forces, etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to designate depositaries in foreign countries with which shall be deposited all public money which it may be necessary or desirable to nave on deposit in such countries to provide for current disbursements to the military and naval forces of the United States and to the diplomatic and consular and other representatives of the United States in and about such countries until six months after the termination of the war between<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination, etc.</p></sidenote> the United States and the Imperial German Government, and to prescribe the terms and conditions of such deposits.”</proviso></content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content>That said Act approved September twenty-fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sections added.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 295, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by adding four new sections, to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content>That any bonds of the United States bearing interest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of higher rate bonds for estate or inheritance taxes.</p></sidenote> at a higher rate than four per centum per annum (whether issued under section one of this Act or upon conversion of bonds issued under this Act or under said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nneteen hundred and seventeen), which have been owned by any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> person continuously for at least six months prior to the date of his death, and which upon such date constitute part of his estate, shall, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be receivable by the United States at par and accrued interest in payment of any estate or inheritance taxes imposed by the United States, under or by virtue of any present or future law, Upon such estate or the inheritance thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of bonds authorized until one year after the war.</p></sidenote> time to time, until the expiration of one year after the termination of the war, to purchase bonds issued under authority of this Act, including bonds issued upon conversion of bonds issued under this Act or said Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at such prices and upon such terms and conditions as he may proscribe. The par amount of bonds of any such series<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yearly limitation.</p></sidenote> which may be purchased m the twelve months’ period beginning on the date of issue shall not exceed one-twentieth of the par amount of bonds of such series originally issued, and in each twelve months’ period thereafter, shall not exceed one-twentieth of the amount of the bonds of such series outstanding at the beginning of such twelve months’ period. The average cost of the bonds of any series<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost limited.</p></sidenote> purchased in any such twelve months’ period shall not exceed par and accrued interest.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“For the purposes of this section the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fund to be set aside for purchases.</p></sidenote> shall set aside, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding one-twentieth of the amount of such bonds issued before April first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and as and when any more such bonds are issued he shall set aside a sum not exceeding one-twentieth thereof. Whenever, by reason of purchases of bonds, as provided in this section, the amount so set aside falls below the sum which he deems necessary for the purposes of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury shall set aside such amount as he shall deem necessary, but not more than enough to bring the entire amount so set aside at such time up to one-twentieth of the amount of such bonds then outstanding. The amount so <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>set aside by the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this section, to be available until the expiration of one year after the termination of the war.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Treasury shall make to Congress at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement to Congress.</p></sidenote> beginning of each regular session a report including a detailed statement of the operations under this section.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content>That any of the bonds or certificates of indebtedness<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securities payable only in foreign moneys may be issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary disposal.</p></sidenote> authorized by this Act may be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury payable, principal and interest, in any foreign money or foreign<page identifier="/us/stat/40/506">506</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 845.</p></sidenote>moneys, as expressed in such bonds or certificates, but not also in United States gold coin, and he may dispose of such bonds or certificates <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 503.</p></sidenote>in such manner and at such prices, not less than par, as he may determine, without compliance with the provisions of the third <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimate of foreign dollar equivalent.</p></sidenote>paragraph of section one. In determining the amount of bonds and certificates issuable under this Act the dollar equivalent of the amount of any bonds or certificates payable in foreign money or foreign moneys shall be determined by the par of exchange at the date of issue thereof, as estimated by the Director of the Mint, and proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 552.</p></sidenote>of section twenty-five of the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled ‘An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositaries abroad for proceeds may be designated.</p></sidenote>other purposes.’ The Secretary of the Treasury may designate depositaries in foreign countries, with which may be deposited as he may determine all or any part of the proceeds of any bonds or certificates authorized by this Act, payable in foreign money or foreign moneys.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the short title of this Act shall be ‘Second Liberty Bond Act.’”</content>
</section>
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</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New section to First Liberty Bond Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 37, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title given.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the short title of this Act shall be ‘<shortTitle role="act">First Liberty Bond Act.</shortTitle>’”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to this Act.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the short title of this Act shall be “<shortTitle role="act">Third Liberty Bond Act.</shortTitle>”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 4, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 45: To provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-05</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 506</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>45</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>45.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide further for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to provide credits for industries and enterprises in the United States necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and to supervise the issuance of securities, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-05">April 5, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3714">S. 3714</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/121">Public, No. 121</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<title> 
<num class="centered" value="I"><inline class="smallCaps">Title I.—</inline></num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Finance Corporation Act.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">War Finance Corporation.</inline></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Creation and membership of Corporation.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury and four additional persons (who shall be the directors first appointed as hereinafter provided), are hereby created a body corporate and politic in deed and in law by the name, style, and title of the “War Finance Corporation” (herein called the Corporation), and shall have succession for a period of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers limited to continuance of the war.</p></sidenote>ten years: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in no event shall the Corporation exercise any of the powers conferred by this Act, except such as are incidental to the liquidation of its assets and the winding up of its affairs, after six months after the termination of the war, the date of such termination to be fixed by proclamation of the President of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital stock.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All to be held by United States.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the capital stock of the Corporation shall be $500,000,000, all of which shall be subscribed by the United States of America, and such subscription shall be subject to call upon the vote of three-fifths of the board of directors of the Corporation, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, at such time or times <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for subscriptions.</p></sidenote>as may be deemed advisable; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum<page identifier="/us/stat/40/507">507</page>of $500,000,000, of so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of making payment upon such subscription when and as called. Receipts for payments by the United States of America for or on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts for payments.</p></sidenote> account of such stock shall be issued by the Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be evidence of stock ownership.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the management of the Corporation shall be vested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of directors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> in a board of directors, consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall be chairman of the board, and four other persons, to be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. No director, officer, attorney,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No officer, etc., to participate in questions affecting personal interests, etc.</p></sidenote> agent, or employee of the Corporation shall in any manner, directly or indirectly, participate in the determination of any question affecting Iris personal interests, or the interests of any corporation, partnership, or association, in which he is directly or indirectly interested; and each director shall devote his time, not otherwise required by the business of the United States, principally to the business of the Corporation. Before entering upon his duties, each of the four directors so appointed, and each officer, shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of his office. Nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility of Government employees, etc.</p></sidenote> contained in this or any other Act shall be construed to prevent the appointment as a director of the Corporation of any officer or employee under the United States or of a director of a Federal reserve bank.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Of the four directors so appointed, the President of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointive directors.</p></sidenote> States shall designate two to serve for two years, and two for four years; and thereafter each director so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling vacancies, etc.</p></sidenote> appointed shall serve for four years. Whenever a vacancy shall occur among the directors so appointed, the person appointed director to fill any such vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired term of the member whose place he is selected to fill. Any director shall be subject to removal by the President of the United States. Three members of the board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quorum.</p></sidenote> of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That the four directors of the Corporation appointed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hereinbefore provided shall receive annual salaries, payable monthly, of $12,000. Any director receiving from the United States any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation if receiving pay from the Government.</p></sidenote> salary or compensation for services shall not receive as salary from the Corporation any amount which, together with any salary or compensation received from the United States, would make the total amount paid to him by the United States and by the Corporation exceed $12,000.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That the principal office of the Corporation shall be located<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principal office and agencies.</p></sidenote> in the District of Columbia, but there may be established agencies or branch offices in any city or cities of the United States under rules and regulations prescribed by the board of directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content>That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General corporate powers, etc., specified.</p></sidenote> to adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal; to make contracts; to purchase or lease and hold or dispose of such real estate as may be necessary for the prosecution of its business; to sue and be sued; to complain and defend in any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal; to appoint, by its board of directors, and fix the compensation of such officers, employees, attorneys, and agents as are necessary for the transaction of the business of the Corporation, to define their duties, require bonds of them and fix the penalties thereof, and to dismiss at pleasure such officers, employees, attorneys, and agents; and to prescribe, amend, and repeal, by its board of directors, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, by laws regulating the manner in which its general business may be conducted and the privileges granted to it by law may be exercised and enjoyed, and prescribing the powers and duties of its officers and agents.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/508">508</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances authorized.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized to make advances, upon such terms, not inconsistent herewith, as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote>it may prescribe, for periods not exceeding five years from the respective dates of such advances:</chapeau>
<paragraph class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="1">(1) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To banks, etc., having loaned to concerns in business contributing to prosecution of the war, on notes therefor.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To any bank, banker, or trust company, in the United States, which shall have made after April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and which shall have outstanding, any loan or loans to any person, firm, corporation, or association, conducting an established and going business in the. United States, whose operations shall be necessary or contributory to the prosecution of the war, and evidenced <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>by a note or notes, but no such advance shall exceed seventy-five per centum of the face value of such loan or loans; and</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">(2) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Banks, etc., purchasing bonds of such concerns.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">To any bank, banker, or trust company, in the United States, which shall have rendered financial assistance, directly or indirectly, to any such person, firm, corporation, or association by the purchase after April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, of its bonds or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>other obligations, but no such advance shall exceed seventy-five per centum of the value of such bonds or other obligations at the time of such advance, as estimated and determined by the board of directors of the Corporation.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promissory notes to be given for advances.</p></sidenote>All advances shall be made upon the promissory note or notes of such bank, banker, or trust company, secured by the notes, bonds, or other obligations, which are the basis of any such advance by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collateral security.</p></sidenote>Corporation, together with all the securities, if any, which such bank, banker, or trust company may hold as collateral for such notes, bonds, or other obligations.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full amount of loans, etc., may be advanced.</p></sidenote>The Corporation shall, however, have power to make advances (a) up to one hundred per centum of the face value of any such loan made by any such bank, banker, or trust company to any such person, firm, corporation, or association, and (b) up to one hundred per centum of the value at the time of any such advance (as estimated and determined by the board of directors of the Corporation) of such bonds or other obligations by the purchase of which financial assistance shall have been rendered to such person, firm, corporation, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional security to be given.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1049.</p></sidenote>association: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That every such advance shall be secured in the manner described in the preceding part of this section, and in addition thereto by collateral security, to be furnished by the bank, banker, or trust company, of such character as shall be prescribed by the board of directors, of a value, at the time of such advance (as estimated and determined by the board of directors of the Corporation), equal to at least thirty-three per centum of the amount advanced <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further security.</p></sidenote>by the Corporation. The Corporation shall retain power to require additional security at any time.</proviso></p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to savings, building, etc., associations, contributing to prosecution of the war on notes thereof.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized to make advances from time to time, upon such terms, not inconsistent herewith, as it may prescribe, for periods not exceeding one year, to any savings bank, banking institution or trust company, in the United States, which receives savings deposits, or to any building and loan association in the United States, on the promissory note or notes of the borrowing institution, whenever the Corporation shall deem such advances to be necessary or contributory to the prosecution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of security required.</p></sidenote>of the war or important in the public interest: <i>Provided</i>, That such note or notes shall be secured by the pledge of securities of such character as shall be prescribed by the board of directors of the Corporation, the value of which, at the time of such advance (as estimated and determined by the board of directors of the Corporation) shall be equal in amount to at least one hundred and thirty-three <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest rate.</p></sidenote>per centum of the amount of such advance. The rate of interest charged on any such advance shall not be less than one per centum per annum in excess of the rato of discount for ninety-day commercial paper prevailing at the time of such advance at the Federal<page identifier="/us/stat/40/509">509</page>reserve bank of the district in which the borrowing institution is located, but such rate of interest shall in no caso be greater than the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> average rate receivable by the borrowing institution on its loans and investments made during the six months prior to the date of the advance, except that where the average rate so receivable by the borrowing institution is less than such rate of discount for ninety-day commercial paper the rate of interest on such advance shall be equal to such rate of discount. The Corporation shall retain power<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional security.</p></sidenote> to require additional security at any time.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances directly to business concerns contributing to prosecution of the war.</p></sidenote> in exceptional cases, to make advances directly to any person, firm, corporation, or association, conducting an established and going business in the United States, whose operations shall be necessary or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> contributory to the prosecution of the war (but only for the purpose of conducting such business in the United States and only when in the opinion of the board of directors of the Corporation such person, firm, corporation, or association is unable to obtain funds upon reasonable terms through banking channels or from the general public), for periods not exceeding five years from the respective dates of such advances, upon such terms, and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the board of directors of the Corporation. In no case shall the aggregate amount of the advances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate limited.</p></sidenote> made under this section exceed at any one time an amount equal to twelve and one-half per centum of the sum of (1) the authorized capital stock of the Corporation plus (2) the aggregate amount of bonds of the Corporation authorized to be outstanding at any one time when the capital stock is fully paid in. Every such advance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Security required.</p></sidenote> shall be secured by adequate security of such character as shall be prescribed by the board of directors of a value at the time of such advance (as estimated and determined by the board of directors), equal to (except in case of an advance made to a railroad in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> possession and control of the President, for the purpose of making additions, betterments or road extensions to such railroad) at least one hundred and twenty-five per centum of the amount advanced by the Corporation. The Corporation shall retain power to require additional security at any time. The rate of interest charged on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest requirement.</p></sidenote> any such advance shall not be less than one per centum per annum in excess of the rate of discount for ninety-day commercial paper prevailing at the time of such advance at the Federal reserve bank of the district in which the borrower is located.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That in no case shall the aggregate amount of the advances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of advances to one person, etc.</p></sidenote> made under this title to any one person, firm, corporation, or association exceed at any one time an amount equal to ten per centum of the authorized capital stock of the Corporation, but this section shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> not apply in the case of an advance made to a railroad in the possession and control of the President, for the purpose of making additions, betterments or road extensions to such railroad.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dealing in liberty bonds , etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> to subscribe for, acquire, and own, buy, sell, and deal in bonds and obligations of the United States issued or converted after September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to such extent as the board of directors, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may from time to time determine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That the Corporation shall be empowered and authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds may be issued by Corporation.</p></sidenote> to issue and have outstanding at any one time its bonds in an amount aggregating not more than six times its paid-in capital, such bonds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> to mature not less than one year nor more than five years from the respective dates of issue, and to bear such rate or rates of interest,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> and may be redeemable before maturity at the option of the Corporation, as may be determined by the board of directors, but such rate<page identifier="/us/stat/40/510">510</page>or rates of interest shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien on Corporation assets.</p></sidenote>of the Treasury. Such bonds shall have a first and paramount floating charge on all the assets of the Corporation, and the Corporation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue, sale, etc.</p></sidenote>shall not at any time mortgage or pledge any of its assets. Such bonds may be issued at not less than par in payment of any advances authorized by this title, or may be offered for sale publicly or to any individual, firm, corporation, or association, at such price or prices as the board of directors, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may determine.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds payable in foreign moneys, etc., may be issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 845.</p></sidenote>Upon such terms not inconsistent herewith as may be determined from time to time by the board of directors, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, at or before the issue thereof, any of such bonds may be issued payable in any foreign money or foreign moneys, or issued payable at the option of the respective holders thereof either in dollars or in any foreign money or foreign moneys at such fixed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimate of foreign dollar equivalent.</p></sidenote>rate of exchange as may be stated in any such bonds. For the purpose of determining the amount of bonds issued payable in any foreign money or foreign moneys the dollar equivalent shall be determined by the par of exchange at the date of issue thereof, as estimated by the Director of the Mint and proclaimed by the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 552.</p></sidenote>Treasury in pursuance of the provisions of section twenty-five of the Act entitled “An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of bonds as collateral for reserve bank discounts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Federal reserve banks shall be authorized, subject to the maturity limitations of the Federal reserve Act and to regulations of the Federal Reserve Board, to discount the direct obligations of member banks secured by such bonds of the Corporation and to rediscount eligible paper secured by such bonds and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest recharge.</p></sidenote>indorsed by a member bank. No discount or rediscount under this section shall be granted at a less interest charge than one per centum per annum above the prevailing rates for eligible commercial paper of corresponding maturity.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use by Federal serve banks, of such paper.</p></sidenote>Any Federal reserve bank may, with the approval of the Federal Reserve Board, use any obligation or paper so acquired for any purpose for which it is authorized to use obligations or paper secured by bonds or notes of the United States not bearing the circulation privilege: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special interest on reserve notes with such security.</p></sidenote>That whenever Federal reserve notes are issued against the security of such obligations or paper the Federal Reserve Board may make a special interest charge on such notes, which, in. the discretion of the Federal Reserve Board, need not be applicable to other Federal reserve notes which may from time to time be issued <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws applicable.</p></sidenote>and outstanding. All provisions of law, not inconsistent herewith, in respect to the acquisition by any Federal reserve bank of obligations or paper secured by such bonds or notes of the United States, and in respect to Federal reserve notes issued against the security of such obligations or paper, shall extend, in so far as applicable, to the acquisition of obligations or paper secured by the bonds of the Corporation and to the Federal reserve notes issued against the security of such obligations or paper.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation not to act until authorized by the President.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Corporation shall not exercise any of the powers granted by this title or perform any business except such as is incidental and necessarily preliminary to its organization until it has been authorized by the President of the United States to commence business under the provisions of this title.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve fund from earnings.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all net earnings of the Corporation not required for its operations shall be accumulated as a reserve fund until such time <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of, designated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1314.</p></sidenote>as the Corporation liquidates under the terms of this title. Such reserve fund shall, upon the direction of the board of directors, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be invested in bonds and obligations of the United States, issued or converted after<page identifier="/us/stat/40/511">511</page>September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or upon like direction and approval may be deposited in member banks of the Federal Reserve System, or in any of the Federal reserve banks, or be used from time to time, as well as any other funds of the Corporation, in the purchase or redemption of any bonds issued by the Corporation. The Federal reserve banks are hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal reserve banks may be depositaries, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liquidation of affairs after end of war.</p></sidenote> act as depositaries for and as fiscal agents of the Corporation in the general performance of the powers conferred by this title. Beginning six months after the termination of the war, the date of such termination to be fixed by a proclamation of the President of the United States, the directors of the Corporation shall proceed to liquidate its assets and to wind up its affairs, but the directors of the Corporation, in their discretion, may, from time to time, prior to such date, sell and dispose of any securities or other property acquired by the Corporation. Any balance remaining after the payment of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance to be paid into Treasury.</p></sidenote> its debts shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, and thereupon the Corporation shall be dissolved.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content>That any and all bonds issued by the Corporation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds exempt from taxes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 845.</p></sidenote> exempt, both as to principal and interest, from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, any State, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority, except (a) estate or inheritance taxes, and (b) graduated additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> income taxes, commonly known as surtaxes, and excess-profits and war-profits taxes, now or hereafter imposed by the United States, upon the income or profits of individuals, partnerships, corporations, or associations. The interest on an amount of such bonds the principal of which does not exceed in the aggregate 85,000, owned by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association, shall be exempt from the taxes referred to in clause (b). The Corporation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation exempt from all taxation.</p></sidenote> including its franchise and the capital and reserve or surplus thereof, and the income derived therefrom, shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, any State, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority, except that any real property of the Corporation shall be subject to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Real property excepted.</p></sidenote>State, county, or municipal taxes to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content>That the United States shall not be liable for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonliability of United States for bonds, etc., of Corporation.</p></sidenote> payment of any bond or other obligation or the interest thereon issued or incurred by the Corporation, nor shall it incur any liability in respect of any act or omission of the Corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That whoever (1) makes any statement, knowing it<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for making false statements to obtain advances.</p></sidenote> to be false, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or for any other person, firm, corporation, or association any advance under this title, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Whoever willfully overvalues any security by which any such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Overvaluing securities offered for advances.</p></sidenote> advance is secured, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Whoever (1) falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits any bond,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counterfeiting bonds. etc.</p></sidenote> coupon, or paper in imitation of or purporting to be in imitation of a bond or coupon issued by the Corporation; or (2) passes, utters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passing, etc., counterfeits.</p></sidenote> or publishes, or attempts to pass, utter, or publish, any false, forged, or counterfeited bond, coupon, or paper purporting to be issued by the Corporation, knowing the same to be falsely made, forged, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering bonds, etc.</p></sidenote>counterfeited; or (3) falsely alters any such bond, coupon, or paper; or (4) passes, utters, or publishes as true any falsely altered or spurious bond, coupon, or paper<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passing altered bonds, etc.</p></sidenote> issued or purporting to have been issued by the Corporation, knowing the same to be falsely altered or spurious, shall be punished by a fine of not more, than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/512">512</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Embezzlement by officials.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false entries in books, etc.</p></sidenote>Whoever, being connected in any capacity with the Corporation, (1) embezzles, abstracts, or willfully misapplies any moneys, funds, or credits thereof, or (2) with intent to defraud the Corporation or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual, or to deceive any officer of the Corporation, (a) makes any false entry in any book, report, or statement of the Corporation, or (b) without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawing orders, etc., without authority.</p></sidenote>authority from the directors draws any order or assigns any note, bond, draft, mortgage, judgment, or decree thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection, arrest, etc., of offenders.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to direct and use the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department to detect, arrest, and deliver into custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction any person committing any of the offenses punishable under this section.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly reports to each House of Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details required.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Corporation shall file quarterly reports with the Secretary of the Senate and with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, stating as of the first day of each month of the quarter just ended (1) the total amount of capital paid in, (2) the total amount of bonds issued, (3) the total amount of bonds outstanding, (4) the total amount of advances made under each of sections seven, eight, and nine, (5) a list of the classes and amount of securities taken under each of such sections, (6) the total amount of advances outstanding under each of sections seven, eight, and nine, and (7) such other information as may be hereafter required by either House of Congress.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual report.</p></sidenote>The Corporation shall make a report to Congress on the first day of each regular session, including a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content>Section fifty-two hundred and two of the Revised Statutes
of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5202">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5202. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indebtedness limited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s5202/p1006">R. S., sec. 5202, p. 1006, amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 753.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">No national banking association shall at any time be indebted, or in any way liable, to an amount exceeding the amount of its capital stock at such time actually paid in and remaining undiminished by losses or otherwise, except on account of demands of the nature following:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="1">“First. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circulating notes.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Notes of circulation.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“Second. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Moneys deposited with or collected by the association.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“Third. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drafts, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Bills of exchange or drafts drawn against money actually on deposit to the credit of the association, or due thereto.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“Fourth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividends, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Liabilities to the stockholders of the association or dividends and reserve profits.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="5">“Fifth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal reserve liabilities.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Liabilities incurred under the provisions of the Federal Reserve Act.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent0 fontsize10">
<num value="6">“Sixth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Finance Corporation liabilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1313.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Liabilities incurred under the provisions of the War Finance Corporation Act.”</content>
</level>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num class="centered" value="II"><inline class="smallCaps">Title II.—</inline></num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital Issues Committee.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Capital Issues Committee.</inline></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="200"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 200. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of members.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That there is hereby created a committee to be known as the “Capital Issues Committee,” hereinafter called the Committee, and to be composed of seven members to be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. At least three of the members shall be members of the Federal Reserve Board.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No officer, etc., to participate in questions affecting personal interests, etc.</p></sidenote>No member, officer, attorney, agent, or employee of the Committee shall in any manner, directly or indirectly, participate in the determination of any question affecting his personal interests, or the interest of any corporation, partnership, or association in which he is directly or indirectly interested. Before entering upon his duties, each member and officer shall take an oath faithfully to discharge<page identifier="/us/stat/40/513">513</page>the duties of his office. Nothing contained in this or any other Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility of Government employees, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to prevent the appointment as a member of the Committee, of any officer or employee under the United States or of a director of a Federal reserve bank.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The terms during which the several members of the Committee <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of office and salary.</p></sidenote>shall respectively hold office shall be determined by the President of the United States, and the compensation of the several members of the Committee who are not members of the Federal Reserve Board shall be $7,500 per annum, payable monthly, but if any such member<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">limitation if receiving other from the Government.</p></sidenote> receives any other compensation from any office or employment under the United States the amount so received shall be deducted from such salary, and if such other compensation is $7,500 or more, such member shall receive no salary as a member of the Committee. Any member shall be subject to removal by the President of the United States. The President shall designate one of the members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chairmanship.</p></sidenote> as chairman, but any subsequent vacancy in the chairmanship shall be filled by the Committee. Four members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="201"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 201. </num>
<content>That the Committee may employ and fix the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials, etc., not . subject to civil service</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 403.</p></sidenote> compensation of such officers, attorneys, agents, and other employees as may be deemed necessary to conduct its business, who shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the Act entitled “ An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (volume twenty-two, United States Statutes at Large, page four hundred and three), and amendments thereto or any rules or regulations made in pursuance thereof. No such officer, attorney, agent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote> or employee shall receive more compensation than persons performing services of like or similar character under the Federal Reserve Board.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="202"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 202. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That all the expenses of the Committee, including all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of expenses.</p></sidenote> necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the members or by its officers, attorneys, agents, or employees under its orders in making an investigation or upon official business in any other places than at their respective headquarters, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The Committee may rent suitable offices for its use, and purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, office equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> such furniture, equipment, and supplies as may be necessary, but shall not expend more than $10,000 annually for offices in the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The principal office of the Committee shall be in the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principal office.</p></sidenote> Columbia, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The Committee may, by one or more of its members, or by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field Inquiries.</p></sidenote> such agents as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="203"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 203. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That the Committee may, under rules and regulations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issuing securities exceeding $100,000 by any person, etc., subject hereafter to action of Committee.</p></sidenote> to be prescribed by it from time to time, investigate, pass upon, and determine whether it is compatible with the national interest that there should be sold or offered for sale or for subscription any issue, or any part of any issue, of securities hereafter issued by any person, firm, corporation, or association, the total or aggregate par or face value of which issue and any other securities issued by the same person, firm, corporation, or association since the passage of this Act is in excess of $100,000. Shares of stock of any corporation or association without nominal or par value shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to be of the par value of $100 each. Any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unissued securities included.</p></sidenote> securities which upon the date of the passage of this Act are in the possession or control of the corporation, association, or obligor issuing the same shall be deemed to have been issued after the passage of this Act within the meaning hereof.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/514">514</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize such Committee to pass upon (1) any borrowing by any person, firm, corporation, or association in the ordinary course of business as distinguished from borrowing for capital purposes, (2) the renewing or refunding of indebtedness existing at the time of the passage of this Act, (3) the resale of any securities the sale or offering of which the Committee has determined to be compatible with the national interest, (4) any securities issued by any railroad corporation the property of which may be in the possession and control of the President of the United States, or (5) any bonds issued by the War Finance Corporation.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No approval of validity, etc., of issues.</p></sidenote>Nothing done or omitted by the Committee hereunder shall be construed as carrying the approval of the Committee or of the United States of the legality, validity, worth, or security of any securities.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="204"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 204. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for all salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $200,000 for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the establishment and maintenance of the Committee, including the payment of the salaries and rents herein authorized.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="205"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 205. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Committee shall make a report to Congress on the first day of each regular session, including a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures, and also including the names of all officers and employees and the salary paid to each.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="206"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 206. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination after end of the war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this title shall continue in effect until, but not after, the expiration of six months after the termination of the war, the date of such termination to be determined by a proclamation of the President of the United States, but the President may at any time by proclamation declare that this title is no longer necessary, and thereupon it shall cease to be in effect.</content>
</section>
</title>
<title>
<num class="centered" value="III"><inline class="smallCaps">Title III.—</inline></num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>
<heading class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous.</inline></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="300"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 300. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations not elsewhere specified.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That whoever willfully violates any of the provisions of this Act, except where a different penalty is provided in this Act, shall, upon conviction in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accessories.</p></sidenote>more than one year, or both; and whoever knowingly participates in any such violation, except where a different penalty is provided in this Act, shall be punished by a like fine or imprisonment, or both.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="301"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 301. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No revenue stamp required on notes secured by liberty bonds, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no stamp tax shall be required or imposed upon a promissory note secured by the pledge of bonds or obligations of the United States issued after April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or secured by the pledge of a promissory note which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote>itself is secured by the pledge of such bonds or obligations: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in either case the par value of such bonds or obligations shall equal the amount of such note.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="302"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 302. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalidity of any clause,etc.,not to affect remainder of Act.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, or, in case any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge to be invalid any provisions hereof in respect of any class or classes of securities, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, part, or subject matter of this Act directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="303"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 303. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Securities” defined.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the term “securities,” as used in this Act, includes stocks, shares of stock, bonds, debentures, notes, certificates of indebtedness, and other obligations.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/515">515</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="304"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 304. </num>
<content>That the right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="305"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 305. </num>
<content>That the short title of this Act shall be the “<shortTitle role="act">War Finance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title.</p></sidenote> Corporation Act.</shortTitle>”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="306"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 306. </num>
<content>That all provisions of any Act or Acts inconsistent with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
</title>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 5, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 46: To amend an Act entitled. “An Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-06</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 515</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>46</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>46.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled. “An Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-06">April 6, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9352">H. R. 9352</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/122">Public, No. 122</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 17, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three Assistant Secretaries authorized.</p></sidenote> Act providing for an Assistant Secretary of War,” approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seventeen), be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“There shall be in the Department of War an Assistant Secretary, a Second Assistant Secretary, and a Third Assistant Secretary, each of whom shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Assistant Secretary shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> be entitled to a salary of $5,000 per annum, payable monthly, and the Second Assistant Secretary and Third Assistant Secretary shall each be entitled to a salary of $4,500 per annum, payable monthly, and shall perform such duties in the Department of War as shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> be prescribed by the Secretary or as may be required by law.”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 6, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 47: To ratify the compact and agreement between the States of Oregon and Washington regarding concurrent jurisdiction over the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries in connection with regulating, protecting, and preserving fish.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-04-08</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 515</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>47</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>47.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To ratify the compact and agreement between the States of Oregon and Washington regarding concurrent jurisdiction over the waters of the Columbia River and its tributaries in connection with regulating, protecting, and preserving fish.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-08">April 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2617">H. R. 2617</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/123">Public, No. 123</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement of Oregon and Washington protecting fish in boundary waters of, ratified.</p></sidenote> of the United States of America hereby consents to and ratifies the compact and agreement entered into between the States of Oregon and Washington relative to reg dating, protecting, and preserving fish in the boundary waters of the Columbia River and other waters, which compact and agreement is contained in section twenty of chapter one hundred and eighty-eight of the general laws of Oregon for nineteen hundred and fifteen, and section one hundred and sixteen, chapter thirty-one, of the session laws of Washington for nineteen hundred and fifteen, and is as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">“All laws and regulations now existing, or which may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State laws.</p></sidenote> necessary for regulating, protecting, or preserving fish in the waters of the Columbia River, over which the States of Oregon and Washington have concurrent jurisdiction, or any other waters within either of said States, which would affect said concurrent jurisdiction, shall be made, changed, altered, and amended in whole or in part, only with the mutual consent and approbation of both States.”</p>
</quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal jurisdiction not affected.</p></sidenote> the United States to regulate commerce, or the jurisdiction of the United States over navigable waters.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 48: Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>48</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 516</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-08</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/516">516</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>48.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, to construct a bridge across White River at Forsyth, Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-08">April 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10365">H. R. 10365</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/124">Public, No. 124</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forsyth, Mo., road district may bridge.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Forsyth special road district of Taney County, Missouri, and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the White River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Forsyth, Missouri, in the county of Taney, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>State of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 49: To regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>49</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 516</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>49.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To regulate the pay of retired chief warrant officers and warrant officers on active duty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-10">April 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3400">S. 3400</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/125">Public, No. 125</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief warrant officers on retired list to receive designated pay, etc., while on active duty.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any retired chief warrant officer who has been on active duty since August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or who may hereafter perform active duty, and whose record is creditable, shall, during such time as he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service allowance.</p></sidenote>has been or may hereafter be, on active duty, and from the time his service on the active list after date of commission, plus his service on active duty while on the retired list, is equal to six years, receive the pay and allowances that are now, or may hereafter be, allowed a lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy; and shall, during such time as he has been, or may hereafter be, on active duty, and from the time such total service is equal to twelve years, receive the pay and allowances that are now, or may hereafter be, allowed a lieutenant, United States Navy.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant officers on retired list to receive designated pay, etc., while on active duty.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That any retired warrant officer who has been on active duty since August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or who may hereafter perform active duty, and whose record is creditable, shall, during such time as he has been or may hereafter be on active <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service allowance.</p></sidenote>duty, and from the time his service on the active list after date of warrant, plus his service on active duty while on the retired list, is equal to twelve years, receive the pay and allowances that are now or may hereafter be allowed a lieutenant (junior grade), United States Navy; and shall, during such time as he has been or may hereafter be on active duty, and from the time such total service is equal to eighteen years, receive the pay and allowances that are now or may hereafter be allowed a lieutenant, United States Navy.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 50: To promote export trade, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>50</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 516</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>50.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To promote export trade, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-10">April 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2316">H. R. 2316</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/126">Public, No. 126</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of export trade.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of term restricted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the words “export trade” wherever used in this Act mean solely trade or commerce in goods, wares, or merchandise exported, or in the course of being exported from the United States or any Territory thereof to any foreign nation; but the words “export trade” shall not be deemed to include the production, manufacture, or selling for consumption or for resale, within the United States or any Territory thereof, of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/517">517</page>such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any act in the course of such production, manufacture, or selling for consumption or for resale.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the words “trade within the United States” wherever used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Trade within the United States.” defined.</p></sidenote> in this Act mean trade or commerce among the several States or in any Territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or Territories and any State or States or the District of Columbia, or between the District of Columbia and any State or States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the word “association” wherever used in this Act means any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Association,” defined.</p></sidenote> corporation or combination, by contract or otherwise, of two or more persons, partnerships, or corporations.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That nothing contained in the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Association solely for export trade not a violation of Antitrust Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 209; Vol. 38, p. 738.</p></sidenote> protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be construed as declaring to be illegal an association entered into for the sole purpose of engaging in export trade and actually engaged solely in such export trade, or an agreement made or act done in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> course of export trade by such association, provided such association, agreement, or act is not in restraint of trade within the United States, and is not in restraint of the export trade of any domestic competitor of such association: <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That such association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts affecting prices, or lessening competition prohibited.</p></sidenote> does not, either in the United States or elsewhere, enter into any agreement, understanding, or conspiracy, or do any act which artificially or intentionally enhances or depresses prices within the United States of commodities of the class exported by such association, or which substantially lessens competition within the United States or otherwise restrains trade therein.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That nothing contained in section seven of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ownership in other similar associations allowed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 731.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,” approved October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall be construed to forbid the acquisition or ownership by any corporation of the whole or any part of the stock or other capital of any corporation organized solely for the purpose of engaging in export trade, and actually engaged solely in such export trade, unless the effect of such acquisition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote> or ownership may be to restrain trade or substantially lessen competition within the United States.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">That the prohibition against “unfair methods of competition” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unfair methods of competition in export trade prohibited.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 719.</p></sidenote>and the remedies provided for enforcing said prohibition contained in the Act entitled “An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes,” approved September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall be construed as extending to unfair methods of competition used in export trade against competitors engaged in export trade, even though the acts constituting such unfair methods are done without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That every association now engaged solely in export<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statements required from associations solely in export trade.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details specified.</p></sidenote> trade, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, and every association entered into hereafter which engages solely in export trade, within thirty days after its creation, shall file with the Federal Trade Commission a verified written statement setting forth the location of its offices or places of business and the names and addresses of all its officers and of all its stockholders or members, and if a corporation, a copy of its certificate or articles of incorporation and by-laws, and if unincorporated, a copy of its articles or contract of association, and on the first day of January of each year thereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Similar annual statements.</p></sidenote> it shall make a like statement of the location of its offices or places of business and the names and addresses of all its officers and of all its stockholders or members and of all amendments to and changes in its articles or certificate of incorporation or in its articles or contract of association. It shall also furnish to the com<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connections with other associations.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/518">518</page>mission such information as the commission may require as to its organization, business, conduct, practices, management, and relation to other associations, corporations, partnerships, and individuals. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure to furnish information.</p></sidenote>Any association which shall fail so to do shall not have the benefit of the provisions of section two and section three of this Act, and it shall also forfeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where the association has its principal office, or in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution.</p></sidenote>any district in which it shall do business. It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Costs, etc.</p></sidenote>forfeiture. The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of acts believed to be in restraint of trade, etc., within the United States.</p></sidenote>Whenever the Federal Trade Commission shall have reason to believe that an association or any agreement made or act done by such association is in restraint of trade within the United States or in restraint of the export trade of any domestic competitor of such association, or that an association either in the United States or elsewhere has entered into any agreement, understanding, or conspiracy, or done any act which artificially or intentionally enhances or depresses prices within the United States of commodities of the class exported by such association, or which substantially lessens competition within the United States or otherwise restrains trade therein, it shall summon such association, its officers, and agents to appear before it, and thereafter conductan investigation into the alleged <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corrective recommendations to be made.</p></sidenote>violations of law. Upon investigation, if it shall conclude that the law has been violated, itmay make tosuch association recommendations for the readjustment of its business, in order that it may thereafter maintain its organization and management and conduct its business in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action on noncompliance.</p></sidenote>accordance with law. If such association fails to comply with the recommendations of the Federal Trade Commission, said commission shall refer its findings and recommendations to the Attorney General of the United States for such action thereon as he may deem proper.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Trade Commission to enforce Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 717–724.</p></sidenote>For the purpose of enforcing these provisions the Federal Trade Commission shall have all the powers, so far as applicable, given it in “An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes.”</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 51: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>51</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 518</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>51.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-11">April 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3994">S. 3994</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/127">Public, No. 127</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands for military purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 241, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nitrate plants, etc., added.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 888.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That page one, line eight, of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation proceedings of lands for military purposes,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the word “camps” the following: “and for the construction and operation of plants for the production of nitrates and other compounds and the manufacture of explosives and other munitions of war and for the development and transmission of power for the operation of such plants,” so that the same when amended will read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceedings authorized to acquire lands, etc., for designated uses.</p></sidenote>“That hereafter the Secretary of War may cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States, in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings for the acquirement by condemnation of any land, temporary use thereof or other interest therein, or right <page identifier="/us/stat/40/519">519</page>pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications, coast defenses, military training camps, and for the construction and operation of plants for the production of nitrate and other compounds and the manufacture of explosives and other munitions of war and for the development and transmission of power for the operations of such plants; such proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when the owner of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases without suit.</p></sidenote> such land, interest, or rights pertaining thereto shall fix a price for the same, which in the opinion of the Secretary of War shall be reasonable, he may purchase or enter into a contract for the use of the same at such price without further delay:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donations allowed.</p></sidenote> of War is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States donations of land and the interest and rights pertaining thereto required for the above-mentioned purposes:</proviso>
<proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate use in time of war before title vested.</p></sidenote> That when such property is acquired in tune of war, or the imminence thereof, upon the filing of the petition for the condemnation of any land, temporary use thereof or other interest therein or right pertaining thereto to be acquired for any of the purposes aforesaid, immediate possession thereof may be taken to the extent of the interest to be acquired and the lands may be occupied and used for military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension of restrictions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60.</ref></p></sidenote> purposes, and the provision of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing that no public money shall be expended upon such land until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land is located has been given, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended during the period of the existing emergency.</proviso>”</p>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 52: Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>52</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 519</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>52.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-15">April 15, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9314">H. R. 9314</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/128">Public, No. 128</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diplomatic and consular appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of ambassadors and ministers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambassadors.</p></sidenote> Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.</p></sidenote> China, Cuba, and the Netherlands and Luxemberg, at $12,000 each, $48,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $230,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Serbia, and Bulgaria, $10,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/520">520</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minister resident and consul general.</p></sidenote>Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, etc.</p></sidenote>Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary restrictions.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $534,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chargés d’affaires.</p></sidenote>For salaries for chargés d’affaires ad interim, $50,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretaries, Diplomatic Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 805; Vol. 39, p. 252.</p></sidenote>For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service, as provided in the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” as amended by the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for current year.</p></sidenote>$301,105: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $45,105 of said amount shall be used during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen:</proviso></p>
<list>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary-interpreters.</p></sidenote>Secretary-interpreter of embassy to Japan, $3,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Secretary-interpreter of embassy to Turkey, $3,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Secretary-interpreter of legation to China, $3,600;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Assistant secretary-interpreter to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Assistant secretary-interpreter to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000;</listContent></listItem>
<listItem><listContent class="indent0 fontsize10 depth0">Assistant secretary-interpreter to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000;</listContent></listItem>
</list>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $317,905.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction and transit pay.</p></sidenote>To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls, and other officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1740/p309">R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309</ref>.</p></sidenote>authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, $65,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>clerks at embassies and legations.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at embassies and legations.</p></sidenote>For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $488,000, to be immediately available.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters, etc.</p></sidenote>Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpreters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In China.</p></sidenote>For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote>legation and consulates in China, at $1,000 each, $10,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the method of selecting said student interpreters shall be nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appoint<page identifier="/us/stat/40/521">521</page>ment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> in the service as interpreter to the legation and consulate in China so long as his services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> the legation to China, at the rate of $180 per annum each, $1,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Japan.</p></sidenote> be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Japan, at $1,000 each, $6,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote> That the method of selecting said student interpreters shall be nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Japan so long as his services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $750;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Turkey.</p></sidenote>be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the language of Turkey and any other language that may be necessary to qualify them for service as interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at $1,000 each, $10,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote> method of selecting said student interpreters shall be nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Turkey so long as his services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> the embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $1,250;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student-interpreter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on salaries.</p></sidenote> as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $32,300.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarters for the student interpreters at embassies.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for student interpreters.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Japan.</p></sidenote> embassy to Japan, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Turkey.</p></sidenote> embassy to Turkey, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $1,200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses, foreign missions.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, foreign missions.</p></sidenote> stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispatch agents.</p></sidenote> Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing in Department of State.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss by exchange.</p></sidenote> loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $1,005,585.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the actual and necessary expenses of transportation under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplo<page identifier="/us/stat/40/522">522</page>matic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates in going to an returning from their posts, or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of not exceeding ten cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $125,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>steam launch for embassy at constantinople.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam launch, Turkey.</p></sidenote>Hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople, $1,800.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground, rent, Japan.</p></sidenote>Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $250.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Spartel Light.</p></sidenote>Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $250.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bringing home criminals.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home criminals.</p></sidenote>Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $5,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life saving testimonials.</p></sidenote>Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, $4,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies.</p></sidenote>To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service and to extend the commercial <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neutrality Act expenses.</p></sidenote>and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s291/p49">R. S., sec. 291, p. 49</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1050.</p></sidenote>expended pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $700,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services in Washington.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 770.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in his discretion the President may employ part of this fund for payment for personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for officers dying abroad.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec., 1749 p. 311.</p></sidenote>Payment under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $5,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants to their homes for interment.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home remains of officers.</p></sidenote>For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in <page identifier="/us/stat/40/523">523</page>the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of weights and measures.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau of Weights and Measures.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 714.</p></sidenote> Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $2,895.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Customs Tariffs Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 1518.</p></sidenote> year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $1,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international boundary commission, united states and mexico.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Boundary Commission, Mexican.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 20, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and nineteen hundred and five, between the United States and Mexico, $37,500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary, Alaska and Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1961.</p></sidenote> the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary, United States and Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 2003.</p></sidenote> and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing and necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line not to exceed $500, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $3.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, $60,000, together with the unexpended balances of previous appropriations for these objects: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter advances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to commissioner.</p></sidenote> of money under the appropriation “Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada,” may be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States and by his authority to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of State may direct, and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties:</proviso>
<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when the commissioner is absent from Washington on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence when absent from Washington.</p></sidenote> official business he shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence, not in excess of $8 per day.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/524">524</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau for Repressing African Slave Trade.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 917.</p></sidenote>To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general Act concluded at Brussels, July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African Continent, of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $125.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international prison commission.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Prison Commission.</p></sidenote>For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pan american union.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan American Union.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of moneys received.</p></sidenote>Pan American Union, $85,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the chairman of the governing board of the union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the union and of carrying out the orders of said governing board:</proviso> <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly Bulletin.</p></sidenote><i>And provided further</i>, That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceed six thousand copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent Court of Arbitration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1793.</p></sidenote>To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague, July twentyninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.</p></sidenote>To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interparliamentary Union to Promote Arbitration.</p></sidenote>For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international institute of agriculture.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Institute of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quota.</p></sidenote>For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $8,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/525">525</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the International<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Member of committee.</p></sidenote> Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $3,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Translating publications.</p></sidenote> translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $16,600.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international sanitary bureau.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Sanitary Bureau.</p></sidenote> the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $2,830.79.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries and expenses, united states court for china.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States Court for China.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> $3,000; stenographer, $1,800; court expenses, including reference law-books, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge and district attorney.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sessions other than at Shanghai.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 635.</p></sidenote> the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed $5 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, is hereby appropriated;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $28,800.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international office of public health.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Office of Public Health.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 2061.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 1834.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eighteen toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, in pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, $3,015.62.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international seismological association.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Seismological Association.</p></sidenote> of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, $800.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">British-American Pecuniary Claims Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 1625.</p></sidenote> between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the schedules of claims thereunder, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salaries, United States agency: One counsel and joint secretary,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> at $2,750; stenographer, at $1,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $4,250.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/526">526</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>peace palace at the hague.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peace Palace at The Hague.</p></sidenote>For the payment of the contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of the Palace of Peace at The Hague, $1,045.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international radiotelegraphic convention.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Radio telegraphic conventions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, 1569.</p></sidenote>For the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nineteen, as a party to the international radiotélégraphie conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radio-telegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $2,250.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international high commission.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International High Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 8.</p></sidenote>To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the International High Commission, arising in such work and investigations as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canadian Boundary Waters Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 2448.</p></sidenote>For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $75,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State; <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence when absent from Washington.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except $8 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation of cases.</p></sidenote>For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of all boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fifth international conference of american states.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifth Pan American Conference.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for expenses of.</p></sidenote>The appropriation of $75,000 “to meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of the United States to the Fifth International Conference of American States to be held at the city of Santiago, Chile, beginning in September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and of their clerical assistants, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act <page identifier="/us/stat/40/527">527</page>approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1055.</p></sidenote> approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>payment to the government of panama.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual payment to.</p></sidenote> Panama the seventh annual payment due on February twentysixth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 2238.</p></sidenote> fourteen of the treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Government of the United States to pay its quota<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote> as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, $1,500: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of Ukiah Latitude Observatory.</p></sidenote> the sums expended by the United States for the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and for the continuance of the international latitude work there until the International Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its support of the observatory, shall be deducted from the quota due from the United States as such adhering member.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>nineteenth conference interparliamentary union.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $40,000 “For the purpose of defraying the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interparliamentary Union Conference.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1056.</p></sidenote> expenses in Washington City incident to the Nineteenth Conference of the Interparliamentary Union to be held in Washington in nineteen hundred and fifteen, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the calendar years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and nineteen hundred and eighteen, not having been expended, is hereby extended and made available for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said sum may, in the discretion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary expenditures.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote> Secretary of State, be expended within the United States, but not elsewhere:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That an itemized account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fifteenth international congress against alcoholism.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Congress Against Alcoholism.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1056.</p></sidenote> the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism are hereby reappropriated and made available until expended.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international commission on public and private international law.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $15,000 for the payment of compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Commission on International Law.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 1554.</p></sidenote> to and the necessary expenses of the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission of Jurists, organized under the convention signed at the Third International <page identifier="/us/stat/40/528">528</page>American Conference August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate February third, nineteen hundred and eight, and ratified by the President February eighth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 1557.</p></sidenote>hundred and eight, for the purpose of preparing drafts of codes of public and private international law; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 451.</p></sidenote>preparation of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under article four of the convention, made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1056.</p></sidenote>and made available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular Service.</p></sidenote>salaries of the consular service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 805.</p></sidenote>For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided in the Act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on vice consuls.</p></sidenote>$1,208,500. No portion of this sum shall be paid as compensation to vice consuls who are not American citizens: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary service.</p></sidenote>if in any case the Secretary of State deems it impracticable immediately to secure a competent vice consul who is an American citizen, he may appoint or retain as vice consul and compensate from this fund a person not an American citizen until such time as he is able to designate a competent American citizen for such post. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizenship requirements.</p></sidenote>Every consul general, consul, and, wherever practicable, every consular agent shall be an American citizen;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular inspectors.</p></sidenote>For salaries of five consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $1,233,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of consular inspectors.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote>For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>from the Secretary of State, $15,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, not exceeding an average of $5 per day.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular assistants.</p></sidenote>salaries of consular assistants.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary ratings increased.</p></sidenote>For forty consular assistants, $75,425: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That from and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the salaries of consular assistants shall be at the rate of $1,500 for the first year of continuous service, $1,650 for the second year of continuous service, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1704/p304">R. S., sec. 1704, p. 304</ref>, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 70.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 923, amended.</p></sidenote>$1,800 for the third year, and $2,000 for the fourth year of continuous service and for each year thereafter, and section seventeen hundred and four, Revised Statutes, its amendatory Act of June eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and all other Acts inconsistent with this provision are hereby so amended.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post allowances.</p></sidenote>post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special provisions for officers in belligerent countries and Far East.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 635.</p></sidenote>To enable the President, in bis discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances, during pendency of existing war and for six months after its termination, by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in belligerent countries and countries contiguous thereto, including China and the officers at Hongkong, Saigon, Tsingtau, Dairen, and Vladivostok in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $700,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/529">529</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at consulates.</p></sidenote> direction of the Secretary of State, $818,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, chosen, japan, and siberia.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Chosen, Japan,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters at consulates.</p></sidenote> and Siberia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $53,700.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters, guards, etc.</p></sidenote> Persia, Morocco, northern Africa, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $35,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of prisons for american convicts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular prisons.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of maintaining at Shanghai, under charge of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shanghai.</p></sidenote> States marshal for China, an institution for incarcerating American convicts and insane in China, $2,000; for salary of deputy marshal, $1,200; in all, $3,200;,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paying for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keeping prisoners.</p></sidenote> China, Chosen, Siam, and Turkey and of those declared insane by the United States Court for China, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, etc., Turkey.</p></sidenote> wages of keepers of the same, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, $14,200.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>relief and protection of american seamen.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of American seamen.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $80,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign hospital at cape town.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign hospital, Cape Town.</p></sidenote> (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses, united states consulates.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, consulates.</p></sidenote> books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss by exchange.</p></sidenote> assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $828,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/530">530</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>seamen’s mission at rio de janeiro, brazil.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seamen’s mission, Rio de Janeiro.</p></sidenote>Annual contribution toward the support of the seamen’s mission at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $50.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>relief of american citizens and prisoners of war.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of prisoners of war, etc.</p></sidenote>For the relief of American citizens in enemy or enemy occupied territory and American prisoners of war who may be taken by enemy forces, $80,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>legation building at san salvador.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Salvador.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legation building.</p></sidenote>For the erection at the city of San Salvador on ground presented by the Government of Salvador of a suitable building, to be constructed of reinforced concrete for the use of the legation to Salvador, both as a residence of the minister and for the offices of the legation, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, said sum to include <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of donated site.</p></sidenote>$10,000 for the purchase of the necessary furniture for the building: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States the plot of ground graciously presented by the Government of Salvador as the site for the erection of a legation building or buildings.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>addition to legation building at peking, china.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peking, China.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legation building.</p></sidenote>For an addition to the chancery building occupied by the American Legation at Peking, China, $2,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 15, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 53: To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>53</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 530</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>53.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-16">April 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3863">S. 3863</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/129">Public, No. 129</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officer on field duty to have quarters allowances for family during present emergency.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1169.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the present emergency every commissioned officer of the Army of the United States on duty in the field, or on active duty without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, who maintains a place of abode for a wife, child, or dependent parent, shall be furnished at the place where he maintains such place of abode, without regard to personal quarters furnished him elsewhere, the number of rooms prescribed by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eleven hundred and sixty-nine), to be occupied by, and only so long as occupied by, said wife, child, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote>dependent parent; and in case such quarters are not available every such commissioned officer shall be paid commutation thereof and commutation for heat and light at the rate authorized by law in cases where <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present allowances not reduced.</p></sidenote>public quarters are not available; but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to reduce the allowances now authorized by law for any person in the Army.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 54: Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Bonner County, Idaho, to construct a bridge across the Clark Fork River in Bonner County, Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>54</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 530</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>54.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to the county commissioners of Bonner County, Idaho, to construct a bridge across the Clark Fork River in Bonner County, Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-16">April 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4102">S. 4102</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/130">Public, No. 130</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clark Fork River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonner County may bridge, Clark Fork village, Idaho.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the county commissioners of Bonner County, Idaho, and their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/531">531</page>operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Clark Fork River, in Bonner County, Idaho, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the village of Clark Fork, in the county of Bonner,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> in the State of Idaho, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-three, nineteen hundred and six.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 55: To amend section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>55</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 531</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>55.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section four thousand and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes by extending its scope to include women.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-16">April 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9504">H. R. 9504</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/131">Public, No. 131</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien enemies.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4067/p784">R. S., sec. 4067, p. 784</ref>, amended.</p></sidenote> and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4067">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4067. </num>
<content class="inline">Whenever there is a declared war between the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of alien enemies in time of war.</p></sidenote> States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All such persons over fourteen years old included.</p></sidenote> natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1772, 1831.</p></sidenote> thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.”
</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 56: To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>56</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 531</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>56.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-17">April 17, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3528">S. 3528</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/132">Public, No. 132</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That sections forty-five, forty-six,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Defense Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, etc., modified during the war.</p></sidenote> and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and they hereby are, suspended for and during the period of the present war, but for such period only, and that upon the termination of said war said suspension shall cease and terminate and said sections shall thereupon be and become reinstated and of the same force and effect as if this suspension had not been made.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
That during the present war the President be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details of active or retired officers as professors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39. p. 192, amended.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to detail such number of officers of the Army of the United States, either active or retired, not above the grade of colonel, as may be necessary for duty as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are main<page identifier="/us/stat/40/532">532</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number increased.</p></sidenote>tained; but the total number of active officers so detailed at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service requirement reduced.</p></sidenote>educational institutions shall not exceed one thousand, and no officer shall be so detailed who has not had at least one year’s commissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers to have full pay, etc.</p></sidenote>service in the Army of the United States. Retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel so detailed shall receive the full pay and allowances of their grade, and retired officers above the grade of major so detailed shall receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under like detail.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details of enlisted men.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p, 192, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
That during the present war the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to detail for duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained such number of enlisted men, either active or retired, of the Army <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number increased.</p></sidenote>of the United States as he may deem necessary, but the active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall have had at least one year’s active service, and the total number of such active noncommissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional to Army strength.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive active pay, etc.</p></sidenote>officers so detailed shall not exceed three thousand, and shall be additional in their respective grades to those otherwise authorized for the Army of the United States. While detailed under the provisions of this section retired noncommissioned officers of the Army of the United States shall receive active pay and allowances.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military equipment and instructors to other schools, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 197, amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 192.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
That during the present war such arms, tentage, and equipment as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training shall be supplied by the Government to schools and colleges other than those provided for in section forty-seven of the national-defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, having a course of military training prescribed by the Secretary of War, and having not less than one hundred physically fit male students above the age of fourteen years, under such rules and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Army.</p></sidenote>regulations as he may prescribe; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized during the present war to detail commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the Army of the United States to said schools and colleges, detailing not less than one such officer or noncommissioned <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active service requirement.</p></sidenote>officer to each five hundred students under military instruction; but no officer or noncommissioned officer shall be so detailed who has not had at least one year’s active service in the Army of the United States.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 17, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 57: To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>57</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 532</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>57.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To give indemnity for damages caused by American forces abroad.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-18">April 18, 1918</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9901">H. R. 9901</ref>.]</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/133">Public, No. 133</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages by American forces abroad.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of claims for.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That claims of inhabitants of France or of any other European country not an enemy or ally of an enemy for damages caused by American military forces may be presented to any officer designated by the President, and when approved by such an officer shall be paid under regulations made by the Secretary of War.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval required.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That claims under this statute shall not be approved unless they would be payable according to the law or practice governing the military forces of the country in which they occur.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations available.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter appropriations for the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster Corps shall be available for paying the claims herein described.
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other modes of indemnity, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this statute does not supersede other modes of indemnity now in existence and does not diminish responsibility of any member of the military forces to the person injured or to the United States.
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 18, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 58: To prevent interference with the use of homing pigeons by the United States, to provide a penalty for such interference, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>58</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 533</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/533">533</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>58.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prevent interference with the use of homing pigeons by the United States, to provide a penalty for such interference, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-19">April 19, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3980">S. 3980</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/134">Public, No. 134</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it be, and it hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrier pigeons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interfering with Government owned birds unlawful.</p></sidenote>declared to be unlawful to knowingly entrap, capture, shoot, kill, possess, or in any way detain an Antwerp, or homing pigeon, commonly called carrier pigeon, which is owned by the United States or bears a band owned and issued by the United States having thereon the letters “U. S. A.” or “U. S. N.” and a serial number.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That the possession or detention of any pigeon described <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detention, etc., evidence of violation.</p></sidenote>in section one of this Act by any person or persons in any loft, house, cage, building, or structure in the ownership or under the control of such person or persons without giving immediate notice by registered mail to the nearest military or naval authorities, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><content>That any person violating the provisions of this Act shall, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment.</p></sidenote>upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $100, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 19, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 59: To punish the willful injury or destruction of warmaterial, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>59</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 533</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>59.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To punish the willful injury or destruction of warmaterial, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-20">April 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/383">S. 383</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/135">Public, No. 135</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the words “war material,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destroying war material, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles included in meaning of war material.</p></sidenote>as used herein, shan include arms, armament, ammunition, live stock, stores of clothing, food, foodstuffs, or fuel; and shall also include supplies, munitions, and all other articles of whatever description, and any part or ingredient thereof, intended for, adapted to, or suitable for the use of the United States, or any associate nation, in connection with the conduct of the war.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The words “war premises,” as used herein, shall include all buildings, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War premises.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Places included in term as used.</p></sidenote>grounds, mines, or other places wherein such war material is being produced, manufactured, repaired, stored, mined, extracted, distributed, loaded, unloaded, or transported, together with all machinery and appliances therein contained; and all forts, arsenals, navy yards, camps, prisons, or other military or naval stations of the United States, or any associate nation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The words “war utilities,” as used herein, shall include all railroads, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War utilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facilities, etc., comprehended in term as used.</p></sidenote>railways, electric lines, roads of whatever description, railroad or railway fixture, canal, lock, dam, wharf, pier, dock, bridge, building, structure, engine, machine, mechanical contrivance, car, vehicle, boat, or aircraft, or any other means of transportation whatsoever, whereon or whereby such war material or any troops of the United States, or of any associate nation, are being or may be transported either within the limits of the United States or upon the high seas; and all dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, water and gas mains and pipes, structures and buildings, whereby or in connection with which water or gas is being furnished, or may be furnished, to any war premises or to the military or naval forces of the United States, or any associate nation, and all electric light and power, steam or pneumatic power, telephone and telegraph plants, poles, wires, and fixtures and wireless stations, and the buddings connected with the maintenance and operation thereof used to supply water, light, heat, power, or facilities of communication to any war premises or to the military or naval forces of the United States, or any associate nation.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/534">534</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Territory included in term.</p></sidenote>The words “United States” shall include the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental and insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Associate nation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of words.</p></sidenote>The words “associate nation,” as used in this Act, shall be deemed to mean any nation at war with any nation with which the United States is at war.</p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for injuring, destroying, etc., war material, premises, or utilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified acts.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That when the United States is at war, whoever, with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war, or whoever, with reason to believe that his act may injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war, shall willfully injure or destroy, or shall attempt to so injure or destroy, any war material, war premises, or war utilities, as herein defined, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than thirty years, or both.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for obstructing, etc., United States or associate nation in carrying on the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified acts.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That when the United States is at war, whoever, with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war, or whoever, with reason to believe that his act may injure, interfere with, or obstruct the United States or any associate nation in preparing for or carrying on the war, shall willfully make or cause to be made in a defective manner, or attempt to make or cause to be made in a defective manner, any war material, as herein defined, or any tool, implement, machine, utensil, or receptacle used or employed in making, producing, manufacturing, or repairing any such war material, as herein defined, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than thirty years, or both.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 20, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 60: To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>60</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 534</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>60.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-20">April 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9163">H. R. 9163</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/136">Public, No. 136</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men reimbursed for travel expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That hereafter under such regulations and within such maximum rates as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War enlisted men may be reimbursed for actual expenses of travel, including subsistence and lodging, incurred while traveling under competent orders and not embraced in the movement of troops, or they may be paid a flat per diem therefor in lieu of such reimbursement.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 20, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 61: To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>61</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 534</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>61.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-20">April 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9902">H. R. 9902</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/137">Public, No. 137</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency increase.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 81, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the last sentence of section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General officers for emergency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling resulting vacancies in the Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 211.</p></sidenote>“Vacancies in the grades of the Regular Army resulting from the appointment of officers thereof to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall be filled by temporary promotions and appointments in the manner prescribed by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments by President alone provided.</p></sidenote>section one hundred and fourteen of the national defense Act, approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, except that such promotions and appointments may be made by the President alone <page identifier="/us/stat/40/535">535</page>when such vacancies are in grades not above that of colonel; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent status retained.</p></sidenote>and officers appointed under the provisions of this Act to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall not vacate their permanent commissions or be prejudiced in their relative or lineal standing in the Regular Army.</p>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 20, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 62: To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>62</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 535</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>62.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-22">April 22, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3388">S. 3388</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/138">Public, No. 138</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That section one of the emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Shipping Fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 182, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional powers conferred.</p></sidenote>shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by adding a new provision reading as follows:
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="f">“(f) </num><content>To take possession of, lease or assume control of, any street <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession of street railroads, etc., to convey employees to shipyards, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 651.</p></sidenote>railroad, interurban railroad, or part thereof wherever operated, and all cars, appurtenances, and franchises or parts thereof commonly used in connection with the operation thereof necessary for the transfer and transportation of employees of shipyards or plants engaged or that may hereafter be engaged in the construction of ships or equipment therefor for the United States.”</content></level>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content>That paragraph (b) of section one of said Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To modify street railroad, etc., contracts.</p></sidenote>amended by adding, after the word “<quotedContent>material,</quotedContent>” in the third line of said paragraph, the following words, “<quotedContent>or take possession, lease or assume control of, any street railroad, interurban railroad, or part thereof, cars and other equipment necessary to operation.</quotedContent>”</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That upon taking possession of such property, or leasing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be determined by the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>or assuming control thereof, just compensation snail be made therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof so determined by the President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States of America to recover such further sums as added to seventy-five per centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vested <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution of powers, etc.</p></sidenote>in him through the several departments of the Government, and through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time.</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 22, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 63: To conserve the gold supply of the United States; to permit the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States; to provide silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use; to assist foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States; and for the above purposes to stabilize the price and encourage the production of silver.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>63</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 535</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>63.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To conserve the gold supply of the United States; to permit the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States; to provide silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use; to assist foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States; and for the above purposes to stabilize the price and encourage the production of silver.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-23">April 23, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4292">S. 4292</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/139">Public, No. 139</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Silver, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of standard dollars In Treasury to be sold as bullion.</p></sidenote>Treasury is hereby authorized from time to time to melt or break up and to sell as bullion not in excess of three hundred and fifty million standard silver dollars now or hereafter held in the Treasury of the United States. Any silver certificates which may be outstanding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates issued therefor to be retired.</p></sidenote>against such standard silver dollars so melted or broken up shall be <page identifier="/us/stat/40/536">536</page>retired at the rate of $1 face amount of such certificates for each <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price, etc.</p></sidenote>standard silver dollar so melted or broken up. Sales of such bullion shall be made at such prices not less than $1 per ounce of silver one thousand fine and upon such terms as shall be established from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of native silver to replace coin sold.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That upon every such sale of bullion from time to time the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately direct the Director of the Mint to purchase in the United States, of the product of mines situated in the United States and of reduction works so located, an amount of silver equal to three hundred and seventy-one and twenty-five hundredths grains of pure silver in respect of every standard <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fixed price.</p></sidenote>silver dollar so melted or broken up and sold as bullion. Such purchases shall be made in accordance with the then existing regulations of the Mint and at the fixed price of $1 per ounce of silver one thousand fine, delivered at the option of the Director of the Mint at New York, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resale, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra</i>.</p></sidenote>Philadelphia, Denver, or San Francisco. Such silver so purchased may be resold for any of the purposes hereinafter specified in section three of this Act, under rules and regulations to be established by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess to be coined.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Treasury, and any excess of such silver so purchased over and above the requirements for such purposes, shall be coined <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates to issue for amount coined.</p></sidenote>into standard silver dollars or held for the purpose of such coinage, and silver certificates shall be issued to the amount of such coinage. The net amount of silver so purchased, after making allowance for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on purchases.</p></sidenote>all resales, shall not exceed at any one time the amount needed to coin an aggregate number of standard silver dollars equal to the aggregate number of standard silver dollars theretofore melted or broken <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate coinage required.</p></sidenote>up and sold as bullion under the provisions of this Act, but such purchases of silver shall continue until the net amount of silver so purchased, after making allowance for all resales, shall be sufficient to coin therefrom an aggregate number of standard silver dollars equal to the aggregate number of standard silver dollars theretofore so melted or broken up and sold as bullion.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bullion sales to conserve stock of gold, facilitate trade balances,for subsidiary coinage, etc.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That sales of silver bullion under authority of this Act maybe made for the purpose of conserving the existing stock of gold in the United States, of facilitating the settlement in silver of trade balances adverse to the United States, of providing silver for subsidiary coinage and for commercial use, and of assisting foreign governments at war with the enemies of the United States. The allocation of any silver to the Director of the Mint for subsidiary coinage shall,for the purposes of this Act, be regarded as a sale or resale.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for difference between face and bullion value of coins melted.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse theTreasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of all standard silver dollars so melted or broken up and the value of the silver bullion, at $1 per ounce of silver one thousand fine, resulting from the melting or breaking up of such standard silver dollars.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve bank notes may be issued to replace silver certificates retired.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That in order to prevent contraction of the currency, the Federal reserve banks may be either permitted or required by theFederal Reserve Board, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ones and twos included.</p></sidenote>to issue Federal reserve bank notes, in any denominations (including denominations of $1 and $2) authorized by the Federal Reserve Board,in an aggregate amount not exceeding the amount of standard silver dollars melted or broken up and sold as bullion under authority of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of certificates of indebtedness, etc.,as security.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maturity of certificates of indebtedness may be extended, etc.</p></sidenote>this Act, upon deposit as provided by law with the Treasurer of theUnited States as security therefor, of United States certificates of indebtedness, or of United States one-year gold notes. The Secretary of the Treasury may, at his option, extend the time of payment of any maturing United States certificates of indebtedness deposited as security for such Federal reserve bank notes for any period not <page identifier="/us/stat/40/537">537</page>exceeding one year at any one extension and may, at his option, pay such certificates of indebtedness prior to maturity, whether or not so extended. The deposit of United States certificates of indebtedness <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of conditions.</p></sidenote>by Federal reserve banks as security for Federal reserve bank notes under authority of this Act shall be deemed to constitute an agreement on the part of the Federal reserve bank making such deposit that the Secretary of the Treasury may so extend the time of payment of such certificates of indebtedness beyond the original maturity date or beyond any maturity date to which such certificates of indebtedness may have been extended, and that the Secretary of the Treasury may pay such certificates in advance of maturity, whether or not so extended.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><content>That as and when standard silver dollars shall be coined <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of reserve notes on coinage of dollars from purchased bullion.</p></sidenote>out of bullion purchased under authority of this Act, the Federal reserve banks shall be required by the Federal Reserve Board to retire Federal reserve bank notes issued under authority of section five of this Act, if then outstanding, in an amount equal to the amount of standard silver dollars so coined, and the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of security.</p></sidenote>shall pay off and cancel any United States certificates of indebtedness deposited as security for Federal reserve bank notes so retired.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><content>That the tax on any Federal reserve bank notes issued under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on notes issued hereunder.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 683.</p></sidenote>authority of this Act, secured by the deposit of United States certificates of indebtedness or United States one-year gold notes, shall be so adjusted that the net return on such certificates of indebtedness, or such one-year gold notes, calculated on the face value thereof, shall be equal to the net return on United States two per cent bonds, used to secure Federal reserve bank notes, after deducting the amount of the tax upon such Federal reserve bank notes so secured.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><content>That except as herein provided, Federal reserve bank notes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, pp. 265, 683; Vol. 39, p.754.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 236.</p></sidenote>issued under authority of this Act, shall be subject to all existing provisions of law relating to Federal reserve bank notes.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><content>That the provisions of Title VII of an Act approved June <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Export licenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to silver coin and bullion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 225.</p></sidenote>fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” and the powers conferred upon the President by subsection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 415.</p></sidenote>(b) of section five of an Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Trading with the Enemy Act,” shall, in so far as applicable to the exportation from or shipment from or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination.</p></sidenote>taking out of the United States of sil ver coin or silver bullion, continue until the net amount of silver required by section two of this Act shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 536.</p></sidenote>have been purchased as therein provided.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription>Approved, April 23, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 64: To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>64</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 537</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-26</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>64.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to increase the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-26">April 26, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10783">H. R. 10783</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/140">Public, No. 140</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance proving grounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures authorized for.</p></sidenote>Navy is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $1,000,000, or any part thereof, in his discretion, for the purpose of increasing the facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, railroad, and water facilities, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms, and corporations resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose, and also all necessary expenses incident to the procurement of said land: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if such lands and appurtenances and improvements <page identifier="/us/stat/40/538">538</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taking over of lands etc., it early purchase not practicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1790, 1826, 1885.</p></sidenote>attached thereto, can not be procured by purchase within one month after the passage of this Act the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title of such lands and improvements, including all easements, rights of way, riparian, and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be used for the carrying out of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of compensation by President.</p></sidenote>purposes of this Act. That if said land and appurtenances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit authorized if price unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote>and if the amount thereof so determined by the President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest at once.</p></sidenote>section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid, the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>United States. For the purposes of this Act there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated the sum of $1,000,000, or so much thereof <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on building railroad in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>as may be necessary:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no railroad shall be built in the District of Columbia under this Act, until Congress has approved the point from which such road may start and also the route to be followed in the District of Columbia.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription>Approved, April 26, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 65: To authorize the extension of a spur track or siding from the existing lines of railroad in the District of Columbia across First Street Northeast, between L and M Streets, to the buildings occupied by the field medical supply depot of the Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>65</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 538</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-04-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>65.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the extension of a spur track or siding from the existing lines of railroad in the District of Columbia across First Street Northeast, between L and M Streets, to the buildings occupied by the field medical supply depot of the Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-04-29">April 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3476">S. 3476</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/141">Public, No. 141</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad siding to Army Medical Supply Depot, authorized.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That authority is hereby granted the Surgeon General of the United States Army to construct, maintain, and operate a temporary single-track overhead siding across First Street northeast, between L and M Streets, to the building or buildings in square six hundred and seventy-three, occupied <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction and limitations.</p></sidenote>by the Field Medical Supply Depot of the Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the siding herein authorized shall not extend westwardly beyond a point five hundred and sixty-nine feet and nine inches east of the present site of Sibley Hospital or any of its buildings; and shall be limited to the use of the Medical Department of the United States Army for the period preceding the declaration of peace and thirty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal alter end of war.</p></sidenote>days thereafter; and within six months following the declaration of peace the Surgeon General shall cause said track to be entirely removed from the limits of said street and shall cause the aforesaid street to be restored to its condition prior to the construction of the siding without cost to the District or Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses from Army appropriations.</p></sidenote>The Surgeon General of the Army shall provide for the construction, maintenance, and removal of this siding as herein authorized and prescribed, and the costs thereof shall be defrayed from the appropriations for the Medical and Hospital Department of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of daily use.</p></sidenote>United States Army: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That said track shall be used only between the hours of six o’clock antemeridian and nine o’clock postmeridian except in cases of extreme emergency, and trains shall be operated with the least possible noise.</proviso></p>
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<action><actionDescription>Approved, April 29, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 66: To authorize the incorporated town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other works to confine the waters of Lowell Creek for the protection of said town.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>66</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 539</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/539">539</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>66.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the incorporated town of Seward, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other works to confine the waters of Lowell Creek for the protection of said town.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-01">May 1, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9832">H. R. 9832</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/142">Public, No. 142</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the incorporated town of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seward, Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May issue bonds to confine waters of Lowell Creek.</p></sidenote> Seward, Alaska, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for the purpose of constructing dikes, flumes, and other protection to confine the waters of Lowell Creek, and to keep said waters from running over and upon the town of Seward.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Before said bonds shall be issued a special election<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election to authorize.</p></sidenote> shall be ordered by the common council of the town of Seward, at which election the question of whether such bonds shall be issued shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said town of Seward whose names appear on the last assessment roll of said town for municipal taxation. Thirty days’ notice of any such election shall be given by publication thereof in a newspaper printed and published and of general circulation in said town before the day fixed for such election.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The registration for such election, the manner of conducting the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduct of election.</p></sidenote> same, and the canvass of the returns of said election shall be, as near as practicable, in accordance with the requirements of law in general or special elections in said municipality, and said bonds shall be issued only upon the condition that a majority of the votes cast at such election in said town shall be in favor of issuing said bonds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The bonds above specified, when authorized to be issued as herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest rate, sale, etc.</p></sidenote> before provided, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed eight per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and shall not be sold for less than their par value with accrued interest and shall be in denominations not exceeding $1,000 each the principal to be due in twenty years from date thereof: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the common<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption.</p></sidenote> council of said town of Seward may reserve the right to pay off such bonds in their numerical order at the rate of $5,000 thereof per annum from and after the expiration of five years from their date. Principal and interest shall be payable in lawful money of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of principal and interest.</p></sidenote> States of America at the office of the town treasurer, or at such bank in the city of New York, in the State of New York, or such place as may be designated by the common council of the town of Seward; the place of payment to be mentioned in the bonds:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That each and every such bond shall have the written signature<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signatures and seal required.</p></sidenote> of the mayor and clerk of said town of Seward and also bear the seal of said town.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of funds restricted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of bonds.</p></sidenote> used for any purpose other than specified in this Act. Said bonds shall be sold only in such amounts as the common council shall direct, and the proceeds thereof shall be disbursed under the limitations hereinbefore imposed and under the order and direction of said common council, from time to time, as the same may be required for the purposes aforesaid.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 1, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 67: To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>67</docNumber>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>67.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse of the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-06">May 6, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10613">H. R. 10613</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/143">Public, No. 143</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in order that the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garbage and miscellaneous refuse.</p></sidenote> service of the collection of garbage and miscellaneous refuse in the District of Columbia and the disposal of the same may be continued without further interruption, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, if in their judgment it is deemed to be to the best interest<page identifier="/us/stat/40/540">540</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of plants, etc., of present contractors, authorized.</p></sidenote> of said District, are hereby authorized to purchase or lease all or any part of the plant, equipment, buildings and grounds used by the Washington Fertilizer Company, the present contractor, for the collection, removal, reduction or disposal of garbage, and for the purchase or lease of all or any part of the plant, equipment, buildings and grounds used by M. R. Ready, the present contractor, for the collection, removal and disposal of miscellaneous refuse.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation if no agreement as to price.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in case a price can not be agreed upon between the commissioners and the parties in interest, for the purchase or lease of all or such parts of said plants, equipment, buildings and grounds as may be required, then, and in that event, all or such parts of the said plants, equipment, buildings and grounds, hereinbefore described as may be necessary, are hereby declared to be and the same are hereby condemned and appropriated to and for the use of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation, etc., by Commissioners.</p></sidenote> States of America, to be used, operated and controlled by it, by and through the agency hereafter provided, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as agents of the United States, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to take charge and possession, in the name of, for and by the authority of the United States of America, of all or so much of the property, real and personal, described in section one, paragraph one, as may be necessary, and to use the same for the collection, removal, reduction or disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse in the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisal, etc., of property.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in the event the property hereinbefore described, is not purchased or leased, and is condemned as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to appoint a commission of appraisal and award, consisting of three persons, to appraise the value of the properties condemned and appropriated, and to award to the respective owners just compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of value.</p></sidenote> therefor. The said commission of appraisal and award shall, as soon as possible, file an inventory of the physical assets in use and useful in conducting the service of the collection and removal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse, and the value of the same, proper allowance being made for depreciation. Each commissioner of the commission of appraisal and award shall make oath before a judge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of appraisers.</p></sidenote> of a court of the United States, to faithfully perform such duty. The said commission of appraisal and award shall have power and it shall be its duty, to summon witnesses with books and papers before it for all of the parties in interest and to require such witnesses to testify, and it shall give a full hearing on the compensation to be awarded, and give notice of the filing of such award to the Commissioners of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review by Court of Appeals, D. C.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia and the owners of said property, and any party in interest dissatisfied with the amount of such award may appeal from the same, which appeal shall be reviewed by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which court is hereby vested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal to Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> with jurisdiction for such purpose; and an appeal may similarly be taken from the decision of such court of appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States for a final review of the amount of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on award.</p></sidenote> award. Such final award shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have taken possession of the property until the date of its final payment.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of expenses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the expenses of procuring evidence of title, or expenses of appraisal and award, or both, shall be paid out of such appropriations as are, or may be provided for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value=" "><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for purchases of property.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That not exceeding $85,000 of the appropriation authorized herein may be expended for the purchase of the property of the gar<page identifier="/us/stat/40/541">541</page> bage contractor; and not exceeding $50,000 may be expended for the purchase of the property of the miscellaneous refuse contractor: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of plants, etc., of present contractors.</p></sidenote> authorized to acquire by lease all or any part of the plant, equipment, buildings, and grounds of either of the present contractors engaged in the collection and removal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse, or property used by them, or such other equipment, buildings and grounds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">That should the Commissioners of the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of garbage for feeding pigs, etc., on lands owned, etc., by District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> find that the garbage in the District can be disposed of in a sanitary manner and as economically by feeding it to pigs, live stock and poultry on the land of the Home for the Aged and Infirm, located at Blue Plains, District of Columbia, or on the land of the workhouse and reformatory, of the District of Columbia, located at Occoquan and Lorton, Virginia, or both, or on such other land as the said commissioners may be able to acquire by purchase or lease in the States of Virginia or Maryland, the said commissioners are authorized to use either or all of said designated lands, or to purchase or lease land in the States of Virginia or Maryland for the purpose, and to adopt the pig, live stock or poultry feeding method of disposal.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline">That not exceeding $200,000 of the appropriation authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for purchase of pigs, etc.</p></sidenote> herein may be expended for the purchase of pigs, live stock and poultry.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline">That should the Commissioners of the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alternative disposal of garbage authorized.</p></sidenote> find that under existing circumstances the methods of disposal of garbage hereinbefore authorized are inadvisable, they are authorized to secure for temporary use sufficient land, and to acquire the necessary equipment to bury the garbage collected in the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content class="inline">That every person, corporation, association or institution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of garbage in metal containers out of the District permitted.</p></sidenote> in the District of Columbia, under such rules and regulations as the commissioners may prescribe, may transport in closed metal containers from the place of origin to places outside of the District of Columbia any refuse, including meat, bread, and vegetables, not in a decayed or decomposed condition, to be fed to poultry, pigs, or other live stock at any place where such feeding is not prohibited by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">That products arising from any method of disposal adopted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc., of products by Commissioners.</p></sidenote> by the commissioners under the authority of this Act, may be sold, and the proceeds therefrom shall be repaid to the then current appropriation for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content class="inline">That in order to put into effect and operate such method<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle, equipment, services, etc., for, authorized.</p></sidenote> of disposal as may be adopted by the commissioners under the provisions of this Act, the said commissioners are authorized to secure the necessary means of transportation, including the hire or purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles and passenger-canying and other motor-propelled vehicles; additional equipment, buildings and machinery; and to employ expert and other personal services and labor; and to pay traveling, maintenance, incidental and contingent expenses.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of this Act an appropriation in the sum of $620,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized, one-half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 6, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 68: Making an appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>68</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 541</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/542">542</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>68.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making an appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-06">May 6, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/284">H. J. Res. 284</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/28">Pub. Res., No. 28</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for House of Representatives.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sum is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated:</content>
</section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>house of representatives.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items, and special and select committees.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $40,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 6, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 69: To amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>69</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 541</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-09</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>69.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-09">May 9, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/3132">H. R. 3132</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/144">Public, No. 144</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization of aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 598, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and is hereby, amended by adding seven new subdivisions as follows:
<quotedContent>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="7">“Seventh. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission to citizenship.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filipinos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service requirement, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="inline">Any native-born Filipino of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States and who has enlisted or may hereafter enlist in the United States Navy or Marino Corps or the Naval Auxiliary Service, and who, after service of not less than three years, may be honorably discharged therefrom, or who may receive an ordinary discharge with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aliens, or Porto Ricans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of residence not required if having Army, Navy, or shipping service.</p></sidenote> recommendation for reenlistment; or any alien, or any Porto Rican not a citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upward, who has enlisted or entered or may hereafter enlist in or enter the armies of the United States, either the Regular or the Volunteer Forces, or the National Army, the National Guard or Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or the State militia in Federal service, or in the United States Navy or Marino Corps, or in the United States Coast Guard, or who has served for three years on board of any vessel of the United States Government, or for three years on board of merchant or fishing vessels of the United States of more than twenty tons burden, and while still in the service on a reenlistment or reappointment, or within six months after an honorable discharge or separation therefrom, or while on furlough to the Army Reserve or Regular Army Reserve after honorable service, may, on presentation of the required declaration of intention<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance on presenting declaration of intention.</p></sidenote> petition for naturalization without proof of the required five years’ residence within the United States if upon examination by the representative of the Bureau of Naturalization, in accordance with the requirements of this subdivision it is shown that such residence can<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aliens in armed force during present war.</p></sidenote> not be established; any alien serving in the military or naval service of the United States during the time this country is engaged in the present war may file his petition for naturalization without making the preliminary declaration of intention and without proof of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aliens with previous military or naval service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence for three years if accepted on condition of becoming citizens.</p></sidenote> required five years’ residence within the United States; any alien declarant who has served in the United States Army or Navy, or the Philippine Constabulary, and has been honorably discharged there from, and has been accepted for service in either the military or naval service of the United States on the condition that he becomes a<page identifier="/us/stat/40/543">543</page> citizen of the United States, may file his petition for naturalization upon proof of continuous residence within the United States for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of residence.</p></sidenote> three years immediately preceding his petition, by two witnesses, citizens of the United States, and in these cases only residence in the Philippine Islands and the Panama Canal Zone by aliens may be considered residence within the United States, and the place of such military service shall be construed as the place of residence required to be established for purposes of naturalization; and any alien, or any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petitions from aliens or persons owing allegiance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance without residence proof.</p></sidenote> person owing permanent allegiance to the United States embraced within this subdivision, may file his petition for naturalization in the most convenient court without proof of residence within its jurisdiction, notwithstanding the limitation upon the jurisdiction of the courts specified in section three of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, provided he appears with his two witnesses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p.596.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence accepted.</p></sidenote> before the appropriate representative of the Bureau of Naturalization and passes the preliminary examination hereby required before filing his petition for naturalization in the office of the clerk of the court, and in each case the record of this examination shall be offered in evidence by the representative of the Government from the Bureau of Naturalization and made a part of the record at the original and any subsequent hearings; and, except as otherwise herein provided,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service certificate, etc., in lieu of proof of residence, etc.</p></sidenote> the honorable discharge certificate of such alien, or person owing permanent allegiance to the United States, or the certificate of service showing good conduct, signed by a duly authorized officer, or by the masters of said vessels, shall be deemed prima facie evidence to satisfy all of the requirements of residence within the United States and within the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and good moral character required by law, when supported by the affidavits of two witnesses, citizens of the United States, identifying the applicant as the person named in the certificate or honorable discharge, and in those cases only where the alien is actually in the military or naval service of the United States, the certificate of arrival shall not be filed with the petition for naturalization in the manner prescribed; and any petition for naturalization filed under the provisions of this subdivision may be heard immediately, notwithstanding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate hearings.</p></sidenote> the law prohibits the hearing of a petition for naturalization during thirty days preceding any election in the jurisdiction of the court. Any alien, who, at the time of the passage of this Act, is in the military service of the United States, who may not be within the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petitions from aliens now in military service.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction of any court authorized to naturalize aliens, may file his petition for naturalization without appearing in person in the office of the clerk of the court and shall not be required to take the prescribed oath of allegiance in open court. The petition shall be verified by the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses who are citizens<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of service, oath, etc.</p></sidenote> of the United States, and who shall prove in their affidavits the portion of the residence that they have personally known the applicant to have resided within the United States. The time of military service may be established by the affidavits of at least two other citizens of the United States, which, together with the oath of allegiance, may be taken in accordance with the terms of section seventeen hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes of the United States after notice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1750/p31">R. S., sec. 1750, p. 31</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect as evidence.</p></sidenote> from and under regulations of the Bureau of Naturalization. Such affidavits and oath of allegiance shall be admitted in evidence in any original or appellate naturalization proceeding without proof of the genuineness of the seal or signature or of the official character of the officer before whom the affidavits and oath of allegiance were taken, and shall be filed by the representative of the Government from the Bureau of Naturalization at the hearing as provided by section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 599.</p></sidenote> eleven of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.<page identifier="/us/stat/40/544">544</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization officials to administer oaths.</p></sidenote> Members of the Naturalization Bureau and Service may be designated by the Secretary of Labor to administer oaths relating to the administration of the naturalization law; and the requirement of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice to district attorney, etc., repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 69l.</p></sidenote> section ten of notice to take depositions to the United States attorneys is repealed, and the duty they perform under section fifteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part one, page five hundred and ninety-six), may also be performed by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election day restrictions.</p></sidenote> Naturalization: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it shall not be lawful to make a declaration of intention before the clerk of any court on election day or during the period of thirty days preceding the day of holding any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service on vessels not of American registry not accepted for residence.</p></sidenote> election in the jurisdiction of the court:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That service by aliens upon vessels other than of American registry, whether continuous or broken, shall not be considered as residence for naturalization purposes within the jurisdiction of the United States, and such aliens can not secure residence for naturalization purposes during service, upon vessels of foreign registry.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee restrictions.</p></sidenote>During the time when the United States is at war no clerk of a United States court shall charge or collect a naturalization fee from an alien in the military service of the United States for filing his petition or issuing the certificate of naturalization upon admission to citizenship, and no clerk of any State court shall charge or collect any fee for this service unless the laws of the State require such charge to be made, in which case nothing more than the portion of the fee required to be paid to the State shall be charged or collected.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 600.</p></sidenote> A full accounting for all of these transactions shall be made to the Bureau of Naturalization in the manner provided by section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</p>
</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="8">“Eighth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien seamen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protected as citizens by serving on American vessels after filing declaration.</p></sidenote>
<content>That every seaman, being an alien, shall, after his declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, and after he shall have served three years upon such merchant or fishing vessels of the United States, be deemed a citizen of the United States for the purpose of serving on board any such merchant or fishing vessel of the United States, anything to the contrary in any Act of Congress notwithstanding; but such seaman shall, for all purposes of protection as an American citizen, be deemed such after the filing of his declaration of intention to become such citizen:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seamen’s Act not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1164.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing contained in this Act shall be taken or construed to repeal or modify any portion of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, part one, page eleven hundred and sixty-tour, chapter one hundred and fifty-three), being an Act to promote the welfare of American seamen.</proviso></content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="9">“ Ninth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Educating applicants for citizenship.</p></sidenote>
<content>That for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization of sending the names of the candidates for citizenship to the public schools and otherwise promoting instruction and training in citizenship responsibilities of applicants for naturalization, as provided in this subdivision, authority is hereby given for the reimbursement of the printing and binding appropriation of the Department of Labor upon the records of the Treasury Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of naturalization fees for expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> from the naturalization fees deposited in the Treasury through the Bureau of Naturalization for the cost of publishing the citizenship textbook prepared and to be distributed by the Bureau of Naturalization to those candidates for citizenship only who are in attendance upon the public schools, such reimbursement to be made upon statements by the Commissioner of Naturalization of books actually delivered to such student candidates for citizenship, and a monthly naturalization bulletin, and in this duty to secure the aid of and cooperate with the official State and national organizations, including those concerned with vocational education and including personal services in the District of Columbia, and to aid the local Army<page identifier="/us/stat/40/545">545</page> exemption boards and cooperate with the War Department in locating declarants subject to the Army draft and expenses incidental thereto.</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="10">“Tenth. </num>
<content>That any person not an alien enemy, who resided uninterruptedly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien residents not enemies erroneously exercising citizenship rights.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance without preliminary declaration</p></sidenote> within the United States during the period of five years next preceding July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and was on that date otherwise qualified to become a citizen of the United States, except that he had not made the declaration of intention required by law and who during or prior to that time, because of misinformation regarding his citizenship status erroneously exercised the rights and performed the duties of a citizen of the United States in good faith, may file the petition for naturalization prescribed by law without making the preliminary declaration of intention required of other aliens, and upon satisfactory proof to the court that he has so acted may be admitted as a citizen of the United States upon complying in all respects with the other requirements of the naturalization law.</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="11">“Eleventh. </num>
<content>No alien who is a native, citizen, subject, or denizen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on granting citizenship to natives, etc., of enemy country.</p></sidenote> of any country, State, or sovereignty with which the United States is at war shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States unless he made his declaration of intention not less than two nor more than seven years prior to the existence of the state of war, or was at that time entitled to become a citizen of the United States, without making a declaration of intention, or unless his petition for naturalization shall then be pending and is otherwise entitled to admission, notwithstanding he shall be an alien enemy at the time and in the manner prescribed by the laws passed upon that subject: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no alien embraced within this subdivision shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearing requirements.</p></sidenote> his petition for naturalization called for a hearing, or heard, except after ninety days’ notice given by the clerk of the court to the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization to be present, and the petition shall be given no final hearing except in open court and after such notice to the representative of the Government from the Bureau of Naturalization, whose objection shall cause the petition to be continued from time to time for so long as the Government may require:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That nothing herein contained shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal, etc., of alien enemies.</p></sidenote> be taken or construed to interfere with or prevent the apprehension and removal, agreeably to law, of any alien enemy at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien; and section twenty-one hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s2171/380">R. S., sec. 2171, p. 380</ref>, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loyalty exemption allowed.</p></sidenote> United States is hereby repealed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, upon investigation and report by the Department of Justice fully establishing the loyalty of any alien enemy not included in the foregoing exemption, except such alien enemy from the classification of alien enemy, and thereupon he shall have the privilege of applying for naturalization; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of this section, including personal services in the District of Columbia, the sum of $400,000 is hereby appropriated, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, including travel expenses for members of the Bureau of Naturalization and its field service only, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions waived.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3679/p723">R. S. sec. 3679, p. 723</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 49.</p></sidenote> the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes shall not be applicable in any way to this appropriation.</proviso></content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="12">“Twelfth. </num>
<content>That any person who, while a citizen of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repatriation of citizens serving with allies of United Slates in present war.</p></sidenote> States and during the existing war in Europe, entered the military or naval service of any country at war with a country with which the United States is now at war, who shall be deemed to have lost his citizenship by reason of any oath or obligation taken by him for the purpose of entering such service, may resume his citizenship by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States<page identifier="/us/stat/40/546">546</page> prescribed by the naturalization law and regulations, and such oath may be taken before any court of the United States or of any State authorized by law to naturalize aliens or before any consul of the United States, and certified copies thereof shall be sent by such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former provision repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 340.</p></sidenote> court or consul to the Department of State and the Bureau of Naturalization, and the Act (Public fifty-five, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen), is hereby repealed.</content>
</subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<num value="13">“Thirteenth. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuous residence not required of persons in armed forces during the war.</p></sidenote>
<content>That any person who is serving in the military or naval forces of the United States at the termination of the existing war, and any person who before the termination of the existing war may have been honorably discharged from the military or naval services of the United States on account of disability incurred in line of duty, shall, if he applies to the proper court for admission as a citizen of the United States, be relieved from the necessity of moving that immediately preceding the date of his application he has resided continuously within the United States the time required by law of other aliens, or within the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia for the year immediately preceding the date of his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure for naturalization.</p></sidenote> petition for naturalization, but his petition for naturalization shall be supported by the affidavits of two credible witnesses, citizens of the United States, identifying the petitioner as the person named in the certificate of honorable discharge, which said certificate may be accepted as evidence of good moral character required by law, and he shall comply with the other requirements of the naturalization law.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s/2166/2174/pp379/380">R. S. secs., 2166, 2174. pp. 379, 380</ref>.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the following provisions of law be, and they are hereby, repealed: Section twenty-one hundred and sixty-six and twenty-one hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps service qualifications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 124.</p></sidenote> the United States of America and so much of an Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making provisions for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” being chapter one hundred and sixty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and twenty-four), reading as follows: “<quotedText>Any alien of the ago of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof of such person’s service in and honorable discharge from the United States Navy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 88, p. 395.</p></sidenote> or Marine Corps;</quotedText>” and so much or an Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes,” being chapter one hundred and thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, part one, page three hundred and ninety-two), reading as follows: “<quotedText>Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who may under existing law become a citizen of the United States, who has served or may hereafter servo for one enlistment of not less than four years in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and who has received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge, with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years in the Revenue-Cutter Service and received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge<page identifier="/us/stat/40/547">547</page> with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years of honorable service in the naval auxiliary service, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such, and without proof of residence on shore, and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof from naval or revenue-cutter sources of such service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an honorable discharge from the Navy, Marino Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, or the Naval Auxiliary Service, or an ordinary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, shall be accepted as proof of good moral character:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any court which now has or may hereafter be given jurisdiction to naturalize aliens as citizens of the United States may immediately naturalize any alien applying under and furnishing the proof prescribed by the foregoing provisions</proviso></quotedText>”; and so much of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of naturalization papers on declaration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 830.</p></sidenote> section three of an Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part one, page six hundred and thirty), reading as follows: “<quotedText>That paragraph two of section four of an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,’ approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended by adding, after the proviso in paragraph two of section four of said Act, the following:<proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any person belonging to the class of persons authorized and qualified under existing law to become a citizen of the United States, who has resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May first, nineteen hundred and ten, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens.</proviso></quotedText>”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or repugnant to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; but nothing in this Act shall repeal or in any way enlarge section twenty-one hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes, except as specified in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s2169/p308">R. S., sec. 2169, p. 380</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 542.</p></sidenote> seventh subdivision of this Act and under the limitation therein defined: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the purposes of the prosecution of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending prosecutions, etc., continued.</p></sidenote> crimes and offenses against the naturalization laws of the United States which may have been committed prior to this Act the statutes and laws hereby repealed shall remain in full force and effect:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status of aliens serving in the Army.</p></sidenote> That as to all aliens who, prior to January first, nineteen hundred, served in the Armies of the United States and were honorably discharged therefrom, section twenty-one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s2166/p379">R. S., sec. 2166 ,p. 379</ref>.</p></sidenote> sixty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall be and remain in full force and effect, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.</proviso></p>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/548">548</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization certificates on declarations filed prior to September 27, 1906, validated.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all certificates of naturalization granted by courts of competent jurisdiction prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, upon petitions for naturalization filed prior to January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, upon declarations of intention filed prior to September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, are hereby declared to be valid in so far as the declaration of intention is concerned, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 597, 599, 604–607.</p></sidenote>The word “District” in sections four, ten, and twenty-seven of the Act which this Act amends is hereby amended to read “<quotedText>the District of Columbia.</quotedText>”</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 9, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 70: Authorizing the President during the existing emergency to sell supplies, materials, equipment, or other property, heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States, in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>70</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-05-10</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>70.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the President during the existing emergency to sell supplies, materials, equipment, or other property, heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States, in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-10">May 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3803">S. 3803</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/115">Public, No. 115</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War supplies, materials, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales allowed to persons, allied Governments, etc., during the war.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 850.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the existing emergency the President be, and he hereby is, authorized, in his discretion, and upon such terms as he shall deem expedient, through the head of any executive department, to sell any supplies, materials, equipment or other property heretofore or hereafter purchased, acquired, or manufactured by the United States in connection with, or incidental to, the prosecution of the war, to any person, partnership, association, or corporation, or to any foreign State or Government engaged in war against any Government with which the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of receipts.</p></sidenote> States is at war; and any moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of any such sale shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States and a full report of the same shall be forthwith submitted to Congress.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 71: Authorizing postage rates on aeroplane mail.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>71</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 548</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>71.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing postage rates on aeroplane mail.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-10">May 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4208">S. 4208</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/146">Public, No. 146</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate for aeroplane mail.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster General, in his discretion, may require the payment of postage on mail carried by aeroplane at not exceeding 24 cents per ounce or fraction thereof.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 72: To amend the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>72</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 548</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>72.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the officering and manning of vessels subject to the inspection laws of the United States.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-11">May 11, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1545">S. 1545</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl//">Public, No. 147</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licensed officers and crew.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4463"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4463. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum number of, Including lifeboat men, to be prescribed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4463/p864">R. S., sec. 4463, p. 864</ref>, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 732.</p></sidenote>
<content><p class="inline">No vessel of the United States subject to the provisions of this title or to the inspection laws of the United States shall be navigated unless she shall have in her service and on board such complement of licensed officers and crew including certificated lifeboat men, separately stated, as may, in the judgment of the local inspectors who inspect the vessel, be necessary for her safe navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes in certificates of inspection.</p></sidenote> The local inspectors shall make in the certificate of inspection of the<page identifier="/us/stat/40/549">549</page> vessel an entry of such complement of officers and crew including certificated lifeboat men, separately stated, which may be changed from time to time by indorsement on such certificate by local inspectors by reason of change of conditions or employment. Such entry or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote>indorsement shall be subject to a right of appeal, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of Commerce, to the supervising inspector and from him to the Supervising Inspector General, who shall have the power to revise, set aside, or affirm the said determination of the local inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If any such vessel is deprived of the services of any number of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing voyage if deficiency in crew unavoidable.</p></sidenote> crew including certificated lifeboat men, separately stated, without the consent, fault, or collusion of the master, owner, or any person interested in the vessel, the vessel may proceed on her voyage if, in the judgment of the master, she is sufficiently manned for such voyage: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the master shall ship, if obtainable, a number<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procuring number equal to loss.</p></sidenote> equal to the number of those whose services he has been deprived of by desertion or casualty, who must be of the same grade or of a higher rating with those whose places they fill. If the master shall fail to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty if deficiency not explained.</p></sidenote> explain in writing the cause of such deficiency in the crew including certificated lifeboat men, separately stated, to the local inspectors within twelve hours of the time of the arrival of the vessel at her destination, he shall be liable to a penalty of $50. If the vessel shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other penalties.</p></sidenote> be manned as provided in this Act, the owner shall be liable to a penalty of $100, or in case of an insufficient number of licensed officers to a penalty of $500.”</proviso></p>
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</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the board of local inspectors shall make an entry in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record of minimum deck officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 733, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number required.</p></sidenote> the certificate of inspection of every ocean and coastwise seagoing merchant vessel of the United States propelled by machinery, and every ocean-going vessel carrying passengers, the minimum number of licensed deck officers required for her safe navigation according to the following scale:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no such vessel shall be navigated unless she shall have on board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Master.</p></sidenote> and in her service one duly licensed master.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That every such vessel of one thousand gross tons and over, propelled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels of 1,000 tons and over.</p></sidenote> by machinery, shall have in her service and on board three licensed mates, who shall stand in three watches while such vessel is being navigated, unless such vessel is engaged in a run of less than four hundred miles from the port of departure to the port of final destination, then such vessel shall have two licensed mates; and every vessel of two hundred gross tons and less than one thousand gross<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Over 200 and less than 1,000 tons.</p></sidenote> tons, propelled by machinery, shall have two licensed mates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That every such vessel of one hundred gross tons and under two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smaller vessels.</p></sidenote> hundred gross tons, propelled by machinery, shall have on board and in her service one licensed mate, but if such vessel is engaged in a trade in which the time required to make the passage from the port of departure to the port of destination exceeds twenty-four hours, then such vessel shall have two licensed mates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent local<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase authorized.</p></sidenote> inspectors from increasing the number of licensed officers on any vessel subject to the inspection laws of the United States, if, in their judgment, such vessel is not sufficiently manned for her safe navigation:<proviso> <i>Provided</i>, That this section shall not apply to fishing or whaling<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions, including wrecking vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 462.</p></sidenote> vessels, yachts, or motor boats as defined in the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, or to wrecking vessels.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful for the master, owner, agent, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of watch duty of deck officers.</p></sidenote> other person having authority to permit an officer of any vessel to take charge of the deck watch of the vessel upon leaving or immediately after leaving port, unless such officer shall have had at least six hours off duty within the twelve hours immediately preceding the time of sailing, and no licensed officer on any ocean or coastwise vessel shall be<page identifier="/us/stat/40/550">550</page> required to do duty to exceed nine hours of any twenty-four while in port, including the date of arrival, or more than twelve hours of any twenty-four at sea, except in a case of emergency when life or property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote> is endangered. Any violation of this section shall subject the person or persons guilty thereof to a penalty of $100.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conflicting laws repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 73: To fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>73</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 550</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-14</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>73.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To fix the age limits for candidates for admission to the United States Naval Academy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-14">May 14, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3402">S. 3402</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/148">Public, No. 148</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age of admission to, modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1517/p201">R. S., sec. 1517, p. 201</ref>, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable to current year.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter all candidates for admission to the Naval Academy must be not less than sixteen years of age nor more than twenty years of age on April first of the calendar year in which they enter the academy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing shall not apply to candidates for midshipmen designated for entrance to the academy in nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso>
</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 14, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 74: To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>74</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 550</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-16</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>74.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the President to provide housing for war needs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-16">May 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10265">H. R. 10265</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/149">Public, No. 149</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Housing for war needs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President to provide houses, etc., for workers and their families during the war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the President, for the purposes of providing housing, local transportation and other general community utilities for such industrial workers as are engaged in arsenals and navy yards of the United States and in industries connected with and essential to the national defense, and their families,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> and also employees of the United States whose duties require them to reside in the District of Columbia, and whose services are essential to war needs, and their families, only during the continuation of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred.</p></sidenote> existing war, is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts herein authorized—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, condemnation, etc., of houses, local transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content>To purchase, acquire by lease, construct, requisition, or acquire by condemnation or by gift such houses, buildings, furnishings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities and parts thereof as he may determine to be necessary for the proper conduct of the existing war.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands, buildings thereon, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content>To purchase, lease, requisition, or acquire by condemnation or by gift any improved or unimproved land, or any right, title, or interest therein on which such houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities and parts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction as to colleges, private furnishings, etc.</p></sidenote> thereof have been or may be constructed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That colleges, museums, libraries, State or municipal buildings, and the furnishings in private dwellings shall not be acquired except by contract, nor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Occupied dwellings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts for.</p></sidenote> shall any occupied dwelling or place of abode be taken under the powers in this Act given except by contract unless the necessity thereof shall be determined by a judge of the circuit or district court of the United States exercising jurisdiction in the locality on petition setting forth the reason and necessity for such taking: the hearing on such petition shall be upon notice to the owner and occupant of such dwelling, and the determination of such judge shall be final, but in no event shall any occupied private dwelling house be taken except by contract unless such dwelling be upon lands desired for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing limitations on con tracts with the Government not applicable.</p></sidenote> the construction of a Government structure:</proviso> <i>Provided further</i>, That no existing limitation upon the right of any person to make a contract with the United States shall apply to owners whose property<page identifier="/us/stat/40/551">551</page> the President determines is necessary for Government purposes and desires to either lease or purchase by contract under this or any other Act authorizing the President to acquire property by lease or purchase.</content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content>To equip, manage, maintain, alter, rent, lease, exchange, sell,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Management, sale, etc., of properties.</p></sidenote> and convey such lands, or any right, title, or interest therein, houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities, parts thereof, and equipment upon such terms and conditions as he may determine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no sale and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions of sales.</p></sidenote> conveyance shall be made hereunder on credit without reserving a first lien on such property for the unpaid purchase money:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free disposal, rental, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote> That in no case shall any property hereby acquired be given away, nor shall rents be furnished free, but the rental charges shall be reasonable and just as between the employees and the Government.</proviso></content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content>To aid in providing, equipping, managing, and maintaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid by loans to persons providing houses, etc.</p></sidenote> houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities by loan or otherwise to such person or persons and upon such terms and conditions as he may determine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no loan shall be made at a less rate of interest than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest and security.</p></sidenote> five per centum per annum, and such loan shall be properly secured by lien, mortgage, or otherwise:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no loan<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizenship requirement.</p></sidenote> shall be made and no house or money given under this Act to any person not an American citizen.</proviso></content>
</subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">To take possession of, alter, repair, improve, and suitably<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use, etc., of Government owned buildings in.</p></sidenote> arrange for living purposes to be used under the terms of this Act all houses on square six hundred and thirty-three except the Maltby Building, owned by the United States, together with any other houses in the District of Columbia owned by the Government and not now occupied. The President shall, in the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of unassigned Government owned lands for buildings.</p></sidenote> buildings in the District of Columbia, make use of any lands owned by the Government of the United States deemed by him to be suitable for the purpose and which have not heretofore been dedicated by Act of Congress for specific buildings.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President may exercise any power or discretion herein granted,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Execution of powers, etc.</p></sidenote> and may enter into any arrangement or contract incidental thereto, through such agency or agencies as he may create or designate: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That houses erected by the Government under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary character of buildings.</p></sidenote> authority of this Act shall be of only a temporary character except where the interests of the Government will be best subserved by the erection of buildings of a permanent character:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of force of the Supervising Architect.</p></sidenote> That whenever it is practicable to use any part of the office or field force of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in or about any of the work contemplated by this Act, the President shall do so.</proviso></p>
</content></subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That whenever the President shall purchase, lease, requisition,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be determined by the President.</p></sidenote> or acquire by condemnation or by gift such land or right, title, or interest therein, or such houses, buildings, furnishings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities, and parts thereof, he shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by him, and if the amount thereof so determined<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote> is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to such seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote> manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">That upon the requisition of or the fifing of a petition for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession on filing condemnation petition.</p></sidenote> the condemnation hereunder of such land, or any right, title, or interest therein, or such houses, buildings, furnishings, improvements,<page identifier="/us/stat/40/552">552</page> local transportation and other general community utilities, and parts thereof, immediate possession thereof may be taken to the extent of the interest to be acquired and the same may be occupied, occupant being given ten days’ notice in which to vacate, and used, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction as to title, etc., suspended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s355/p60">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60</ref>.</p></sidenote> provisions of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes, providing that no public money shall be expended upon such land until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land is located has been given, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended as to all real estate acquired hereunder.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person” construed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the word “person” used herein shall include any person, trustee, firm, or corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers to cease with the war.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the power and authority granted herein shall cease with the termination of the present war, except the power and authority to care for, sell, or rent such property as remains undisposed of and to conclude and execute contracts for the sale of property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc., of property.</p></sidenote> made during the war. Such property shall be sold as soon after the conclusion of the war as it can be advantageously done:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action of Congress required.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before any sale is consummated the same must be authorized by Congress.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full reports to Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details specified.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That at the beginning of each session of Congress the President shall make to Congress a full and detailed report covering all of the transactions with relation to the subject matter of this Act, describing each parcel of land purchased, leased, or otherwise acquired, the improvements made thereon, together with the amount of money spent in connection therewith and the disposition of the same; descriptions of all parcels of property sold, to whom, the terms of sale, and the status of the title at the time of the making of such report; description of each piece of property purchased under the terms of this Act and still owned by the Government and the estimated value; a list showing the names of all persons who have been employed in any capacity to aid in carrying out the provisions of this Act, the service rendered by each and the amount of compensation, including fees, commissions, allowances, and traveling expenses paid to each, and a full, detailed, itemized statement showing each and every transaction in the execution of the trust herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final report.</p></sidenote> created, and immediately after the declaration of peace the President shall make a final report to Congress covering in detail all the operations and transactions, under and by virtue of the terms of this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on contracts for work, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 595.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That no work to be done or contract to be made under or by authority of any provision of this Act shall be done or made on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract be let until at least three responsible competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract, and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 821.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for carrying out the provisions of this Act and for the administration thereof the sum of $60,000,000, or so much thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on expenditures in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> as may be necessary, is hereby authorized: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $10,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the amount hereby authorized shall be used only to build or acquire, as herein provided, housing accommodations within the District of Columbia or such Government employees as can not be used as advantageously<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conversion of Maltby Building.</p></sidenote> in other cities in the service of the Government, of which the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as shall be necessary therefor, shall be used by the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds to convert the building known as the Maltby Building into an apartment house or for office purposes:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<page identifier="/us/stat/40/553">553</page> the expenditure in the District of Columbia shall be made with a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provision for alley population after the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 560.</p></sidenote> view to caring for the alley population of the District when the war is over, so far as it can be done without interfering with war housing purposes.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 75: To amend section three, title one, of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>75</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 553</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>75.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section three, title one, of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-16">May 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/8753">H. R. 8753</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/150">Public, No, 150</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That section three of title<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Defense, Espionage, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Espionage offenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 219, amended.</p></sidenote> one of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline">Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false statements to interfere with success of national forces, etc.</p></sidenote> willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obstructing sale of Government bonds, etc.</p></sidenote> or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor or investors, with, intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds or other securities of the United States or the making of loans by or to the United States, and whoever,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inciting disloyalty, mutiny, etc.</p></sidenote> when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause, or incite or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct or attempt to obstruct<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obstructing enlistments.</p></sidenote> the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disloyal abuse of Government, armed forces, flag, etc.</p></sidenote> write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uttering contempt of form of government, Constitution, etc.</p></sidenote> to bring the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute, or shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provoking resistance to authorities, displaying enemy flag, etc.</p></sidenote> any language intended to incite, provoke, or encourage resistance to the United States, or to promote the cause of its enemies, or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crippling production of essentials.</p></sidenote> utterance, writing, printing, publication, or language spoken, urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things, product or products, necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may be engaged, with intent by such curtailment to cripple or hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, and whoever shall willfully<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advocating prohibited acts.</p></sidenote> advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated, and whoever shall by word or act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supporting cause of enemy.</p></sidenote> support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/554">554</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dismissal of Federal employee for disloyal act, etc.</p></sidenote> or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any employee or official of the United States Government who commits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who, in an abusive and violent manner criticizes the Army or Navy or the flag of the United States shall be at once dismissed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to dismiss conferred.</p></sidenote> from the service. Any such employee shall be dismissed by the head of the department in which the employee may be engaged, and any such official shall be dismissed by the authority having power to appoint a successor to the dismissed official.”</proviso></content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mailing and other provisions of original Act applicable hereto.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 230.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That section one of Title XII and all other provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, which apply to section three of Title I thereof shall apply with equal force and effect to said section three as amended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of the mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 231, amended.</p></sidenote>Title XII of the said Act of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following section:</p>
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matter addressed to persons violating this Act to be returned to sender.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">When the United States is at war, the Postmaster General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or concern is using the mails in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, instruct the postmaster at any post office at which mail is received addressed to such person or concern to return to the postmaster at the office at which they were originally mailed all letters or other matter so addressed, with the words ‘Mail to this address undeliverable under Espionage Act plainly written or stamped upon the outside thereof, and all such letters or other matter so returned to such postmasters shall be by them returned to the senders thereof under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe.”</content>
</section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 76: Providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>76</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>76.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the calling into military service of certain classes of persons registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-16">May 16, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/123">S. J. Res. 123</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/29">Pub. Res., No. 29</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency increase.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That if under any regulations heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the President persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 76.</p></sidenote> registered and liable for military service under the terms of the Act of Congress approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selective draft.</p></sidenote> to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” are placed in classes for the purpose of determining their relative liability for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate call tor quota of registrants in a class.</p></sidenote> military service, no provision of said Act shall prevent the President from calling for immediate military service under regulations heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the President all or part of the persons in any class or classes except those exempt from draft under the provisions of said Act, in proportion to the total number of persons placed in such class or classes in the various subdivisions of the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia designated by the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled experts, however classified.</p></sidenote> under the terms of said Act; or from calling into immediate military service persons classed as skilled experts in industry or agriculture, however classified or wherever residing.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 77: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>77</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 555</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/555">555</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>77.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and an Act in amendment thereto, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-20">May 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11245">H. R. 11245</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/151">Public, No. 151</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section thirteen, article <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p></sidenote>one, of the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 399, amended.</p></sidenote>War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the following words in the last sentence: “<quotedText>to regulate the matter of compensation, if any, but in no case to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matter stricken out.</p></sidenote>exceed ten per centum, to be paid to claim agents and attorneys for services in connection with any of the matters provided for in articles two, three, and four,</quotedText>” and insert at the end of the sentence the following <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New provisions in sorted.</p></sidenote>words: “<quotedText><proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That payment to any attorney or agent for such assistance as may be required in the preparation and execution of the necessary papers shall not exceed $ in any one case:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That no claim agent or attorney shall be recognized in the presentation or adjudication of claims under articles two, three, and four, except that in the event of disagreement as to a claim under the contract of insurance between the bureau and any beneficiary or beneficiaries thereunder, an action on the claim may be brought against the United States in the district court of the United States in and for the district in which such beneficiaries or any one of them resides, and that whenever judgment shall be rendered in an action brought pursuant to this provision, the court, as part of its judgment, shall determine and allow such reasonable attorney’s fees, not to exceed five per centum of the amount recovered, to be paid by the claimant in behalf of whom such proceedings were instituted, to his attorney.</proviso>
</quotedText>
<quotedContent>
<chapeau>“Any person who shall directly or indirectly solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, or who shall attempt to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, any fee or compensation, except as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $00 or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment,” so that the section as amended shall read as follows:</chapeau>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the director, subject to the general direction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative, etc., powers conferred on Director.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury, shall administer, execute, and enforce the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose have full power and authority to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, necessary or appropriate to carry out its purposes, and shall decide all questions arising under the Act, except as otherwise provided in section five. Wherever under any provision <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote>or provisions of the Act regulations are directed or authorized to be made, such regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, shall or may be made by the director, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. The director shall adopt reasonable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure, etc.</p></sidenote>and proper rules to govern the procedure of the divisions and to regulate and provide for the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence and the method of taking and furnishing the same in order to establish the right to benefits of allowance, allotment, compensation, or insurance provided for in this Act, the forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to such benefits, the methods of making investigations and medical examinations, and the maimer and form of adjudications and awards: <proviso>
<i>Provided, however</i>, That payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on attorneys’ fees.</p></sidenote>to any attorney or agent for such assistance as may be required in the preparation and execution of the necessary papers shall not exceed $3 in any one case:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>And provided further</i>, That no claim <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents restricted to actions on insurance claims in court.</p></sidenote>agent or attorney shall be recognized in the presentation or adjudication <page identifier="/us/stat/40/556">556</page>of claims under articles two, three, and four, except that in the event of disagreement as to a claim under the contract of insurance between the bureau and any beneficiary or beneficiaries thereunder an action on the claim may be brought against the United States in the district court of the United States in and for the district in which such beneficiaries or any one of them resides, and that whenever judgment shall be rendered in an action brought pursuant to this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination by the court.</p></sidenote>provision the court, as part of its judgment, shall determine and allow such reasonable attorney’s fees, not to exceed five per centum of the amount recovered, to be paid by the claimant in behalf of whom such proceedings were instituted to his attorney, said fee to be paid out of the payments to be made to the beneficiary under the judgment rendered at a rate not exceeding one-tenth of each of such payments until paid.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment tor charging unauthorized fees.</p></sidenote>“Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, contract for, charge, or receive, or who shall attempt to solicit, contract for, charge, or receive any fee or compensation, except as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every offense shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ”</p>
</content></section>
</quotedContent>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former provision repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 410.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That Article IV of said Act, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” is hereby amended by striking out section four hundred and five thereof.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 78: Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>78</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 556</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>78.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the President to coordinate or consolidate executive bureaus, agencies, and offices, and for other purposes, in the interest of economy and the more efficient concentration of the Government.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-20">May 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3771">S. 3771</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/152">Public, No. 152</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consolidation of executive bureaus, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority vested in the President during present war to utilize more effectively functions, etc., of the Government.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That for the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, for the better utilization of resources and industries, and for the more effective exercise and more efficient administration by the President of his powers as Commander in Chief of the land and naval forces the President is hereby authorized to make such redistribution of functions among executive agencies as he may deem necessary, including any functions, duties, and powers hitherto by law conferred upon any executive department, commission, bureau, agency, office, or officer, in such manner as in his judgment, shall seem best fitted to carry out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Written regulations, etc., to be issued.</p></sidenote>the purposes of this Act, and to this end is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as he may deem necessary, which regulations and orders shall be in writing and shall be filed with the head of the department affected and constitute a public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duration of authority.</p></sidenote>record: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall remain in force during the continuance of the present war and for six months after the termination of the war by the proclamation of the treaty of peace, or at such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination not to affect acts done, etc.</p></sidenote>earlier time as the President may designate:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the termination of this Act shall not affect any act done or any right or obligation accruing or accrued pursuant to this Act and during <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to acts affecting conduct of the war.</p></sidenote>the time that this Act is in force:</proviso> <proviso>
<i>Provided further</i>, That the authority by this Act granted shall be exercised only in matters relating to the conduct of the present war.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of powers, duties, and personnel of departments, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in carrying out the purposes of this Act the President is authorized to utilize, coordinate, or consolidate any executive or administrative commissions, bureaus, agencies, offices, or officers <page identifier="/us/stat/40/557">557</page>now existing by law, to transfer any duties or powers from one existing department, commission, bureau, agency, office, or officer to another, to transfer the personnel thereof or any part of it either by detail or assignment, together with the whole or any part of the records and public property belonging thereto.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That the President is further authorized to establish an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aircraft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency for entire control of production, etc., established,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations to be used.</p></sidenote>executive agency which may exercise such jurisdiction and control over the production of aeroplanes, aeroplane engines, and aircraft equipment as in his judgment may be advantageous; and, further, to transfer to such agency, for its use, all or any moneys heretofore appropriated for the production of aeroplanes, aeroplane engines, and aircraft equipment.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All moneys restricted to uses for which appropriated.</p></sidenote>Act, any moneys heretofore and hereafter appropriated for the use of any executive department, commission, bureau, agency, office, or officer shall be expended only for the purposes for which it was appropriated under the direction of such other agency as may be directed y the President hereunder to perform and execute said function.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That should the President, in redistributing the functions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress on bureaus recommended to be abolished, etc.</p></sidenote>among the executive agencies as provided in this Act, conclude that any bureau should be abolished and it or their duties and functions conferred upon some other department or bureau or eliminated entirely, he shall report his conclusions to Congress with such recommendations as he may deem proper.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That all laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conflicting laws suspended.</p></sidenote>of this Act are to the extent of such conflict suspended while this Act is in force.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Upon the termination of this Act all executive or administrative <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status to be restored on termination of Act.</p></sidenote>agencies, departments, commissions, bureaus, offices, or officers shall exercise the same functions, duties, and powers as heretofore or as hereafter by law may be provided, any authorization of the President under this Act. to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 79: Providing for the registration for military service of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>79</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 557</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>79.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the registration for military service of all male persons citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained the age of twenty-one years, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe under the terms of the Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States.”</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-20">May 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/124">S. J. Res. 124</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/30">Pub. Res., No. 30</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the present <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency increase.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons attaining age of 21 since June 5, 1917, subject to registration.</p></sidenote>emergency all male persons, citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States, who have, since the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and on or before the day set for the registration by proclamation by the President, attained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 80.</p></sidenote>the age of twenty-one years, shall be subject to registration in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President, and that upon proclamation by the President, stating the time and place of such registration, it shall be the duty of all such persons, except such persons as are exempt from registration under the Act of May eighteenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 78.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the provisions of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and they shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those <page identifier="/us/stat/40/558">558</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Names to be at bottom of the list.</p></sidenote>previously registered under the terms of said Act: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That those persons registered under the provisions of this Act shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable for military service, in the several classes to which they are assigned, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Day to beset by proclamation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1781, 1834.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That after the day set under section one hereof for the registration by proclamation by the President at such intervals as the President may from time to time proscribe, the President may require that all male persons, citizens of the United States and all male persons residing in the United States, who have attained the age of twenty-one years since the last preceding date of registration, and on or before the next day set for the registration by proclamation by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons exempted.</p></sidenote>President, except such persons as are exempt from registration under the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereof, shall be registered in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those previously<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption of divinity and medical students.</p></sidenote> registered under the terms of said Act: <proviso>
<i>Provided</i>, That students who are preparing for the ministry in recognized theological or divinity schools, and students who are preparing for the practice of medicine and surgery in recognized medical schools, at the time of the approval of this Act shall be exempt from the selective draft prescribed in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registrants liable to military service and draft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 78.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That ail such persons when registered shall be liable to military service and to draft under the terms of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, under such regulations as the President may prescribe not inconsistent with the terms of said Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of former Act applicable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all such persons shall be subject to the terms and provisions and liabilities of said Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, in all respects as if they had been registered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal notice inferred.</p></sidenote>under the terms of said Act, and every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of said Act and of this joint resolution upon the publication of any such proclamation by the President.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 80: Authorizing national banks to subscribe to the American National Red Cross.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>80</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 558</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>80.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing national banks to subscribe to the American National Red Cross.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-22">May 22, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3911">S. 3911</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/153">Public, No. 153</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May subscribe to American Red Cross.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That during the continuance of the state of war now existing it shall be lawful for any national banking association to contribute to the American National Red Cross, out of any net profits otherwise available under the law for the declaration of dividends, such sum or sums as the directors of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report, etc.</p></sidenote>said association shall deem expedient. Each association shall report to the Comptroller of the Currency within ten days after the making of any such contribution the amount of such contribution and the amount of net earnings in excess of such contribution. Such report shall be attested by the president or cashier of the association in like manner as the report of the declaration of any dividend.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of contribution.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all sums so contributed shall be utilized by the American National Red Cross in furnishing volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of the combatant armies, the voluntary relief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and the relief and mitigation of the suffering caused by the war to the people of the United States and their allied nations.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 81: To prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>81</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 559</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/559">559</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>81.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-22">May 22, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10264">H. R. 10264</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/154">Public, No. 154</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That when the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign travel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts of, made unlawful during time of war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 596.</p></sidenote>is at war, if the President shall find that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by this Act be imposed upon the departure of persons from and their entry into the United States, and shall make public proclamation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1829.</p></sidenote>thereof, it shall, until otherwise ordered by the President or Congress, be unlawful—</chapeau>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content>For any alien to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allens violating pre scribed rules.</p></sidenote>or enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as
the President shall prescribe;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<content>For any person to transport or attempt to transport from or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting prohibited persons.</p></sidenote>into the United States another person with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the departure or entry of such other person is forbidden by this Act;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="c">(c) </num>
<content>For any person knowingly to make any false statement in an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Making false applications for permits.</p></sidenote>application for permission to depart from or enter the United States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permission either for himself or for another;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<content>For any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing false permits, etc.</p></sidenote>or assist in furnishing to another a permit or evidence of permission to depart or enter not issued and designed for such other person’s use;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="e">(e) </num>
<content>For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any permit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using permit of another person.</p></sidenote>or evidence of permission to depart or enter not issued and designed for his use;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="f">(f) </num>
<content>For any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forging, etc., permits.</p></sidenote>or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, any permit or evidence of permission to depart from or enter the United States;</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 fontsize10">
<num value="h">(g) </num>
<content>For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or furnish <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Using false, etc., permits.</p></sidenote>to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered permit, or evidence of permission, or any permit or evidence of permission which, though originally valid, has become or been made void or invalid.</content></subsection>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That after such proclamation as is provided for by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passports required for all entries and departures of citizens.</p></sidenote>preceding section has been made and published and while said proclamation is in force, it shall, except as otherwise provided by the President, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may authorize and prescribe, be unlawful for any citizen of the United. States to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from or enter the United States unless he bears a valid passport.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>of this Act, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than twenty years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by like fine or imprisonment, or both; and any vehicle or any vessel, together with its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of vehicle, vessel, etc.</p></sidenote>or her appurtenances, equipment, tackle, apparel, and furniture, concerned in any such violation, shall be forfeited to the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the term “United States” as used in this Act includes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of terms “United States.”</p></sidenote>the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The word “person” as used herein shall be deemed to mean any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Person.”</p></sidenote>individual, partnership, association, company, or other unincorporated body of individuals, or corporation, or body politic.</p>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 82: To regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>82</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/560">560</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>82.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-23">May 23, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2123">S. 2123</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/155">Public, No. 155</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Podiatry regulations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person, for compensation, to practice podiatry in the District of Columbia without first successfully having passed such examination concerning his fitness as the Health Officer of the District of Columbia may prescribe. The Health Officer aforesaid shall conduct the examination.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee.</p></sidenote>No person shall be permitted to take the examination without first paying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons excepted.</p></sidenote> a fee of $10 to the District of Columbia. None of the provisions of this Act shall apply to regular, practicing physicians or surgeons. Neither shall they apply to podiatrists who have been practicing podiatry in the district of Columbia for one year next preceding the approval of this Act.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Definition of practice.</p></sidenote>Podiatry (or chiropody) is hereby defined to be the surgical, medical or mechanical treatment of any ailment of the human foot, except the amputation of the foot or any of the toes; and, also, except the use of an anesthetic other than a local one.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred days, or both so fined and imprisoned.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 83: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>83</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>83.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-23">May 23, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11628">H. R. 11628</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/156">Public, No. 156</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alley dwellings prohibition postponed until after the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 717.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 553.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the operation of the second paragraph of section one (relating to the use or occupation of alley buildings as dwellings), of the Act of Congress approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys in the District of Columbia,” be, and the same hereby is, postponed until the expiration of one year following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and the Imperial German Government.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 84: To prohibit the sale, manufacture, and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii during the period of the war, except as hereinafter provided.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>84</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>84.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prohibit the sale, manufacture, and importation of intoxicating liquors in the Territory of Hawaii during the period of the war, except as hereinafter provided.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-23">May 23, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3935">S. 3935</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/157">Public, No. 157</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prohibition of sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors, during the war, etc.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, ninety days after the passage of this Act, during the period of the war and thereafter, except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful in the Territory of Hawaii to sell, give away, manufacture, transport, import, or export <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uses allowed.</p></sidenote>intoxicating liquors, except for mechanical, scientific, sacramental, or medicinal purposes, for which purposes the sale, gift, transport, import, and export of the same shall be under such rules and regulations as the Governor of the Territory may prescribe, and any person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote>violating the provisions hereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $500 or imprisoned for a period of not longer than one year, or both: <page identifier="/us/stat/40/561">561</page><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That at any general election of the Territory of Hawaii, held<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal may be submitted to a vote, after the war.</p></sidenote> within two years after the conclusion of peace, the repeal of this Act may, upon petition of not less than twenty per centum of the qualified electors of said Territory at the last preceding general election, be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of said territory, and if<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election.</p></sidenote> a majority of all the qualified electors thereof voting upon such question shall vote to repeal this Act, it shall thereafter not be in force and effect, otherwise it shall be in full force and effect.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the said petition shall be addressed to and filed with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petition required.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Territory at least two months before the election at which the question is to be voted upon, and the person obtaining any signature to such petition shall make affidavit that he witnessed the signing of the same and believes the address of each petitioner affixed to his name is the true address of such petitioner. Such election shall be conducted under the laws of the Territory provided for general elections.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 85: To amend section fifteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>85</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 561</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>85.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section fifteen of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-25">May 25, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4409">S. 4409</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/158">Public, No. 158</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section fifteen of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Defense Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 170, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 72.</p></sidenote> Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, mended to read as follows:<quotedContent>
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<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<heading class="smallCaps">Chaplains.—</heading><content class="inline">The President is authorized to appoint,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ratio of number authorized.</p></sidenote> by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, chaplains in the Army at the rate of not to exceed, including chaplains now in the service, one for each one thousand two hundred officers and men in all branches of the Military Establishment, with rank, pay, and allowances as now authorized by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line assignments.</p></sidenote> assigned at least one chaplain for each regiment of Cavalry, Infantry, Field Artillery, and Engineers:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualifications.</p></sidenote> appointed under this Act shall be duly accredited by some religious denomination or organization and of good standing therein, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no person shall be appointed chaplain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limitation.</p></sidenote> in the Army who on the date of appointment is more than forty-five years of age.”</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 25, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 86: Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>86</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>86.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-25">May 25, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/8696">H. R. 8696</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/159">Public, No. 159</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Department appropriations.</p></sidenote> sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying <page identifier="/us/stat/40/562">562</page>the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:</content>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>SURVEYING AND ALLOTTING INDIAN RESERVATIONS (REIMBURSABLE).</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying, allotting in severalty, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 388.</p></sidenote>For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and eighty-eight), entitled “An Act to provide or the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote>lands, $50,000, to be repaid proportionally out of any Indian moneys held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purposes and to remain available until <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use In New Mexico and Arizona restricted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation on reservations.</p></sidenote>expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>IRRIGATION ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS (REIMBURSABLE).<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, maintenance, etc., of projects.</p></sidenote>For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto, when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to districts.</p></sidenote>Irrigation district one: Ahtanum project, $23,000; Status, Top Spanish, and Simcoe projects, Yakima Reservation, $3,000; Stranger Marsh project, Colville Reservation, $5,200; total, $31,200:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Irrigation district two: Shivwitz Reservation, $1,200; Moapa River Reservation, $1,000; Western Shoshone, $9,500; Walker River Reservation, $6,800; total, $18,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Irrigation district four: Agua Caliente Reservation, $3,000; Morongo Reservation, $2,000; Pala Reservation, $20,000; Pauma Reservation, $5,000; Rincon Reservation, $4,000; Ak Chin Reservation, $800; Papago Reservation, San Xavier, $2,000; miscellaneous projects, $10,000; total, $46,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Irrigation district five: Southern Ute Reservation, Pine River project, $9,000; San Juan Reservation, $22,000; New Mexico Pueblos, $12,000; Zuni Reservation, $5,000; Navajo, miscellaneous projects, including Tesnospos, Moencopi Wash, Captain Tom Wash, and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Red Lake, $20,000; total, $68,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In Indian irrigation district one: Oregon, Washington, northern California, and northern Idaho, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In Indian irrigation district two: Southern Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In Indian irrigation district three: Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, $8,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/563">563</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In Indian irrigation district four: Central and southern California and southern Arizona, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stream gauging.</p></sidenote> Survey, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating new projects, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 833.</p></sidenote> and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineer, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One assistant chief irrigation engineer, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One superintendent of irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One field-cost accountant, $2,250;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters, $6,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $250,750, reimbursable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available until expended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 533.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use restricted.</p></sidenote> as provided in the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to remain available until expended: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds are or may be otherwise available: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the foregoing amounts appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flood damages, etc.</p></sidenote> for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damage by floods and other unforeseen exigencies:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <i>however</i>, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> aggregate ten per centum of all the amounts so appropriated.</proviso></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>SUPPRESSING LIQUOR TRAFFIC.</heading>
<content>For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Having liquors in possession made an offense.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment.</p></sidenote> Indians, $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That on and after September first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, possession by a person of intoxicating liquors in the Indian country where the introduction is or was prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be an offense and punished in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 260, Vol. 29, p. 506.</p></sidenote> page two hundred and sixty), and January thirtieth, eighteen hunred and ninety-seven (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and six).</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>RELIEVING DISTRESS, AND SO FORTH.</heading>
<content>For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relieving distress, preventing contagious diseases, etc.</p></sidenote> 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,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for new hospitals.</p></sidenote> $350,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $40,000 of said amount may be expended in the construction and equipment of new hospitals at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for general treatment, etc.</p></sidenote> a unit cost of not exceeding $15,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to specified hospitals and sanatoria.</p></sidenote> for that purpose:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That out of the appropriation herein authorized, there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, includ<page identifier="/us/stat/40/564">564</page>ing pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw hospital, Oklahoma, $35,000; Fort Lapwai sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Phoenix sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox sanatorium, Iowa, $25,000; Turtle Mountain hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago hospital, Nebraska, $15,000; Crow Creek hospital, South Dakota, $10,000; Hoopa Valley hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Indian Oasis hospital, Arizona, $10,000.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>SUPPORT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian schools.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of pupils, etc.</p></sidenote>For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, for other educational and industrial purposes in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaf and dumb, or blind.</p></sidenote> therewith, $1,650,000: <i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind Indian children: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In public schools.</p></sidenote>than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parentage restriction.</p></sidenote> That hereafter no appropriation, except appropriations made pursuant to treaties, shall be used to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood whose parents are citizens of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not available for specified schools.</p></sidenote>United States and of the State wherein they live and where there are adequate free school facilities provided:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INDIAN SCHOOL AND AGENCY BUILDINGS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School and agency buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote>For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising construction.</p></sidenote>therewith, $350,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction work on school and agency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat and light to employees.</p></sidenote>buildings in the Indian Service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service who are furnished quarters necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not included in compensation limit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 521.</p></sidenote>same place:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section one, Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INDIAN SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting, etc., pupils.</p></sidenote>For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $72,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obtaining employment for pupils.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their <page identifier="/us/stat/40/565">565</page>places of employment:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That where practicable the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> transportation and expenses so paid shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska pupils.</p></sidenote>this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PER CAPITA COST.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita cost.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>That hereafter, except for pay of superintendents and for transportation of goods and supplies and transportation of pupils, not more than $200 shall be expended from appropriations made in this Act, or any other Act, for the annual support and education of any one pupil in any Indian school, unless the attendance in any school shall be less than one hundred pupils, in which case the Secretary of the Interior may authorize a per capita expenditure of not to exceed $225: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total amount appropriated for the support<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> of such school shall not be exceeded:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the number of pupils in any school entitled to the per capita allowance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ascertainment of average.</p></sidenote> hereby provided for shall be determined by taking the average attendance for the entire fiscal year and not any fractional part thereof:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the foregoing shall also apply to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicable to fiscal year 1918.</p></sidenote> expenditures for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INDUSTRIAL WORK AND CARE OF TIMBER.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial work, etc.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matrons.</p></sidenote> to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural experiments, etc.</p></sidenote> on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmers and stock men.</p></sidenote> in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $475,000, of which sum not less than $75,000 shall be used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field matrons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menominee Reservation.</p></sidenote> for the employment of field matrons: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter no money shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmers to have competency certificates.</p></sidenote> expended for the employment of any farmer or expert farmer at a salary of or in excess of $50 per month, unless he shall first have procured and filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a certificate of competency showing that he is a farmer of actual experience and qualified to instruct others in the art of practical agriculture, such certificate to be certified and issued to him by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of the State in which his services are to be rendered, or by the president or dean of the State agricultural college of an adjoining State:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this provision<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> shall not apply to persons employed in the Indian Service as farmer or expert farmer prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That this shall not apply to Indians employed or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian employees.</p></sidenote> to be employed as assistant farmer:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experiments limited.</p></sidenote> to exceed $25,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/566">566</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay not affected by limit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p.521.</p></sidenote>vegetables, and fruits:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <i>also</i>, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitation on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PURCHASE AND TRANSPORTATION OF INDIAN SUPPLIES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $300,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three warehouses.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>TELEGRAPHING AND TELEPHONING.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telegraphing and telephoning.</p></sidenote>For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $8,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>COURT COSTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court costs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal expenses in allotment suits.</p></sidenote>For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to them, or the right of possession of personal property held by them, and in hearings set by the United States local land officers to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No attorneys’ fees.</p></sidenote>determine the rights of Indians to public lands, $1,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the payment of attorneys’ fees.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>EXPENSES OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizen commission.</p></sidenote>For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PAY OF INDIAN POLICE.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian police.</p></sidenote>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.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PAY OF JUDGES OF INDIAN COURTS.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judges, Indian courts.</p></sidenote>For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $8,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>GENERAL EXPENSES OF INDIAN SERVICE.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, special agents, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i> p. 797.</p></sidenote>For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $3.50 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is available, $135,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $5,000 of this amount shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount at once.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes Competency Commission.</p></sidenote>immediately available:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not to exceed $15,000 of this appropriation shall be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/567">567</page>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INDIAN SERVICE INSPECTORS.</heading>
<content>For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, exclusive of one chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Service inspectors.</p></sidenote> inspector, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $3.50 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field, $30,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DETERMINING HEIRS.</heading>
<content>For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining heirs of allottees.</p></sidenote> having any right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $100,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks in Indian Office.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $25,000 for the employment of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $100,000 appropriated herein:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes and Osages excepted.</p></sidenote> of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>INDUSTRY AMONG INDIANS (REIMBURSABLE).<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industry among Indians.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Encouraging farming, etc., for self-support.</p></sidenote>the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said sum shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians.</proviso>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>VEHICLES FOR INDIAN SERVICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other employees in the Indian field service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of purchases.</p></sidenote> $15,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>SUPPRESSING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AMONG LIVE STOCK OF INDIANS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livestock of Indians</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying for destroying diseased animals, etc.</p></sidenote> destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $25,000.</content>
</appropriations><page identifier="/us/stat/40/568">568</page>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., Of Indians in, and New Mexico.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mojave school.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, including pay of employees, $330,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, anti for pay of superintendent, $31,300; for general repairs and improvements, $3,800; in all, $35,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truxton Canyon School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, anti for pay of superintendent, $132,000; for general repairs and improvements, $12,500; in all, $144,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gila River Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing irrigation System.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1081.</p></sidenote>For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $21,500; for general repairs and improvements, $3,000; in all, $24,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 522.</p></sidenote>For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, $5,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section two of the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and twenty-two), and to remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado River Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extending irrigation system.</p></sidenote>For continuing the construction of the pumping plant for irrigation purposes on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, by the installation of additional pumping machinery and for continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 36, p. 273.</p></sidenote>utilization of water in connection therewith, as provided in the Act of April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seventy-three), and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $20,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watering additional lands.</p></sidenote>reimbursable as provided in said Act; and for continuing the purpose of securing an appropriation of water for the irrigation of approximately one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land on said reservation by the conduct of surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates for a complete irrigation system to supply water to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment from sale of town lots.</p></sidenote>said land, $50,000, reimbursable from funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of said reservation arising <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 77.</p></sidenote>from the proceeds from the sale of town lots authorized by the Act of April thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seventy-seven); in all, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Papago Indian villages.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply for.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navajo Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School facilities for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 669.</p></sidenote>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 hundred and sixty-eight, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary use.</p></sidenote>$100,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navajos and Hopis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply for, on reservations.</p></sidenote>For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Navajo, Moqui, Pueblo, San Juan, and Western Navajo Reservations, $25,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/569">569</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, betterments, and construction of the Ganado irrigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating Ganado project.</p></sidenote> project, Arizona, $20,000; and for maintenance and operation, $3,000; in all, $23,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limit of cost of $60,100<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 522.</p></sidenote> specified in the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and eighteen), is hereby changed to $80,100, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing the construction by the Indian Service of a dam <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gila River Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dam, etc., to divert water for irrigating lands on.</p></sidenote>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), $50,000, to be immediately available and to remain available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 522.</p></sidenote> until expended, reimbursable as provided in section two of the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and twenty-two): <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limit of cost of the said dam and bridge fixed by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 130.</p></sidenote> the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty), is hereby changed from $200,000 to $250,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional installments of the charges for providing water<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt River allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional water rights for.</p></sidenote> rights for six thousand three hundred and ten acres of Salt River Indian allotments reimbursable as provided in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for the extension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 130.</p></sidenote> of canals and laterals and for the construction of other necessary irrigation facilities to supply the said lands with water, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gila River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating canals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 130.</p></sidenote> to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Final County, reimbursable as provided in the Indian appropriation Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $50,000, to remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the construction of a bridge across the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Colorado River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge at Winslow.</p></sidenote> Little Colorado River at or near the town of Winslow, Arizona, $2,000, in addition to the $15,000 appropriated for this purpose by the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 131,</p></sidenote> Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-one); such additional amount to be expended in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in the Act aforesaid.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repainting and reflooring of the Government suspension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge at Tanners Crossing.</p></sidenote> bridge over the Little Colorado River near Tanners Crossing, Arizona, $4,000, to be immediately available, reimbursable from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Indians in Arizona, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a fence along the international boundary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary fence between Papago Reservation and Mexico.</p></sidenote> line between Mexico and the Papago Indian Reservation, in Arizona, created by Executive order of January fourteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $10,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That so much of article two of the agreement with the Indians of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Carlos Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of cattle for Indians of.</p></sidenote> San Carlos Indian Reservation, concluded on February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, accepted, ratified, and confirmed in the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 358, amended.</p></sidenote> reading “ and that said money shall be paid to them in cash from time to time as the same shall become available, pro rata, share and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/570">570</page>share alike, to each man, woman, and child of the tribes now living upon and entitled to the privileges of the said reservation,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read, “and that said money, as the same becomes available, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid to the Indians entitled thereto or expended in the purchase of cattle for their benefit.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kaibab Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying tor labor, etc., on road through.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 132.</p></sidenote>That the unexpended balance of $6,715 appropriated by the Indian appropriation Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the proportionate share of the amount required to construct a wagon road or highway through the Kaibab Indian Reservation is hereby made available for the purchase of material and the employment of labor upon the same terms, except that any labor may be used upon the construction of such road or highway, giving preference to Indian labor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Colorado and Canon Diablo Rivers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges, near Leupp Agency.</p></sidenote>For amount necessary for completing the construction of two bridges over the Little Colorado and Canon Diablo Rivers, near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, in addition to the $42,500 appropriated for this purpose by the Act approved March second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 975.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and seventy-five), 85,000, or so much thereof as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote>be required, to be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said additional sum shall be reimbursable from tribal funds as required by the said Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No new reservations, etc., in New Mexico and Arizona without action of Congress.</p></sidenote>That hereafter no Indian reservation shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of New Mexico and Arizona, except by Act of Congress.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>CALIFORNIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians in.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay of employees, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands for homeless Indians.</p></sidenote>For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, $20,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sherman Institute School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of six hundred and eighty Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including pay of superintendent, $128,400; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $143,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation charges advanced.</p></sidenote>For reclamation and maintenance charge on Yuma allotments, $15,000, to remain available until expended and to be reimbursed from the sale of surplus lands or from other funds that may be available, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1063.</p></sidenote>in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Bidwell School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $21,500; for general repairs and improvements, $3,500; for installation of water supply, $9,000, to be immediately available; in all, $34,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Greenville Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $21,500; for general repairs and improvements, $3,500; in all, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads and bridges.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoopa Valley Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road construction.</p></sidenote>For beginning the construction of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until <page identifier="/us/stat/40/571">571</page>expended, and to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter placed to their credit in the Treasury of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the proper authorities of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation of Humboldt County.</p></sidenote> county of Humboldt, California, agree to furnish, at their own expense, a competent engineer satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior to supervise the construction of said road; to provide the use of such tools and implements as the said Secretary may deem to be justly required of them; and to maintain said road m good condition:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the total cost of said road shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> not exceed $30,500.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>FLORIDA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Florida.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminoles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of, etc.</p></sidenote> Florida, and for purposes of their civilization and education $10,000, including the construction and equipment of necessary buildings on lands set aside by the State of Florida by Act of its legislature for the perpetual use of said Indians: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the $8,000 appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc., of buildings.</p></sidenote> by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and seventy-six), for relief, civilization, and education of the Seminole Indians in Florida, or such part thereof as may be available for the purpose, may also be used for construction and equipment of necessary buildings on the lands aforesaid.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>IDAHO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc,, of Indians on.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation system.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $50,000, to be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That expenditures hereunder for improvements shall be reimbursable to the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1025.</p></sidenote> March first, nineteen hundred and seven.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bannocks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote> For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article ten, treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Aleñes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1029.</p></sidenote> and physician, and purchase of medicines (article eleven, agreement ratified March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one), $3,000.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>KANSAS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of seven hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Haskell Institute School.</p></sidenote> Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, $141,350; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; for completing the construction of a drainage system on the Haskell Indian School Reservation, Lawrence, Kansas, $10.000, to be immediately available; in all, $166,350.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For support and education of eighty Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoo Reservation School.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, including pay of superintendent, $17,400; for general repairs and improvements, $4,000; in all, $21,400.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>MICHIGAN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>For support and education of three hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Pleasant School.</p></sidenote> Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, $72,000; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $78,000.</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/572">572</page>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>MINNESOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pipestone School.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superintendent, $41,650; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laundry, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 134.</p></sidenote>in all, $48,650: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That funds heretofore appropriated for mechanical and general utility shopbuilding and for addition to hospital may be expended for rebuilding laundry, purchase of laundry equipment, and for repairs to heating and power systems at Pipestone School in an amount not exceeding $16,000, the same to be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of the Mississippi.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 720.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual celebration of White Earth Band.</p></sidenote>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 eighteen, out of the funds belonging to said band.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Earth Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing enrollment of allottees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 88.</p></sidenote>For the completion of the enrollment of the allottees within the White Earth Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, required by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as amended by this Act, $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Lake Indian Forest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Logging, mill, etc., expenses from timber receipts.</p></sidenote>That not to exceed $80,000 of the funds derived from the sale of timber from the Red Lake Indian Forest, Minnesota, under authority of the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-seven), of which amount $50,000 shall be immediately available, may be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in payment of the expenses authorized by said Act, and in the logging, booming, towing, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment to tribal funds.</p></sidenote>manufacture of timber at the Red Lake Agency sawmill: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $15,000 of said amount may be used to reimburse the tribal fund known as “Indian money, proceeds of labor, Red Lake Indians,” heretofore actually expended in said operations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cass Lake Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road directed from bridge appropriation balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 978.</p></sidenote>That of the unexpended appropriation of $5,000 authorized to be withdrawn from the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River on the Cass Lake Reservation by the Indian appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000 may be expended for improving the road between the Cass Lake Indian School and the village of Cass Lake upon the condition that the counties of Cass and Beltrami, in the State of Minnesota, shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a written agreement to reimburse the United States, for the benefit of the Chippewa Indians, within two years to the extent of one-half of the amount expended upon said road.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Minnesota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of general council.</p></sidenote>That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the general council of said tribe to be held at Bemidji, Minnesota, beginning July ninth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, pursuant to the constitution of the general council of said Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, organized in May, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and to pay the expenses of said general council in looking after the affairs of said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee to Washington.</p></sidenote>tribe, including the actual and necessary expenses of its legislative committee in visiting Washington during the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress; said sum to be immediately available, and said actual and necessary expenses to be approved by the president and secretary of the general council and certified to the Secretary of the Interior and as so approved and certified to be paid.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/573">573</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"> Promoting civilization. etc., from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $175,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 645.</p></sidenote> 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 “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” and to use the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians in manner and for purposes provided for in said Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $4,000 of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School at White Earth.</p></sidenote> amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used in the construction of a suitable school building at the town of White Earth:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the State school district, in which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Local contribution.</p></sidenote> the town of White Earth is located, contributes a like amount to be used in the construction of a building, the total cost of which shall not exceed $8,000, the said appropriation to remain available until expended:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That when said building is completed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation when completed.</p></sidenote> it shall be turned over to the local school authorities of the said town of White Earth, and shall thereafter be operated and maintained by them, and Indian children shall at all times be admitted to said school on the same conditions as white children.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>MISSISSIPPI.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value=" "><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full-blood Choctaws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief, etc., of.</p></sidenote> Indians of Mississippi, including the pay of one special agent, who shall be a physician, one farmer, and one field matron, $5,000; for their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote> education by establishing and maintaining day schools including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings, $20,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of lands.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States, under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $25,000; for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural development.</p></sidenote> purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among said Indians and to aid them in building homes, in the culture of fruits, grains, cotton, and other crops, $25,000, which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the said Secretary for its repayment to the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five; in all, $75,000, to be immediately available.</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>MONTANA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Agency.</p></sidenote>Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Agency.</p></sidenote> Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck Agency.</p></sidenote> Montana, including pay of employees, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blackfeet Agency.</p></sidenote> Montana, including pay of employees, $50,000, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation, including repairs, of the irrigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation systems.</p></sidenote> systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana, $30,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 277.</p></sidenote>reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crows.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 652.</p></sidenote> $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article ten, treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/574">574</page>sixty-eight), $3,100; for pay of second blacksmith (article eight, same treaty), $1,200; in all, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote>For subsistence and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven), including Northern Cheyennes, removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 658.</p></sidenote>River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article seven, treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Line riders” on Northern Cheyenne Reservation.</p></sidenote>For the employment of “line riders” along the southern and eastern boundaries of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, 81,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rocky Boy’s Chippewas, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>For the support and civilization of the Rocky Boy Band of Chip pewas, and other indigent and homeless Indians in the State of Montana, including pay of employees, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation systems.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead.</p></sidenote>For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in Montana, $375,000 (reimbursable), which shall be immediately available and remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck.</p></sidenote>For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, $50,000 (reimbursable), which shall be immediately available and remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blackfeet.</p></sidenote>For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, $50,000 (reimbursable), which shall be immediately available, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles for irrigation projects.</p></sidenote>remain available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $15,000 of applicable appropriations made for the Flathead, Blackfeet, and Fort Peck irrigation projects shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for official use upon the aforesaid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases limited.</p></sidenote>irrigation project:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not to exceed $3,500 may be used for the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and that not to exceed $4,000 may be used for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bighorn, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Agency lands transferred to school district.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to school district numbered seventeen, Bighorn, Montana, a tract of land not to exceed two and one-half acres, of the lands ceded by the Crow Indian Tribe and reserved for agency purposes, for public-school use, upon condition that Indian children resident within said district shall be permitted to attend said school upon an entire equality with white children.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving Big Hom Valley irrigation systems from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $200,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Crow Indians in the State of Montana, and to expend the same for making necessary improvements to the irrigation systems in the Big Hom Valley on the Crow Reservation in Montana, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for the purpose indicated, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NEBRASKA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nebraska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Genoa School.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">For support and education of three hundred and eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, including pay of superintendent, $78,000; for general repairs and improvements, $7,500; for purchase and erection of water tank (in addition to the amount of $2,400 appropriated for this purpose in the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and eighty), $3,000, to be immediately available; in all, $88,500.</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/575">575</page>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NEVADA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians, m.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, $18,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and ninety Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson City School.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, including pay of superintendent, $60,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the improvement, enlargement, and extension of the irrigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pyramid Lake Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extending irrigation system.</p></sidenote> diversion and distribution system to irrigate approximately three thousand three hundred acres of Indian land on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $25,000 to be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the cost of said entire work shall not exceed $85,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost, etc.</p></sidenote> and for maintenance and operation of the improved system, $5,000; in all, $30,000. to remain available until expended, reimbursable from any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the unexpended balance of $11,996.13 of the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washoe Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural supplies, etc., for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 143.</p></sidenote> of $15,000 for procuring home and farm sites and providing agricultural equipment and instruction for nonreservation Indians in Nevada, and the unexpended balance of $7,611.23 of the appropria tion of $15,000 for the purchase of land and water rights for the Washoe Tribe of Indians in said State and for their support and civilization, contained in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and forty-three), are hereby reappropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p></sidenote> and made immediately available for the purchase of agricultural equipment, building material, and other supplies necessary for said Indians in utilizing the land purchased for them, and also for the expense of locating the Indians upon such land, including pay of employees where necessary.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NEW MEXICO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of four hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albuquerque School.</p></sidenote> Indian pupils at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $85,500; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for completing addition to mess hall, $5,000; in all, $98,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Fe School.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Santa Fe, New. Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, $76,250; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for water supply, $1,600; in all, $85,850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pueblo Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special attorney for.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing work on the Indian highway extending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navajo and San Juan Reservations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highway to Gallup.</p></sidenote> from the Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico, on the Navajo and San Juan Reservations, $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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such sums<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of Indians, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in such manner and at such times and places as he may deem proper, and in the employment of Indian labor as far as possible for the construction of said highway:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paying incurred expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 981.</p></sidenote> $2,500 of the sum appropriated for the building of said road by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages nine hundred and sixty-nine to nine hundred and eighty-one), to be immediately available, may be used for payment of expenses, incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen in excess of the appropriation made for that year in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 144.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/40/576">576</page>(Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, pages one hundred and twenty-three to one hundred and forty-four).</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jicarilla Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of livestock, etc., from timber sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1413.</p></sidenote>The proviso of section one of the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page fourteen hundred and thirteen), relating to the expenditure of proceeds derived from the sale of timber on the Jicarilla Reservation, is hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend said proceeds with the consent of such allottees whose property is appropriated, to be obtained in such manner as he may prescribe, in the purchase of live stock, seeds, agricultural equipment, and for other community or individual purposes beneficial to the Indians belonging to and having rights as members of said tribe of Indians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructing bridge across, in San Juan County.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 926.</p></sidenote>For amount necessary to complete the construction of a steel bridge across the San Juan River in San Juan County, State of New Mexico, at the best and most available location west or southwest and near to the town of Farmington, in said county, in addition to the $25,000 appropriated for the purpose by the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and twenty-six), $4,000, or so much thereof as may be required, to be immediately available: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said additional sum shall be reimbursed from tribal funds as required by the said Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mescalero Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road from Tularosa to the Agency.</p></sidenote>For one-half the cost of constructing a wagon road between Tularosa, Otero County, New Mexico, and the Indian Agency on the Mescalero Indian Reservation in said State, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $16,000, or so much <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, reimbursable to the United States from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Mescalero Tribe of Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NEW YORK.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senecas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 4. p. 442.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six Nations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 46.</p></sidenote>For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent Annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one), $6,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">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.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NORTH CAROLINA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee School.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, including pay of superintendent, $33,600; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $39,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oconalufty River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridging, near In dian school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation by local authorities.</p></sidenote>For the construction of a bridge across the Oconalufty River, at or near the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be ex pended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have obtained from the proper authorities of the State of North Carolina, or the county of Swam, satisfactory guaranties of the payment by the said State of North Carolina, or by the county of Swain, of at least one-half of the cost of the construction of said bridge, and that the proper authorities of the said State of North Carolina, or the said county of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>Swain, shall assume full responsibility for, and will at all times maintain and repair, said bridge and the approaches thereto:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional expense by State, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That any and all expenses above the amount herein named in connection with the construction of said bridge shall be borne either by the said State of North Carolina or the said county of Swain.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/577">577</page>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NORTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Devils Lake Sioux.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> North Dakota, including pay of employees, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Berthold Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Turtle Mountain Chippewas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> North Dakota, including pay of employees, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bismarck School.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $26,600, for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in ail, $32,600: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amounts appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 982.</p></sidenote> in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and eighty-two), for employees’ quarters, $10,000, and for new dining room and kitchen and equipment, $15,000, are hereby reappropriated and made available and to remain available until expended.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten School</p></sidenote> at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $76,000; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; for heating plant, $15,000; in all, $98,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wahpeton School.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent, $41,800; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $46,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standing Rook Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of per capita distribution of tribal funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p, 463; Vol. 37, p. 677.</p></sidenote> (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and sixty), and the Act of February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seventy-five), are hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, and in such manner and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to make per capita distributions to the Standing Rock Indians from the funds, principal and interest, accruing under said Acts, or to use said moneys for the benefit of the Indians entitled thereto.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>OKLAHOMA<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wichitas, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> bands who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency expenses, from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, for the support of the agency and pay of employees maintained for their benefit.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, self-support , etc., from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and pay out the same for the benefit of the members of said tribes for their maintenance and support and improvement of their homesteads for the ensuing year in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote> report to Congress on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and nineteen, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cheyennes and Arapahoes.</p></sidenote> have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $35,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/578">578</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas Indians.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoos.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poncas.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma and Nebraska, including pay of employees, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chiloeco School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of five hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, including pay of superintendent, $94,600; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; for completing of road and bridge, $10,000, to be immediately available; in all, $111,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawnees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 644.</p></sidenote>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), <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote>$30,000; for support of two manual labor schools (article three, treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven), <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmer, blacksmiths, Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote>$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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quapaws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 425.</p></sidenote>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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretionary use.</p></sidenote> shop (same article and treaty), $500; in all, $1,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osages.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding school continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 544.</p></sidenote>That the third paragraph of section four of the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and thirty-nine), is hereby amended to the extent that the moneys therein provided for support of the Osage boarding school may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the same purposes as provided in said paragraph from January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis Mission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational education.</p></sidenote>hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditure of said money shall include the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School and systematic vocational instruction, except that there shall not be expended more than $300 for annual support and education of any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicable to current year.</p></sidenote>one pupil:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the foregoing shall also apply to expenditures for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency purposes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 544.</p></sidenote>That paragraph four, section four, of the Osage Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 88, amended.</p></sidenote> at Large, page five hundred and thirty-nine), and the Act of Congress approved April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page eighty-eight), authorizing expenditures from Osage tribal funds of not exceeding $40,000 for agency and emergency purposes is hereby amended to read as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<paragraph class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“Fourth. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for agency from royalties, etc., subject to annual appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<content>That such sums as may be annually appropriated by Congress shall be set aside and reserved from the royalties received from oil, gas, or other tribal mineral rights or other tribal funds, however arising, for agency purposes, which money when appropriated shall be paid out from time to time upon the requisition of the Osage tribal council with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General salary limitation not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 90.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provision in the Act entitled, ‘An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,’ approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page ninety), limiting the amount of money to be expended for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/579">579</page>salaries of regular employees at any one agency shall not hereafter apply to the Osage Agency.”</proviso>
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</paragraph>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount appropriated from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, not to exceed the sum of $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, for the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers and employees of said agency.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The receipts from leasing of oil, gas, and other minerals upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from leases to be deposited in banks in Oklahoma.</p></sidenote> lands of the Osage Reservation, until the same are paid out as provided by existing law, may be deposited in national or State banks in Oklahoma, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, such depositaries to be designated by him under such rules and regulations governing the rate of interest thereon, the time of deposit and withdrawal thereof, and the security therefor as he may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That not exceeding $25,000 of the amount heretofore appropriated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of office building.</p></sidenote>from tribal funds for Osage Agency and School for any fiscal year and remaining unexpended may be used in the construction of a fireproof office building for Osage Agency.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the allottees of the Osage Nation may change the present<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allottees may change homesteads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 541.</p></sidenote> designation of homesteads to an equal area of their unencumbered surplus lands upon application to, and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status retained.</p></sidenote> each tract after the change and designation shall take the status of the other as it existed prior to the change in designation as to alienation, taxation, or otherwise, and that any order of change of designation shall be recorded in the proper office of Osage Comity:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of allotments permitted.</p></sidenote> authorized where the same would be for the best interest of Osage allottees, to permit the sale of surplus and homestead allotments, wholly or in part, of Osage allottees under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and upon such terms as he shall approve.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section>
<heading class="smallCaps centered">five civilized tribes.</heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes.</p></sidenote>
<num value=" "><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For expenses of administration of the affairs of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration expenses.</p></sidenote> Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $185,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a report shall be made to Congress by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed report required.</p></sidenote> the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by this provision:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undisputed claims to be adjusted by Superintendent.</p></sidenote> part of said appropriation shall be used in forwarding the undisputed claims to be paid from individual moneys of restricted allottees, or their heirs, or in forwarding uncontested agricultural and mineral leases, excluding oil and gas leases, made by individual restricted Indian allottees, or their heirs, to the Secretary of the Interior for approval, but all such undisputed claims or uncontested leases, except oil and gas leases, now required to be approved under existing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil and gas leases excepted.</p></sidenote> law by the Secretary of the Interior shall be paid, approved, rejected, or disapproved by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any party aggrieved by any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals to Secretary of the Interior.</p></sidenote> decision or order of the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma may appeal from the same to the Secretary of the Interior within thirty days from the date of said decision or order.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaws and Chickasaws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> 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 $200 per capita, said payment <page identifier="/us/stat/40/580">580</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>to be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted Indians.</p></sidenote>Interior may prescribe; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in cases where such enrolled members, or their heirs, are Indians who by reason of their degree of Indian blood belong to the restricted class, the Secretary of the Interior may, in bis discretion, withhold such payments and use the same for the benefit of such restricted Indians:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from prior debts.</p></sidenote>That the money paid to the enrolled members or their heirs, as provided herein, shall be exempt from any lien for attorneys’ fees or other debt contracted prior to the passage of this Act, except that the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of attorneys to be investigated, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, within thirty days after the passage of this Act, to investigate claims not to exceed $1,050 growing out of contracts alleged to be in existence between John Calvin Gray, William T. Lancaster, Arthur Jennings and Clyde Jennings, as enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and Henry W. Blair, Kappler and Merillat, James K. Jones, Charles M. Fechheimer and Eugene Hamilton, as attorneys, and in case such claims are found to ba valid and the contracts approved in accordance with existing law, the said Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, apply any amounts, not exceeding $1,050, that may be found due under this paragraph to the aforesaid enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to delay other payments.</p></sidenote> of such fee, but the amounts due hereunder to other enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations shall not be held in abeyance to this claim, but shall be paid promptly without reference<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution expenses.</p></sidenote> to same:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $8,000 out of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal funds for the expenses and the compensation of all necessary employees for the distribution of the said per capita payments.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminoles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the enrolled members of the Seminole Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribe, or to their lawful heirs, out of the Seminole school fund, or any moneys belonging to said tribe in the United States Treasury or deposited in any bank or held by an official under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed $100 per capita: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> That said payment shall be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted Indians.</p></sidenote>That in cases where such enrolled members, or their heirs, are Indians who belong to the restricted class, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, withhold such payments and use the same for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from prior debts.</p></sidenote>benefit of such restricted Indians:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the money paid to the enrolled members or their heirs, as provided herein, shall be exempt from any lien for attorneys’ fees or other debt contracted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution expenses.</p></sidenote> prior to the passage of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $2,000 out of said Seminole school fund, or other money of said Seminole Tribe, for the payment of salaries of all necessary employees and other expenses for the distribution of said per capita payments.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Creeks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the enrolled members of the Creek Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribe, or to their lawful heirs, all moneys except $150.000 belonging to said tribe in the hands of the United States Treasurer, or deposited in any bank, or held by an official under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equalization of shares.</p></sidenote>payment to be made in such a way as to equalize the pro rata share received by each member of said tribe, either in land or money of the tribe, taking into consideration the value of the land hereto<page identifier="/us/stat/40/581">581</page>fore allotted and the money received by each member: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote>That said payment shall be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted Indians.</p></sidenote> in cases where such enrolled members or their heirs are Indians belonging to the restricted class, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, withhold such payments and use the same for the benefit of such restricted Indians:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from prior debts.</p></sidenote> paid to the enrolled members or their heirs, as provided herein, shall be exempt from any lien for attorney’s fees or other debt contracted prior to the passage of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $15,000 out of said moneys for the payment of salaries of all necessary employees and other expenses for the disbursement of said moneys, as herein provided.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Probate expenses.</p></sidenote> as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $85,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support, continuance, and maintenance of the Cherokee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee Orphan Training School</p></sidenote> Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for the orphan Indian children of the State of Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, to be conducted as an industrial school under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $31,500, for repairs and improvements, $4,500; in all, $36,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 147.</p></sidenote> the $40,000 appropriated by the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for repairs and improvements to the school.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of $250,000, to be expended in the discretion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal schools, including Quapaws.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parentage limitation not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 664.</p></sidenote> be subject to the limitation in section one of this Act limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of tribal property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of expenses from proceeds.</p></sidenote> to use not exceeding $30,000 of the proceeds of sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes for payment of 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and asphalt lands.</p></sidenote> land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations or of the surface thereof as provided for in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 67.</p></sidenote>Act of Congress approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh United States Statutes at Large, page sixty-seven), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of rents.</p></sidenote> to exceed $2,500 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific authority required for expenditures. </p></sidenote> hundred and nineteen, no moneys shall be expended from tribal funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, without specific appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>by Congress, except as follows: Equalization of allotments, per capita and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools for the current fiscal year under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of governors, chiefs, assistant chiefs, secretaries, interpreters, and mining <page identifier="/us/stat/40/582">582</page>trustees of the tribes for the current fiscal year at salaries at the rate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal attorneys.</p></sidenote>heretofore paid, and attorneys for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved by the President, under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of schools.</p></sidenote>existing law, for the current fiscal year:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., to school buildings.</p></sidenote>he may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, to expend funds of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 99; Vol. 11, p. 614.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-horsemen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.7,p.213; Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote>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 hundred and fifty-five), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light-horsemen (article thirteen, treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and article thirteen, treaty of June <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.7,p.235; Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote>twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article six, treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and article nine, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five),<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol., p. 235; Vol. 11, p. 611.</p></sidenote> $600; for permanent annuity for education (article two, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five),<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron and steel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 236; Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article nine, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five), $320; in all, $10,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil and gas inspectors on restricted lands.</p></sidenote>For the salaries and expenses of not to exceed four oil and gas inspectors and necessary clerks and field assistants, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to supervise oil and gas mining operations on allotted and tribal lands in the State of Oklahoma from which restrictions have not been removed, and to conduct investigations with a view to the prevention of waste, $17,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Game preserve.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of Choctaw and Chickasaw lands to Oklahoma for.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell at a price to be fixed by him which shall not be less than the appraised value, to the State of Oklahoma for a game preserve lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> described as sections one, two, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, and twenty-six, township three south, range twenty-five east, and sections five, six, seven, eight, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty, township three south, range twenty-six east, containing in all twelve <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments, etc., excepted.</p></sidenote>thousand eight hundred acres, more or less: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any lands heretofore allotted and conveyed to allottees of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, or sold at sales heretofore held to purchasers of tracts of land within said area thus described shall be excepted from such sale.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All claims against, to be filed within one year.</p></sidenote>That all claims against the Cherokee Nation, including claims to unpaid per capita and equalization money, which may now be paid under existing law out of the funds of the Cherokee Nation in the Treasury of the United States or otherwise in the hands of the Government, shall be filed, not later than one year from the date of the approval of this Act, with the superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes or such other person as the Secretary of the Interior may designate, and under such rules and regulations as said Secre<page identifier="/us/stat/40/583">583</page>tary of the Interior may prescribe to govern the filing, determining and settlement of said claims, and the claims so submitted and filed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjudication, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be considered and adjudicated under said rules and regulations not later than six months after the expiration of the time above limited for the filing of the claims, and shall, if approved by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior, be paid out of the tribal funds of the Cherokee Nation. Upon the expiration of the time limited in this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds remaining to be used for Orphan Training School.</p></sidenote> Act claims against the Cherokee Nation shall be forever barred, and all of said tribal funds then remaining to the credit of the Cherokee Nation shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for building and furnishing an additional dormitory for the Cherokee Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William M. Baker.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> and directed to allow credit in the settlement of the accounts of William M. Baker, as cashier and special disbursing agent for the Five Civilized Tribes, for the sum of $5,356.13, paid by said disbursing agent to sundry Indian policemen in reimbursement of their expenses for board and lodging while on duty at their headquarters subsequent to July first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 318.</p></sidenote> and fourteen, said payments having been disallowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury as being prohibited by the Act of April sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and eighteen).</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. F. McMurray.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for services to Choctaws and Chickasaw, referred to Court of Claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 641, 646, 648.</p></sidenote> hear, consider, and adjudicate the following matters of J. F. McMurray, as assignee of the firm of Mansfield, McMurray and Cornish, against the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, or either of them, for professional sendees rendered, for said nations in the case of “The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations versus The United States and the Chickasaw Freedmen,” under Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians, and for other purposes,” and for expenses incurred under sections thirty-one, thirty-two, and thirty-three of the same Act of Congress and for payment of two unpaid Chickasaw warrants issued by tribal authorities under act of legislature of the Chickasaw Nation approved by the governor of the Chickasaw Nation ou September twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and afterwards by the President of the United States; and to render judgment therefor in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment to be paid from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> such amount or amounts as may be fourni to be due thereon, together with interest from the date of such services or payments at the legal rate of interest prevailing at the time and place of such transactions; which judgment, if any, against said nations or either of them shall be paid by the Treasurer of the United States out of the funds of said nations as their interests may appear: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That as to any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defenses by counter claims or set-offs admitted.</p></sidenote> such claims so sued upon the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or either of them, shall be permitted to interpose all proper defenses by way of counterclaim or set-off against either the assignors or the assignee of said claim, all statutes of limitations against said set-offs or counterclaims being hereby waived, and all amounts found due to said Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, under the above provision, shall bear interest at the legal rate:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offsets of coal mining leases.</p></sidenote> amount found to be owing, calculated upon a fair and equitable basis, by the said J. F. McMurray to the said Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations upon coal-mining leases held by him may be offset against any judgment that may be rendered in his favor upon such claims:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That if any of such leases are found not to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of noticed lands.</p></sidenote> underlaid with merchantable coal and all of said leases upon which royalties are not paid within thirty days after the final settlement of these matters, the same shall be canceled; and notice of filing of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of process.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/40/584">584</page>suits by the said J, F. McMurray shall be served upon the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation, and said nations shall be represented therein by attorneys for said nations, respectively, and by the Attorney General of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjustment by mutual agreement authorized.</p></sidenote>United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to adjust, by mutual agreement with the interested parties herein, under the terms hereof and within sixty days after its approval by the President of the United States, any or all of the matters covered by the above provisions, and should such agreement be made by the Secretary of the Interior he is hereby authorized and directed to make requisition’ upon the Treasurer of the United States for the payment of the same out of any funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians as their interests may appear, and the Treasurer <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surety bond required.</p></sidenote>shall pay the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Court of Claims shall require the said J. F. McMurray, upon filing suit in pursuance hereof, to give a sufficient bond, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to abide the judgment of such court in said suit, and in case the Secretary of the Interior should arbitrate such claims and counterclaims he shall require the said McMurray to give sufficient security to abide the award of such arbitration.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Murray State School of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional amount from Chickasaw funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 983.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, from funds on deposit to the credit of the Chickasaw Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, the sum of $15,000 to be used for construction and equipment of dormitories at the Murray State School of Agriculture, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and to be immediately available, in addition to the sum of $50,000 provided for the same use by section eighteen of the Indian appropriation Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
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</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>OREGON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warm Springs Agency</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands, under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Umatilla Agency.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salem School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, including pay of superintendent, $113,000; for general repairs and improvements, including drainage of school farm, $20,000; in all, $133,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies’ Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modoc Point irrigation system.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1071.</p></sidenote>For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, including pay of employees, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of the Modoc Point irrigation system within the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, $4,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for completing construction of the Modoc Point irrigation system within the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, $3,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until emended, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 150.</p></sidenote>hundred and eleven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limit of cost of said project fixed by the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby changed from $170,000 to $172,000; in all, $7,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Self-support, etc.</p></sidenote>For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Klamath Tribe of Indians in Oregon, and to aid them in building homes, the culture of fruits, grain, and other crops, $400,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of such animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other <page identifier="/us/stat/40/585">585</page>equipment necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior to enable the Klamath Indians to become self-supporting, to be reimbursed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment from timber sales, etc.</p></sidenote> within five years from the date of this Act, from the funds accruing to the credit of said tribes in the Treasury of the United States from the sale of timber and unallotted lands on the Klamath Reservation, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.</p>
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</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PENNSYLVANIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content>For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlisle School.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, including pay of superintendent, $132,000; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $147,000.</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>SOUTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of three hundred and fifty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flandreau School.</p></sidenote>Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, $72,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for repairing damages caused by fire in industrial building, $4,500: for replacing and repairing equipment contained in industrial building, $2,000, the last two sums to be immediately available; in all, $86,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pierro School.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $52,000; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; for installation of new boilers and construction of boiler stack, $5,000; in all, $63,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rapid City School.</p></sidenote> Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $57,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; for irrigation, drainage, and improving school farm, to remain available until expended, $3,000; additional appropriation</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">for new school building, $15,000; in all, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux of different tribes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 640.</p></sidenote> Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article thirteen, treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material (article eight of same treaty), $1,600; for pay of additional employees of the several<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote> agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, $95,000; for subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote> (Act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven), $200,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall include transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $307,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 254.</p></sidenote> the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of school buildings, $200,000, in accordance with the provisions of article five of the agreement made and entered into September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and ratified February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven (Nineteenth Statutes, page two hundred and fifty-four): <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation school buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Voi. 39, p. 988.</p></sidenote> balance of the sum of $300,000 appropriated by section twenty-one of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and eighty-eight), for acquiring, constructing, or enlargement and equipment of school buildings on the Crow Creek, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Standing Rock, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/586">586</page>Yankton, Sisseton, Lower Brule, and Cheyenne River Reservations is hereby reappropriated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yankton Sioux.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>For subsistence and civilization of the Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, including pay of employees, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of insane asylum.</p></sidenote>For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvements, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosebud Agency Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $185,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Sioux Indians of Rosebud <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 448.</p></sidenote>Agency, South Dakota, accruing under the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and forty-eight), and to expend the same for the support, civilization, and education of said Indians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standing Rock Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for highway through.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 151.</p></sidenote>That the sum of $2,801.50, being the unexpended balance of the sum of $5,000 appropriated by the Indian appropriation Act approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as a proportionate share of the cost of constructing a wagon road or highway through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Corson County, South Dakota, be, and the same is hereby, made available upon the same terms and for the same purposes as provided in said Act.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>TEXAS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama and Coushatta Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">For the education of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians located in Polk County, Texas, by the construction of a school building, including equipment, upon land belonging to said Indians, $5,000; and by aiding the public schools established by the State or local authorities to the extent of 10 cents per day for each Indian child who attends such schools, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation for purchase of land, etc.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Interior; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause an investigation to.be made as to the necessity and advisability of purchasing lands for said Indians and to make report thereon to Congress on or before the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of such investigation; in all, $8,000, to be immediately available.</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>UTAH.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utes, Confederated Bands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpenters, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 622.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">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; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food, etc.</p></sidenote>for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article twelve, same treaty), $30,000; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, %15,000; hi all, 853,740.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of detached Indians.</p></sidenote>For the support and civilization of Indians in Utah, not otherwise provided for, including pay of employees, 810,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utes, Confederated Bands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution from principal funds.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, within his discretion, the sum of 8350,000 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/40/587">587</page>of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $100,000 of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For self-support from accrued interest.</p></sidenote> amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 934.</p></sidenote> (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and thirty-four), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote> on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and nineteen, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uncompahgre, etc., Utes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating allotments of.</p></sidenote> from the Treasury of the United States, within his discretion, the sum of $150,000 of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and to expend same for continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes, in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, to be immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 375.</p></sidenote> available and to remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of $12,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uintah and Duchesne Counties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid to public schools.</p></sidenote> of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the public schools in the Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a wagon road through the Shivwits Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shivwits Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road and bridge in.</p></sidenote> Reservation, Utah, $5,000; for the construction of a steel bridge and approaches across the Santa Clara River on the Shivwits Indian Reservation, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> States from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Shivwits Tribe of Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>WASHINGTON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of In dians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D’Wamish, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Makahs.</p></sidenote> allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Makaha, including pay of employees, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Quinaielts and Quillehutes, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qulnaieltsand Quillehutes.</p></sidenote> pay of employees, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima Agency Indians.</p></sidenote> pay of employees, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville, etc., Agencies Indians.</p></sidenote> Puyallup, and Spokane Agencies, including pay of employees and for purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians in Washington, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Spokanes in Washington (article six of agreement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokanes.</p></sidenote> with said Indians, dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 139.</p></sidenote> and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two), $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of the irrigation system on lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 597; Vol. 34, p. 1050.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of receipts.</p></sidenote> allotted to Yakima Indians in Washington, $15,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That money received under agreements for temporary water supply may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for maintenance and improvement of the irrigation system on said lands.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/588">588</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for additional water supply to allottees.</p></sidenote>For the fifth installment in payment of $635,000 for water supply or irrigation of forty acres of each Indian allotment on the Yakima Indian Reservation irrigation system in the State of Washington, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 604.</p></sidenote>provided by the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and four), $100,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land specified.</p></sidenote>to be covered into the reclamation fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the land for which the aforesaid water supply was purchased shall be understood to be included within the Wapato irrigation project.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cushman School.</p></sidenote>For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Cushman Indian School, Tacoma, Washington, including repairs and improvements, and for pay of superintendent, $65,000, said appropriation being made to supplement the Puyallup school funds used for said school.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wapato irrigation project.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing construction, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 604.</p></sidenote>For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and four), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian 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 lands on said reservation, $500,000 to be immediately <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 154.</p></sidenote>available, and to remain available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entire cost of said irrigation and drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States under the conditions and terms of the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Violetta and W. D. Stone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to, for lands taken.</p></sidenote>That out of the sum herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay to Violetta Stone and W. D. Stone, husband and wife, the sum of $629.48 for lands purchased of them for use in connection with the construction of the diversion dam across the Yakima River, as provided for in the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and fifty-four), and the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase of such other lands as may be required in connection with the construction of the aforesaid irrigation project.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokanes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of lands for fairgrounds, etc., from tribal funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 458.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians under the Spokane jurisdiction, accruing under the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and fifty-eight), and to expend the same in the purchase of laud for fairgrounds purposes and the construction of a building thereon for the benefit of said Indians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quiniault Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of road on.</p></sidenote>For the construction of a road on the Quiniault Indian Reservation, Washington, $22,500, to be immediately available and to be reimbursed from any funds now or hereafter placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Quiniault Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said tribe of Indians until paid.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to attorneys, from tribal funds.</p></sidenote>That there is hereby appropriated, out of the tribal funds of the Yakima Indians in the State of Washington not otherwise appropriated, to be charged to the tribal account, the sum of $2,000 to be used by and under the direction of the Yakima Tribal Council for actual and necessary expenses in presenting Indian matters to the Government officials in Washington City, or in the employment of attorneys from the State of Washington to assist them in securing information relative to their tribal rights and property.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>WISCONSIN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hayward School.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For the support and education of two hundred and thirty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including <page identifier="/us/stat/40/589">589</page>pay of superintendent, $47,450; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $55,450.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tomah School.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $57,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Lake Superior,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pottawatomies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie Indians who reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and civilization of those portions of the Wisconsin<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin Bond of Pottawatomies, Wis. and Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 102.</p></sidenote> Band of Pottawatomie Indians residing in the States of Wisconsin and Michigan, and to aid said Indians in establishing homes on the lands purchased for them under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $75,000. or so much thereof as may be necessary, said sum to be reimbursed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> the United States out of the appropriation, when made, of the principal due as the proportionate share of said Indians in annuities and moneys of the Pottawatomie Tribe in which they have not shared as set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and thirty (Sixtieth Congress, first session), and the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use specified.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to expend the said sum of $75,000 in the clearing of land and the purchase of houses, building material, seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment and supplies necessary to enable said Indians to become self-supporting: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That from the sum herein appropriated for said Pottawatomie<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. V. Belt.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to legal representatives of, for services.</p></sidenote> Indians the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay to the legal representatives of R. V. Belt (Mrs. Joana Belt and William O. Belt) such sum, not exceeding $25,000, as he, after a proper hearing, may fix as compensation justly and equitably due the said Belt and associates on a quantum meruit for their services in recovering for the said Pottawatomie Indians the annuities withheld from them, under contract with representatives of said Indians approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs November first, nineteen hundred and two.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menominees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Self-support, etc., from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $300,000 of the tribal funds of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin, arising under the provisions of the Acts of June twelfth, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 146; Vol. 35, p. 51; Vol. 36, p. 1076.</p></sidenote> and ninety (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and forty-six), and March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page fifty-one), section twenty-six of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page one thousand and seventy-six), and any Acts amendatory thereof, and under such regulations as he may prescribe to expend the same to aid said Indians to fit themselves for, or to engage in, farming or such other pursuits or avocations as will enable said Indians to become self-supporting, or in the case of the old, decrepit, or incapacitated members of the tribe, for support: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing merchantable timber from form lands.</p></sidenote> That in the case of those who engage in farming upon the Menominee Reservation, that prior to authorization to make expenditures for farming purposes upon lands not heretofore entirely cleared of all merchantable timber, the Forest Service of the Indian Bureau shall make a survey of same and shall certify that such lands have been cut over and cleared of all merchantable timber, or that if there be merchantable timber on such lands that it is to the interest of the Menominee Indians, and not detrimental to the Menominee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not detrimental to Menominee Forest.</p></sidenote> Forest, that such timber be removed, and that such Forest Service of the Indian Bureau shall also certify that the lands proposed to be <page identifier="/us/stat/40/590">590</page>
cleared are not necessary to the preservation of the Menominee Forest and would be more valuable to the Menominee Indians if used for agricultural or grazing purposes; that any merchantable timber cut hereunder shall be disposed of in the manner provided by law for the disposition of timber cut upon the Menominee Reservation, and the authorization herein contained, in so far as it applies to the merchantable timber on said lands, shall not be construed so as to increase the total amount of said timber authorized to be cut in any one year:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita to enrolled tribal members.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash payment.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the funds herein authorized may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be apportioned on a per capita basis among all enrolled members of the Menominee Tribe, a per capita payment of $50 to be made immediately after the passage of this Act to each member of said tribe, and the remainder of the share of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shares of minors, etc.</p></sidenote>each Indian to be deposited to his or her credit:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the per capita share of each minor under eighteen years of age in said sum so apportioned shall be deposited to the credit of the parent, guardian, or other person having the custody and care of said minor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Individual credit on reaching 18 years.</p></sidenote>the per capita share of such minors or the unexpended balance of same, when any such minors shall arrive at the age of eighteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation of deposits.</p></sidenote>years, shall be withdrawn from the amount of the parent, guardian, or other person and deposited to the account of such minors. All deposits made to the credit of indi vidual members of the Menominee Tribe, to parents, guardians, or other persons under the terms of this Act, shall be subject to expenditure under the regulations governing the handling of individual Indian money.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wittenberg School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of property.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell the lands and buildings comprising the former Wittenberg Indian School, Wittenberg, Wisconsin, at not less than their appraised value. The money received from said sale to be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.</p>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>WYOMING.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshones.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, including pay of employees, $15.000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation school.</p></sidenote>For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupila at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, including pay of superintendent, $32,500; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $37,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation system within Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote>For continuity the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals, $50.000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1016.</p></sidenote>reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to remain available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating additional ceded lands.</p></sidenote>For continuation of investigations, beginning of construction and incidental operations on a project for the irrigation of a portion of the conditionally ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1016.</p></sidenote> $100,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to remain <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of construction, etc., charges.</p></sidenote>available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the construction charge for the actual cost of said project shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior and divided equitably between the Indian land and public and private land irrigated by such project, and that the charge as <page identifier="/us/stat/40/591">591</page>fixed for said Indian lands shall be reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and that the charges as fixed for private and public land irrigated under such project shall be paid by the owner or entryman in accordance with the terms of payment of construction and maintenance charges as provided by the reclamation law and amendments thereto.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads and bridges.</p></sidenote> 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, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said Indians</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">until paid.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased expenditures for Indians from tribal funds during fiscal year.</p></sidenote> authorized in his discretion to expend for the benefit of Indians, from their tribal funds held in trust or otherwise, not exceeding $2,500,000 during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, as provided by section twenty-seven of the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 158.</p></sidenote> at Large, page one hundred and fifty-eight), in addition to such sums as may be required for equalization of allotments, education of Indian children, per capita and other payments to Indians and expenditures for the Five Civilized Tribes m accordance with existing law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That expenditures shall not be made from any one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to exceed estimates.</p></sidenote> fund for purposes other than those above specified in excess of the estimates submitted by the Secretary of the Interior and appearing in House of Representatives Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-nine, Sixty-fifth Congress, second session:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds excluded.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian trust funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal from tho Treasury and segregated to individual Indians.</p></sidenote> That no expenditures shall be made from tribal or treaty funds which are not authorized by existing laws governing their disposition and use.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="28"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 28. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian trust funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal from tho Treasury and segregated to individual Indians.</p></sidenote> authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to withdraw from the United States Treasury and segregate the common, or community funds of any Indian tribe which are, or may hereafter be, held in trust by the United States, and which are susceptible of segregation, so as to credit an equal share to each and every recognized member of the tribe except those whose pro rata shares have already been withdrawn under existing law, and to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of, In banks to personal credit.</p></sidenote>deposit the funds so segregated in banks to be selected by him, in the State or States in which the tribe is located, subject to withdrawal for payment to the individual owners or expenditure for their benefit under the regulations governing the use of other individual Indian moneys. The said Secretary is also authorized, under such rules<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trust funds to be deposited to tribal credit.</p></sidenote> and regulations as he may prescribe, to withdraw from the Treasury and deposit in banks in the State or States in which the tribe is located to the credit of the respective tribes, such common, or community, trust funds as are not susceptible of segregation as aforesaid, and on which the United States is not obligated by law to pay interest at higher rates than can be procured from the banks: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest, etc.</p></sidenote> no tribal or individual Indian money shall be deposited in any bank until the bank shall have agreed to pay interest thereon at a reasonable rate and shall have furnished an acceptable bond or collateral security therefor, and United States bonds may be furnished as collateral security for either tribal or individual funds so deposited, in lieu of surety bonds:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment In Government bonds allowed.</p></sidenote> Interior, if he deems it advisable and for the best interest of the Indians, may invest the trust funds of any tribe or individual Indian in United States Government bonds:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That any part of tribal funds required for support of schools or pay of tribal officers shall be excepted from segregation or deposit as herein authorized and the same shall be expended for the purposes afore<page identifier="/us/stat/40/592">592</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rolls to be complete.</p></sidenote>said:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the funds of any tribe shall not be segregated until the final rolls of said tribe are complete:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the foregoing shall not apply to the funds of the Five Civilized Tribes, or the Osage Tribe of Indians, in the State of Oklahoma, but the funds of such tribes and individual members thereof shall be deposited in the banks of Oklahoma or in the United States Treasury and may be secured by the deposit of United States bonds.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 25, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 87: Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley County, Wilmot Township, State of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>87</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 592</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>87.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a bridge across the Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley County, Wilmot Township, State of Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-29">May 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9715">H. R. 9715</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/160">Public, No. 160</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Bartholomew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Ashley County, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 353, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge, authorized by Act of Congress approved July eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to be built across the Bayou Bartholomew at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Wilmot, Arkansas, on section line between sections one and twelve, township nineteen, range five west, where it crosses said bayou in Ashley County, Arkansas, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date hereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 88: To authorize the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>88</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 592</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>88.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the establishment of a town site on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-31">May 31, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/4910">H. R. 4910</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/161">Public, No. 161</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town site to be established on.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to set aside and reserve for town-site purposes a tract of land within the Fort Hail Indian Reservation, Idaho, as in his opinion may be required for the future public interests, and he may cause the same to be surveyed into suitable lots and blocks and to dedicate the streets and alleys thereof to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservations for public purposes.</p></sidenote>public uses; and he is hereby authorized to set apart and reserve for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres in such town site; and patents shall issue for the lands so set apart and reserved for school, park, and other public purposes to the municipality legally charged with the care and custody of lands donated for such purposes on condition that Indian children shall be permitted to attend the public schools of such town under the same conditions as white children.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisal and sale of lots.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to cause the lots within such town site as may be established hereunder to be appraised and disposed of under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and any and all expenses in connection with the survey, appraisement, and sale of such town site shall be reimbursed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p></sidenote> from the sales of town lots, and the net proceeds derived therefrom shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation and shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liquor prohibition.</p></sidenote>subject to appropriation by Congress for their benefit: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <i>however</i>, That any lands disposed of hereunder shall be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country until otherwise provided by Congress.</proviso>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 31, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 89: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-05-31</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>89</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/593">593</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>89.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-31">May 31, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5489">H. R. 5489</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/162">Public, No. 162</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of revested Oregon and California grant lands with private owners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 218.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Vol. 14, p. 239.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, pp. 47,94.</p></sidenote> Interior, in the administration of the Act of June nine, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon,’ approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended by the Acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to alter and amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland to Astoria and McMinnville, in the State of Oregon,’ approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes” (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and eighteen), is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to exchange lands formerly embraced within the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested m the United States by said Act for other lands of approximately equal aggregate value held in private ownership, either within or contiguous to the former limits of said grant, when by such action he will be enabled thereby advantageously to consolidate the holdings of timber lands by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all lands and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of acquired lands, etc.</p></sidenote> timber secured by virtue of such exchange shall be disposed of in accordance with the terms and provisions of said Act of revestment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 31, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 90: To prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-05-31</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>90</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>90.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prevent rent profiteering in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-05-31">May 31, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/152">S. J. Res. 152</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pubres/31">Pub. Res., No. 31</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent0 fontsize10">Whereas by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> the national security and defense, and for the successful prosecution of the war, to establish governmental control and assure adequate regulation of real estate in the District of Columbia for and during the period hereinafter set forth: Therefore be it</recital>
</preamble>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize10">Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That until a treaty of peace<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent profiteering.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on compulsory dispossession of real estate tenants during the war, etc.</p></sidenote> shall have been definitely concluded between the United States and the Imperial German Government, unless in the meantime otherwise provided by Congress, no judicial order, decree, or judgment for the recovery of possession of any real estate in the District of Columbia, now or hereafter held or acquired by oral or written agreement of lease for one month or any longer period, or for the ejectment or dispossession of a tenant therefrom, shall be made, and all leases<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> thereof shall continue so long as the tenant continues to pay rent at the agreed rate and performs the other conditions of the tenancy which are not inconsistent herewith, unless the tenant has committed waste, or has been guilty on the premises of conduct which constitutes a nuisance or a breach of the peace, or other misdemeanor or crime, or that the premises are necessarily required by a landlord or bona fide purchaser for occupation either by himself or his wife, children, or dependents while he is in the employ of or officially connected with any branch of the Government, or where the property has been sold to a bona fide purchaser for his own occu<page identifier="/us/stat/40/594">594</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modification, etc., of unexecuted orders, decrees, or judgments.</p></sidenote>nancy; and where such order, decree, or judgment has been made, but not executed before the passage of this resolution, the court by which the order, decree, or judgment was made shall, if it is of the opinion that the order, decree, or judgment would not have been made if this resolution had been in force at the date of the making of the order, decree, or judgment, rescind or modify the order, decree, or judgment in such manner as the court may deem proper <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases of premises sold to new owner.</p></sidenote>for the purpose of giving effect to this resolution; and all remedies, at law or in equity, of the lessor based on any provision in any oral or written agreement of lease that the same shall be determined or forfeited if the premises shall be sold are hereby suspended while this resolution shall be in force, and every purchaser shall take the conveyance of any premises subject to the rights of all tenants in possession thereof under the provisions of this resolution.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apartments, rooms, etc., included as real estate.</p></sidenote>That the term “real estate” as herein used shall be construed to include any and all land, any building, any part of any building, house, or dwelling, any apartment, room, suite of rooms and every other improvement or structure whatsoever on land situated and being in the District of Columbia.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 31, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 91: To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-06-01</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>91</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>91.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the coinage of fifty-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-01">June 1, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/8764">H. R. 8764</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/163">Public, No. 163</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illinois centennial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Silver fifty-cent pieces to be coined in commemoration of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, as soon as practicable, and in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Union as a State, there shall be coined at the mints of the United States, silver fifty-cent pieces to the number of one hundred thousand, such fifty-cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design, as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal tender.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Treasury, and said fifty-cent pieces shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coinage laws made applicable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of the coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for security of the coin, or for any other purpose, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense for dies, etc.</p></sidenote>herein authorized: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Government shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 1, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 92: Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-06-04</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>92</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>92.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-04">June 4, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12280">H. R. 12280</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/164">Public, No. 164</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 182, 385, 459.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 821, 1020, 1161.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes, namely:</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/595">595</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EXECUTIVE.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>housing for war needs.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Housing for war needs.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses, available through fiscal year 1919.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 550.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 821.</p></sidenote> authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $60,000,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Section seven of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 552, amended.</p></sidenote> to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is amended to read as follows:</p>
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>That no work to be done or contract to be made under or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts on percentage basis forbidden.</p></sidenote> by authority of any provision of this Act shall be done or made on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract be let involving more than $1,000 until at least three responsible<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bids for work over $1,000.</p></sidenote> competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract, and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids.”</content></section>
</quotedContent>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The President, if in his judgment such action is deemed necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Housing corporation may be created.</p></sidenote> or advantageous, may authorize the creation of a corporation or corporations for the purpose of carrying out the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 550,</p></sidenote> Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, such corporation or corporations to have or obtain all powers necessary or appropriate therefor. The total capital stock of the corporation or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital stock.</p></sidenote>corporations authorized hereunder shall not exceed $60,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where such corporation or corporations are created<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States to be sole owner.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of agency.</p></sidenote> by authority of the President, representatives appointed by the President, or by such agency as he may designate to carry out the purposes of the said Act, shall subscribe to, own, and vote the capital stock thereof for and on behalf of the United States, and shall do all other things in regard thereto necessary to protect the interests of the United States and to carry out the provisions of the said Act: </proviso><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That section six hundred and five of the Code of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dealing in real estate permitted in District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 533.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia prohibiting a corporation from buying, selling or dealing in real estate shall not apply to such corporation or corporations so created or designated, with respect to buying, selling or dealing in real estate in furtherance of the provisions of the said Act: </proviso><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Act entitled “An Act to amend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No charge for recording, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 689.</p></sidenote> section five hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, relating to incorporations,” approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and five, shall not apply to any corporation or corporations created under the authority contained in this paragraph.</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">All moneys received by the United States, in carrying out the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts made a revolving fund.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, may be used as a revolving fund until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, for further carrying out the purposes of the said Act.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>
<content>Contagious Diseases Service: The limitation on the amount to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases allotment increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1630.</p></sidenote> expended for personal services from the appropriation for preventing the spread of contagious diseases for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is increased from $17,000 to $23,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/596">596</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote>INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of the laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $60,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses regulating foreign travel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 559.</p></sidenote>For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety,” approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including contingent and miscellaneous expenses and personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $75,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign intercourse.</p></sidenote>foreign intercourse.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, missions.</p></sidenote>For contingent expenses of foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $100,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote>public health service.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>For fuel, fight, and water, $10,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing Bureau.</p></sidenote>bureau of engraving and printing.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of sheets for cheeks,etc.,increased,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 117.</p></sidenote>The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen as to the number of delivered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 641.</p></sidenote>sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from two million nine hundred and fifty thousand to six million.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary employees.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks
and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $900,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to Congress.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each: </proviso><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay limitations.</p></sidenote>That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than thirty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/597">597</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expensee.</p></sidenote> including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same, and so forth; including the same objects specified under this head in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $344,175.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> $120,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of insular affairs.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote>
<content>The taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature in section fourteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine tax legislation legalized.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty-nine of the act numbered twenty-seven hundred and eleven, enacted by that body on March tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore or hereafter is legalized, ratified, and confirmed hereby as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same by prior Act of Congress specifically had been authorized and directed.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>
<content>For medical and hospital department, including the same objects<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts, etc., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 60, 364.</p></sidenote> specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, 831.</p></sidenote> seventeen, the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations not to exceed $33,000,000 in addition to the appropriations Heretofore made.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PANAMA CANAL.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote>
<content>For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitation, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $150,000, to continue available until expended.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">War Department Temporary Office Buildings (Smithsonian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary Office Buildings, Smithsonian Grounds, and Seaton Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., Including fiscal year 1919.</p></sidenote> Grounds and Seaton Park)</inline>: For the following employees from May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; two steam fitters, at $1,200 each; sign writer, $1,400; two painters, at $1,200 each; electricians—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; four general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—three lieutenants at $1,080 each, nine sergeants at $930 each, two hundred and thirty-seven at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,080; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; sixty-one laborers, at $660 each; fifteen female laborers, at $480 each; six forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; one hundred and sixteen charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $356,231.25.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/598">598</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 787.</p></sidenote>For the following from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows, to be in lieu of similar positions provided in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, for the temporary office buildings in Henry Park Reservation: Chief engineer, $1,800; foreman, $1,600; chief electrician, $1,600; in all, $5,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous, items, and printing for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $45,150.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and nineteen, $147,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Screens.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">War and Navy Department temporary office buildings (Henry Park Reservation)</inline>: For screens, $8,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac Park office buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance employees from August 15, 1918.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">War and Navy Department temporary office buildings (Potomac Park)</inline>: For the following employees from August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each; four messengers, at 8720. each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600, six at $1,400 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, seven at $1,200 each; sign writer, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, four at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,400; four switchboard operators, at $1,200 each; six general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain $1,600, six lieutenants at $1,080 each, eight sergeants at $930 each, two hundred and five at $780 each, eighty at $720 each; fire marsh al, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; eighty-three laborers, at $660 each; twenty-two female laborers, at $480 each; eight forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; two hundred and eight charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $388,955.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, city directories, and dictionary, $172,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building, Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance employees.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">War Department temporary office building (Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest)</inline>: For the following employees from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; clerk of class one; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; six firemen at $840 each; four coal passers at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; painter, $1,000; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—captain $1,200, three sergeants at $930 each, forty-two privates at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; ten laborers at $660 each; three female laborers at $480 each; two forewomen of charwomen at $300 each; eighteen charwomen at $240 each; in all, $68,270.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directory, $19,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control of building under superintendent of State, etc., Building.</p></sidenote>The maintenance and protection of the temporary office building erected by the War Department between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and B Street and Virginia Avenue northwest shall be under the supervision of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Park, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Char force, subject to superintendent of State, etc., Building.</p></sidenote>The char force of the foregoing temporary office buildings and the temporary office buildings in Henry Park, which is employed and paid by the bureaus or offices occupying the said buildings, shall be<page identifier="/us/stat/40/599">599</page>subject to the supervision and control of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">The appropriations herein made for the maintenance and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of incurred obligations.</p></sidenote>protection of the office buildings under the supervision of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred prior to the passage of this Act, and which are properly chargeable to such appropriation.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary employees.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Bureau of Steam Engineering, $7,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content>For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $200,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay, miscellaneous.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>
<content>For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting information.</p></sidenote> $100,000 of this amount may be expended for the collection of information abroad and at home.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote>
<content>Transportation: For transportation, including the same objects<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,000,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote>preserving, and handling ordnance material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $40,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,644,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $265,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/600">600</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote>public works, bureau of yards and docks.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training camps.</p></sidenote>Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $11,000,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote>Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $2,100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote>bureau of medicine and surgery.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries.</p></sidenote>For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting, etc., remains.</p></sidenote>Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote>bureau of supplies and accounts.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $2,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clerks, etc., increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1183.</p></sidenote>That the limitation specified in the said Act on expenditures for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service is increased further by $200,000.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote>bureau of steam engineering.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering experiment station.</p></sidenote>Engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland: For experimental and research work, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of incurred obligations.</p></sidenote>The appropriations contained herein under the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote>INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>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 offices in the field service under the General Land Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, $27,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote>territory of alaska.</heading>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education of natives.</p></sidenote>Education in Alaska: For education in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical and sanitary relief.</p></sidenote>Medical relief in Alaska: For medical relief in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/601">601</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POSTAL SERVICE.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal Service.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>out of the postal revenues.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From postal revenues.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the first assistant postmaster general.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary, auxiliary, and substituto clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $500,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle allowance.</p></sidenote> and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles, for and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, $300,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger service.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For mail messenger service, $100,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of fourth assistant postmaster general.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote>
<content>For mail bags and equipment, $ 125,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail bags, etc.</p></sidenote></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast and geodetic survey.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote>
<content>For office expenses, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p></sidenote> head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, 88,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>
<content>For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $10,000.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay Lula W. Stone, widow of Honorable William J. Stone, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William J. Stone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote> a Senator from the State of Missouri, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To pay Mary Manette Broussard, widow of Honorable Robert F.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert F. Broussard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote> Broussard, late a Senator from the State of Louisiana, $7,500.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> for committees and officers of the Senate, $4,000.</p> 
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> items, and for all necessary services, $7,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote>
<content>For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> Commissioners, including $1,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $1,625.</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>printing and binding.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>
<content>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $100,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post Office Department.</p></sidenote> of the money order office, $75,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/602">602</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $25,000.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan American Union.</p></sidenote>For printing and binding for the Pan American Union, $5,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 4, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 93: To require numbering and recording of undocumented vessels.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-06-07</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>93</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>93.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To require numbering and recording of undocumented vessels.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-07">June 7, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1549">S. 1549</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/165">Public, No. 165</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undocumented vessels to be numbered, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That every undocumented vessel, operated in whole or in part by machinery, owned in the United States and found on the navigable waters thereof, except public vessels, and vessels not exceeding sixteen feet in length measured from end to end over the deck excluding sheer, temporarily equipped with detachable motora, shall be numbered. Such numbers shall be not less in size than three inches and painted or attached to each bow of the vessel in such manner and color as to be distinctly visible and legible.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline">That the said numbers, on application of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue, record, etc.</p></sidenote> owner or master, shall be awarded by the collector of customs of the district in which the vessel is owned and a record thereof kept in the custom-house of the district in which the owner or managing owner resides. No numbers not so awarded shall be carried on the bows of such vessel.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of change in ownership, destruction, etc., to be made.</p> </sidenote>
<content class="inline">That notice of destruction or abandonment of such vessels or change in their ownership shall be furnished within ten days by the owners to the collectors of customs of the districts where such numbers were awarded. Such vessel sold into another customs district may be numbered anew in the latter district.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the penalty for violation of any provision of this Act shall be $10, for which the vessel shall be hable and may be seized and proceeded against in the district court of the United States in any district in which such vessel may be found. Such penalty on application may be mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of Commerce.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">regulations as may be necessary to secure proper execution of this Act by collectors of customs and other officers of the Government.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective date.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect six months after its passage.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 7, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 95: To provide for appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of vessels, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-06-10</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>95</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>95.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for appeals from decisions of boards of local inspectors of vessels, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-10">June 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1544">S. 1544</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/166">Public, No. 166</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboat Inspection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals from local boards to supervising inspector, etc.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That whenever any person directly interested in or affected by any decision or action of any board of local inspectors of vessels shall feel aggrieved by such decision or action, he may appeal therefrom to the supervising inspector of the district; and a like appeal shall be allowed from any decision or action of a supervising inspector to the Supervising Inspector General, whose decision, when approved by the Secretary of Commerce, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote>shall be final: <i>Provided, however</i>, That application for such reexamination of the case by a supervising inspector or by the Supervising Inspector General shall be made within thirty days after the decision or action appealed from shall have been rendered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appearance of suspended officer, etc.</p></sidenote>or taken: <i>And provided further</i>, That in all cases reviewed under the provisions of this Act where the issue is the suspension or revoca<page identifier="/us/stat/40/603">603</page>tion of the license of a licensed officer such officer shall be allowed to be represented by counsel and to testify in his own behalf.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That whenever there shall be a disagreement between the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action on disagreements of local boards.</p></sidenote> local inspectors in regard to any matter before them for decision they shall report the case to the supervising inspector of the district, who shall investigate and decide the same. Any supervising inspector may within thirty days thereafter, upon his own motion, review any decision or action of any board of local inspectors within his district and in like manner the Supervising Inspector General may within thirty days thereafter review any decision or action of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final action.</p></sidenote> supervising inspector or board of local inspectors, and the decision of the Supervising Inspector General in such case shall, when approved by the Secretary of Commerce, be final.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That any decision or action reviewed by the Supervising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote> Inspector General or by any supervising inspector, as provided in sections one and two of this Act, may be revoked, changed, or modified by such reviewing officer, who shall have power to administer oaths and to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees.</p></sidenote> a similar process as in the district courts of the United States; and the disbursing clerk, Department of Commerce, shall pay, on properly certified vouchers, such fees to any witness so summoned for his actual travel and attendance as shall be officially certified to by the officer reviewing the case, not exceeding the rate allowed for fees to witnesses for travel and attendance in the district courts of the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content>That the Secretary of Commerce shall make such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> regulations as may be necessary to secure a proper enforcement of the provisions of this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content>That section forty-four hundred and fifty-two of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4452/p861">R. S., sec. 4452, p. 861</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1030.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, as amended by section six of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby repealed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 96: To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.</dc:title>
<dc:date>1918-06-10</dc:date>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 603</citableAs>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>96</docNumber>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>96.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act granting pensions to certain enlisted men, soldiers, and officers who served in the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-10">June 10, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9959">H. R. 9959</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/65/pl/167">Public, No. 167</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the general pension Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 114, amended.</p></sidenote> of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby amended by adding a new section, to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content>That from and after the passage of this Act the rate of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil War service pensions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum.</p></sidenote> pension for any person who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the Civil War, now on the roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll and entitled to receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be $30 per month.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ratings for age increased.</p></sidenote> In case such person has reached the age of seventy-two years and served six months, the rate shall be $32 per month; one year, $35 per month; one and a half years, $38 per month; two years or over, $40 per month: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not be so construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of present pensons.</p></sidenote> to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private: </proviso><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no pension attorney, claim agent, or other person, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of attorneys’ fees.</p></sidenote> be entitled to receive any compensation for presenting any claim to the Bureau of Pensions under this Act, except in applications for original pension by persons who have not heretofore received a pension.”</proviso></content></section>
</quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 10, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 97: Granting to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii additional powers relative to elections and qualification of electors.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>97</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 604</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/604">604</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>97.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii additional powers relative to elections and qualification of electors.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-13">June 13, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/2380">S. 2380</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/168">Public, No. 168</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Female citizens may be empowered to vote by legislative provision.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii be, and it is hereby, vested with the power to provide that, in all elections authorized to be held by the organic act of the Territory of Hawaii, female citizens possessing the same qualifications as male citizens shall be entitled to vote.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submission of right at Territorial elections to voters.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the said legislature is further hereby vested with the power to have submitted to the voters of the Territory of Hawaii the question of whether or not the female citizens of the Territory shall be empowered to vote at elections held under the laws of the Territory of Hawaii.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction of right to male citizens repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 15.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all provisions of the organic act of the Territory of Hawaii restricting the right to vote to male citizens which are in conflict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement and application of Act.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect and be enforced from and after its approval, and shall be held to apply to both Territorial and municipal elections.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 13, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 98: To amend section one hundred and one of the Judicial Code.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>98</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 604</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>98.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section one hundred and one of the Judicial Code.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-13">June 13, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/5558">H. R. 5558</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/169">Public, No. 169</ref>
.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1122, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 927, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one hundred and one of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section>
<num value="101"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 101. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma Judicial districts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The State of Oklahoma is divided into two judicial districts, to be known as the eastern and western districts of Oklahoma. The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in the counties of Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Craig, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Coal, Carter, Delaware, Garvin, Grady, Haskell, Hughes, Jefferson, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, McClain, Mayes, Muskogee, McIntosh, McCurtain, Murray, Marshall, Nowata, Ottawa, Okmulgee, Okfuskee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, Pontotoc, Rogers, Stephens, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1184.</p></sidenote>Sequoyah, Seminole, Tulsa, Washington, and Wagoner. Terms of the district court for the eastern district shall be held at Muskogee on the first Monday in January, at Vinita on the first Monday in March, at Tulsa on the first Monday in April, at South McAlester on the first Monday in June, at Ardmore on the first Monday in October, and at Chickasha on the first Monday in November of each year. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western.</p></sidenote>The western district shall include the territory embraced on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in the counties of Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cimarron, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Jackson, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Lincoln, Logan, Major, Noble, Oklahoma, Osage, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, Roger Mills, Texas, Tillman, Washita, Woods, and Woodward. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p></sidenote>Terms of the district court for the western district shall be held at Oklahoma City on the first Monday in January, at Enid on the first Monday in March, at Guthrie on the first Monday in May, at Lawton on the first Monday in September, and at Woodward on the second <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rooms at Woodward.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’ offices.</p></sidenote>Monday in November: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That suitable rooms and accommodations for holding court at Woodward are furnished free of expense to the United States. The clerk of the district court for the eastern <page identifier="/us/stat/40/605">605</page>district shall keep his office at Muskogee and the clerk for the western district at Guthrie, and shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Oklahoma City.”</proviso></content></section></quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 13, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 99: To increase the salary of the United States marshal for the western district of Michigan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>99</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>99.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the salary of the United States marshal for the western district of Michigan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-13">June 13, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/7796">H. R. 7796</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/170">Public, No. 170</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan western judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshal’s salary increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 181, amended.</p></sidenote>passage of this Act the salary of the United States marshal for the western district of Michigan shall be at the rate of $4,000 a year.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 13, 1918.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 100: To amend section one hundred and eleven of the Judicial Code.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>100</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-02-12</processedDate>
<congress>65</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>100.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section one hundred and eleven of the Judicial Code.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-13">June 13, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/9864">H. R. 9864</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/171">Public, No. 171</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1127, amended.</p></sidenote>and eleven of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 111. </num>
<content><p class="inline">The State of Virginia is divided into two districts, to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia judicial districts.</p></sidenote>be known as the eastern and western districts of Virginia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern.</p></sidenote>first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Accomac, Alexandria, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Culpeper, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Gloucester, Goochland, Greensville, Hanover, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Loudoun, Louisa, Lunenburg, Mathews, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, Nansemond, New Kent, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottoway, Orange, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Prince William, Princess Anne, Richmond, Southampton, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland, and York.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Terms of the district court shall be hold at Richmond on the first <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p></sidenote>Mondays in April and October; at Norfolk on the first Mondays in May and November; and at Alexandria on the first Mondays in January and July.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The western district shall include the territory embraced on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western.</p></sidenote>first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, in the counties of Alleghany, Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Carroll, Charlotte, Clarke, Craig, Cumberland, Dickenson, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Grayson, Greene, Halifax, Henry, Highland, Lee, Madison, Montgomery, Nelson, Page, Patrick, Pulaski, Pittsylvania, Rappahannock, Roanoke, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Scott, Shenandoah, Smyth, Tazewell, Warren, Washington, Wise, and Wythe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Terms of the district court shall be held at Lynchburg on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p></sidenote>second Mondays in January and July; at Roanoke on the second Monday in February and the first Monday in August; at Danville on the second Monday in March and the third Monday in September; at Charlottesville on the second Mondays in April and November; at Harrisonburg on the fourth Mondays in April and November; at Big Stone Gap on the third Monday in May and the second Monday in October; and at Abingdon on the second Mondays in June and December.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/606">606</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offices, clerk for western district.</p></sidenote> “The clerk of the court for the western district shall maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at Lynchburg, Roanoke, Danville, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Big Stone Gap, and Abingdon, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of the court.”</p></content>
</section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective date.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this Act shall become effective on July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 13, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 101: To provide for a determination of heirship in cases of deceased members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, conferring jurisdiction upon district courts to partition lands belonging to full-blood heirs of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>101</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 606</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>101.—</docNumber>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for a determination of heirship in cases of deceased members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, conferring jurisdiction upon district courts to partition lands belonging to full-blood heirs of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-14">June 14, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4151">S. 4151</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/172">Public, No. 172</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of heirship of allottees by Oklahoma probate courts conclusive thereof.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a determination of the question of fact as to who are the heirs of any deceased citizen allottee of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians who may die or may have heretofore died, leaving restricted heirs, by the probate court of the State of Oklahoma having jurisdiction to settle the estate of said deceased, conducted in the manner provided by the laws of said State for the determination of heirship in closing up the estates of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote>deceased persons, shall be conclusive of said question: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an appeal may be taken in the manner and to the court provided by law, in cases of appeal in probate matters generally:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petitions allowed for determining.</p></sidenote> That where the time limited by the laws of said State for the institution of administration proceedings has elapsed without their institution, as well as in cases where there exists no lawful ground for the institution of administration proceedings in said courts, a petition may be filed therein having for its object a determination of such heirship and the case shall proceed in all respects as if administration proceedings upon other proper grounds had been regularly begun, but this proviso shall not be construed to reopen the question of the determination of an heirship already <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure to follow State practice.</p></sidenote>ascertained by competent legal authority under existing laws:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That said petition shall be verified, and in all cases arising hereunder service by publication may be had on all unknown heirs, the service to be in accordance with the method of serving nonresident defendants in civil suits in the district courts of said State; and if any person so served by publication does not appear and move to be heard within six months from the date of the final order, he shall be concluded equally with parties personally served or voluntarily appearing.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Partition of real estate of full-blood members governed by State laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation, etc., restriction continued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the lands of full-blood members of any of the Five Civilized Tribes are hereby made subject to the laws of the State of Oklahoma, providing for the partition of real estate. Any land allotted in such proceedings to a full-blood Indian, or conveyed to him upon his election to take the same at the appraisement, shall remain subject to all restrictions upon alienation and taxation obtaining <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removed when sold under decree, etc.</p></sidenote>prior to such partition. In case of a sale under any decree, or partition, the conveyance thereunder shall operate to relieve the land described of all restrictions of every character.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 14, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 102: Granting the consent of Congress to Marion and Horry Counties, South Carolina, to construct a bridge across Little Peedee River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>102</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 606</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>102.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting the consent of Congress to Marion and Horry Counties, South Carolina, to construct a bridge across Little Peedee River.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-19">June 19, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4445">S. 4445</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/173">Public, No. 173</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Peedee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion and Horry Counties, S. C., may bridge, Galivants Ferry.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the counties of Marion and Horry and the State highway commission of South Carolina and successors and assigns to <page identifier="/us/stat/40/607">607</page>construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Little Peedee River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near the site of the present bridge at Galivants Ferry, in the counties of Marion and Horry, in the State of South Carolina, in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p, 84.</p></sidenote>accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 19, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 103: To authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>103</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 607</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>103.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize aids to navigation and for other works in the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-20">June 20, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11284">H. R. 11284</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/174">Public, No. 174</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aids to navigation.</p></sidenote>is hereby authorized to establish, provide, or improve the following aids to navigation and other works in the Lighthouse Service, under the Department of Commerce, in accordance with the respective limits of cost hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>general service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p></sidenote>light vessels, to replace vessels worn out in service, in the third, fifth, and eighth lighthouse districts, or for use in the Lighthouse Service generally, $760,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>second lighthouse district. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of $15,000 appropriated in “An Act making appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nantucket, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric fog bell instead of whistle, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 496.</p></sidenote>to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the installation of an electrically operated fog-signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, is hereby made available for the operation of an electrically operated fog bell at said point.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>third lighthouse district. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving the lighting in Ambrose Channel, New York, $26,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambrose Channel, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Extending and enlarging the machine shop at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving and extending the wharves at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $65,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fourth lighthouse district. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Establishing gas buoys and improving aids to navigation in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joe Flogger Shoal, Del.</p></sidenote>vicinity of Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware, $40,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fifth lighthouse district. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enlarging and improving the lighthouse depot at Portsmouth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, Va. depot.</p></sidenote>Virginia, in the fifth lighthouse district, or establishing a new depot, $275,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/608">608</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas buoys.</p></sidenote> Purchase of additional gas buoys for the improvement of aids to navigation in the fifth lighthouse district, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac River, Md. and Va.</p></sidenote> Improving the aids to navigation and installing new aids in the Potomac River, Maryland and Virginia, $95,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eighth district.</p></sidenote> eighth lighthouse district.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sand Island, Ala.</p></sidenote> Improving Sand Island Light Station, Alabama, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La., depot.</p></sidenote> Constructing and equipping a lighthouse depot for the eighth lighthouse district at New Orleans, Louisiana, or vicinity, $88,500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ninth district.</p></sidenote> ninth lighthouse district.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virgin Islands, W. I.</p></sidenote> Establishing and improving aids to navigation in the Virgin Islands of the United States and adjacent waters, West Indies, $50,000.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eleventh district.</p></sidenote> eleventh lighthouse district.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spectacle Reef, Mich.</p></sidenote> Improving Spectacle Reef Light Station, Michigan, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Marys River, Mich.</p></sidenote> Improving, repairing, establishing, and moving aids to navigation in Saint Marys River, Michigan, and vicinity, $80,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers for children of keepers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter the appropriation, “General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” shall be available, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, for the payment of traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ration and commutation for keepers increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 163, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the Lighthouse Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day, or, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, commutation therefor at the rate of 45 cents per ration.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of Bureau publications.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to provide, under regulations to be prescribed by him, for the sale of publications of the Bureau of Lighthouses and the Lighthouse Service, including the allowance of a commission for such sales.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lakes Union and Washington, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post lights, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter post lantern lights and other aids to navigation may be established and maintained, in the discretion of the commissioner of Lighthouses, out of the annual appropriations for the Lighthouse Service, on Lakes Union and Washington, in the State of Washington.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of officers and employees at 65, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter all officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices or shops, who shall have reached the age of sixty-five years, after having been thirty years in the active service of the Government, may at their option be retired from further performance of duty; and all such officers and employees who shall have reached the age of seventy years shall be compulsorily <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computing pay.</p></sidenote>retired from further performance of duty: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the annual compensation of persons so retired shall be a sum equal to one-fortieth of the average annual pay received for the last live years of service for each year of active service in the Lighthouse Service or in a department or branch of the Government having a retirement system, not to exceed in any case thirty-fortieths of such average <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances not included.</p></sidenote>annual pay received:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That such retirement pay shall not include any amount on account of subsistence or other allowance.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents of lighthouses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office and pay established.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter a superintendent of lighthouses shall be assigned in charge of each lighthouse district at an annual salary of not exceeding $3,000 each, except that the salary of the third lighthouse district shall remain at $3,600, as now fixed by law: <page identifier="/us/stat/40/609">609</page><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That officers now designated as lighthouse inspectors shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors transferred to new offices.</p></sidenote>be transferred to the positions of superintendent of lighthouses herein authorized in lieu of lighthouse inspectors:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the districts which include the Mississippi River and its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River, etc., districts under Army engineers.</p></sidenote>tributaries the President may designate Army engineers to perform the duties of and act as superintendent of lighthouses without additional compensation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content>That section forty-six hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4673"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4673. </num>
<content>The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to regulate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4673/p908">R. S., sec. 4673, p. 908, amended</ref>.</p></sidenote>the salaries of the respective keepers of lighthouses in such manner as he deems just and proper, but the whole sum allowed for such salaries shall not exceed an average of $840 per annum for each <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction not applicable.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 790.</p></sidenote>keeper; and the authority herein granted to regulate the salaries of keepers of lighthouses shall not be abridged or limited by the provisions of section seven of the general deficiency appropriation Act approved August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.” (United States Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred and ninety.)</content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 20, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 104: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>104</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 609</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>104.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-25">June 25, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4482">S. 4482</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/176">Public, No. 175</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the second subdivision <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Act Amendments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 401, amended.</p></sidenote> (4) of section twenty-two of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended, relating to the definition of the term “parent,” is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“(4) </num>
<content>The term ‘parent’ includes a father, mother, grandfather, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parents through adoption included.</p></sidenote>grandmother, father through adoption, mother through adoption, stepfather, and stepmother, either of the person in the service or of the spouse.”</content></subdivision></quotedContent></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That four new sections are hereby added to Article I of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New sections added.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 402, amended.</p></sidenote>said Act, to be known as sections twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, and thirty, respectively, and to read as follows:
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<num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">“ Sec</inline>. 27. </num>
<content>That whoever shall obtain or receive any money, check, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for fraudulently receiving money, etc.</p></sidenote>allotment, family allowance, compensation, or insurance under Articles II, III, or IV of this Act, without being entitled thereto, with intent to defraud the United States or any person in the military or naval forces of the United States, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="28"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 28. </num>
<content>That the allotments and family allowances, compensation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments not assignable, subject to debts, nor taxable.</p></sidenote>and insurance payable under Articles II, III, and IV, respectively, shall not be assignable; shall not be subject to the claims of creditors of any person to whom an award is made under Articles II, HI, or IV; and shall be exempt from all taxation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subject to claims of United States.</p></sidenote>such allotments and family allowances, compensation, and insurance shall be subject to any claims which the United States may have, under Articles II, III, and IV, against the person on whose account the allotments and family allowances, compensation, or insurance is payable.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="29"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 29. </num>
<content>That the discharge or dismissal of any person from the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance and compensation barred for specified causes.</p></sidenote>military or naval forces on the ground that he is an enemy alien, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/610">610</page>conscientious objector, or a deserter, or as guilty of mutiny, treason, spying, or any offense involving moral turpitude, or willful and persistent misconduct shall terminate any insurance granted on the life of such person under the provisions of Article IV, and shall bar all rights to any compensation under Article III or any insurance under Article IV.</content></section>
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<num value="30"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 30. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of Act declared.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That this Act may be cited as the war-risk insurance Act.”</content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments and family allowances.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section two hundred of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<num value="200"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 200. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All enlisted men included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular forces excepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 402, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the provisions of this article shall apply to all enlisted men in the military or naval forces of the United States, except the Philippine Scouts, the insular force of the Navy, and the Samoan native guard and band of the Navy.”</content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compulsory allotments.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the second and third paragraphs of section two hundred and one of said Act are hereby amended to read as follows:
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 402, amended.</p></sidenote> “The monthly compulsory allotment shall be $15. For a wife living separate and apart from her husband under court order or written agreement, or for a former wife divorced, the monthly compulsory allotment shall not exceed the amount specified in the court <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illegitimate children.</p></sidenote>order, decree, or written agreement to be paid to her, and for an illegitimate child, to whose support the father has been judicially ordered or decreed to contribute, it shall not exceed the amount fixed in the order or decree.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former wife divorced.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> “If there is a compulsory allotment for a wife or child, then a former wife divorced who has not remarried and to whom alimony has been decreed, shall not be entitled to a compulsory allotment, but shall be entitled to a family allowance as hereinafter provided.”</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 403, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section two hundred and three of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<num value="203"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 203. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unalloted portion of pay may be deposited to credit of enlisted man.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That in case one-half of an enlisted man’s monthly pay is not allotted, regulations to be made by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, may require, under circumstances and conditions as may be prescribed in such regulations, that any proportion of such one-half pay as is not allotted shall be deposited to his credit, to be held during such period of his service as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest rate modified.</p></sidenote>be prescribed. Such deposit shall bear interest at the same rate as United States bonds bear for the same period, and, when payable, shall be paid principal and interest to the enlisted man, if living, otherwise to any beneficiary or beneficiaries he may have designated, or if there be no such beneficiary, then to the person or persons who, under the laws of the State of his residence, would be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy.”</content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Family allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 403, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the third and fourth paragraphs of section two hundred and four of said Act are hereby amended to read as follows:
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="A">“Class A. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class A.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To wife and children.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">In the case of a man to his wife (including a former wife divorced) and to his child or children—</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“ (a) </num>
<content>If there is a wife but no child, $15;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“ (b) </num>
<content>If there is a wife and one child, $25;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“ (c) </num>
<content>If there is a wife and two children, $32.50, with $5 per month additional for each additional child;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">“ (d) </num>
<content>If there is no wife, but one child, $5;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">“ (e) </num>
<content>If there is no wife, but two children, $12.50;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">“ (f) </num>
<content>If there is no wife, but three children, $20;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">“ (g) </num>
<content>If there is no wife, but four children, $30, with $5 per month additional for each additional child;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="h">“ (h) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former wife divorced.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If there is a former wife divorced who has not remarried and to whom alimony has been decreed, $15.</content></level></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="B">“ Class B. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class B.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other relatives.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">In the case of a man or woman to a grandchild, a parent, brother, or sister—</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“ (a) </num>
<content>If there is one parent, $10;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“ (b) </num>
<content>If there are two parents, $20;</content></level>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“ (c) </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">If there is a grandchild, brother, sister, or additional parent, $5 for each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“ In the case of a woman, the family allowances for a husband and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children or husband of woman.</p></sidenote>children shall be in the same amounts, respectively, as are payable, in the case of a man, to a wife and children, provided she makes a voluntary allotment of $15 as a basis therefor, and provided, further, that dependency exists as required in section two Hundred and six.”</p>
</content></level>
</level>
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</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>That section two hundred and six of said Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 404, amended.</p></sidenote>amended to read as follows:
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<num value="206"><inline class="smallCaps">“ Sec</inline>. 206. </num>
<chapeau>That family allowances to members of class B shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments in Class B.</p></sidenote>paid only if and while the members are dependent in whole or in part on the enlisted man, and then only if and while the enlisted man makes a monthly allotment of his pay for such members in the following amounts:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“ (a) </num>
<content>If an enlisted man is not making a compulsory allotment for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirement modified.</p></sidenote>class A the allotment for class B required as a condition to the family allowance shall be $15;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<content>If an enlisted man is making a compulsory allotment for class A the additional allotment for class B required as a condition to the family allowance shall be $5, or if a woman is making an allotment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woman included.</p></sidenote>of $15 for a dependent husband or child the additional allotment for the other members of class B required as a condition to the family allowance shall be $5.”</content></level></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content>That section two hundred and ten of said Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p, 404, amended.</p></sidenote>amended to read as follows:
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<num value="210"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 210. </num>
<content>That upon receipt of any application for family allowance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certification of allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation, etc.</p></sidenote>the commissioner shall make all proper investigations and shall make an award, on the basis of which award the amount of the allotments to be made by the man shall be certified to the War Department or Navy Department, as may be proper. Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that an allowance has been improperly made or that the conditions have changed, he shall investigate or reinvestigate and may modify the award. The amount of each monthly allotment and allowance shall be determined according to the family conditions existing on the first day <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1160.</p></sidenote>of the month.”</content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That sections four, six, seven, and eight of this Act shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances effective from July 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<content>That section three hundred of said Act is hereby amended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death or disability compensation.</p></sidenote>to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="300"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 300. </num>
<content>That for death or disability resulting from personal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of officers, enlisted men, etc., entitled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 405, amended.</p></sidenote>injury suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty, by any commissioned officer or enlisted man or by any member of the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed m the active service under the War Department or Navy Department, the United States shall pay compensation as hereinafter provided; but no compensation shall be paid if the injury or disease <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excluded for personal misconduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soundness on entrance inferred.</p></sidenote>has been caused by his own willful misconduct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the purposes of this section said officer, enlisted man, or other member shall be held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective October 6, 1917.</p></sidenote>section, as amended, shall be deemed to become effective as of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.”</proviso></content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<content>That section three hundred and one of said Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 405, amended.</p></sidenote>amended to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="301"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 301. </num>
<chapeau>
<p class="inline">That if death results from injury— <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts payable modified.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If the deceased leaves a widow or child, or if he leaves a mother or father either or both dependent upon him for support, the monthly compensation shall be the following amounts:</p></chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“ (a) </num>
<content>If there is a widow but no child, $25;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">“(b) </num>
<content>If there is a widow and one child, $35;</content></level>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">“ (c) </num>
<content>If there is a widow and two children, $42.50, with $5 for each additional child up to two;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">“ (d) </num>
<content>If there is no widow, but one child, $20;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">“ (e) </num>
<content>If there is no widow, but two children, $30;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">“ (f) </num>
<content>If there is no widow, but three children, $40, with $5 for each additional child up to two;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">“(g) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dependent parents.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">If there is a dependent mother (or dependent father), $20,or both, $30. The amount payable under this subdivision shall not exceed the difference between the total amount payable to the widow <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote>and children and the sum of $75. This compensation shall be payable for the death of but one child, and no compensation for the death of a child shall be payable if the dependent mother is in receipt of compensation under the provisions of this article for the death of her husband. Such compensation shall be payable whether the dependency of the father or mother or both arises before or after the death of the person, but no compensation shall be payable if the dependency arises more than five years after the death of the person.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial expenses.</p></sidenote> “If the death occurs before discharge or resignation from service, the United States shall pay for burial expenses and the return of the body to his home a sum not to exceed $100, as may be fixed by regulations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term for widow.</p></sidenote> “The payment of compensation to a widow shall continue until her death or remarriage.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to children.</p></sidenote> “The payment of compensation to or for a child shall continue until such child reaches the age of eighteen years or marries, or if such child be incapable, because of insanity, idiocy, or being otherwise permanently helpless, then during such incapacity.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of right</p></sidenote> “Whenever the compensation payable to or for the benefit of any person under the provisions of tins section is terminated by the happening of the contingency upon which it is limited, the compensation thereafter for the remaining beneficiary or beneficiaries, if any, shall be the amount which would have been payable to them if they had been the sole original beneficiaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children not with mother.</p></sidenote> “As between the widow and the children not in her custody, and as between children, the amount of the compensation shall be apportioned as may be prescribed by regulation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widow restriction.</p></sidenote> “The term ‘widow’ as used m this section shall not include one who shall have married the deceased later than ten years after the time of injury, and shall include a widower, whenever his condition is such that, if the deceased person were living, he would have been dependent upon her for support.”</p></content>
</level></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disability compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 406, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That subdivision (1) of section three hundred and two of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">“ (1) </num>
<chapeau>If and while the disability is total, the monthly compensation shall be the following amounts:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="a">“ (a) </num>
<content>If the disabled person has neither wife nor child living, $30;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">‘‘ (b) </num>
<content>If he has a wife but no child living, $45;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="c">‘‘ (c) </num>
<content>If he has a wife and one child living, $55;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">“ (d) </num>
<content>If he has a wife and two children living, $65;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="e">“ (e) </num>
<content>If he has a wife and three or more children living, $75;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="f">“(f) </num>
<content>If he has no wife but one child living, $40, with $10 for each additional child up to two;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="g">“(g) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">With dependent parents.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If he has a mother or father, either or both dependent on him for support, then in addition to the above amounts, $10 for each;</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="h">“(h) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requiring constant attendants.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If he is totally disabled and in addition so helpless as to be in constant need of a nurse or attendant, such additional sum shall be paid, but not exceeding $20 per month, as the director may deem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances at 100 a month.</p></sidenote>reasonable: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That for the loss of both feet or both hands or both eyes, or for becoming totally blind or becoming <page identifier="/us/stat/40/613">613</page>helpless and permanently bedridden from causes occurring in the line of duty in the service of the United States, the rate of compensation shall be $100 per month:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That where the rate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">None for attendant.</p></sidenote>of compensation is $100 per month, no allowance shall be made for a nurse or attendant.”</proviso></content></level></subdivision></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<content>That subdivision (4) of section three hundred and two of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
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<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">“ (4) </num>
<content>The amount of each monthly payment shall be determined <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of monthly payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 406. amended.</p></sidenote>according to the family conditions existing on the first day of the month.”</content></subdivision></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content>That two new subdivisions are hereby added to section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New subdivisions.</p></sidenote>three hundred and two of said Act, to be known as subdivisions (5) and (6), respectively, and to read as follows:
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<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5">“ (5) </num>
<content>Where the disabled person and his wife are not living together, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment if not living together.</p></sidenote>or where the children are not in the custody of the disabled person, the amount of the compensation shall be apportioned as may be prescribed by regulations.</content></subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6">“ (6) </num>
<content>The term ‘ wife’ as used in this section shall include ‘ husband ’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dependent husband.</p></sidenote>if the husband is dependent upon the wife for support.”</content></subdivision></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content>That where section three hundred and one of said Act is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on widowed mother stricken out, effective as of October 6, 1917.</p></sidenote>amended by striking out the provisions that a mother is entitled to compensation only when she is widowed and substitute provisions are included to the effect that compensation is payable to a dependent mother or dependent father, such substitute provisions shall be deemed to be in effect as of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content>That section three hundred and eleven of said Act is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 408, repealed.</p></sidenote>hereby repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content>That section three hundred and twelve of said Act is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 408, amended.</p></sidenote>hereby amended to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="312"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 312. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That compensation under this article shall not be paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No compensation if receiving service, etc., pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gratuities and pension laws not applicable hereafter.</p></sidenote>while the person is in receipt of service or retirement pay. The laws providing for gratuities or payments in the event of death in the service and existing pension laws shall not be applicable after the enactment of this amendment to any person in the active military or naval service on the sixth day of October, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who thereafter entered the active military or naval service, or to their widows, children, or their dependents, except in so far as rights under any such law have heretofore accrued.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Compensation because of disability or death of members of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to female nurses in lieu of that under injuries to employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 742.</p></sidenote>the Army Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) shall be in lieu of any compensation for such disability or death under the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,’ approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen.”</p></content></section></quotedContent>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content>That section three hundred and thirteen of said Act is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Injuries caused by other persons.</p></sidenote>hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="313"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 313. </num>
<subdivision class="inline">
<num value="1">(1) </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That if an injury or death for which compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action for, may be assigned to United States, or prosecuted personally.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 408, amended.</p></sidenote>is payable under this article is caused under circumstances creating a legal liability upon some person other than the United States or the enemy to pay damages therefor, the director, as a condition to payment of compensation by the United States, may require the beneficiary to assign to the United States any right of action he may have to enforce such liability of such other person, or if it appears to be for the best interests of the beneficiary the director may require him to prosecute the said action in his own name, subject to regulations. The director may require such assignment or prosecution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation barred if not assigned or prosecuted.</p></sidenote>at any time after the injury or death, and the failure on the part of the beneficiary to so assign or to prosecute said cause of action in his own name within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the director, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/614">614</page>shall bar any right to compensation on account of the same injury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution, etc., by United States.</p></sidenote>or death. The cause of action so assigned to the United States may be prosecuted or compromised by the director, and any money realized or collected thereon, less the reasonable expenses of such realization or collection, shall be placed to the credit of the military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of amount received.</p></sidenote>and naval compensation appropriation. If the amount placed to the credit of such appropriation in such case is in excess of the amount of the award of compensation, if any, such excess shall be paid to the beneficiary after any compensation award for the same injury or death is made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recovery by beneficiary to be credited on compensation.</p></sidenote> “If a beneficiary or conditional beneficiary shall have recovered, as a result of a suit brought by him or on his behalf, or as a result of a settlement made by him or on his behalf, any money or other property in satisfaction of the liability of such other person, such money or other property so recovered shall be credited upon any compensation payable, or which may become payable, to such beneficiary, or conditional beneficiary by the United States on account of the same injury or death.</p></content></subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">“ (2) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditional beneficiaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment or personal prosecution by, required.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">If an injury or death for which compensation may be payable under this article is caused under circumstances creating a legal liability upon some person, other than the United States or the enemy, to pay damages therefor, then, in order to preserve the right of action, the director may require the conditional beneficiary at any time after the injury or death, to assign such right of action to the United States, or, if it appears to be for the best interests of such conditional beneficiary, to prosecute the said cause of action <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation barred on failure.</p></sidenote>in his own name, subject to regulations. The failure on the part of the beneficiary to so assign or to prosecute the said cause of action in his own name within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the director, shall bar any right to compensation on account of the same injury or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution, etc., by United States.</p></sidenote>death. The cause of action so assigned may be prosecuted or compromised by the director, and any money realized or collected thereon, less the reasonable expenses of such realization or collection, shall be paid to such beneficiary, and be credited upon any future compensation which may become payable to such beneficiary by the United States on account of the same injury or death.</content></subdivision>
<subdivision class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">“ (3) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations to be made.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation of amounts due beneficiary.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">The bureau shall make all necessary regulations for carrying out the purposes of this section. For the purposes of computation only under this section the total amount of compensation due any beneficiary shall be deemed to be equivalent to a lump sum equal to the present value of all future payments of compensation computed as of the date of the award of compensation at four per centum, true discount, compounded annually. The probability of the beneficiary’s death before the expiration of the period during which he is entitled to compensation shall be determined according to the American Experience Table of Mortality.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditional beneficiary defined.</p></sidenote> “A conditional beneficiary is any person who may become entitled to compensation under this article on or after the death of the injured person.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No duty for War or Navy Departments.</p></sidenote> “Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose any administrative duties upon the War or Navy Departments.”</p></content></subdivision></section></quotedContent></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section four hundred and one of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="401"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 401. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for making applications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 409, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 438.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That such insurance must be applied for within one hundred and twenty days after enlistment or after entrance into or employment in the active service and before discharge or resignation, except that those persons who are in the active war service at the time of the publication of the terms and conditions of such contract of insurance may apply at any time within one hundred and twenty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons in service disabled or dying without applying.</p></sidenote>days thereafter and while in such service. Any person in the active service on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and sev<page identifier="/us/stat/40/615">615</page>enteen, who, while in such service and before the expiration of one hundred and twenty days from and after such publication, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled, or dies, or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life in monthly installments of $25 each. If he shall die <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death allowances modified.</p></sidenote>either before he shall have received any of such monthly installments or before he shall have received two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, then $25 per month shall be paid to his widow from the time of his death and during her widowhood, or if there is no widow surviving him, then to his child or children, or if there is no child surviving him, then to his mother, or if there is no mother surviving him, then to his father, if and while they survive him: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments limited, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That not more than two hundred and forty of such monthly installments, including those received by such person during his total and permanent disability, shall be so paid. The amount of the monthly installments shall be apportioned between children as may be provided by regulations.”</proviso></content></section></quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content>That section nineteen of this Act amending section four <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions effective as of October 6, 1917.</p></sidenote>hundred and one of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended, shall be deemed to be in effect as of October sixth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior payments not affected.</p></sidenote>hundred and seventeen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with the payment of monthly installments, authorized to be made under the provisions of said section four hundred and one as originally enacted, for the months up to and including June, nineteen hundred and eighteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revision of awards.</p></sidenote>awards of automatic insurance under the provisions of said section four hundred and one as originally enacted shall be revised as of the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, in accordance with the provisions of said section four hundred and one as amended by section nineteen of this Act.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num>
<content>That section four hundred and two of said Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 409, amended.</p></sidenote>amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="402"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 402. </num>
<content>That the director, subject to the general direction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form of policies.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury, shall promptly determine upon and publish the full and exact terms and conditions of such contract of insurance. The insurance shall be payable only to a spouse, child, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments under.</p></sidenote>grandchild, parent, brother, or sister, and also during total and permanent disability to the injured person, or to any or all of them. The insurance shall be payable m two hundred and forty equal monthly installments. Provisions for maturity at certain ages, for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alternative policies.</p></sidenote>continuous installments during the life of the insured or beneficiaries, or both, for cash, loan, paid up and extended values, dividends from gains and savings, and such other provisions for the protection and advantage of and for alternative benefits to the insured and the beneficiaries as may be found to be reasonable and practicable, may be provided for in the contract of insurance, or from time to time by regulations. All calculations shall be based upon the American Experience <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of calculations.</p></sidenote>Table of Mortality and interest at three and one-half per centum per annum, except that no deduction shall be made for continuous installments during the life of the insured in case his total and permanent disability continues more than two hundred and forty months. Subject to regulations, the insured shall at all times have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beneficiaries.</p></sidenote>the right to change the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such insurance without the consent of such beneficiary or beneficiaries, but only within the classes herein provided. If no beneficiary within the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments if no beneficiary designated.</p></sidenote>permitted class be designated by the insured, either in his lifetime or by his last will and testament, or if the designated beneficiary does not survive the insured, the insurance shall be payable to such person <page identifier="/us/stat/40/616">616</page>or persons within the permitted class of beneficiaries as would under the laws of the State of the residence of the insured be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy. If no such person survive the insured, then there shall be paid to the estate of the insured an amount equal to the reserve value, if any, of the insurance at the time of his death, calculated on the basis of the American Experience Table of Mortality and three and one-half per centum interest in full of all obligations under the contract of insurance.”</content></section></quotedContent>
</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 25, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 105: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>105</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 616</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-26</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>105.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-26">June 26, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10297">H. R. 10297</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/176">Public, No. 176</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Safety of locomotive boilers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 914, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended, be, and is hereby, amended as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief inspector and assistants.</p></sidenote> “Amend section three so as to provide that the salary of the chief inspector shall be $5,000 per year; the salary of each assistant inspector shall be $4,000 per year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District inspectors.</p></sidenote> “Amend section four so as to provide that the salary of each district inspector shall be $3,000 per year.”</p>
</quotedContent></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No other modification of law.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Nothing herein contained shall be construed as amending, altering, or repealing any of the other provisions of said sections.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 26, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 106: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a deed to G. H. Beckwith for certain land within the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>106</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 616</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>106.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a deed to G. H. Beckwith for certain land within the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-27">June 27, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/3391">S. 3391</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/177">Public, No. 177</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land in, conveyed to G. H. Beckwith.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey by deed, at the appraised price, to G. H. Beckwith, two certain tracts of land in the Flathead Indian Reservation and town of Saint Ignatius, Montana, lying in the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section fourteen, township eighteen north, range twenty west, Montana principal meridian, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote>separated by a public highway sixty feet wide, and described as follows: The point of beginning “A” of the first tract is south eighty-nine degrees and forty-six minutes west four hundred and sixty-three and one-tenth feet from the 1/128 corner found in place on the east line of said section fourteen and north eighty-nine degrees and forty-six minutes east thirty-three feet from a 1/128 corner, which in turn is north no degrees and twenty-two minutes west eight hundred and twenty-six and seven-tenths feet from a 1/128 corner found in place on the south line of said section fourteen. Thence from point of beginning “A” north no degrees and twenty-two minutes west fifteen and eight-tenths feet to “B,” thence north fifty-six degrees and thirty-seven minutes. west three hundred and seventy-seven and six-tenths feet to “K,” thence south no degrees and twenty-two minutes east four hundred and sixty-two and eight-tenths feet to “L,” thence north eighty-nine degrees and thirty-five minutes east three hundred and fourteen and three-tenths feet to “Z,” thence north no degrees and twenty-two minutes west two hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/617">617</page>thirty-seven and two-tenths feet to the point of beginning, “A,” and containing two and fifty-eight one-hundredths acres. The point of beginning “C” of the second tract is north no degrees and twenty-two minutes west eighty-eight feet from the point of beginning “A” of the first tract, thence north fifty-six degrees and thirty-seven minutes west two hundred and ninety-eight feet to “D,” thence north thirty-one degrees and ten minutes west one hundred and thirty feet to “ F,” thence north fifty-eight degrees and fifty minutes east ninety-six feet to “H,” thence south forty-five degrees and thirty-three minutes east one hundred and fifteen feet to “J,” thence south sixty-five degrees and six minutes east two hundred and sixty-four and two-tenths feet to “E,” thence south thirty-three degrees and twenty-three minutes west one hundred and sixty feet to the point of beginning “C,” and containing one and twenty one-hundredths acres: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the land in said tracts shall at no time be used <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion If liquors sold thereon.</p></sidenote>for the sale of intoxicating liquors, and should it be so used, the title to the same shall revert to the Government of the United States and all payments made thereon shall be forfeited:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Governmental supervision.</p></sidenote>whatever business is conducted on this tract shall be under Government supervision as at present, and shall continue under such supervision so long as the United States Government retains control over the Flathead Indians at this point.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 27, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 107: To provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>107</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 617</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>107.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-27">June 27, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4557">S. 4557</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/178">Public, No. 178</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That this Act shall be known <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational Rehabilitation Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of terms used.</p></sidenote>as the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. That the word “board,” as hereinafter used in this Act, shall mean the “Federal Board for Vocational Education.” That the word “bureau,” as hereinafter used in this Act, shall mean the “Bureau of War-Risk Insurance.”</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>
<p class="inline">That every person who is disabled under circumstances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons entitled to benefits hereof.</p></sidenote>entitling him, after discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States, to compensation under Article III of the Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 406.</p></sidenote>entitled “ An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘ An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War-Risk Insurance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 612.</p></sidenote> in the Treasury Department,’ ” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, hereinafter referred to as “said Act,” and who, after his discharge, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>in the opinion of the board, is unable to carry on a gainful occupation, to resume his former occupation, or to enter upon some other occupation, or having resumed or entered upon such occupation is unable to continue the same successfully, shall be furnished by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of Federal Board for Vocational Education.</p></sidenote>the said board, where vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational rehabilitation as the board shall prescribe and provide.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The board shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to furnish <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation while receiving instruction, etc.</p></sidenote>the persons included in this section suitable courses of vocational rehabilitation to be prescribed and provided by the board, and every person electing to follow such a course of vocational rehabilitation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 406.</p></sidenote>shall, while following the same, receive monthly compensation equal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 612.</p></sidenote>to the amount of his monthly pay for the last month of his active service, or equal to the amount to which he would be entitled under Article III of said Act, whichever amount is the greater. If such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Family allotments and allowances of enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 402.</p></sidenote>person was an enlisted man at the time of his discharge, for the period during which he is so afforded a course of rehabilitation, his family shall receive compulsory allotment and family allowance according <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 610.</p></sidenote>to the terms of Article II of said Act in the same manner as if he <page identifier="/us/stat/40/618">618</page>were an enlisted man, and for the purpose of computing and paying compulsory allotment and family allowance his compensation shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty if prescribed course not followed.</p></sidenote>be treated as his monthly pay: <i>Provided</i>, That if such person willfully fails or refuses to follow the prescribed course of vocational rehabilitation which he has elected to follow, in a manner satisfactory to the board, the said board in its discretion may certify to that effect to the bureau and the said bureau shall, during such period of failure or refusal, withhold any part or all of the monthly <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>compensation due such person and not subject to compulsory allotment which the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patient in hospital.</p></sidenote>said board may have determined should be withheld: <i>Provided, however</i>, That no vocational teaching shall be carried on in any hospital until the medical authorities certify that the condition of the patient is such as to justify such teaching.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations available for family allowances and compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 400.</p></sidenote> The military and naval family allowance appropriation provided for in section eighteen of said Act shall be available for the payment of the family allowances provided by this section; and the military and naval compensation appropriation provided for in section nineteen of said Act shall be available for the payment of the monthly compensation herein provided. No compensation under Article III of said Act shall be paid for the period during which any such person is furnished by said board a course of vocational rehabilitation except as is hereinbefore provided.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free instruction to others discharged from service.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the courses of vocational rehabilitation provided for under this Act shall, as far as practicable and under such conditions as the board may prescribe, be made available without cost for instruction for the benefit of any person who is disabled under circumstances entitling him, after discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States, to compensation under Article III of said Act and who is not included in section two hereof.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General powers to provide faculties, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the board shall have the power and it shall be its duty to provide such facilities, instructors, and courses as may be necessary to insure proper training for such persons as are required to follow such courses as herein provided; to prescribe the courses to be followed by such persons; to pay, when in the discretion of the board such payment is necessary, the expense of travel, lodging, subsistence, and other necessary expenses of such persons while following the prescribed courses; to do all things necessary to insure vocational rehabilitation; to provide for the placement of rehabilitated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules and regulations to be made.</p></sidenote>persons in suitable or gainful occupations. The board shall have the power to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper performance of its duties as prescribed by this Act, and is hereby authorized and directed to utilize, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, the facilities of the Department of Labor, in so far as may be practicable, in the placement of rehabilitated persons in suitable or gainful occupations.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Studies, investigations, etc., authorised.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That it shall also be the duty of the board to make or cause to have made studies, investigations, and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placement in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation with Government and other agencies.</p></sidenote>suitable or gainful occupations. When the board deems it advisable, such studies, investigations, and reports may be made in cooperation with or through other departments and bureaus of the Government, and the board in its discretion may cooperate with such public or private agencies as it may deem advisable in performing the duties imposed upon it by this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical and surgical work prior to discharge.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all medical and surgical work or other treatment necessary to give functional and mental restoration to disabled persons prior to their discharge from the military or naval forces of the United States shall be under the control of the War Department <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training as a therapeutic measure.</p></sidenote>and the Navy Department, respectively. Whenever training is employed as a therapeutic measure by the War Department or the Navy Department a plan may be established between these <page identifier="/us/stat/40/619">619</page>agencies and the board acting in an advisory capacity to insure, in so far as medical requirements permit, a proper process of training and the proper preparation of instructors for such training. A plan may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory care of health after discharge.</p></sidenote>also be established between the War and Navy Departments and the board whereby these departments shall act in an advisory capacity with the board in the care of the health of the soldier and sailor after bis discharge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The board shall, in establishing its plans and rules and regulations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperative plans, etc., with War and Navy Departments.</p></sidenote>for vocational training, cooperate with the War Department and the Navy Department in so far as may be necessary to effect a continuous process of vocational training.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content>That the board is hereby authorized and empowered to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of gifts, etc., allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fund created therefrom.</p></sidenote>receive such gifts and donations from either public or private sources as may be offered unconditionally. All moneys received as gifts or donations shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and shall constitute a permanent fund, to be called the “Special fund for vocational rehabilitation,” to be used under the direction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1179.</p></sidenote>of the said board, in connection with the appropriations hereby made or hereafter to be made, to defray the expenses of providing and maintaining courses of vocational rehabilitation; and a full report <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of receipts, etc.</p></sidenote>of all gifts and donations offered and accepted, and all disbursements therefrom, shall be submitted annually to Congress by said board.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content>That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote>Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, available immediately and until expended, the sum of $2,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary to be used by the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the purposes of this Act, to wit, for renting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments specified.</p></sidenote>and remodeling buildings and quarters, repairing, maintaining, and equipping same, and for equipment and other facilities necessary for proper instruction of disabled persons, $250,000; for the preparation of instructors and salaries of instructors, supervisors, and other experts, including necessary traveling expenses, $545,000; for traveling expenses of disabled persons in connection with training and for lodging, subsistence, and other necessary expenses in special cases of persons following prescribed courses, $250,000; for tuition for disabled persons pursuing courses in existing institutions, public or private, $545,000; for the placement and supervision after placement of vocationally rehabilitated persons, $45,000; for studies, investigations, reports, and preparation of special courses of instruction, $55,000; for miscellaneous contingencies, including special mechanical appliances necessary in special cases for disabled men, $110,000; and for the administrative expenses of said board incident <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative force, supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>to performing the duties imposed by this Act, including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere as the board may deem necessary, actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by the members of the board and by its employees under its orders, including attendance at meetings or educational associations and other organizations, rent and equipment of offices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, stationery, typewriters and exchange thereof, miscellaneous supplies, postage on foreign mail, printing and binding to be done at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>Government Printing Office, and all other necessary expenses, $200,000.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<content>That said board shall file with the Clerk of the House <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly reports to Congress.</p></sidenote>and the Secretary of the Senate on July first and every three months thereafter, for the information of the Congress, an itemized account of all expenditures made under this Act, including names and salaries of employees. Said board shall also make an annual report to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual report.</p></sidenote>Congress of its doings under this Act on or before December first of each year.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/620">620</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former provision repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 407, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section three hundred and four of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved September second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended, is hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees not exempt from draft.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">No person of draft age physically fit for military service shall be exempted from such service on account of being employed under the terms of this Act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, June 27, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 108: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>108</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 620</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-27</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>108.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-27">June 27, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11185">H. R. 11185</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/179">Public, No. 179</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Academy appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen:</chapeau></section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent establishment.</p></sidenote> permanent establishment.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Professors, etc.</p></sidenote> For pay of seven professors, $26,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chaplain, $2,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the master of the sword, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadets.</p></sidenote> For pay of cadets, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay to officers.</p></sidenote> For extra pay of officers of the Army on detached service at the Military Academy:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one commandant of cadets (lieutenant colonel) in addition to pay as captain or major, $1,100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one professor of ordnance and science of gunnery (lieutenant colonel) in addition to pay as major, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one professor of law (lieutenant colonel) in addition to pay as major, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one professor of practical military engineering (lieutenant colonel) in addition to pay as major, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of twelve assistant professors (captains) in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $4,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of three battalion commanders (majors) in addition to pay as captains, $1,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Artillery tactics (major) in addition to pay as first lieutenant or captain, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Cavalry tactics (major) in addition to pay as first lieutenant or captain, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one senior assistant instructor of Coast Artillery tactics (major) in addition to pay as first lieutenant or captain, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of sixteen instructors of Cavalry, Artillery (Field and Coast), and Infantry tactics (captains) in addition to pay as first and second lieutenants, $6,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one adjutant, in addition to his regular pay, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one quartermaster and commissary of cadets and treasurer, in addition to his regular pay, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one line officer on duty in quartermaster’s department at academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, $400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, $600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one constructing quartermaster, in addition to his regular pay, $1,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/621">621</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote>increased rank) for length of service, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Military Academy Band, field musicians, general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>Army service, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineer detachments, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Military Academy Band: One band sergeant and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Academy band.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 623.</p></sidenote>assistant leader, $972;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen enlisted musicians, at $51 each per month, $9,180;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen enlisted musicians, at $44 each per month, $7,920;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty enlisted musicians, at $38 each per month, $9,120;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $6,397.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, $672; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field musicians.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two corporals, at $36 each per month, $864;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seven privates, first class, at $33 each per month, and twenty-one privates, second class, at $30 each per month, $10,332;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of general Army service detachment: One first sergeant, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Army service detachment.</p></sidenote>at $51 per month, $612;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty sergeants, at $38 each per month, $18,240;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty corporals, at $36 each per month, $8,640;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty-five privates, first-class, at $33 each per month, $17,820;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and thirty-four privates, at $30 each per month, $48,240;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $20,907.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Extra pay of the enlisted men of the Army service detachment, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster duty.</p></sidenote>quartermaster’s department, on extra duty at West Point, $33,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, at $51 per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavalry detachment</p></sidenote>month, $612;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One supply sergeant, at $38 per month, $456;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two stable sergeants, at $38 each per month, $912;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Six sergeants, at $38 each per month, $2,736;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve corporals, at $36 each per month, $5,184;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two buglers, at $30 each per month, $720;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four horseshoers, at $38 each per month, $1,824;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two farriers, at $36 each per month, $864;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three saddlers, at $36 each per month, $1,296;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two wagoners, at $36 each per month, $864;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One mechanic, at $36 per month, $432;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-six privates, first-class, at $33 each per month, $14,256;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-four privates, second class, at $30 each per month, $26,640;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of mess, at $6 per month, $72;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, $15,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Artillery detachment: One first sergeant, at $51 per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery detachment.</p></sidenote>month, $612;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One supply sergeant, at $38 per month, $456;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two stable sergeants, at $38 each per month, $912;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief mechanic, at $36 per month, $432;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve sergeants, at $38 each per month, $5,472;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One mess sergeant, at $44 per month, $528;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four cooks, at $38 each per month, $1,824;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighteen corporals, at $36 each per month, $7,776;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One saddler, at $38 per month, $456;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three horseshoers, at $38 each per month, $1,368;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five mechanics, at $36 each per month, $2,160;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three buglers, at $30 each per month, $1,080;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forty first-class privates, at $33 each per month, $15,840;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and twelve privates, at $30 each per month, $40,320;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/622">622</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One electrician sergeant, first class, at $51 per month, $612;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One electrician sergeant, second class, at $44 per month, $528;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One master gunner, at $48 per month, $576.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for expert first-class gunners at $5 each per month, first-class gunners at $3 each per month, and second-class, gunners at $2 each per month, $4,080;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $4,344.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer detachment.</p></sidenote> For pay of Engineer detachment: One first sergeant, at $51 per month, $612;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three sergeants, first class, at $51 each per month, $1,836;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One quartermaster sergeant, at $44 per month, $528;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight sergeants, at $44 each per month, $4,224;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve corporals, at $36 each per month, $5,184;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two cooks, at $38 each per month, $912;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two musicians, at $30 each per month, $720;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-eight privates, first class, at $33 each per month, and thirty-eight privates, at $30 each per month, $28,728;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay of one sergeant in charge of detachment mess, at $6 per month, $72;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, $8,604.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marksmen, etc.</p></sidenote> Additional pay of marksmen, sharpshooters, and expert riflemen, $1,230.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., on discharge.</p></sidenote> Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, $1,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interest on deposits due enlisted men, $1,570.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Extra pay of enlisted men:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay to enlisted men.</p></sidenote> For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as bugler at the cadet barracks, at 35 cents per day, $159.80;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of nine 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, two sergeants in charge of stables and horses, one clerk, one in charge of new riding hall and property, and one in charge of the remount detail, at 50 cents each per day for three hundred and sixty-five days, $1,642.50;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of twenty-three enlisted men (cavalrymen), three teamsters, eleven laborers employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, seven specially qualified trainers engaged in training mounts used by cadets in riding and equitation other than military, and two laborers for harrowing and sprinkling and assisting in the care of the riding hall, at 35 cents each per day, $2,938.25;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at 50 cents per day, $156.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of ten 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 five enlisted men performing the duties of mechanics in the batteries, at 50 cents each per day, $1,621;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of four teamsters (artillerymen), at 35 cents each per day, $511;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of eight laborers (artillerymen), employed in keeping clean the equipment used by cadets, at 35 cents each per day, $876.40;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/623">623</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man as messenger in the office of the adjutant, United States Military Academy, at 35 cents per day, Sundays and holidays included, $127.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one battalion sergeant major, Infantry, $864: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Battalion sergeant major.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At cadet corps headquarters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement.</p></sidenote>That the enlisted man in the headquarters, United States Corps of Cadets, performing that duty has the rank, pay, and allowances of that grade:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That if performing the above duties at time of retirement the said enlisted man shall be retired with the rank, pay, and allowances of a retired sergeant major, Infantry.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of thirty-eight noncommissioned officers (engineers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant instructors.</p></sidenote>artillerymen, and cavalrymen) as assistant instructors of cadets, at 50 cents each per day, $6,935.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one battalion sergeant major, Infantry, $768: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Battalion sergeant major.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At Academy headquarters.</p></sidenote>That the enlisted man at headquarters, United States Military Academy, performing that duty shall have the rank, pay, and allowance of that grade.</proviso>
</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one first sergeant (cavalryman), at 50 cents per day, $182.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, in charge of machine guns, at 50 cents per day, $156.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of four sergeants (Coast Artillery) to be used as assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field Artillery assistant instructors.</p></sidenote>noncommissioned instructors of cadets and for the purpose of military administration to be attached to the United States Military Academy detachment of Field Artillery, $1,824.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay of rated men (two plotters and two observers, first class), $400.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>pay of civilians. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of civilians.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one teacher of music, $1,700: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teacher of music.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Academy Band.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reorganization, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1111/p204">R. S., sec. 1111, p. 204, amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 853.</p></sidenote>eleven hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes, as amended, be amended to read as follows: The Military Academy Band shall hereafter consist of one teacher of music, who shall be the leader of the band, one enlisted band sergeant and assistant leader, and of fifty enlisted musicians. The teacher of music shall receive the pay and have the rank of a first lieu tenant, not mounted; the enlisted band sergeant and assistant leader shall receive $972 per year; and of the enlisted musicians of the band, fifteen shall each receive $51 per month, fifteen shall receive $44 per month, and the remaining twenty shall each receive $38 per month, and each of the aforesaid enlisted men shall also be entitled to the clothing, fuel, rations, and other allowances of musicians of the Regular Army; and the said teacher of music, the band sergeant and assistant leader, and the enlisted musicians of the band shall be entitled to the same benefits in respect to pay, emoluments, and retirement arising from longevity, reenlistment, and length of service as are, or may hereafter become, applicable to other officers or enlisted men of the Army.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of seven clerks in the office of the quartermaster, as follows: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief clerk, at $1,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One clerk, at $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks, at $1,400 each, $2,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One clerk and stenographer, at $1,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the clerk now holding the position of “order and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of order and purchasing clerk.</p></sidenote>purchasing clerk” in the quartermasters office shall, on his own application, after fifty years in the military and civil service of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/624">624</page>United States, be entitled to be placed on the retired list of the Army with the pay of a retired pay clerk, Quartermaster Corps, of the same period of service.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of nine clerks and stenographers employed at headquarters, United States Military Academy, in the offices of the superintendent and adjutant, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief clerk, $1,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One clerk, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks, at $1,400 each, $2,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks, at $1,400 each, $2,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three clerks, at $1,000 each, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk to the treasurer, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the commandant of cadets, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian instructors.</p></sidenote> For pay of two civilian instructors of French, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two civilian instructors of Spanish, to be employed under the rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, at $2,000 each, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one professional civilian instructor in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two expert assistant civilian instructors in military gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wrestling, and swimming, $4,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That these civilian instructors employed in the department of modern languages and the department of tactics shall be entitled to public quarters and to the same allowances with respect to fuel and light as those of a first lieutenant when occupying public quarters.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one librarian, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant librarian, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one custodian of gymnasium, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one superintendent of gas works, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief engineer of power plant, whose duties will include those of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus, $2,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant engineer of same, $1,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of eight firemen, $6,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one draftsman in the department of civil and military engineering, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparation necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy (to be appointed by the superintendent of the United States Military Academy), $840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one custodian of academy buildings, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one electrician, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief plumber, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant plumber, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one plumber’s helper, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one scavenger at $60 a month, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of chapel organist and choirmaster, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of engineer and janitor of Memorial Hall, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one master mechanic, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of attendant and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, $1,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one copyist, stenographer, clerk, librarian, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modem languages, to be appointed by the Superintendent United States Military Academy, $1,040.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of three engineers for power plant, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two oilers for power plant, $1,440.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and attendant in the department of English and history, to be appointed by the superintendent, $840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one bookbinder at headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two book sewers in bindery, $1,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one skilled pressman in the printing office, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $1,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one charwoman, headquarters, United States Military Academy, $480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one messenger for the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one stenographer, typewriter, and clerk in the medical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stenographer, etc., medical department.</p></sidenote>department and department of military hygiene, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p, 860.</p></sidenote>$840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one confidential stenographer, copyist, librarian, typewriter, and multigraph operator in the department of natural and experimental philosophy, to be appointed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote>Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Military Academy and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, pay of Military Academy, $1,198,237.95. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total, pay account.</p></sidenote></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>current and ordinary expenses. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, or so <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p></sidenote>much thereof as may be necessary, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingencies for superintendent of the academy, $3,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, plank, boards, joists, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and improvements.</p></sidenote>wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of architect overseer and citi<page identifier="/us/stat/40/626">626</page>zen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lighting, etc.</p></sidenote> For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges, and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating and coal-conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, and repair, improvement, and maintenance of power plant, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps, telephone and lighting supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage, etc.</p></sidenote> For postage and telegrams, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, steel pens, rubbers, erasures, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, office furniture, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, and for contigencies not otherwise provided for, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, including Pullman accommodations, and $3 per day or fraction thereof for subsistence and other expenses for the necessary number of days’ travel over the shortest usually traveled route, and for ferriages; for hire of camp sites for cadets on practice marches, for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battlefield, for transportation of first and second classes to and from Watervliet Arsenal and Sandy Hook Proving Ground or other ordnance establishments, including a visit to a steel mill, for expenses of officers detailed to accompany cadets on these trips, and for expenses of officers of tactical department in looking up camp sites, and so forth, $4,620.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, including repairs to motors and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, and contingencies, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics.</p></sidenote> For department of Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry tactics: Tan bark or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the superintendent, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For camp stools, camp and office furniture, and repairs to same; for doormats for cadet headquarters, sinks, and guardhouse; 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, $2,960.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the upkeep of athletic grounds, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, etc., and to keep the same in repair, $275.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of mattresses, machines, for replacing worn-out articles, and for miscellaneous purposes, in gymnasium, Cavalry barracks, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For riding hall: Providing material and lumber for hurdles and upkeep of wings, headposts, and so forth, and for repairing and maintaining electric lights, a power clipping machine for animals stabled at the riding hall, and for repairs to disk harrow used in keeping <page identifier="/us/stat/40/627">627</page>footing in condition, and for repairing the canvas screens used to divide the hall into sections, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and enlargement of cadet camp, to include <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet camp.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement, etc.</p></sidenote>authorized strength of the Corps of Cadets for fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen; repairs to camp grounds, tent platforms, painting, shower baths, renewing plumbing and flush bowls in underground sinks, $41,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $5,000 of this appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount immediately available,</p></sidenote>be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of obstacles on mounted drill ground and for constructing other obstacles for use in mounted instruction of cadets, and for maintenance of the track connecting same, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, for new blades, sharpening old blades, and spare parts and accessories for power clipping machines and saddlers’ sewing machines in the Cavalry stables, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of thread, wax, needles, for new blades, sharpening old blades, and for spare parts and accessories for power clipping machines and saddler’s sewing machine in the Artillery stables, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material for preserving floors, rebronzing radiators, and miscellaneous expenses for cleaning Artillery barracks and stables, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of tools, machines, and repairs to same, for Artillery gun shed, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of stationery and office supplies for office of senior assistant instructor of Field Artillery tactics, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material for preserving floors, rebronzing radiators, and for miscellaneous expenses for cleaning Cavalry barracks and stables, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of civil and military engineering; For models, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of civil and military engineering.</p></sidenote>maps, purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves, and cases for books and instruments, textbooks, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Additions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of natural and experimental philosophy.</p></sidenote>to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy; books of reference, scientific periodicals, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs; and for repairs to the observatory buildings and repairs to clocks, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of instruction in mathematics: Textbooks, books of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of mathematics.</p></sidenote>reference, binding, and stationery; for tables of logarithms; for rulers and triangles; for purchase of geometrical drawings and models; for cases for geometrical models; for desks, chairs, bookcases and office fittings, and for contingencies, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.</p></sidenote>chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials; rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determination of mineralogical and geological specimens; pencils and paper for practical instruction in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet; for repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus; for purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation of same; for models, maps, diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for use of instructors; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $2,500.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/628">628</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of drawing.</p></sidenote> For department of drawing: Drawing material, instruments, and stationery for use of instructors; repairs to models and purchase of new models; desks, stretchers, drawing boards, racks and stands; framing drawings; books and periodicals on art, architecture, topography, and technology; binding maps, books, etc.; repairs to stereopticon and purchase of lantern slides; photographic apparatus and material; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of modern languages.</p></sidenote> For department of modern languages: For stationery, textbooks, books of reference, periodicals, for repairs to books and apparatus, and for office furniture and equipment; for printing examination papers, and other necessary papers, and for contingencies, $1,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of law.</p></sidenote> For department of law: For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for the use of instructors, furniture and repairs to the same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingencies, $850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of practical military engineering.</p></sidenote> For department of practical military engineering: For models, books of reference, scientific periodicals, and stationery; for purchase and repair of instruments, materials, and apparatus for use in instructing cadets in surveying, reconnaissance, signaling, and field telegraphy, military field engineering, and field fortification; for photographic and lithographic apparatus and materials for field photography and map reproduction; tools and materials for maintenance of the batteries of the academy; transportation of field parties; for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers at 50 cents per day each when employed as assistants in photographic laboratory or as special skilled mechanics in the department, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of ordnance and gunnery.</p></sidenote> For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase, manufacture, and repair of instruments, models, machinery, and apparatus; for purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, textbooks, stationery, office furniture and supplies; for services of skilled mechanic (civilian) employed in the department of ordnance and science of gunnery, and for contingencies, $2,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instruction of cadets in wood and metal working, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of military hygiene.</p></sidenote> For department of military hygiene: For stationery, textbooks, and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper, and other expenses incidental to the printing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular textbooks; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration; for the purchase of instruments and models; for shelves and cases for books, instruments, and models and records; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of English and history.</p></sidenote> For department of English and history: For purchase of stationery, textbooks, books of reference, office furniture, maps, map fixtures, and for repairs to same; for rebinding books and periodicals; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lectures.</p></sidenote> For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile.</p></sidenote> For the purchase and maintenance of one automobile of the Ford type, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, current and ordinary expenses, $220,605.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote> For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies, and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, $210.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting, plumbing, etc.</p></sidenote> For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, wicking, and electric lamps and supplies, and for operating the gas plant, $13,500.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/629">629</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $1,000 of this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, 87,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $1,000 of this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings, 84,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, 81,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Increase and expense of library, namely: For purchase, preservation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, academic board.</p></sidenote>academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical supplies.</p></sidenote>That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Musical supplies.</p></sidenote>of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; all to be purchased in open market on order of superintendent, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laundry,</p></sidenote>in the cadet laundry, and the purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, and to be immediately available, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repair and purchase of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet mess.</p></sidenote>furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the policing of barracks and bathhouses, $15,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policing.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplying light and plain furniture to cadets’ barracks, $28,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet barracks.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining the children’s school, the Superintendent of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s school.</p></sidenote>Military Academy being authorized to employ the necessary teachers, $4,780.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of desks, chairs, and proper office furniture for the instructors’ office in the riding hall, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of fire-extinguishing apparatus, $1,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire protection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3643/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign, professional, and other newspapers and periodicals, to be paid for from any of the foregoing appropriations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, $119,390.</p>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>buildings and grounds. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance museum, etc.</p></sidenote>repairs for ordnance museum in headquarters building, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to the cadet laundry building and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, $400: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum be, and the same is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for laundry.</p></sidenote>hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/630">630</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ hospital.</p></sidenote> For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows: Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, drop-lights, tubing, mantles, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New laundry.</p></sidenote> For labor and material for construction of new cadet laundry, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p, 99.</p></sidenote>$125,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the balance of appropriation of $75,000 for new cadet laundry, appropriated in House bill Numbered fourteen, for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated as part <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available for two years.</p></sidenote>of the $125,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the appropriation shall remain available for a period of two years.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterworks.</p></sidenote> For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter beds, reservoirs, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and materials required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, and for the protection and enforcement of rules to protect the water supply, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of shed over hopper at unloading trestle at power station, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power plant, etc.</p></sidenote> For installation of automatic stokers under four four hundred and forty-horsepower boilers in the power plant, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installation of mechanical soot blowers in six four hundred and forty horsepower boilers in the power plant, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor to resod about seven thousand square yards of the east parade ground and athletic field, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West academy building.</p></sidenote> For repairing and repainting the west academy building throughout, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gymnasium.</p></sidenote> For the installation of filters, necessary piping for same, and upkeep, to filter or refilter the water in swimming tank of gymnasium, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paving the semi-inclosed area behind the gymnasium with wooden pavement for use as an outdoor gymnasium, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North dock.</p></sidenote> For dredging at and reconstruction of north dock, $9,151.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing the ventilation in stables at riding hall, $1,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addition to battery station.</p></sidenote> For construction of one combined plotting room and primary station for six-inch gun battery, complete with standard telephone installation, to be constructed as an addition to present station, to be immediately available, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South cadet barracks.</p></sidenote> For grading and granolithic paving in area of south cadet barracks, $7,777.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery gun shed, stable, and barracks.</p></sidenote> For repairs to bayonet fencing ground, $150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of an east wing to the present Artillery gun shed, similar to the west wing, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of an addition to the south wing of the present Artillery stable to accommodate seventy-two additional animals, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavalry barracks.</p></sidenote> For construction of wings to the present Artillery barracks to accommodate sixty-three additional men, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of wings to the present Cavalry barracks to accommodate seventy men, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to quarters of steward of cadet mess, to be expended without advertising, to be immediately available, $150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and maintenance of one light automobile truck of the Ford type, $650.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/631">631</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repair and restoration of retaining walls along the line of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retaining walls.</p></sidenote>the Poplopen pipe line, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying on the development of the general plan for improvements <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads and grounds.</p></sidenote>to roads and grounds on the military reservation of West Point, designed under contract by authority of the Secretary of War, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repainting the interior of the library building, floors, walls, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library building.</p></sidenote>and ceilings, repairing lead frames in windows and plastering walls of towers formerly used for the location of astronomical instruments, $2,950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet hospital.</p></sidenote>hospital, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes; for carpets, furniture and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles; and for miscellaneous expenses, $120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary repairs and replacements in steam-heating system <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet mess.</p></sidenote>and steam lines and cooking apparatus, cadet mess, $300: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum be, and the same is hereby made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to cadet mess building, $2,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to the West Point Army mess building, including supplying and renewing furniture and fittings, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of fireproof sheet-metal shed for housing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fireproof shed.</p></sidenote>material of the United States military equipage employed in the instruction of cadets of the United States Military Academy, $5,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That extra pay, not to exceed 50 cents per day, may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra-pay allowance.</p></sidenote>paid enlisted men from any item under Current and Ordinary Expenses, Miscellaneous Expenses, and Buildings and Grounds, for labor involved, when in the opinion of the superintendent this will result in economy to the Government and the employment of enlisted men on such labor will not interfere with their regular duties.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair and upkeep of quarters of the sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps, at the cadet hospital, $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs to cadet barracks: For repairing and renewing plastering, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet barracks.</p></sidenote>painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the building, $15,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, sidewalks, etc.</p></sidenote>roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, refrigerating and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, etc.</p></sidenote>other machinery in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, $1,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repair, improvement, and maintenance of the cadet polo field, and for the purchase of blackboards, gongs, and other necessary material for the same, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For waterproofing the post headquarters, bachelor, and gymnasium buildings, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of organ in cadet chapel, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to the buildings of the Coast Artillery fire-control system, including necessary exterior painting, repairs to steps, roofs, etc., $100.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/632">632</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for repair of Field Artillery target range, clearing grounds for targets and firing positions for batteries, constructing roads and trails to firing positions and target range; and for miscellaneous expenses connected with the indoor instruction of cadets in field artillery during the winter season, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster garage.</p></sidenote> For Quartermaster Corps garage, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New cadet barracks, etc.</p></sidenote> For enlarging the Military Academy to accommodate the authorized number of cadets: Construction of cadet barracks and headquarters, to be located at the south of the area of the old or south barracks, $500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers’ quarters.</p></sidenote> Eight sets married officers’ quarters, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty sets bachelor officers’ quarters, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lieut. Col. E. J. Timberlake.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel E. J. Timberlake, the sum of $2,580, disallowed on voucher numbered eleven, for December, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of his money accounts as quartermaster and now outstanding against him on the books of the Treasury.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing outside of Government Printing Office allowed.</p></sidenote> Hereafter printing, binding, and blank books required for the use of the United States Military Academy may be done or procured elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office when in the opinion of the Secretary of War such work can be more advantageously done or procured locally, the cost thereof to be paid from the proper appropriation or appropriations made for the Military Academy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, buildings and grounds, $1,051,613.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, Military Academy, $2,589,846.25.</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 27, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 109: Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a statue of James Buchanan, a former President of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>109</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 632</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-27</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>109.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a statue of James Buchanan, a former President of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-27">June 27, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/70">H. J. Res. 70</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/32">Pub. Res., No. 32</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Buchanan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memorial to former President permitted in Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to the trustees designated in the will of Mrs. Harriot Lane Johnston for the erection of a memorial to James Buchanan, a former President of the United States, on public grounds of the United States in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in the southern portion of Meridian Hill Park, between Fifteenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of Commission of Fine Arts, etc.</p></sidenote>Sixteenth, W, and Euclid Streets northwest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the design and location of said memorial and the plan for the treatment of the grounds connected with its site shall be approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of said memorial.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 27, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 110: To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>110</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 632</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>110.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-28">June 28, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/8563">H. R. 8563</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/180">Public, No. 180</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead entries allowed in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 352, amended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to amend the United States homestead law in its application to Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved July eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1"><inline class="smallCaps">“Section</inline> 1. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead laws made applicable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That every person who is qualified under existing laws to make homestead entry of the public lands of the United States <page identifier="/us/stat/40/633">633</page>who has settled upon or who shall hereafter settle upon any of the public lands of the United States situated in the District of Alaska, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall, subject to the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1028.</p></sidenote>and limitations of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, chapter one thousand and two, United States Statutes at Large, page one thousand and twenty-eight, be entitled to enter one hundred and sixty acres or a less quantity of unappropriated public land in said District of Alaska, and no more, and a former <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former entries not a bar.</p></sidenote>homestead entry in any other State or Territory shall not be a bar to a homestead entry in Alaska: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior claims.</p></sidenote>shall be construed to limit or curtail the area of any homestead claim heretofore lawfully initiated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content>That if the system of public surveys has not been extended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entries on unsurveyed lands.</p></sidenote>over the land included in a homestead entry, the entryman may, after due compliance with the terms of the homestead law in the matter of residence, cultivation, and improvement, submit to the register and receiver a showing as to such compliance, duly corroborated by two witnesses, and if such evidence satisfactorily shows that the homesteader is in a position to submit acceptable final proof the surveyor general of the Territory will be so advised and will, not later than the next succeeding surveying season, issue <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys to be made.</p></sidenote>proper instructions for the survey of the land so entered, without expense to the entryman, who may thereafter submit final proof as in similar entries of surveyed lands. So far as practicable, such survey shall follow the general system of public-land surveys, and the entryman shall conform his boundaries thereto: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special survey at expense of entryman.</p></sidenote>nothing herein shall prevent the homesteader from securing earlier action on his entry by a special survey at his own expense, if he so elects.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content>That there shall be excepted from homestead settlement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands excepted.</p></sidenote>and entry under this Act the lands in Annette and Pribilof Islands, the islands leased or occupied for the propagation of foxes, and such other lands as have been, or may be, reserved or withdrawn from settlement or entry.”</content>
</section></quotedContent></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 28, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 111: Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue permits for the diversion of water from the Niagara River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>111</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 633</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-06-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>111.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue permits for the diversion of water from the Niagara River.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-29">June 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/158">S. J. Res. 158</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/33">Pub. Res., No. 33</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Niagara River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diversion of water permitted from, above the Falls.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue permits revocable at will, for the diversion of water in the United States from the Niagara River above the Falls for the creation of power to individuals, companies, or corporations which are now actually producing power from the waters of said river, in quantities which in no event shall exceed in the aggregate a daily diversion at the rate of twenty thousand <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of permits.</p></sidenote>cubic feet per second: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this resolution shall remain in force until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and no longer, at the expiration of which time all permits granted hereunder shall terminate, unless sooner revoked, or unless the Congress shall before that date enact legislation regulating and controlling the diversions of water from the Niagara River, in which event this resolution shall cease to be of any further force or effect. Any individuals, companies, or corporations violating any of the provisions of said permits, or diverting water from said river above the Falls for the creation of power, except under a permit issued under the authority of this law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/634">634</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations, etc.</p></sidenote>be punished by a fine of not exceeding $2,000 nor less than $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year nor less than thirty days, or both in the discretion of the court; and each and every day on which such violation occurs or is committed shall be deemed a separate offense:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where such violation is charged against the company or corporate body, the offense shall be taken <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of officials, etc.</p></sidenote>and deemed to be that of any director, officer, agent, or employee of such company or corporate body ordering, directing, or permitting the same.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, June 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 112: Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>112</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-06-29</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>112.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the readmission to the United States of certain aliens who have been conscripted or have volunteered for service with the military forces of the United States or cobelligerent forces.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-06-29">June 29, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/255">H. J. Res. 255</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/pubres/34">Pub. Res., No. 34</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</resolvingClause><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration of aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Readmission after the war of otherwise excluded aliens, etc., who have been in United States service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 875.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1014.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That, notwithstanding the provisions of section three of the immigration Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, excluding from the United States aliens who are likely to become a public charge, or who are physically defective, or who are contract laborers, or who have come in consequence of advertisements for labor printed, published, or distributed in a foreign country, or who are assisted by others to come, or whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, or who are stowaways, or who are illiterate, aliens lawfully resident in the United States when heretofore or hereafter enlisted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien declarants enlisting in Czecko-Slovak, etc., forces against enemy country.</p></sidenote>or conscripted for the military service of the United States; and aliens lawfully resident in the United States who, prior to April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, and who have enlisted for service with Czecko-Slovak, Polish, or other independent forces attached to the United States Army or to the army of any one of the cobelligerents of the United States in the present war, who may, within one year after the termination of the war, apply for readmission to this country, after being honorably discharged or granted furlough abroad by the proper military authorities, or after being rejected on final examination in connection with their enlistment or conscription, shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If cause of exclusion acquired during service.</p></sidenote>readmitted; and that any alien of either of the two foregoing descriptions who would otherwise be excluded under said section of the immigration Act on the ground that he is idiotic, imbecile, feeble-minded, epileptic, insane, or has had one or more attacks of insanity, or on the ground that he is afflicted with constitutional psychopathic inferiority, tuberculosis, a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or mental defect, shall be readmitted if it is proved that the disability was acquired while the alien was serving m the military forces of the United States or in an independent force of the kind hereinbefore described, if such alien returns to a port of the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No head tax to be paid.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 875.</p></sidenote>within one year after the termination of the war; and that the head tax provided in the immigration Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not be collected from aliens readmitted into the United States under the provisions of this resolution.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, June 29, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 113: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>113</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 634</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-01</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>113.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-01">July 1, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12441">H. R. 12441</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/181">Public, No. 181</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sundry civil expenses appropriations.</p></sidenote>
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<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap<page identifier="/us/stat/40/635">635</page>propriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NATIONAL DEFENSE. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Defense.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the national security and defense, and for each and every purpose <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At discretion of the President.</p></sidenote>connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, $50,000,000.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interallied Committee for Reeducation of War Cripples.</p></sidenote>of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers: The appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post allowances, diplomatic and consular officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 528.</p></sidenote>for post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen are made available for payment to consular and diplomatic officers regardless of where stationed and to the officers of the United States Court for China.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings, construction, rent, and sites. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites, construction, etc.</p></sidenote>buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aledo, Illinois, post office: For completion, $12,250. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aledo, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Altus, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $12,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altus, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bad Axe, Michigan, post office: For completion, $20,200. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bad Axe, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For completion, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beaufort, S. C.</p></sidenote>$4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Butler, Missouri, post office: For completion, $8,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Butler, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cambridge, Maryland, post office: For completion, $8,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cambridge, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $6,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chapel Hill, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: The appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill., post office, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of amount for, modified.</p></sidenote>of $20,000 “for removal of the present roof covering of the dome and the substitution of a new copper-covered roof,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 107, amended.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen, is amended to read: “<quotedText>For altering, repairing, and making waterproof the present roof of the dome, $20,000.</quotedText>”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cleveland, Ohio, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Ohio.</p></sidenote>new vault for stamp storage and equipment of same, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Durant, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $5,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Durant, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East Saint Louis, Illinois: For additional for rent of temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Saint Louis, Ill., rent.</p></sidenote>quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eldorado, Kansas, post office: For completion, $9,750. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eldorado, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Farmville, Virginia, post office: For completion, $29,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmville, Vs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $8,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gallatin, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Girard, Kansas, post office: For completion, $18,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Girard, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $11,600. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glasgow, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office: For completion, $20,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glenwood Springs, Colo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $43,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hollidaysburg, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For completion, $14,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoopeston, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kendallville, Indiana, post office: For completion, $11,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kendallville, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Malden, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maiden, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion, Illinois, post office: For completion, $15,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marion, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $14,750. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskegon, Mich., rent.</p></sidenote> Muskegon, Michigan: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashville, Tenn., rent.</p></sidenote> Nashville, Tennessee: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y., assay office.</p></sidenote> New York, New York, assay office building: For completion. $272,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olney, Ill.</p></sidenote> Olney, Illinois, post office: For completion, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providence, R. I.</p></sidenote> Providence, Rhode Island, customhouse and post office: For remodeling, repairs, and so forth, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions.</p></sidenote> Providence, Rhode Island, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For completion of fourth and fifth floors and changes incident thereto to fit them for occupancy, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Raton, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> Raton, New Mexico, post office: For completion, $17,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Wing, Minn.</p></sidenote> Red Wing, Minnesota, post office: For remodeling of and additions to lookouts, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Va.</p></sidenote> Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For alteration, remodeling, and so forth, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rogers, Ark.</p></sidenote> Rogers, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Peter, Minn.</p></sidenote> Saint Peter, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $15,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanford, Fla.</p></sidenote> Sanford, Florida, post office; For completion, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, N. J.</p></sidenote> Trenton, New Jersey, post office and courthouse: For remodeling and changing lookout system, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valparaiso, Ind.</p></sidenote> Valparaiso, Indiana, post office: For completion, $41,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vernon, Tex.</p></sidenote> Vernon, Texas, post office: For completion, $9,499.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> Washington, District of Columbia:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Butler Building.</p></sidenote> Butler Building: For remodeling and extending annex to building so as to make it two stories of fireproof construction, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Building.</p></sidenote> Treasury Building: For resetting granite steps leading to the street at the north and south plazas, $3,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Annex.</p></sidenote> Treasury Building Annex: For completion, $750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Ga.</p></sidenote> Washington, Georgia, post office: For completion, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, N. C., rent.</p></sidenote> Wilmington, North Carolina: For additional rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote> marine hospitals.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buffalo, N. Y.</p></sidenote> Buffalo, New York: For storehouse, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memphis, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Memphis, Tennessee: For two tent houses and new cistern, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile, Ala.</p></sidenote> Mobile, Alabama: For passenger elevator and refrigerating plant, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis, Mo.</p></sidenote> Saint Louis, Missouri: For surgical dressing room, $4,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote> quarantine stations.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> Charleston, South Carolina: For lighting plant and water supply system, $19,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston, Tex.</p></sidenote> Galveston, Texas: For sea wall, boat basin, and boathouse, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> New Orleans, Louisiana: For refrigerating plant, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Townsend, Wash.</p></sidenote> Port Townsend, Washington: For wire fencing, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reedy, Island, Del.</p></sidenote> Reedy Island, Delaware: For boathouse, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of construction.</p></sidenote> The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “Quarantine Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading> public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and tor wire partitions and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/637">637</page>fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sitka, Alaska.</p></sidenote>of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buddings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.</p></sidenote>$125,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations and completed and occupied outbuildings, including wire partitions and fly screens for same, and not exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings.</p></sidenote>Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this sum shall not be available for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote>the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,000,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering completed buildings.</p></sidenote>That not to exceed $200,000 of the appropriation in this paragraph may be expended for altering and remodeling completed and occupied public buildings outside the District of Columbia other than marine hospitals and quarantine stations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanical equipment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, lighting, etc.</p></sidenote>equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings.</p></sidenote>sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $70,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, anti Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic-tube service, Now York City.</p></sidenote>for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this sum shall not be available for the payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote>of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $500,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vault and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaults and safes.</p></sidenote>thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under <page identifier="/us/stat/40/638">638</page>exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 537.</p></sidenote> General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, Supervising Architect.</p></sidenote>page five hundred and thirty-seven): For additional salary of $1,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services, etc.</p></sidenote>for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen; foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rate of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum; the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $160,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote>supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of superintendence.</p></sidenote>to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $250,000; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $7,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; not to exceed $10,000 for transporting drawings, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $525,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Architectural competitions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of commissions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 468.</p></sidenote> Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including additional commissions accruing under <page identifier="/us/stat/40/639">639</page>certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hilo, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1373; Vol 37, p. 428.</p></sidenote>selected under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings, operating expenses. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services.</p></sidenote>the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $3,500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing appropriation shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building for which available.</p></sidenote>be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $650,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the foregoing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote>appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all furniture now owned by the United States in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present furniture.</p></sidenote>other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lights, water, etc.</p></sidenote>purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/640">640</page>furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse at Washington, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings excluded.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding; at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas governors.</p></sidenote>$2,065,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rental.</p></sidenote>of the Treasury in writing: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic tube service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing steam for, of postal service.</p></sidenote> During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salamanca, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground rent.</p></sidenote> Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, beginning February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, $7.50.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p></sidenote> coast guard.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 831.</p></sidenote>work of the Coast Guard, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.</p></sidenote> For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, cadets and cadet <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian instructor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote>engineers, and one civilian instructor, $5,124,835: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a civilian instructor in the Coast Guard, after five years’ service as such, shall have the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant, and after ten years of such service shall have the pay and allowances of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote>first lieutenant in the Coast Guard:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That cadets in the Coast Guard shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for midshipmen in the Navy;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations.</p></sidenote> For rations or commutation thereof at the rate of 45 cents per ration for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $810,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to superintendents.</p></sidenote> For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $1,200 each, $13,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, 8358,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits, stores, etc.</p></sidenote> For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $500,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stations, houses of refuge, etc.</p></sidenote> For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $200,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/641">641</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of section eight of the Act approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol. 35 p. 46.</p></sidenote>May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For draft animals and their maintenance, $25,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft animals.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telephone lines and their maintenance, $26,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephones.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $61,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian field employees.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $60,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $7,247,835.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the acquisition of land at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to cutters.</p></sidenote>wharf, storage warehouse, boathouse, and office purposes, $10,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $275,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>engraving and printing. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and printing.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work authorized for fiscal year 1919.</p></sidenote>during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen of not exceeding one hundred and twenty-three million delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency, one hundred million three hundred and fifty-three thousand delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, three hundred and five thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, six hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps required under the Act of December seventeenth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 785.</p></sidenote>hundred and fourteen, and five million and fifty-two thousand eight <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 596.</p></sidenote>hundred delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 776.</p></sidenote>Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,800,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote>That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except m so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 45.</p></sidenote>fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote>of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $2,000,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this sum shall be expended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote>for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p 46.</p></sidenote>of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided also</i>, That no part of this sum shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages of printers’ assistants.</p></sidenote>used to increase the wages of plate printers until all printers’ assistants receive not less than $2.24 per day.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/642">642</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials.</p></sidenote> For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,335,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.</p></sidenote> During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24,p. 227.</p></sidenote>eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous objects, treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal revenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of, taxes. Vol. 35, p. 325.</p></sidenote> To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishing violations of, laws.</p></sidenote> Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details permitted.</p></sidenote>control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other details.</p></sidenote>at any one time hereunder: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refunding two per cent bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 269.</p></sidenote> Refunding United States bonds: For expenses of refunding two per centum bonds of the United States into one-year three per centum Treasury notes or thirty-year three per centum United States bonds, as authorized by section eighteen of the Federal reserve Act, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 776.</p></sidenote> Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3679/p718">R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote>including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints, and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $185,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoinage of gold coins.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3512/p696">R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696</ref>.</p></sidenote> Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, $30,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/643">643</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoinage of minor coins.</p></sidenote>to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money laundry machines.</p></sidenote>with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive paper for securities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantities authorized.</p></sidenote>for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, one hundred and twenty-nine million one hundred and fifty thousand sheets, in order that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may deliver one hundred and twenty-three million sheets of United States currency, national bank and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $616,045.50; expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, $600; three registers, at $1,380 each; six counters, at $800 each; guards—one $1,000, four at $900 each; skilled laborer, $800; in all, $630,985.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for the enforcement of section eighteen of the War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 511.</p></sidenote>Finance Corporation Act; hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protecting person of the President, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote>United States, $300,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 684.</p></sidenote>witnesses, United States courts”:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That until June <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency use of employees.</p></sidenote>thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the President is authorized to direct, without reference to existing limitations, the use of the persons employed hereunder if, in his judgment, an emergency exists which requires such action.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to persons detailed, forbidden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>or expenses of any person detailed or transferred, except to the Department of State, from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/644">644</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody, etc.</p></sidenote> Lands and other property of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739">R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739</ref>.</p></sidenote>United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections thirty-seven hundred and forty-nine and thirty-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs service.</p></sidenote> customs service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting revenue.</p></sidenote> For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $10,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic scales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 120.</p></sidenote> Scales for customs service: The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, are continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, together with the further sum of $27,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation in lieu of moities.</p></sidenote> Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $10,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote> public health service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., officers.</p></sidenote> For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $825,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active assistant surgeons.</p></sidenote> For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $330,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay allotments allowed.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit officers of the Public Health Service to make allotments from their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other employees.</p></sidenote> For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $650,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendants’ pay increased.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the pay of attendants at marine hospitals, quarantine, and immigration stations, whose present compensation is less than the rate of $1,200 per annum, may be increased to a rate not to exceed $1,200 per annum;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote> For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> For fuel, light, and water, $110,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $80,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hygienic Laboratory.</p></sidenote> For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $27,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote> For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cases for study.</p></sidenote>under special heads, $500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside treatment, etc.</p></sidenote> For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not, included under special heads, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insane at Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p></sidenote>$210,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Public Health Service, from and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall pay to Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital the actual per capita cost of maintenance in the said hospital of patients committed by that service;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books.</p></sidenote> For journals and scientific books, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 885.</p></sidenote> In all, $2,775,500, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section sixteen of the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/645">645</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina: Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Darien; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River: Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa: Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport; Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands including the leprosy hospital, Porto Rico; and the Virgin Islands; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of epidemics.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a detailed report of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenditures.</p></sidenote>the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field investigations.</p></sidenote>conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate quarantine service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1025.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional duties.</p></sidenote>municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the sanitation of areas adjoining military and naval reservations and Government industrial plants, in order properly to safeguard the health of the military forces and Government employees, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural sanitation.</p></sidenote>in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperation required.</p></sidenote>That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expense of such demonstration work.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pellagra studies.</p></sidenote>field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Viruses, serums, etc. </p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulating sales, etc.</p></sidenote>serums, toxins, and analogous products, including personal service, $30,000.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alien property custodian.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the alien property custodian authorized by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services, supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 415.</p></sidenote>the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen <page identifier="/us/stat/40/646">646</page>hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $900,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes to be paid from money, etc., held.</p></sidenote> All taxes heretofore or hereafter lawfully assessed by any body politic against money or other property held by the alien property custodian shall be paid out of such money or other property, and if that be insufficient, shall be charged thereto and paid out of any other moneys or properties required from the same enemy or ally of enemy.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Mediation and Conciliation.</p></sidenote> BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books of reference and periodicals, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>chairman of said board, $34,680; rent in the District of Columbia $2,820; in all, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority for expenses.</p></sidenote> Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Information Committee.</p></sidenote> COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services, rent, printing, etc.</p></sidenote> For all expenses of the Committee on Public Information, in connection with the work that may be specifically assigned to it by the President, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, printing and binding, and for such expenses of every character as the President in his discretion may deem necessary m carrying on the work assigned to the committee, $1,250,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances authorized.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when necessary, advances for expenses that shall be warranted in connection with the authorized work of the committee may be made under proper safeguards in amounts not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motion picture receipts.</p></sidenote>exceeding $1,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all moneys received through the motion picture activities of the committee shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation and be available for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed report.</p></sidenote>the said activities:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That a detailed report of the receipts and expenditures under this appropriation, which shall also contain a list of employees and salaries paid, shall be made to Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on employees of draft age.</p></sidenote>on the first day of each regular session:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the payment of the salary of any person who on the fifth of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, was between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years, unless he has been placed in a deferred classification by his local board on account of physical defects, which incapacitate him for military duty.</proviso></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council of National Defense.</p></sidenote> COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of work by.</p></sidenote> For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director, employees, etc.</p></sidenote>subordinate bodies; for the employment of a director, secretary, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>chief clerk, expert, clerical, and other assistance; equipment and supplies, including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and pe<page identifier="/us/stat/40/647">647</page>riodicals; subsistence and travel, including the expenses of members of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies or other employees going to and attending meetings of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies; rent of offices and grounds: expenses for repairs and upkeep of buildings occupied by the council; and printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office, $400,000.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital for Women.</p></sidenote>for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $5,100; for expenses of heat, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote>light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $20,100, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees’ Compensation Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries</inline>: Three commissioners at $4,000 each; secretary and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>solicitor, $3,000; chief statistician, $3,500; disbursing agent, $2,000; claim examiners—chief $2,250, assistant $1,800, two assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each; clerks—four of class three, eight of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; telephone operator, $720; in all, $63,510.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses</inline>: For furniture and other equipment and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>repairs thereto, $1,500; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies, $1,000; traveling expenses, $5,000; rent, $5,000; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, $5,000; experts and temporary assistants in the District <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experts, etc.</p></sidenote>of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day and temporary clerks, stenographers or typewriters in the District of Columbia to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $5,000; medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 747.</p></sidenote>Act of September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for miscellaneous items, $2,000; in all, $24,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Employees’ compensation fund</inline>: For the payment of compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances under.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.</p></sidenote>provided by ‘‘An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section nine, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections nine and eleven, $500,000, to be available until expended.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational Education Board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Not to exceed $5,250 of the appropriation contained in section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent allowance in District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 933.</p></sidenote>seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia for the said board during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Trade Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; five <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>clerks to commissioners, at $1,800 each; chief clerk, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/648">648</page>ten of class two, seventeen of class one, twenty-one at $1,000 each, twenty-one at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; general mechanics—one $1,200, one $840; three watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; three unskilled laborers, at $660 each; telephone operator, $720; forewoman, $300; eight charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $177,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All other expenses.</p></sidenote> For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, newspapers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section nine of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $1,500,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food Administration.</p></sidenote> FOOD ADMINISTRATION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of employees, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 276.</p></sidenote> For expenses of the United States Food Administration, created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $7,500,000.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel Administration.</p></sidenote> FUEL ADMINISTRATION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of employees, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 276.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1757.</p></sidenote> For expenses of the United States Fuel Administration created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $3,500,000.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote> INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 270.</p></sidenote> For nine commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all $95,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote> For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for counsel.</p></sidenote>and fourteen, $1,175,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, D. C.</p></sidenote>schedule, and not exceeding $70,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing accounting by railroads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.</p></sidenote>compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway safety appliances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 30, p. 298.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accidents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Block signals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324.</p></sidenote>regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical valuation of railroads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 701.</p></sidenote>Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of earners subject thereto and securing information <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of stocks, etc.</p></sidenote>concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not exceeding $15,000 for rent of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, D. C.</p></sidenote>buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Safe locomotive boilers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 913.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 616.</p></sidenote>February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and amendment of March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, extending <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 1192.</p></sidenote>“the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $225,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 930</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 557.</p></sidenote>in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office supplies, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses; equipment, maintenance, and operation of research laboratory, and construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith; personal services in the field and in the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, watchmen, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $43,000; in all, $200,000, of which sum $10,300 shall be available for printing and binding the bibliography of aeronautics from July first, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bibliography of aeronautics.</p></sidenote>and nine, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six<page identifier="/us/stat/40/650">650</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office space in Signal Corps buildings.</p></sidenote>teen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish office space to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in governmental buildings occupied by the Signal Corps.</proviso></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission.</p></sidenote> ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring connecting lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 37, p. 885.</p></sidenote> To enable the commission created by section twenty-two of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and eighty-five), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $150,000, to be available until expended and to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Area limited.</p></sidenote>United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and delineated in the map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the Sixty-fourth Congress, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Made part of park system.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 570.</p></sidenote>first session:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That Rock Creek Park and the Piney Branch Parkway are hereby made a part of the park system of the District of Columbia defined by section two of the Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions imposed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 282.</p></sidenote>Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy):</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.</proviso></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping Board.</p></sidenote> SHIPPING BOARD.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> For five commissioners, at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $42,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All other expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 728.</p></sidenote> For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $800,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating discriminations against American vessels, etc.</p></sidenote> For the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels and shippers of the United States, the unexpended balance of the appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 125.</p></sidenote>of $175,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Shipping Fund.</p></sidenote> emergency shipping fund.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasing, etc., shipping plants, ships, etc.</p></sidenote> For purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction, and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 183, 345.</p></sidenote>authorized by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved June fifteenth and October sixth, respectively, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $65,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost limit extended.</p></sidenote> The cost of construction of ships authorized by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved June fifteenth and October sixth, respectively, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 184, 345.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $1,234,000,000 to $2,884,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $1,438,451,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition, etc., of plants for shipbuilding.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1022.</p></sidenote>or ship maintenance or repair, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now or may be hereafter acquired or established, $87,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the operation of ships herein or heretofore authorized or in any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation of ships.</p></sidenote>way acquired by the United States, including charter hire, except ships acquired for the Army or Navy, and for every expenditure incident thereto, $60,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and empower <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Housing of shipyard employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 438.</p></sidenote>the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $75,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Urban and interurban railroads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting war employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 535.</p></sidenote> For carrying out the Act entitled “An Act to amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of ships under construction or to be constructed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of ships abroad.</p></sidenote>in shipyards in foreign countries, $55,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For recruiting, instructing, and training officers, engineers, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting, etc., to equip American vessels.</p></sidenote>crews for American vessels, and for all expenditures incidental thereto, $6,250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The power and authority granted the President under the emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority vested in the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 182.</p></sidenote>shipping fund in the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are extended and made applicable to the appropriations and authorizations made herein under the emergency shipping fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cause <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote>an audit to be made of the financial transactions of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International exchanges.</p></sidenote>between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">American ethnology.</p></sidenote>the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.</p></sidenote>of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk lure, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Astrophysical Observatory.</p></sidenote>Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Museum</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fixtures, salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $15,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, lighting, etc.</p></sidenote> For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $55,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving collections, employees, etc.</p></sidenote> For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Museum, $382,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Zoological Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of homes and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>$115,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tariff Commission.</p></sidenote> TARIFF COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 795.</p></sidenote>books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing clerk.</p></sidenote>and sixteen, $200,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department shall act in a similar capacity for the United States Tariff Commission.</proviso></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Industries Board.</p></sidenote> WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1766.</p></sidenote> For expenses of the War Industries Board, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent of offices and grounds, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, repair and upkeep of buildings, and printing and binding, $1,150,000.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Trade Board.</p></sidenote> WAR TRADE BOARD.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 217.</p></sidenote> For expenses of the War Trade Board created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 417.</p></sidenote>criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the “trading with the enemy Act,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent of offices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, law books, books of reference, periodicals, rent of grounds, supplies and equipment, printing and binding, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, $3,500,000.</content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>WAR DEPARTMENT. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>temporary employees. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employees.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limitation upon the salaries to be paid temporary employees <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 783.</p></sidenote>in the War Department, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, is amended to read as follows: “<quotedText><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than thirty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each.</proviso></quotedText>”</content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>armories and arsenals.</heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benicia, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an addition to the office building, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an addition to enlisted men’s barracks, $13,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balances of the appropriations of $16,000 for an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storehouses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 352, 474.</p></sidenote>addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse and $10,000 additional for the same purpose, made, respectively, in the deficiency appropriation Acts approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, are made available as an addition to the appropriation of $60,000 for two storehouses made in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $22,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional for two sets of double quarters for officers, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for fire protection, $70,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $24,000 for increasing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire protection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 39, p. 283.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 352.</p></sidenote>facilities for fire protection, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the manufacture of small-arms ammunition, $400,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $150,000 for increasing the facilities for assembling <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assembling artillery ammunition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 352.</p></sidenote>artillery ammunition, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available for extension and equipment of the forging-plant building;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a stable, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a sewer for the western part of the arsenal, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the storage of artillery ammunition, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair and reconstruction of the sea wall along Frankford Creek, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a carpenter-shop building, $165,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of the barracks building, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a lumber storehouse, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the power plant, including necessary buildings, $205,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $1,069,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a fence, $3,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installation of a telephone system, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $6,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing storage facilities, $655,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery machinery.</p></sidenote> For machinery for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, $1,092,290;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional for improving water-power plant, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional for garage for motor trucks, $21,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for fire protection, $193,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of roads and sidewalks, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of power plant, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges, and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $2,131,290.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Antonio, Tex.</p></sidenote> San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a storehouse for paints, oils, and other inflammables, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a storehouse, $125,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing facilities for the repair of equipment and small arms, including necessary building and equipment, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $165,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Mass.</p></sidenote> Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For removal of old engine in hill shops plant, and alteration of engine room for use as planning and drafting room, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlarging the boiler room at the water shops, including erection of a new chimney and the procurement and installation of three new boilers with equipment, $200,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional machinery for manufacture of rifles, $300,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting system.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 353.</p></sidenote> The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 for the installation of a modem lighting system in shops, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, together with an additional sum of $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $540,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, Mass.</p></sidenote> Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power tunnel.</p></sidenote> For a power tunnel between power plant and shops, including piping, electrical distribution mains, switchboards, and so forth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 129.</p></sidenote>$70,000; and the appropriation of $20,000 for a power tunnel between power plant and shops, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and made available as an addition to the foregoing sum;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For switching engines, locomotive cranes, flat cars, dump cars, and ingot cars, $156,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairing and electrifying five large planers and boring mills, $32,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new machine tools in machine shop, $70,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of main office building, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installation of a crane in smith shop, including extension of craneway, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of new wagon roads and walks, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $463,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing machines.</p></sidenote> Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watervliet, West Troy, N. Y.</p></sidenote> Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one gantry crane and the construction of a storage yard, $16,000;</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rebuilding main roads, including one public road running through the arsenal grounds, $32,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a locomotive crane, 825,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of land known as the old burying ground, adjacent to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote>the arsenal, the disinterment and reinterment elsewhere of bodies, and the erection of a wall inclosing the land, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $138,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $600,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery.</p></sidenote>or so much thereof as may be necessary for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,750,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>quartermaster corps. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">QuartermasterCorps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Military Posts, Hawaiian Islands: For the construction of the necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, required for the permanent accommodations for one company of engineers, one regiment of Infantry, one regiment of Field Artillery, one ambulance company, $2,239,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Monroe, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wharf.</p></sidenote>maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $30,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $33,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $11,260.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to roads, etc.</p></sidenote>macadam and asphalt block: repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $15,400; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $13,146.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewer.</p></sidenote>$1,725; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,565; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,710.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast defenses, Philippines, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>the Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, and for temporary cantonments for oversea garrisons, $54,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National cemeteries</inline>: For maintaining and improving national <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National cemeteries.</p></sidenote>cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote>not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.</p></sidenote>or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 17, p. 545; Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.</p></sidenote>March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and six; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34,p. 741.</p></sidenote>graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederates.</p></sidenote>$50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to roadways.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Encroachments by railroads forbidden.</p></sidenote>by special authority of Congress, $12,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or <page identifier="/us/stat/40/656">656</page>to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>by the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to one approach.</p></sidenote> No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C.</p></sidenote> For expenses of burying m the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>$45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antietam battlefield, Md.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation.</p></sidenote> Antietam battle field; For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.</p></sidenote> Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing remains from abandoned posts, etc.</p></sidenote>prisoners who die at military posts; removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement to individuals.</p></sidenote>in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers’ or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $250,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extended during the war to retired list on active duty.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That during the continuance of the present war the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.</p></sidenote> Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound ” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate Stockade, Ohio.</p></sidenote> For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate burial plats, care, etc.</p></sidenote> Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/657">657</page>Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monuments in Cuba and China.</p></sidenote>of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Rock, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial of patients dying at Hot Springs Hospital.</p></sidenote>Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arlington National Cemetery: For construction and repair of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arlington Cemetery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, improve meats, etc.</p></sidenote>roads and walks, laying out additional lots, landscaping, and providing suitable approaches, $70,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>national military parks. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chickamauga and Chattanooga.</p></sidenote>establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioner, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $48,060.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg.</p></sidenote>the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet Dearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioner, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shiloh.</p></sidenote>the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations to monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $25,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg.</p></sidenote>of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase <page identifier="/us/stat/40/658">658</page>and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $29,330.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote> engineer department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crater Lake Dark.</p></sidenote> Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For construction and maintenance of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds, D. C.</p></sidenote> Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement and care.</p></sidenote> For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument grounds.</p></sidenote> For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements, etc.</p></sidenote> For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken-stone road covering for parks, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac Park.</p></sidenote> For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outdoor sports.</p></sidenote> For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meridian Hill Park.</p></sidenote> To continue the development and improvement of Meridian Hill Park, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea wall, Potomac Park.</p></sidenote> For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of West Potomac Park, $20,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Station Plaza fountains.</p></sidenote>operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of cost.</p></sidenote>shall investigate and report to Congress on the first day of its next regular session what methods may be employed to reduce the cost of operating the said fountains.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $25,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased cost of peak maintenance.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue, between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tidal Basin bathing beach</inline>: For completing the bathhouse, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tidal Basin bathing beach.</p></sidenote>bathing beach, and purification plant on the shore of the Tidal Basin</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">in Potomac Park, $33,000, to be available immediately: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incurred obligations included.</p></sidenote>That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which properly are chargeable to this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and maintenance of the bathing beach, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new public comfort station in Stanton Park, $3,500. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Convenience station.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new sewers in Smithsonian Grounds, $5,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers, Smithsonian Grounds.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installing and operating a ferry line from the vicinity of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ferry to East Potomac Park.</p></sidenote>Seventh and Water Streets to East Potomac Park, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds of executive departments, etc.</p></sidenote>departments, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 Buildings, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion grounds.</p></sidenote>(within iron fence), $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reconstructing a portion of the sewer in West Executive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewer.</p></sidenote>Avenue, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer.</p></sidenote>public buildings and grounds, $2,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc.</p></sidenote>Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $8,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenhouses.</p></sidenote>$3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reconstructing one greenhouse, Executive Mansion, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses of the President.</p></sidenote>expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote>including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting and heating public grounds.</p></sidenote>watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating <page identifier="/us/stat/40/660">660</page>gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $22,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> In all, $27,300, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government telegraph.</p></sidenote> Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Monument.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance salaries.</p></sidenote> Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8, 820.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors: repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> For extra services of employees and tor additional supplies and materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building where Abraham Lincoln died.</p></sidenote> Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wakefield, Va.</p></sidenote> Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission of fine Arts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 371.</p></sidenote> Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant Memorial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for unveiling, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 135.</p></sidenote> The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aqueduct Bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 163.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge authorized in section one of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000, one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water main to reservations, etc., on Virginia side.</p></sidenote> For purchasing and installing a ten-inch water main across the Aqueduct Bridge, including a twelve-inch connection to the thirty-six-inch gravity main in M Street, and a water meter near this connection, for the purpose of supplying water to Federal reservations and buildings on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, $8,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rivers and harbors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract work.</p></sidenote> Harbors and rivers, contract work; Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely:</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/661">661</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 392.</p></sidenote>hundred and eleven, as amended by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New York: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black Rock Harbor, N. Y.</p></sidenote>completing improvement, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 394, 392.</p></sidenote>hundred and sixteen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia to the sea.</p></sidenote>improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East River, New York: For continuing improvement in completion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East River, N. Y.</p></sidenote>of contract authorization, $300,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Flood control</inline>: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flood control.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecuting work.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 948.</p></sidenote>with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mississippi River, $6,670,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sacramento River, California, $330,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacramento River, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote>of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of northern and northwestern lakes, etc.</p></sidenote>and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California Débris Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 507.</p></sidenote>commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor of New York: For the prevention of obstructive and injurious <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preventing injurious deposits.</p></sidenote>deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $85,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of a new engine on the naphtha launch Lookout, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $95,760.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>medical department. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artificial limbs.</p></sidenote>commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgical appliances.</p></sidenote>to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trusses.</p></sidenote>thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1176/p211">R.S., sec. 1176, p. 211</ref>.</p></sidenote>Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 353.</p></sidenote>thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providence Hospital, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destitute patients.</p></sidenote>medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/662">662</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to heating, etc., plant.</p></sidenote> For repairs to and improvements of the heating, lighting, and power plant of the Providence Hospital, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $19,950, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garfield Hospital, D. C.</p></sidenote> Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>the District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p></sidenote> national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support.</p></sidenote> For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effects of deceased members.</p></sidenote>, payments due heirs of deceased members: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and, their repair not done by the home, $320,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $160,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $83,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/663">663</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>$1,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $63,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on new buildings.</p></sidenote>That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $712,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $170,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $107,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $43,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $600; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>the Central Branch, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $406,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Togus, Me.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $115,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $93,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $38,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $400; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $33,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>the Central Branch, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $336,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $210,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $43,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $43,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/664">664</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $441,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $230,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $115,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $54,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $523,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Monica, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $290,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $60,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> For transportation of members of the home, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $558,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $156,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $77,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> For transportation of members of the home, $350;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $364,850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"> Current expenses.</p></sidenote>Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $200,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $104,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $39,800;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> For transportation of members of the home, $500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $36,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/665">665</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>the Central Branch, $9,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $431,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $140,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $72,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $31,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $333,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, S. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>head for the Central Branch, $,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $53,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $37,400; </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the home, $3,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote>for the Central Branch, $15,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote>the Central Branch, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $201,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing for all branches.</p></sidenote>boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $275,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Managers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, 41,700; in all, $49,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,635,150:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote>expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State or Territorial homes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 450.</p></sidenote>continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $1,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso. </i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote><page identifier="/us/stat/40/666">666</page>appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collections from in mates.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Back pay and bounty.</p></sidenote> back pay and bounty.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Civil War volunteers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 322.</p></sidenote> For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations.</p></sidenote>amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War with Spain, etc.</p></sidenote> For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $500.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote> DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote> public buildings.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to Department buildings.</p></sidenote> Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Patent Office Building, Pension Office Building, and of the General Land Office Building, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., to buildings.</p></sidenote> Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art, flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol anti for Senate and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote>House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $52,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving grounds.</p></sidenote> Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $35,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to stables, etc.</p></sidenote> For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p></sidenote>of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the three foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p></sidenote>four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarging Capitol Grounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 142.</p></sidenote> The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courthouse, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary quarters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> Courthouse, District of Columbia: For rental of temporary quarters for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol <page identifier="/us/stat/40/667">667</page>Building and Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,000 heretofore <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation of balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 372.</p></sidenote>made for general repairs to the building temporarily occupied by the courthouse, District of Columbia, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public lands service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registers and receivers.</p></sidenote>of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>of the sundry civil appropriation act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures restricted.</p></sidenote>expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $400,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositing moneys.</p></sidenote>received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote>of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $500,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motorcycles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor boat: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the compensation of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service pay established.</p></sidenote>the chief of field service employed hereunder, including his services in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska where a compensation not to exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3.50 each and actual <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska service.</p></sidenote>necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon and California Railroad lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 218.</p></sidenote>Lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in bis judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act <page identifier="/us/stat/40/668">668</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.</p></sidenote> approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company versus United States (numbered twenty-seven hundred and eleven, in the circuit court of appeals of the ninth circuit), $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings in land entries.</p></sidenote> Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for depositions.</p></sidenote>in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reproducing plats of surveys.</p></sidenote> Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National forests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising restoration of lands in.</p></sidenote> Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opening Indian reservations to entry.</p></sidenote> Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $10,000.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying.</p></sidenote> surveying the public lands.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote> For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferences.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 616.</p></sidenote>lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lands subject to disposition under mineral land laws where survey thereof is not otherwise provided for, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of surveyors.</p></sidenote>reservations. The surveys and resurveys provided for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except in Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $300 per month each may be allowed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervisors of surveys.</p></sidenote>such surveyors, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed one supervisor of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $300 per month, and not to exceed ten surveyors who may be employed in a supervisory capacity, whose compensation shall <page identifier="/us/stat/40/669">669</page>not exceed $250 per month each, and such per diem in lieu of subsistence, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 880.</p></sidenote>not exceeding $3.50, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerics who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurveys, etc.</p></sidenote>heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the sum of not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Metal section corners.</p></sidenote>exceeding ton per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing up office work arrears.</p></sidenote>to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors general’s offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field employees detailed to General Land Office.</p></sidenote>That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abandoned reservations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 103.</p></sidenote>appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casa Grande.</p></sidenote>Casa Grande, $5,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>united states geological survey. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, Director, etc.</p></sidenote>clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $31,020;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scientific assistants.</p></sidenote>one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote>to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $15,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation, of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, and engineers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of skilled laboréis and various temporary employees, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>$15,080;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, $142,196: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in expending this sum preference shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Topographic surveys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference to Army areas.</p></sidenote>given special topographic surveys of areas selected by the War Department and in securing such extra topographic data as are requested by the War Department in these or other areas;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geologic surveys.</p></sidenote>$347,073.50;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/670">670</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical and physical researches.</p></sidenote> For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illustrations.</p></sidenote> For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral resources report.</p></sidenote> For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, $99,414.70;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply.</p></sidenote> For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boring wells.</p></sidenote>utilizing the water resources, $148,244.10, of which $25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote> For engraving and printing geologic maps, $118,049;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National forests surveys.</p></sidenote> For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $74,219.60;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying lands tor enlarged homesteads, etc.</p></sidenote> For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, $197,268.60;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,262,745.50.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Mines.</p></sidenote> bureau of mines.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses, salaries, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote> For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $73,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating mine explosions, etc.</p></sidenote> For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $387,210;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating minerals, fuel, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Economical use in departments.</p></sidenote> For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $135,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiries, etc., for improving conditions of mining, etc.</p></sidenote> For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private work forbidden.</p></sidenote>equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $100,000;</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/671">671</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petroleum and natural gas investigations.</p></sidenote>treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the Act entitled ‘ ‘An Act to prohibit the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Explosives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing prohibitions against unlicensed manufacturing, etc., of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 385.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1711.</p></sidenote>manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, traveling and subsistence expenses, and not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, hire, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $300,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any license issued under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of licenses for violations.</p></sidenote>the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, may be canceled by the Director of the Bureau of Mines if the person to whom such license was issued shall, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, be found to have violated any of the provisions of the Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That platinum, iridium, and palladium and compounds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Platinum, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subject to terms of explosives Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1009.</p></sidenote>therof are hereby made subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations of said Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Director of the Bureau of Mines is hereby authorized, under rules and regulations approved by the Secretary of the Interior, to limit the sale, possession, and the use of said material;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Not exceeding twenty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services In District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances from specified investigations tor.</p></sidenote>as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and not exceeding thirty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States and for enforcement of the explosives Act, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for personal service in the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service officers may be detailed for work.</p></sidenote>Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining experiment stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 959.</p></sidenote>connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburgh Experiment Station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing plant to new location.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 886.</p></sidenote>Mining Experiment Station and installation in the new buildings in Pittsburgh constructed under the authority contained in section twenty-six of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the employment of necessary labor; machinery, appliances, materials and supplies, furniture and office equipment, cases for apparatus, shades, awnings, and all other articles made necessary by such removal fully to equip and furnish these new buildings for laboratory and office purposes, and including construction of a garage for mine rescue trucks; the unexpended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 858; Vol. 39, p. 302.</p></sidenote>balance of the appropriation made for such dismantling and removal for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen is reappropriated and made available for the foregoing purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/672">672</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving grounds at new site, etc.</p></sidenote> For the filling, grading, and general improvement of the grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on which the new Bureau of Mines buildings are located, and for removal to and installation on grounds of the experimental mine at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, of the machinery, apparatus, and so forth, used in the physical testing of explosives, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 146.</p></sidenote>the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional services.</p></sidenote> For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $17,220;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating rescue cars.</p></sidenote> For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment and supplies, authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 959.</p></sidenote>by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen; to be available for expenditure on any preliminary work that may be found necessary in connection with such of the cars as are to be purchased prior to the time of their actual delivery, $136,667;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine Inspector, Alaska.</p></sidenote> For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 and clerk, $2,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters for rescue cars, etc.</p></sidenote> For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of lands, etc.</p></sidenote>mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements, that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary details of field employees.</p></sidenote> Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine teen in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of necessary expenses.</p></sidenote>of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per diem, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail m the District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of minor supplies.</p></sidenote> The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Mines outside of the District of Columbia, hereafter may be made in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government fuel yards, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishment authorised for Federal service and District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> Government Fuel Yards: The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to establish in the District of Columbia storage and distributing yards for the storage of fuel for the use of and delivery to all branches of the Federal service and the municipal government in the District of Columbia and such parts thereof as may be situated immediately without the District of Columbia and economically can be supplied therefrom, and to select, purchase, contract for, and dis<page identifier="/us/stat/40/673">673</page>tribute all fuel required by the said services. Authority is granted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquirement of lands, etc.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Interior, in connection with the establishment of the said yards, to procure by purchase, requisition for immediate use, condemnation, or lease for such period as may be necessary, land, wharves, and railroad trestles and sidings requisite therefor. All branches of the Federal service and the municipal government <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases for public use to be made there from.</p></sidenote>in the District of Columbia, from and after the establishment of the said fuel yards, shall purchase all fuel from the Secretary of the Interior and make payment therefor from applicable appropriations at the actual cost thereof to the United States, including all expenses connected therewith;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the establishment of the fuel storage and distributing yards <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of establishing yard, distributing fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>herein authorized, including the procurement of the necessary land, wharves, railroad sidings, and trestles; storing, handling, and distributing equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors; and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia; $432,300, to be available immediately;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> handling fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,154,088, to be available immediately: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys received <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys received to Continue available.</p></sidenote>from the purchase of fuel during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private yards, etc., not to be interfered with.</p></sidenote>moneys herein or hereafter appropriated shall be used for the purpose of taking over or in any way interfering with the yards or coal dumps or other facilities for storage and distribution of coal that have been used and occupied in the past year by coal dealers for supplying the general public;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four-fifths of the two preceding sums shall be paid out of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of appropriations.</p></sidenote>Treasury of the United States and the other one-fifth out of the revenues of the District of Columbia;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Bureau of Mines, $2,995,285.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>reclamation service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from reclamation fund.</p></sidenote>Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenditures.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and two, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects specified.</p></sidenote>quarters in the District of Columbia, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands of private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, and payment for official telephone service and rental in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private <page identifier="/us/stat/40/674">674</page>houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Projects designated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt River, Ariz.</p></sidenote> Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $797,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma, Ariz.-Cal.</p></sidenote> Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $590,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orland, Cal.</p></sidenote> Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $95,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Valley, Colo.</p></sidenote> Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $348,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uncompahgre, Colo.</p></sidenote> Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operation, $185,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote> Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extensions restricted.</p></sidenote>construction, and incidental operations, $732,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no money shall be expended for extensions of the Boise project, except such amounts as may be collected from construction charges on that project under public notice;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">King Hill, Idaho.</p></sidenote> King Hill project, Idaho: For continuing construction and incidental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subject to reclamation laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote>operations, $423,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said project shall be subject to the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, so far as applicable and consistent with contract heretofore made between the United States and King Hill irrigation district:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to lands reclaimed under Carey Act.</p></sidenote>That for the purposes of issuing patent to lands reclaimed, the reclamation effected by the operations of the United States Reclamation Service may be considered by the Secretary of the Interior <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 422.</p></sidenote>as equivalent to reclamation effected by the State of Idaho, under the Carey Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minidoka, Idaho.</p></sidenote> Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $489,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntley, Mont.</p></sidenote> Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $112,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milk River, Mont.</p></sidenote> Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $186,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 148.</p></sidenote>together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sun River, Mont.</p></sidenote> Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $222,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 860.</p></sidenote>together with $100,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.</p></sidenote> Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, and incidental operations, $55,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.</p></sidenote> North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 148.</p></sidenote>$881,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truckee-Carson, Nev.</p></sidenote> Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $671,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 148.</p></sidenote>together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlsbad, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $75,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex.</p></sidenote> Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 148.</p></sidenote>$1,296,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for drainage restricted.</p></sidenote>eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for drainage except in irrigation districts formed under <page identifier="/us/stat/40/675">675</page>State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of all project investments;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota; For maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota pumping.</p></sidenote>operation, and incidental operations, $64,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lawton project, Oklahoma: For continuation of investigations, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawton, Okla.</p></sidenote>$1,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Umatilla, Oreg.</p></sidenote>of construction, and incidental operations, $80,000, together <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 149.</p></sidenote>with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath, Oreg.-Cal.</p></sidenote>continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $423,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belle Fourche, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $262,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Strawberry Valley, Utah.</p></sidenote>and incidental operations, $59,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 149.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Okanogan project, Washington: For construction, maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Okanogan, Wash.</p></sidenote>operation, and incidental operations, $154,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima, Wash.</p></sidenote>of construction, and incidental operations, $645,000, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 149.</p></sidenote>together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone, Wyo.</p></sidenote>of construction, and incidental operations, $400,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 149.</p></sidenote>this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secondary projects: For cooperative and other miscellaneous <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secondary projects.</p></sidenote>investigations, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures limited to specified allotments, etc.</p></sidenote>nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interchangeable amounts.</p></sidenote>for expenditure on the reclamation projects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases of minor supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>for the Reclamation Service may be made in open market in the manner common among business men, without advertising and formal contract, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed $50, and when, in the opinion of the Director of the Reclamation Service, such limitations of amount are not designed to evade the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services under advertising and format contract, and equally or more advantageous terms can thereby be secured.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Reclamation Service, $9,345,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement to fund, for water to lands in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 604.</p></sidenote>expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page six hundred and four), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,160.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage of lands outside projects, and reclamation of cut-over timber lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of investigations for.</p></sidenote> For an investigation to be made by the Director of the Reclamation Service of the reclamation by drainage of lands outside existing reclamation projects and of the reclamation and preparation for cultivation of cut-over timber lands in any of the States of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase, maintenance, repair, hire, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger vehicles, and for all other expenses, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> testimony in disbarment proceedings.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbarment proceedings.</p></sidenote> To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> alaska, expenses in.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska Engineering Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructing railroads, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 305.</p></sidenote> Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, to continue available until expended, $5,250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of supplies, etc., to employees.</p></sidenote> Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from sales, etc., credited to construction account.</p></sidenote> During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof, also any moneys refunded in connection with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane.</p></sidenote> Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Sanitarium Company.</p></sidenote>$99,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $420 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education of natives.</p></sidenote> Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of pay.</p></sidenote>the above special heads, $215,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as <page identifier="/us/stat/40/677">677</page>compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of school expenditures.</p></sidenote>in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical and sanitary relief.</p></sidenote>in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission of pay patients.</p></sidenote>for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reindeer.</p></sidenote>and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $6,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Education is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of males, etc.</p></sidenote>authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 102.</p></sidenote>May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p></sidenote>intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>national parks. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National parks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of National Park Service, etc.</p></sidenote>chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—two of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $19,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limitation of cost upon the construction of any administration <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of buildings increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 460.</p></sidenote>or other building in any national park without express authority of Congress, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is increased from $1,000 to $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone, Wyo.</p></sidenote>maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, for repairing roads in the park and in adjoining <page identifier="/us/stat/40/678">678</page>forest reserves from Lake Hotel to the Cody entrance, $25,000; not to exceed $7,600 for the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $269,520, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of snow.</p></sidenote>Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the tourist season.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road extensions restricted.</p></sidenote> Hereafter road extensions and improvements shall be made in said park under and in harmony with the general plan of roads and improvements to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified roads, bridges, etc.</p></sidenote> For continuing the widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway, improving the surface of roads, and for building bridges and culverts from the belt-line road to the western border, from the Thumb Station to the southern border, and from the Lake Hotel to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $15,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gardiner Slide Road.</p></sidenote> For a new road around the Gardiner Slide, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belt line.</p></sidenote> For resurfacing and for finishing the belt line with oil macadam, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 132.</p></sidenote>the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Glacier, Mont.</p></sidenote> Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary fine of the Glacier National Park, including not exceeding $1,200 for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-driven and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yosemite, Cal.</p></sidenote> Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads; including, not exceeding $1,000 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of two motorcycles, not exceeding $800 for maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $15,000 for a bridge at the old Sentinel Bridge site, and not exceeding $75,000 for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet El Portal-Yosemite Road, $255,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sequoia, Cal.</p></sidenote> Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with the general park work; and not exceeding $12,000 for a bridge at the old Marble Fork bridge site, $30,510.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Grant, Cal.</p></sidenote> General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Rainier, Cal.</p></sidenote> Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, including not exceeding $500 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and park employees in connection with general park work, $24,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mesa Verde, Colo.</p></sidenote> Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $433 for maintenance, operation, and repair of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/679">679</page>horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and employees, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rocky Mountain, Colo.</p></sidenote>$10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crater Lake, Oreg.</p></sidenote>and repairing and extension of roads, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $13,225.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wind Cave, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>protection, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Platt, Okla.</p></sidenote>$7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Monuments: For the preservation, development, administration, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National monuments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc.</p></sidenote>and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hawaii National Park: For expenses incident to securing donations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote>of patented lands and rights of way over patented lands in Hawaii National Park, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sieur de Monts National Monument, Maine: For protection and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sieur de Monts National Monument, Me.</p></sidenote>improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of rangers in administration of the monument, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For labor, material, supervision, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings.</p></sidenote>clearing site, and all other necessary expenses incident to the construction of a new administration and Government free bathhouse building, to cost not to exceed $190,000, there is appropriated $140,000, and in addition thereto $50,000 is authorized to be expended <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional from revenues.</p></sidenote>therefor from the revenues received from the said reservation.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>saint elizabeths hospital. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Elizabeths Hospital.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Army, persons transferred from the anal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $45,240 for adjustment of compensation of employees; and not exceeding $13,685 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of sixteen horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business and official use of the superintendent, $426,750; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the buildings and grounds, as follows: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an isolation building, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a railroad scale, $7,000.</p></content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Institution for the Deaf.</p></sidenote> columbia institution for the deaf.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $82,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of outside beneficiaries increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 620.</p></sidenote> The number of beneficiaries in said institution authorized by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred (Thirty-first Statutes, page six hundred and twenty), to be received from the several States and Territories, is increased from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Howard University.</p></sidenote> howard university.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $72,437.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote> Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $117,937.75.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmen’s Hospital.</p></sidenote> freedmen’s hospital.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $33,360. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $46,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $79,360.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote> DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote> Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $100,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For the construction complete of a new cell wing, $100,000, and for the construction complete of an isolation building, $7,500; in all, $107,500, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/681">681</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for other buildings forbidden.</p></sidenote>not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>miscellaneous objects, department of justice. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduct of customs cases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Attorney General, attorneys etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 108.</p></sidenote>assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.</p></sidenote>before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p></sidenote>expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, including Indian depredation claims and such other expenses as may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote>necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, and including not exceeding $500 for law books which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection and prosecution of crimes.</p></sidenote>of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of the President, etc.</p></sidenote>for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $70,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of prisons, etc.</p></sidenote>States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote>miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enforcement of antitrust <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing antitrust laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 730.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for prosecuting labor, etc., organizations forbidden.</p></sidenote>laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $100,000: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no part of this money shall be spent in the presentation of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement <page identifier="/us/stat/40/682">682</page>having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Associations of farmers, etc.</p></sidenote>furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawn oil lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of suits affecting.</p></sidenote> Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits to set aside.</p></sidenote> Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $23,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expediting cases directed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Department of Justice is directed to expedite the final determination of all of said suits.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing interstate commerce laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539: Vol. 37. p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219.</p></sidenote> Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce, ” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $8,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Court Reports and Digests.</p></sidenote> Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and seventy-nine copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,580.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volume 62.</p></sidenote> For fifteen copies of volume sixty-two of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $7.50 per volume, $112.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States Reports.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volumes 249 to 252.</p></sidenote> For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes—namely, two hundred and forty-nine to two hundred and fifty-two of the United States Reports to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific railroad suits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $35,000.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote> JUDICIAL.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote> united states courts.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $1,730,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote>Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/683">683</page>fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or prior years: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of keeping attached vessels, etc.</p></sidenote>That there shall be paid hereunder any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admirality in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That marshals and office deputy marshals <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 183.</p></sidenote>(except in the district of Alaska) may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 and $3, respectively, in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services during vacancies.</p></sidenote>attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $660,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States district attorney for the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, district attorney.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for salaries, etc.</p></sidenote>Columbia, $33,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The United States district attorney for the District of Columbia shall hereafter pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in all $15,000 per annum; also his clerical and messenger hire not exceeding $10,000; office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses not exceeding $2,500, out of the fees of his office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence allowance when absent.</p></sidenote>the maximum allowance for actual expenses of subsistence to the United States attorney for the District of Columbia and his assistants, when absent from the District of Columbia on official business, shall be $4 per day.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular assistants.</p></sidenote>appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $385,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That except as otherwise prescribed by law the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 181.</p></sidenote>compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorized by section eight of the Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,000 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants in special cases.</p></sidenote>attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign counsel.</p></sidenote>General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s366/p62">R. S., sec. 366, p. 62</ref>.</p></sidenote>oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, $235,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That courts of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits by seamen.</p></sidenote>States, including appellate courts, hereafter shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Attorney General is authorized to require the official bonds of clerks of United States courts to be renewed every <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Renewal of bonds.</p></sidenote>four years, and to fix the amounts of such bonds within statutory limits. Failure to take such action shall not affect the liability <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office vacated on failure.</p></sidenote>under such bonds, but upon failure or refusal of any clerk to execute such new bond or bonds his office shall be deemed vacant by order of the President and so declared by the district attorney in open court:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not available for District of Columbia Supreme Court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1035.</p></sidenote>used to pay the fees of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners’, etc., fees.</p></sidenote>acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’ fees.</p></sidenote></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s850/p180">R.S., sec. 850, p. 160</ref>.</p></sidenote> Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of court rooms.</p></sidenote> For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $58,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bailiffs, etc.</p></sidenote> For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s715/p130">R. S., sec. 715, p. 136</ref>.</p></sidenote>northern district of Illinois: <proviso><i>Provided;</i> That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses of judges.</p></sidenote>order of the courts:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1161.</p></sidenote>States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven entitled, “An Act to codify, revise, and amend <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury expenses.</p></sidenote>the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Alaska.</p></sidenote>when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 363.</p></sidenote>as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of prisoners.</p></sidenote> For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $700,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence.</p></sidenote> Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $148,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $63,750;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating <page identifier="/us/stat/40/685">685</page>steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $1,350 for purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Live stock.</p></sidenote>That live stock may be exchanged or traded when authorized by the Attorney General, $100,000;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote>all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $7,225;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries; Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>one $1,500, one $1,200; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $78,540; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $111,040;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $434,315.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote>same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $104,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote>same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $52,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $71,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital</p></sidenote>this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $4,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $ 1,800; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $55,440; in all, $87,940;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $324,040.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $16,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $11,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $750;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $11,500; in all, $20,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $64,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Boys, D. C.</p></sidenote> National Training School for Boys; Superintendent, $2,500; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $12,120; chief clerk, $1,000; matron of school and nurse, at $600 each; storekeeper and steward, $720; farmer, $660; baker, $660; tailor, $720; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; seven matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of shop and skilled helper, $4,200; assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; laundress, $360; teamster, $420; florist, $540; engineer and shoemaker, at $600 each; cook, $600; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed nine in number, $3,780; secretary and treasurer, $900; janitor, $420; in all, $39,416;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, printing, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, National Training School for Boys, $54,416.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouses Bureau, aids to navigation.</p></sidenote> lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers’ dwellings, etc.</p></sidenote> Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, aids to navigation: For dwelling for keepers of the lights, and improving the lighting, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second district depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> Depot for second lighthouse district: For construction and equipment, $85,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum shall be expended on the said depot until after the adoption of such plans, specifications, and bids as will complete the same within the appropriation made herein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit, Mich., depot.</p></sidenote> Detroit, Michigan, lighthouse depot: For improvements, $53,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sand Island, Ala.</p></sidenote> Sand Island Light Station, Alabama: For improvements, $37,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spectacle Reef, Mich.</p></sidenote> Spectacle Reef Light Station, Michigan: For improvements, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambrose Channel, N.Y.</p></sidenote> Ambrose Channel, New York: For improving the system of lighted buoys, $26,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joe Flogger Shoal, Del.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas buoys, etc.</p></sidenote> Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware, aids to navigation: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 “toward a light and fog <page identifier="/us/stat/40/687">687</page>signal station on the Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware River,” contained <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 659.</p></sidenote>in the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is made available for establishing gas buoys and improving aids to navigation in the vicinity of Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifth lighthouse district: For the purchase of additional gas buoys <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifth district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas buoys.</p></sidenote>for the improvement of aids to navigation, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depot for sixteenth lighthouse district: For a lighthouse depot and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sixteenth district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depot.</p></sidenote>the necessary equipment for the sixteenth lighthouse district, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation of $15,000 ‘for the installation of an electrically <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nantucket, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric log signal bell.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 496, 607.</p></sidenote>operated fog signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is made available for the establishment of an electrically operated fog-signal bell at that point.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>lighthouse service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects specified.</p></sidenote>expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil or carbide houses.</p></sidenote>submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any oil or carbide house <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost of buildings.</p></sidenote>erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such restoration shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for restorations.</p></sidenote>be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations, etc.</p></sidenote>thereof for keepers of lighthouses, working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $.000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of sites, etc.</p></sidenote>such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots; and not exceeding $10,000 for contingent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $3,500,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations or commutation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 608.</p></sidenote>Lighthouse Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day, or, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, commutation therefor at the rate of 45 cents per ration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers.</p></sidenote>eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/688">688</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse vessels</p></sidenote> Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,265,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 608.</p></sidenote> Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $380,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote> coast and geodetic survey.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote>of Commerce, and under the following heads: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That advances of money from available appropriations hereafter may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the disbursing officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of minor supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>heretofore made to chiefs of parties:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That hereafter the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services outside the District of Columbia may be made in the open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlantic and Gulf coasts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Islands, etc., limit.</p></sidenote> Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $45,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $101,500;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific coasts.</p></sidenote> For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $160,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical hydrography.</p></sidenote> For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service while observing tides or currents, $16,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Pilot.</p></sidenote> For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Magnetic observations, etc.</p></sidenote> For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic buildings; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; establishing lines of exact levels in Alaska; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the interior of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; for continuing gravity observations; and including the employment in the field and <page identifier="/us/stat/40/689">689</page>office of such magnetic observers, at salaries not exceeding $2,200 per annum, as may be necessary, $90,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special surveys.</p></sidenote>or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for relieving shipwrecked persons, etc.</p></sidenote>rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the superintendent, and not exceeding $500 for the expenses of the attendance of the American <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote>delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, $4,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, field expenses, $382,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $36,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers and crews.</p></sidenote>professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $225,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; hydrographic and geodetic engineers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, engineers, etc.</p></sidenote>junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, and aids, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent; hydrographic and geodetic engineers—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, one $2,800, five at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,400 each, nine at $2,200 each, twelve at $2,000 each; junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers—sixteen at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, nine at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $223,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>and archives, $1,800; clerk to superintendent, $1,800; chief of printing and sales, $2,000; clerks—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen.</p></sidenote>three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two copyist draftsmen at $1,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computers.</p></sidenote>$2,500, two at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engravers.</p></sidenote>$2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Instrument makers: Mechanical engineer $2,750, one $1,800, one <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instrument makers.</p></sidenote>$1,600, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpenters <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pattern makers, etc.</p></sidenote>and painters at $900 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lithographers, lithographic draftsmen, transferers, lithographic <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing employees.</p></sidenote>pressmen and their helpers, plate printers and their helpers, and other <page identifier="/us/stat/40/690">690</page>skilled laborers: Two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, five at $700 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Photographers.</p></sidenote> Photographers: One $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote> Engineer, electricians, dynamo tenders, and electrotypers: One $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, four at $1,080 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, three at $840 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, one $550;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, pay of office force, $253,860.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote> Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including their exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $6,000; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $3,400 for extra labor, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery attachment to press.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 164.</p></sidenote> The appropriation of $3,000 “for an offset attachment for a lithographic press,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two motor-driven lathes, especially adapted for fine instrument work, at $750 each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New vessels.</p></sidenote> For one new vessel, including equipment, to cost not exceeding $354,000, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a new motor-driven vessel, including equipment, to replace the Taku, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances restricted.</p></sidenote> For four or more new launches, including their equipment, $62,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote> bureau of fisheries.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner, deputy, etc.</p></sidenote> Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one for developing fisheries and for saving and use of fishery products $2,400, one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; fish pathologist, $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian,.$1,500; superintendent of car and messenger <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>service, $1,600; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, four of class two (one transferred to office of Secretary of Commerce), seven of class one, three at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each (including one for Seattle office); statistical agents—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one <page identifier="/us/stat/40/691">691</page>at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers, at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $109,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, physicians, etc.</p></sidenote>$2,000 each, two physicians at $1,500 each, three school-teachers at $1,200 each, two storekeepers at $1,800 each; agent, $2,500; assistant agents—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $30,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Employees at large: Field assistant, $3,000; two field station <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees at large.</p></sidenote>superintendents, at $1,800 each; field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; fish-culturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $20,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distribution (car) employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution employees.</p></sidenote>messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five apprentice messengers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Afognak, Alaska.</p></sidenote>$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alpena, Mich.</p></sidenote>in all, $2,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.</p></sidenote>$1,500; foreman, $1,080; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,280.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baker Lake, Wash.</p></sidenote>$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beaufort, N. C.</p></sidenote>director, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $4,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Berkshire (Massachusetts) Trout Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Berkshire, Mass.</p></sidenote>fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boothbay Harbor, Me.</p></sidenote>$900; engineer, $1,100; apprentice fish-culturists—one $780, two at $600 each; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; in all, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bozeman, Mont.</p></sidenote>$1,200; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bryans Point, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Vincent, N. Y.</p></sidenote>$720; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clackamas (Oregon) and subsidiary stations: Superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clackamas, Oreg.</p></sidenote>$1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—three at $720 each, two at $600 each; in all, $6,960.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cold Springs, Ga.</p></sidenote>$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Craig Brook, Me.</p></sidenote>$900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p></sidenote>fish-culturists at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edenton, N. C.</p></sidenote>$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erwin, Tenn.</p></sidenote>$900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairport, Iowa.</p></sidenote> Fairport (Iowa) Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent of fish-culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert., $1,200; clerk, $900; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $12,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gloucester, Mass.</p></sidenote> Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman, $720; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,920.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Green Lake, Mo.</p></sidenote> Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homer, Minn.</p></sidenote> Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists,. at $600 each; in all, $8,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote> Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,800; engineer, $1,000; laboratory aid, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leadville, Colo.</p></sidenote> Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisville, Ky.</p></sidenote> Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mammoth Spring, Ark.</p></sidenote> Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, Iowa.</p></sidenote> Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashua, N. H.</p></sidenote> Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neosho, Mo.</p></sidenote> Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4 320.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northville, Mich.</p></sidenote> Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orangeburg, S. C.</p></sidenote> Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> Puget Sound (Washington) Station: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Put in Bay, Ohio.</p></sidenote> Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.</p></sidenote> Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, four at $600 each; in all, $6,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos, Tex.</p></sidenote> San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saratoga, Wyo.</p></sidenote> Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spearfish, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springville, Utah.</p></sidenote> Springville (Utah) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Private John Allen Station, Tupelo, Mississippi: Superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private John Alien, Tupelo, Miss.</p></sidenote>$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central Station and Aquaria.</p></sidenote>Superintendent, $1,500; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.</p></sidenote>$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each: in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woods Hole, Mass.</p></sidenote>machinist, $960; two fish-culturists at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wytheville, Va.</p></sidenote>at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yes Bay, Alaska.</p></sidenote>$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general assistant, $1,200; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessel service.</p></sidenote>fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $26,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska fisheries service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, etc., of vessels not appropriated for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status retained for one year.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The officers and crews of the Bureau of Fisheries vessels Phalarope, Curlew, and Grampus, heretofore appropriated for but who are not specifically appropriated for herein, shall not lose their civil-service status at the expiration of one year, but shall be eligible for reappointment to similar positions until June thirtieth, nineteen and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Propagation expenses.</p></sidenote>operations of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cam, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aquatic leather.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Developing sources of.</p></sidenote>Bureau of Standards new aquatic sources of supply of leather, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 167.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations herein or hereafter made for propagation of food <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on expenses in Status.</p></sidenote>fishes shall not be expended for hatching or planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded full and free right to conduct fish-cultural operations, and all fishing and other operations <page identifier="/us/stat/40/694">694</page>necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or his agents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of vessels.</p></sidenote> Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $95,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, etc., for sale to crews.</p></sidenote> Hereafter the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to purchase, to the extent of not to exceed $5,000, from the appropriations for the Bureau of Fisheries, clothing and small stores for the crews of vessels, to be sold to the employees of said service and the appropriations reimbursed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations, vessel service.</p></sidenote> Commutation of rations not to exceed 60 cents may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treatment by Public Health Service.</p></sidenote> Officers and crews of the several vessels belonging to the Bureau of Fisheries may be admitted to the benefits of the Public Health Service without charge upon the application of their respective commanding officers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food fishes inquiry.</p></sidenote> Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interest of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statistical inquiry.</p></sidenote> Statistical inquiry: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sponge fisheries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc.</p></sidenote> Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 692.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska, general service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.</p></sidenote> Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 326.</p></sidenote>entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Berkshire, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increasing trout hatchery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 431.</p></sidenote> Berkshire, Massachusetts, trout hatchery: For increasing the hatching and rearing facilities, including the construction and repair of ponds, improvements to water supply, and for equipment, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johnsbury, Vt.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auxiliary station.</p></sidenote> Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, station: For the establishment of an auxiliary station on Lake Champlain, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings, and for equipment, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edenton, N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for land continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 168.</p></sidenote> Edenton, North Carolina, fish hatchery: The appropriation of $3,500 for land and improvements, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pribilof Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power lighter for.</p></sidenote> Alaska fur-seal islands: For the purchase or construction of a wooden power lighter for use at the Pribilof Islands, $20,000.</p></content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of standards. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Standards.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing large scales.</p></sidenote>track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post-office, navy-yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.</content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>immigration stations. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigrant stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ellis Island, New York: For two new generators, complete with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery.</p></sidenote>engines, replacing worn-out machinery, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of granite-faced sea wall, under original limit of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea wall.</p></sidenote>cost, $125,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $170,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>immigration service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 811.</p></sidenote>the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees, appointed to enforce said laws, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 874.</p></sidenote>entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 542.</p></sidenote>thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chinese exclusion.</p></sidenote>United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refunding head tax.</p></sidenote>tax and maintenance bills upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the purchase, use, maintenance, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles outside of District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>and operation of horses and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote>That not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of the sum hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of station privileges forbidden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 894.</p></sidenote>appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States.”</proviso>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montreal, Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of office quarters.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of Labor is authorized to execute a lease for office quarters for the United States Immigration Service at Montreal, Canada, for a period of five years from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, at a rate of rental not exceeding $4,500 per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of accounts for interned German crews.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of Labor is authorized to pay certain maintenance bills incurred by immigration officers at Boston, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, incident to the removal and temporary guarding of crews of German ships in the month of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the amount of such payments not to exceed $500 and to be charged against the appropriation for that fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cunard Steamship Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund.</p></sidenote> For refund to the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) of amount erroneously paid for passage money for the aliens John Cavalas and Nicolas Coffas, $75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hartfield, Solari and Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund.</p></sidenote> For refund to Hartfield, Solari and Company of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of nineteen American citizens, $160.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scandinavian-American Line.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund.</p></sidenote> For refund to Scandinavian-American Line of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of three American citizens, $70.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mauro Fierro.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Informer’s fee.</p></sidenote> To pay to Mauro Fierro for information that led to the collection of 81,000 in penalties from Garcia Rodriguez, of El Paso, Texas, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $125.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War emergency services.</p></sidenote> war emergency services.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment for wage earners, standardization of wages, etc.</p></sidenote> To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, to furnish such information and to render such assistance in the employment of wage earners throughout the United States as may be deemed necessary in the prosecution of the war and to aid in the standardization of all wages paid by the Government of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services, supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>States and its agencies, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, heat and light, telegraph and telephone service, supplies and equipment, and printing and binding, $5,500,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on paying wages.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no money now or hereafter appropriated for the payment of wages not fixed by statute shall be available to pay wages in excess of the standard determined upon by the War Labor Policies Board.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances for transportation to secure employment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 496.</p></sidenote> The appropriation of $250,000 “to enable the Secretary of Labor to advance to wage earners transportation to such places as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of securing employment in connection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation available for fiscal year 1919.</p></sidenote>with the prosecution of the war,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is continued and made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War labor administration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conciliation of labor disputes, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 810.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects specified.</p></sidenote> To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, to carry on the work of war-labor administration, including mediation and conciliation in labor disputes, the working conditions of wage earners in the most essential war industries, the acquiring and diffusing of information on subjects connected with labor, the employment of women in industry, and the training and dilution of labor, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and in the field, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference, periodicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of expenses.</p></sidenote>newspapers, supplies and equipment, and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, in amounts not exceeding the following: Commissioners of conciliation, $300,000; working conditions service, $45,000; information and education service, $225,000; woman in industry service, $40,000; investigation and inspection service, $300,000; personnel service, $15,000; training and dilution service, $150,000; Secretary’s office, $110,000; printing and binding for all services, $150,000; in all, $1,335,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/697">697</page>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>naturalization service. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of examiners, interpreters, etc.</p></sidenote>interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 596.</p></sidenote>carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 736.</p></sidenote>thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $5,300 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance to clerks of courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 600.</p></sidenote>carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830.</p></sidenote>and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 171.</p></sidenote> sixty-five) and in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil Act of June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and for mileage <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees, etc.</p></sidenote>and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $275,000.</content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>LEGISLATIVE. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Protection of the Capitol during the period of the war: For an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional policefor Capitol, Office Buildings, etc., during the war.</p></sidenote> additional uniformed police force during the period of the war for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies, and each and every item incident thereto, $30,000, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appointment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments.</p></sidenote>to the positions herein provided shall be made by the Sergeants-at-Arms of the two Houses and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and shall be made solely on account of efficiency and special qualifications.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint Committee on Commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unused balance continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 377.</p></sidenote>Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes,” approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To include first and second sessions of the present Congress.</p></sidenote>of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the first and second, sessions of the Sixty-fifth Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 587.</p></sidenote>persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/698">698</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the superintendent: purchase, exchange, care, and maintenance of a motor-propelled vehicle; purchase and installation of sanitary drinking fountains; repairing and putting comfort station in sanitary condition; under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> 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, $65,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, name plates for doors and committee tables, electric fans, and so forth, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate kitchens and restaurants.</p></sidenote> For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $41,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol power plant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $111,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, oil, etc.</p></sidenote>plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases not restricted to supply committee.</p></sidenote>buildings, $127,000. This and the two foregoing appropriations shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1365.</p></sidenote>control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred, and seven, and without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p></sidenote>reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for power supplied.</p></sidenote> The Department of the Interior shall reimburse the Capitol Power Plant for current supplied during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote> GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public printing and binding.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Printer, purchasing agent, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,750; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/699">699</page>$2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—three at $2,000 each, nine of class four, thirteen of class three, ten of class two, seven of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; seven messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $144,230.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy Public Printer, etc.</p></sidenote>clerks—two of class one, one $840; chemist, $1,600; messenger; in all, $10,180.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watch force.</p></sidenote>sixty-four watchmen; in all, $49,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holidays.</p></sidenote>of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $246,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves of absence.</p></sidenote>the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing, binding, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate amount.</p></sidenote>and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote>employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>$100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $7,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total.</p></sidenote>force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $7,849,990; and from the said sum printing and binding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p></sidenote>shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress.</p></sidenote>and debates, $1,852,790. Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/700">700</page>together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departments, etc.</p></sidenote> For the State Department, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal farm loan Act, $475,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army medical bulletins.</p></sidenote> For the War Department, $2,250,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1169.</p></sidenote> For the Navy Department, $300,000, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Hydrographic Office.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $90,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $340,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $585,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Justice, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 616.</p></sidenote>$47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 825.</p></sidenote>of the joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $200,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $600,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/701">701</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Labor, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Court of Claims, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Executive Office, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $130,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Pan American Union, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly allotment restrictions.</p></sidenote>appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of necessity required.</p></sidenote>expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for in appropriations heroin; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on paying detailed employees.</p></sidenote>any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.</p></sidenote>Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, and expenses incurred on account of heat, light, and power furnished the city post-office building in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of superintendent of documents. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of superintendent of documents.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks.—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote>two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, eleven at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, twenty-four at $840 each; cataloguers.—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, eight at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/702">702</page>cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,600; assistant foreman, $1,200; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each; five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; fifty-two skilled laborers, at $688.60 each; fourteen unskilled laborers, at $688.60 each; janitress, $688.60; two folders, at $688.60 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each; six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $17,000; in all, $196,018.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $39,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $80,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $20,000; in all, $155,000.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote> THE PANAMA CANAL.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p></sidenote> For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects designated.</p></sidenote>Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rents and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for damages, etc.</p></sidenote>and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 563.</p></sidenote>as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 561.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.</p></sidenote>Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 680.</p></sidenote>on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows:</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/703">703</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance and operation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Governor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote>governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to alien cripples.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 742.</p></sidenote>in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, $9,000,000, together with all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional from receipts.</p></sidenote>moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitation, etc.</p></sidenote>of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $900,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil government expenses.</p></sidenote>of district judge $6,000, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $750,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $10,650,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of employees limited to estimates.</p></sidenote>to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction employees.</p></sidenote>of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organization under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent organization.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 561.</p></sidenote>which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted, respectively, in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate of pay restricted.</p></sidenote>in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and all employments made or compensation increased <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of emergency increases.</p></sidenote>because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations.</p></sidenote>fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for expenditure and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sani<page identifier="/us/stat/40/704">704</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.</p></sidenote>tation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating water worksite, for Panama and Colon.</p></sidenote> In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses.</p></content></appropriations></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sums for salaries to be in full.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they, are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 1, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 114: Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>114</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-07-01</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>114.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-01">July 1, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/10854">H. R. 10854</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/182">Public, No. 182</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval service appropriations.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>general expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule of all pay and allowances to be sent to Congress.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount of money of all pay and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> pay, miscellaneous.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses designated.</p></sidenote> For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; actual expenses of officers while on shore patrol duty; mileage to officers of the Naval Reserve Force traveling under orders of the Secretary of the Navy; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards, including the rental of offices in the District of Columbia; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval defense districts; stationery and recording; religious books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports: professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information from abroad, etc.</p></sidenote>abroad, including maintenance of students and attachés; information from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification <page identifier="/us/stat/40/705">705</page>thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services at yards and stations.</p></sidenote>be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $500,000, and for necessary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interned persons and prisoners of war.</p></sidenote>expenses for the interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; in all, $4,350,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Secretary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for damages to private property by naval forces abroad.</p></sidenote>of the Navy is authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay the amounts due on all claims for damages to and loss of private property of inhabitants of any European country not an enemy or ally of an enemy when the amount of the claim does not exceed the sum of $1,000, occasioned and caused by men in the naval service during the period of the present war, all payments in settlement of such claims to be made out of “Pay, Miscellaneous.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Act entitled “An Act to provide additional protection for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 851, amended.</p></sidenote>owners of patents of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, namely:</p>
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recovery by owner if invention used or manufactured by the United States.</p></sidenote>of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner’s remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That said Court of Claims shall not entertain a suit <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims barred.</p></sidenote>or award compensation under the provisions of this Act where the claim for compensation is based on the use or manufacture by or for the United States of any article heretofore owned, leased, used by, or in the possession of the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defenses allowed.</p></sidenote>such suit the United States may avail itself of any and all defenses, general or special, that might be pleaded by a defendant in an action for infringement, as set forth in Title Sixty of the Revised Statutes, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents by Government employees, etc., not included.</p></sidenote>otherwise:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the benefits of this Act shall not inure to any patentee who, when he makes such claim, is in the employment or service of the Government of the United Slates, or the assignee of any such patentee; nor shall this Act apply to any device discovered or invented by such employee during the time of his employment or service.”</proviso></p>
</quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is authorized in leasing water-front <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion of improvements on leased State, etc., water fronts.</p></sidenote>property from any State or municipality where the State law or charter of the municipality requires that the improvements placed upon leased lands shall at the termination of the lease become the property of the State or municipality, to provide, as a part or all of the consideration therefor, that improvements placed thereon by the United States shall become the property of the lessor upon the expiration of the lease or any renewal thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to cause <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salvage by naval vessels.</p></sidenote>vessels under his control adapted to the purpose, to afford salvage service to public or private vessels in distress: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote>such salvage service is rendered by a vessel specially equipped for the purpose or by a tug, the Secretary of the Navy may determine and collect reasonable compensation therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Navy</inline>: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of <page identifier="/us/stat/40/706">706</page>Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for unusual conditions abroad.</p></sidenote>$150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers of the Navy serving under unusual conditions outside the United States and its insular possessions.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virgin Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of temporary government in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1132.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Temporary government for West Indian Islands</inline>: For expenses incident to the occupation of the Virgin Islands and to the execution of the provisions of the Act providing a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark, and for other purposes, approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be applied under the direction of the President, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian Consulting Board.</p></sidenote> For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilian Naval Consulting Board, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel oil and gasoline.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation, etc., of.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Investigation of fuel oil</inline>: For an investigation of fuel oil and gasoline adapted to naval requirements, including the question of supply and storage and the availability economically and otherwise of such supply as may be afforded by the naval reserves on the public domain, and for such other expenses for transportation and hire of vehicles in connection with naval petroleum reserves as the Secretary of the Navy may deem appropriate; for the purchase of necessary instruments <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing plant.</p></sidenote>and appliances; for the extension of the naval fuel-oil testing plant at the navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the temporary employment of civilian experts and assistants, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Aviation</inline>: For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft, establishment and maintenance of aircraft stations, including the acquisition of land by purchase, donation, or condemnation; and for experimental work in development of aviation for naval purposes, $220,383,119: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $300,000:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of aircraft damages to private property.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State marine schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1353.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">State marine schools</inline>: To reimburse the State of New York, $25,000, the State of Massachusetts, $25,000, and the State of Washington, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in those States in accordance with section two of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven; in all, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lepers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., Culion, P. I.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Care of lepers, Island of Guam</inline>: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote> bureau of navigation.</heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; trans<page identifier="/us/stat/40/707">707</page>portation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve force.</p></sidenote>thereof; transportation of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting.</p></sidenote>expenses of maintaining the same; purchase, rental, maintenance, operation, exchange, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, $12,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, comfort, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation for enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p, 1033.</p></sidenote>and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $150,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys, including civilian employees who render conspicuous service by putting their life in jeopardy to save life or property; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes: packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gunnery and engineering exercises</inline>: Prizes, trophies, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gunnery and engineering exercises.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1033.</p></sidenote>badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in coal consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purposes of printing, recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets and ranges; for hiring established <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Targets, ranges, etc.</p></sidenote>ranges, and for transporting the civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, $425,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Outfits on first enlistment</inline>: Outfits for all enlisted men and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits on first enlistments, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1033.</p></sidenote>apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $100 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and other members of the Naval Reserve Force, not to exceed $150 each for officers; for civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, or inaptitude; in all, $9,975,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Instruments and supplies: Supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies, instruments, etc.</p></sidenote>the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad: and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection, $3,469,800.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/708">708</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocean and lake surveys.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Ocean and lake surveys</inline>: Hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen and recorders, and for the purchase and printing of nautical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office details.</p></sidenote>books, charts, and sailing directions, $155,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to detail such naval officers as may be necessary to the Hydrographic Office.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Militia and Volunteers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 283; Vol. 39, p. 596.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteers transferred to Naval Reserve Force or Marine Corps Reserve.</p></sidenote> That upon the approval of this Act all laws heretofore enacted by the Congress relating to the Naval Militia and the National Naval Volunteers be, and the same hereby are, repealed: and the President is authorized to transfer as a class all members of the National Naval Volunteers to the class “the Naval Reserve,” “the Naval Reserve Flying Corps,” or “the Marine Corps Reserve” of the Naval Reserve Force or the Marine Corps Reserve, for general service, in the confirmed rank, grade, or rating they now hold in the National Naval Volunteers, regardless of their being members of a State military force, and without examination and the necessity of executing or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status, etc., retained until transferred.</p></sidenote>filing a new oath and acceptance of office; that until such transfer is effected members of the National Naval Volunteers shall retain their present status and be entitled to receive the same pay, allowances, gratuities, and other benefits as heretofore provided by law, and ail continue subject to the laws prescribed for the government of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenrollment in Naval Reserve Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> the Navy; that all members of the Naval Reserve Force shall be eligible for reenrollment in the rank, grade, or rating held on the termination of their last enrollment; that no enrollments or promotions shall be made in any rank or grade above that of lieutenant commander, except as herein otherwise provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical and Dental Reserve Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, pp. 344, 574.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferred to Naval Reserve Force.</p></sidenote> That all laws heretofore enacted by Congress relating to the Medical Reserve Corps and Dental Reserve Corps be, and the same hereby are, repealed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That members of the Medical Reserve Corps and Dental Reserve Corps may be enrolled in the Naval Reserve Force in their present grades and ranks.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Dental Corps and Reserve.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 573, 574.</p></sidenote> That the Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes” (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-nine, chapter four hundred and seventeen, pages five hundred and seventy-three and five hundred and seventy-four), be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of said Act following the caption “<quotedText>Naval Dental Corps</quotedText>” on page five hundred and seventy-three, but preceding the caption “<quotedText>Dental Reserve Corps</quotedText>”, on page five hundred and seventy-four, and by substituting therefor the following:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Dental Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Created as part of Medical Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ratio to Navy and Marine Corps strength.</p></sidenote> “That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint and commission, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, dental officers in the Navy at the rate of one for each thousand of the total authorized number of officers and enlisted men of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grades.</p></sidenote>Navy and Marine Corps, in the grades of assistant dental surgeon, passed assistant dental surgeon and dental surgeon, who shall constitute the Naval Dental Corps, and shall be a part of the Medical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Original rank.</p></sidenote>Department of the Navy. Original appointments to the Naval Dental Corps shall be made in the grade of assistant dental surgeon <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank and precedence in Medical Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 345.</p></sidenote>with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and all dental officers now in the Dental Corps appointed under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page three hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39. p. 573.</p></sidenote>and forty-five), or under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-nine, page five hundred and seventy-three), or who may hereafter be appointed, shall take rank and precedence with officers of the Naval Medical Corps of the same rank according to the dates of their respective commissions or original appointments, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/709">709</page>and all such dental officers shall be eligible for advancement in grade <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p></sidenote>and rank in the same maimer and under the same conditions as officers of the Naval Medical Corps with or next after whom they take precedence, and shall receive the same pay and allowances as officers of corresponding rank and length of service in the Naval Medical Corps up to and including the rank of lieutenant commander: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance in pay, but not in rank, up to captains.</p></sidenote>That dental surgeons shall be eligible for advancement in pay and allowances, but not in rank, to and including the pay and allowances of commander and captain, subject to such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, except that the number of dental surgeons with the pay and allowances of captain shall not exceed four and one-half per centum and the number of dental surgeons with the pay and allowances of commander shall not exceed eight per centum of the total authorized number of dental officers:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That dental surgeons shall be eligible for advancement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service pay and allowances.</p></sidenote>to the pay and allowances of commander and captain when their total active service as dental officers in the Navy is such that if rendered as officers of the Naval Medical Corps, it would place them in the list of medical officers with the pay and allowances of commander or captain, as the case may be:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of gained or lost numbers.</p></sidenote>dental officers who shall have gained or lost numbers on the Navy list shall be considered to have gamed or lost service accordingly; and the time served by dental officers on active duty as acting assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit for service under former commissions.</p></sidenote>dental surgeons and assistant dental surgeons under provisions of law existing prior to the passage of this Act shall be reckoned in computing the increased service pay and service for precedence and promotion of dental officers herein authorized or heretofore appointed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“All appointees authorized by this Act shall be citizens of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualifications.</p></sidenote>United States between twenty-one and thirty-two years of age, and shall be graduates of standard medical or dental colleges and trained in the several branches of dentistry, and shall, before appointment, have successfully passed mental, moral, physical, and professional examinations before medical and professional examining boards appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, and have been recommended or appointment by such boards: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter no person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">College graduation.</p></sidenote>shall be appointed as assistant dental surgeon in the Navy who is not a graduate of a standard medical or dental college.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Officers of the Naval Dental Corps shall become eligible for retirement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement.</p></sidenote>in the same manner and under the same conditions as now prescribed by law for officers of the Naval Medical Corps, except that <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disability not required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s1445/p253">R. S. sec. 1445, p. 253</ref>.</p></sidenote>section fourteen hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to dental officers, and they <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>shall not be entitled to rank above lieutenant commander on the retired list, or to retired pay above that of captain.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“All dental officers now serving under probationary appointments <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Probationary officers eligible.</p></sidenote>shall become immediately eligible for permanent appointment under the provisions of this Act, subject to the examinations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy for original appointment as dental officers, and may be appointed assistant dental surgeon with the rank or lieutenant (junior grade) to rank from the date of their probationary appointments: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the senior dental officer now at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy senior dental officer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, etc., for.</p></sidenote>United States Naval Academy shall not be displaced by the provisions of this Act, and he shall hereafter have the grade of dental surgeon and the rank, pay, and allowances of lieutenant commander, and he shall not be eligible for retirement before he has reached the age of seventy years, except for physical disability incurred in the line of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement limitation.</p></sidenote>duty:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no dental officer in the Navy who on original appointment as dental officer was over forty years of age shall be eligible for retirement before he has reached the age of seventy years, except for physical disability incurred in line of duty.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/710">710</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p></sidenote> “All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act relating to the Dental Corps of the Navy are hereby repealed: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of pay, etc.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to legislate out of the service any officer now in the Medical Department of the Navy or to reduce the rank, pay, or allowances now authorized by law for any officer of the Navy.”</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fleet Naval Reserve.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 590, amended.</p></sidenote> That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby amended as follows:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paragraph repealed.</p></sidenote> Strike out that part of the fourth paragraph under the subcaption “<quotedText>Fleet Naval Reserve</quotedText>” which reads as follows: “<quotedText>Men enrolled in the Fleet Naval Reserve with less than eight years’ naval service shall be paid at the rate of $50 per annum, those with eight or more years’ and less than twelve years’ naval service shall be paid at the rate of $72 per annum; and those with twelve or more years’ naval service shall be paid at the rate of $100 per annum, such pay to be considered as retainer pay for the obligation on the part of such members to serve in the Navy in time of war or national emergency,</quotedText>” and substitute therefor the following:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retainer pay made same as Naval Reserve.</p></sidenote> “The retainer pay of the enrolled men of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall be the same as for the enrolled men of the Naval Reserve and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credit and retirement not affected.</p></sidenote>shall be computed in like manner: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall operate to reduce the retainer pay allowed by existing law to enlisted men who, after sixteen years’ or more naval service, are transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve, nor to deny to such enlisted men their privilege of retirement upon completing thirty years’ naval service as now provided by law.”</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserves.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 591, amended.</p></sidenote> Strike out the first paragraph under the subcaption “Naval Reserve,” and substitute the following:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualification for enrollment in.</p></sidenote> “Members of the Naval Reserve Force who have enrolled for general service and are citizens of the United States are eligible for membership in the Naval Reserve. No person shall be enrolled in or transferred to this class unless he establishes satisfactory evidence as to his qualifications for duty on board combatant ships of the Navy.”</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limits, etc., to be prescribed.</p></sidenote> That the age limits for the several ranks, grades, and ratings on first enrollment in the Naval Reserve shall be as prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active service requirements.</p></sidenote> That the minimum active service required for maintaining the efficiency of a member of the Naval Reserve shall be two months during each term of enrollment and an attendance at not less than thirty-six drills dining each year, or other equivalent duty. The active service may be in one period or in periods of not less than fifteen days each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retainer pay.</p></sidenote> That the annual retainer pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, except officers in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve and transferred members of the Fleet Naval Reserve, after confirmation in rank, grade, or rating, shall be the equivalent of two months’ base pay of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for officers.</p></sidenote>the corresponding rank, grade, or rating in the Navy, but the highest base pay upon which the retainer pay of officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall be computed shall not be greater than the base pay of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credits.</p></sidenote>a lieutenant commander. Service in the Navy, Marine Corps, National Naval Volunteers, and Naval Militia shall be counted as continuous service in the Naval Reserve Force, both for the purpose <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement limitations.</p></sidenote>of retirement and of computing retainer pay: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no member of the Naval Reserve Force shall be eligible for retirement <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on retainer pay.</p></sidenote>other than for physical disability incurred in line of duty:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no retainer pay of any member of the Naval Reserve Force except those enlisted men transferred to the Fleet Naval <page identifier="/us/stat/40/711">711</page>Reserve after sixteen or twenty or more years’ naval service shall be in excess of the amount authorized to members having had sixteen years’ continuous service therein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in time of peace the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty afloat in time of peace.</p></sidenote>his discretion, to order any member of the Naval Reserve Force, with his consent, who has been confirmed in his rank, grade, or rating, to perform any duty afloat for any period of time for which his services may be required: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such members may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination.</p></sidenote>relieved from duty by the Secretary of the Navy at any time and shall upon their own application be released from said duty within four months from the date of their application therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the uniform gratuity for the members, other than officers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniform gratuity.</p></sidenote>of each class of the Naval Reserve Force shall be the same as that prescribed for enlisted men of the Navy, but in time of peace the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe the portion of the clothing gratuity to be issued to such members, other than officers, of the Naval Reserve Force.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in time of peace no member of any class of the Naval Reserve <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction in time of peace.</p></sidenote>Force shall be entitled to retainer pay when assigned to active duty for purposes other than training.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of the clothing gratuity credited to members of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing gratuity in time of war.</p></sidenote>Naval Reserve Force shall be deducted from their accounts where said members accept or have accepted temporary appointments in the Navy in time of war or other national emergency.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That members of the Naval Reserve Force shall upon reaching the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age disenrollment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retention in time of war.</p></sidenote>age of sixty-four years be disenrolled except that in time of war or other national emergency such members of the Naval Reserve Force, if in active service, may be continued therein during such period as the Secretary of the Navy may determine, but not longer than six months after said war or other national emergency shall cease to exist.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no officer of any class of the Naval Reserve Force shall in time <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of officer in time of peace.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In time of war.</p></sidenote>of peace be promoted above the grade of lieutenant commander, but in time of war or other national emergency officers of the Naval Reserve Force of and above the rank of lieutenant commander in active service shall be eligible for selection for promotion to the next higher grade or rank by the same board of officers that selects officers of the United States Navy for promotion to such higher ranks and grades, under the same rules and regulations as apply to the selection for promotion of officers of the United States Navy. The promotion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At all times below lieutenant commander.</p></sidenote>of officers of the Naval Reserve Force below the rank of lieutenant commander shall at all times be in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That when on active duty officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precedence of officers on active duty.</p></sidenote>take precedence among themselves and with other officers of the naval service in their respective grades or ranks according to the dates of their commissions or provisional assignment of rank in the Naval Reserve Force: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all officers of the Naval Reserve Force <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of and above lieutenant commander.</p></sidenote>of and above the rank of lieutenant commander shall rank with but after officers of the same rank or grade in the United States Navy, except that in time of war or other national emergency such officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall have a date of precedence with officers of the United States Navy as of the date of general mobilization, to be established by the Secretary of the Navy:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For present emergency.</p></sidenote>That during the present emergency the date of precedence of all officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall be as prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No officer of the Naval Coast Defense Reserve or officer of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commands restricted.</p></sidenote>Naval Reserve Flying Corps shall exercise command except within his particular department or service for the due performance of his respective duties.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/712">712</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active service pay, etc., to correspond with Navy.</p></sidenote> Members of the Naval Reserve Force when employed in active service, ashore or afloat, under the Navy Department shall receive the same pay and allowances as received by the officers and enlisted men of the Regular Navy of the same rank, grades, or ratings and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credits.</p></sidenote>of the same length of service, which shall include service in the Navy, Marine Corps, Naval Reserve Force, Naval Militia, National Naval Volunteers, or Marine Corps Reserve.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for Naval Militia and Volunteers available for.</p></sidenote> That the unexpended and unobligated portion of all moneys heretofore appropriated, and the appropriation authorized by section ten of Public Numbered Fifty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 88, pp. 286, 399, 930; Vol. 39, pp. 559, 1172.</p></sidenote>approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for the training and equipment of the Naval Militia and the National Naval Volunteers, for the clerical force and the office expenses of the Division of Naval Militia Affairs, and the property loaned by the Navy Department for the arming and equipping of the Naval Militia shall be, and hereby are, made available for training and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1172.</p></sidenote>equipping the Naval Reserve Force and for the purchase, rental, and maintenance of suitable armories therefor, including the acquisition of the necessary land upon which such armories may be located.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Militia Division transferred to Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote> That the clerical force and office expenses provided for the Division of Naval Militia Affairs shall be transferred to the Bureau of Navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Regulations to govern, in active service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniform permitted.</p></sidenote> Enrolled members of the Naval Reserve Force when in active service shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Navy, and the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, permit the members of the Naval Reserve Force to wear the uniform of their respective ranks, grades, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Responsibility.</p></sidenote>ratings while not in active service, and such members shall, for any act committed by them while wearing the uniform of their respective ranks, grades, or ratings, be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yerba Buena Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, California</inline>: Maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, California: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements, models, and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same: heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, $225,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, Rhode Island</inline>: Maintenance of naval training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea walls; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; fire engines and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for appren<page identifier="/us/stat/40/713">713</page>tice seamen; in all, $350,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $15,701.60.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, Great Lakes</inline>: Maintenance of naval <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes, Ill.</p></sidenote>training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; motor-propelled vehicles, wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; fire apparatus and extinguishers; gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and material, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting, and repairs to power-plant equipment, distributing mains, tunnel, and conduits; stationery, books, schoolbooks, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; and all other contingent expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $6,000; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, $725,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, Saint Helena</inline>: Maintenance of naval <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Helena, Va.</p></sidenote>training stations at Saint Helena and at naval operating base, Virginia, labor and material, general care, repairs, and improvements; schoolbooks; and all other incidental expenses, $310,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Organizing the Naval Reserve Force</inline>: For expenses of organizing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization, etc., expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 710.</p></sidenote>administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, stationery, and postage, printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Schools or camps of instruction, Naval Reserve Force</inline>: For <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction schools or camps.</p></sidenote>assembling, training, and instructing recruits and reserves of all classes, including the crews of section patrols, submarines and submarine chasers, and beach patrols, and for all purposes connected therewith, $2,655,360.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval War College, Rhode Island</inline>: For maintenance of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval War College, R. I.</p></sidenote>Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; and care of grounds for same, $35,250; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $300; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, $1,300: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $22,500; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, $38,850.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pay of employees</inline>: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of employees.</p></sidenote>One secretary, $1,800; one foreman mechanic, $1,800; one superintendent of grounds, at $900; one steward, at $900; one store laborer, at $540; one matron and office assistant, at $600; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at $360; one chief cook, at $540; one assistant cook, at $420; one assistant cook, at $360; one chief laundress, at $300; five laundresses, at $240 each; one chief scrubber, at $300; three scrubbers, at $240 each; one head waitress, at $360; eight waitresses, at $240 each; one kitchen attendant, at $420; nine laborers, at $420 <page identifier="/us/stat/40/714">714</page>each; one stable keeper and driver, at $540; one master at arms, at $720; two house corporals, at $480 each; one barber, at $480; one carpenter, at $960; one painter, at $960; one painter, at $840; one engineer, $960; four laborers, at $600 each; two laborers, at $660 each; one laborer, at $420; total for employees, $27,840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance</inline>: Water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable from naval pension fund.</p></sidenote>used only for official purposes, $87,805; in all, for Naval Home, $115,645, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted strength of Navy</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 575.</p></sidenote> That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy is hereby increased from eighty-seven thousand to one hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps, temporary Increase.</p></sidenote> That the Act approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Statutes at Large, volume forty, page eighty-five), entitled “An Act to temporarily increase the commissioned and warrant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 84, amended.</p></sidenote>and enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out all of the first and second sections of said Act, after the enacting clause, and by substituting therefor the following:</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted strength temporarily increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> “That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Navy is hereby temporarily increased from one hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five to one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five; the authorized number of apprentice seamen is hereby temporarily increased from six thousand to twenty-four thousand; and the authorized number of enlisted men of the Flying Corps is hereby temporarily increased <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized enlisted strength defined.</p></sidenote>from three hundred and fifty to ten thousand: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the phrase ‘authorized enlisted strength,’ as applied to the personnel of the Navy, shall mean the total number of enlisted men of the Navy authorized by law, exclusive of the Hospital Corps, apprentice seamen, those sentenced by court-martial to discharge, those detailed for duty with Naval Militia, those furloughed without pay, enlisted men of the Flying Corps, and those under instruction in trade schools:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number at trade schools.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the number of enlisted men for instruction in trade schools shall not at any time exceed fourteen thousand, which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further increase authorized.</p></sidenote>number is hereby temporarily authorized:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the President is authorized, at any time during the period of the present war, when in his judgment it becomes necessary, temporarily to increase the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy, as provided for herein, by the addition of fifty thousand men.”</proviso></p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted strength increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 612.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps is hereby temporarily increased from seventeen thousand four hundred to seventy-five thousand five hundred, this authorized strength being distributed in the various grades of the enlisted force in the same proportion as those authorized at the date <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Privates, first class, established.</p></sidenote>of the approval of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than twenty-five per centum of the authorized number of privates in the Marine Corps shall have the rank of private, first class, which rank is hereby established in the Marine Corps.”</proviso></content></section>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/715">715</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The rank and title of Major General is hereby created in the Marine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Major General and temporary Major General authorized.</p></sidenote>Corps, and the President is authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint one Major General, who shall at all times be junior in rank to the Major General Commandant, and also one temporary Major General in the Marine Corps, who shall at all times be junior to the permanent Major General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the said Act of May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary increase of commissioned officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 85, amended.</p></sidenote>seventeen, Statutes at Large, volume forty, page eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “<quotedText>lieutenant</quotedText>” in lines five and fourteen of section four thereof, and substituting therefor the words “<quotedText>lieutenant commander</quotedText>” and adding at the end of section four the following proviso: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further increase.</p></sidenote>That based on the temporary increase of enlisted men of the Marine Corps herein authorized, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized, in his discretion, temporarily to appoint not exceeding six brigadier generals, twenty-two colonels, and twenty-two lieutenant colonels in the Marine Corps in addition to the number permanently allowed by law in those grades; said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of autorization.</p></sidenote> temporary appointments shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President or until Congress shall amend or repeal the same and not later than six months after the termination of the present war; by striking out the words “<quotedText>commissioned warrant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limit stricken out.</p></sidenote>officers, warrant officers, and</quotedText>” in lines fourteen and fifteen of section five thereof; and by inserting after the semicolon in fine thirty-one of section five, the following:</proviso> <proviso>“<quotedText><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief warrant officers added.</p></sidenote>appointments as chief warrant officers may be made by the President, with the consent of the Senate,</quotedText>” so that said sections, as amended, will read as follows:</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional commissioned officers in the Navy and Marine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary appointments based on increased enlisted strength.</p></sidenote>Corps, based upon the temporary increases herein authorized in the number of enlisted men, shall be temporarily appointed by the President, in his discretion, with the advice and consent of the Senate, not above the grades and ranks of lieutenant commander <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of grades.</p></sidenote>in the line and staff of the Navy and major in the Marine Corps, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.</p></sidenote>the distribution in said grades and ranks to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all temporary original appointments <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Original appointments to be in lowest grades.</p></sidenote>shall be made in the lowest commissioned grades of the line and staff of the Navy and Marine Corps, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, and that there shall be no permanent or temporary appointments in or permanent or temporary promotions to any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To higher grades restricted.</p></sidenote>grade or rank above that of lieu tenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps by reason of the temporary appointment of officers authorized by this Act in excess of the total number of officers authorized by existing law or on account of the increase of enlisted men herein authorized:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That, during the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplying existing vacancies for present war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 576, 609.</p></sidenote>period of the present war, the deficiency existing prior to the passage of this Act in the total number of commissioned officers of the Navy and Marine Corps authorized by the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, may also be supplied by temporary appointments in the lowest grades and by temporary promotions to all other grades until a sufficient number of officers shall be available for regular appointment or promotion in accordance with existing law:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That nothing herein shall be held or construed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of retired or Reserve officers not abridged.</p></sidenote>to limit or abridge the use or service of the officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list or of the officers of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Naval Reserve Force, and Marine Corps Reserve, as provided and authorized under existing law:</proviso> <page identifier="/us/stat/40/716">716</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary chaplains and temporary acting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional appointments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 404.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary officers.</p></sidenote>chaplains in the Navy may be appointed for service during the period of the war in the proportion of the personnel of the Navy as now prescribed by existing law:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That, based on the temporary increase of enlisted men of the Marine Corps herein authorized, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized, in his discretion, temporarily to appoint <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of grades.</p></sidenote>not exceeding six brigadier generals, twenty-two colonels, and twenty-two lieutenant colonels in the Marine Corps in addition to the number <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duration of commissions.</p></sidenote>permanently allowed by law in those grades; said temporary appointments shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President or until Congress shall amend or repeal the same and not later than six months after the termination of the present war.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 5.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility for appointments or promotions to temporary grades or ranks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 85.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the additional temporary officers authorized in the various grades and ranks of the Navy and Marine Corps in accordance with the next preceding section may be temporarily appointed to serve in the grades or ranks to which appointed or promoted by the temporary advancement of officers holding permanent and probationary commissions, by temporary appointment of commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Navy, and warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, and clerks to assistant paymasters of the Marine Corps, commissioned and warrant officers of the United States Coast Guard, citizens of the United States who have had previous naval or military service or training, and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief warrant officers.</p></sidenote>citizens of the United States specially qualified: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such chief warrant officers as are given the temporary appointments provided herein who were chief warrant officers in the permanent Navy on July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and were not given <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seniority, etc.</p></sidenote>such temporary appointments as of that date because of age restriction or ill health, shall take rank and precedence with the other chief warrant officers temporarily appointed as of July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and according to their seniority as chief warrant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum age limits.</p></sidenote>officers in the permanent service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in making appointments authorized herein the maximum age limit shall be fifty years for enlisted men to ensign, enlisted men of the Navy to warrant rank, noncommissioned officers of the Marine Corps to commissioned rank, members of the Marine Corps branch of the Naval Militia and National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Reserve, and civilians specially qualified to commissioned rank, and temporary chaplains <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy graduates and warrant officers.</p></sidenote>and temporary acting chaplains:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That graduates of the Naval Academy and warrant officers duly commissioned in the Navy or Marine Corps in accordance with existing law shall not, by virtue of this Act, be required to receive temporary appointments; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Graduates of March 29, 1917.</p></sidenote>and the class of midshipmen graduated from the Naval Academy on March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the classes to be graduated hereafter, may be commissioned effective from date <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary warrant officers.</p></sidenote>of graduation:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary appointments as warrant officers of the Navy may be made by the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary chief warrant officers.</p></sidenote>Navy:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That temporary appointments as chief warrant officers may be made by the President with the consent of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine gunners and quartermaster clerks.</p></sidenote>Senate:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the temporary appointment for the war of seventy-six additional marine gunners, and seventy-six additional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility of lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns.</p></sidenote>quartermaster clerks, is authorized:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns may be considered eligible for temporary promotions to the grades of lieutenant and lieutenant (junior grade), respectively, without regard to length of service in grade.”</proviso>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral and Vice Admiral.</p></sidenote> That hereafter the Chief of Naval Operations shall receive the allowances which are now or may hereafter be prescribed by or in pursuance of law for the grade of general in the Army, and the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/717">717</page>officers of the Navy holding the rank and title of Admiral and Vice Admiral in the Navy while holding such rank and title shall receive the allowances of a General and Lieutenant General of the Army, respectively. And hereafter chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Department, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chiefs of Navy Department bureaus to correspond in rank, etc., with War Department.</p></sidenote>including the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, shall, while so serving, have corresponding rank and shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by or m pursuance of law for chiefs of bureaus of the War Department and the Judge Advocate General of the Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That nothing contained in the preceding amendments of the Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of present pay and allowances.</p></sidenote>of May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be construed to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any commissioned, warrant, or appointed officer or any enlisted man of the active or retired lists of the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the paragraph in the naval appropriation Act of August <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss of pay on account of personal misconduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 530, amended.</p></sidenote>twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, five hundred and eighty), relative to the loss of pay by officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who are absent from duty on account of sickness or disease resulting from their own misconduct, and the making good, by enlisted men, of time so lost, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “<quotedText>on account of,</quotedText>” in the second line, the word “<quotedText>injury,</quotedText>” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“<quotedText>Injury</quotedText>” added.</p></sidenote>followed by a comma, and by inserting after the words “<quotedText>on account of,</quotedText>” in the ninth line, the word “<quotedText>injury,</quotedText>” followed by a comma.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter, during the existence of war or of a national emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be ordered to active duty during war.</p></sidenote>declared by the President to exist, any commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States on the retired list may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be ordered to active duty at sea or on shore; and any retired officer performing such active duty in time of war or national emergency, declared as aforesaid, shall be entitled to promotion on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions allowed.</p></sidenote>the retired fist to the grade or rank, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps or captain in the Coast Guard, and shall thereafter receive the pay and allowances thereof, which his total active service as an officer both prior and subsequent to retirement, in the manner rendered by him, would have enabled him to attain in due course of promotion had such service been rendered continuously on the active list during the period of time last past.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That during the existence of war or of a national emergency, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary advances while on active duty.</p></sidenote>declared as aforesaid, any commissioned or warrant officer of the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard of the United States on the retired list, while on active duty, may be temporarily advanced to and commissioned in such higher grade or rank on the retired list, not above that of lieutenant commander in the Navy or major in the Marine Corps or captain in the Coast Guard, as the President may determine, and any officer so advanced shall, while on active duty, be entitled to the same pay and allowances as officers of like grade or rank on the active list: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any such commissioned or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion to former status when active duty ceases, etc.</p></sidenote>warrant officer who has been so temporarily advanced in grade or rank shall, upon his relief from active duty, or in any case not later than six months after the termination of the war or of the national emergency, declared as aforesaid, revert to the grade or rank on the retired list and to the pay and allowance status which he would have held had he not been so temporarily advanced:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay, etc., reduced.</p></sidenote>That nothing in this Act shall operate to reduce the pay and allowances now allowed by law to retired officers.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the naval appropriation Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea service requirements.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 579, amended.</p></sidenote>hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy-nine), be, and the same is hereby, amended by the insertion of a new proviso immediately after the clause that “<quotedText>On and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, no captain, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/718">718</page>commander, or lieutenant commander shall be promoted unless he has had not less than two years’ actual sea service on sea-going ships in the grade in which serving, or who is more than fifty-six, fifty, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions in cases specifically designated by the President, during war, etc.</p></sidenote>forty-five years of age, respectively,</quotedText>” the proviso reading as follows: <proviso>“<quotedText><i>Provided</i>, That in exceptional cases where officers are specifically designated during war or national emergency declared by the President by the Secretary of the Navy as performing, or as having performed, such highly important duties on shore that their services can not be or could not have been spared from such assignment without serious prejudice to the successful prosecution of the war, the qualification of sea service in the cases of those officers so specifically designated shall not apply while the United States is at war, or during a national emergency declared by the President, or within two and one-half years subsequent to the ending of such war or national emergency.</quotedText>”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions by selection extended to Staff Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39. p. 578.</p></sidenote> The provisions of existing laws with reference to promotion by selection in the line of the Navy are hereby extended to include and authorize advancement to the ranks of commander, captain, and rear admiral in the Staff Corps of the Navy under the same conditions in all respects except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition of boards.</p></sidenote>such Staff Corps: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That boards of selection shall in each case be composed, when practicable, of not less than five members of the corps concerned and promotions shall be made on the basis of fitness alone by selection from among the officers of the rank next below:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea service not required.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the requirements for sea service in grade, length of service in grade and maximum age in grade for promotion shall not apply.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No increased allowances for aviation duty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 939.</p></sidenote> That hereafter the allowances of officers, enlisted men, and student flyers of the naval service shall in no case be increased by reason of the performance of aviation duty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval mail clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shore stations designations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 35, p. 417.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 560.</p></sidenote> That the provisions of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, pages four hundred and seventeen and four hundred and eighteen), as amended by the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page five hundred and sixty), and as amended by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1188.</p></sidenote>the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page eleven hundred and eighty-eight), are hereby extended to authorize the designation of enlisted men of the Navy or Marine Corps as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks for duty at stations and shore establishments under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department where the services of such mail clerks and assistant mail clerks are necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination by Secretary of the Navy to govern.</p></sidenote> That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy may determine where and when there are no public quarters available for persons in the Navy and Marine Corps, or serving therewith, within the meaning of any Acts or parts of Acts relating to the assignment of quarters or commutation therefor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash rewards for suggested improvements by civilians, etc.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to pay cash rewards to civilian employees of the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment or other persons in civil life when due to a suggestion or series of suggestions by them there results an <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment from current appropriations.</p></sidenote>improvement or economy in manufacturing process or plant or naval material: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such sums as may be awarded to employees or other persons in civil life in accordance with this Act shall be paid them out of current naval appropriations in addition to their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreement required.</p></sidenote>usual compensation:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no employee or other person in civil life shall be paid a reward under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the suggestion or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature from the United States by him, his heirs, or assigns.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/719">719</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alvin Hovey-King.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reopening of disallowed accounts.</p></sidenote>to consider appeals from settlements of the Auditor for the Navy Department under date of April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in which settlements certain disallowances were made in the accounts of Paymaster Alvin Hovey-King, United States Navy, and in which cases the time within which appeal may lawfully be made to the comptroller has expired.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps upon the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of, in active service.</p></sidenote>retired list who has been ordered into active service since April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or who may hereafter be ordered into active service, shall be eligible for promotion and he shall be entitled to the pay and benefits of continuous service of such rank <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credits allowed.</p></sidenote>and for such length of time as he is or has been employed in active service, and when relieved of active service shall retain upon the retired list the rank and service held by him at the time of such relief, with the pay and allowances of such rank on the retired list; and the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., to be allowed by accounting officers.</p></sidenote>accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to allow in the accounts of any enlisted man of the Navy or Marine Corps who resigned from the retired list in order to reenlist for appointment in a higher grade, the same continuous service pay and the benefits of such rank to which he may have been appointed upon reenlistment, as if his service had been continuous, and any difference in pay from the date of reenlistment shall be credited to his account.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Lighthouse Depot at Saint Joseph, Michigan, described as follows, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph, Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouse depot transferred to Navy.</p></sidenote>is hereby transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for use for naval purposes, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beginning at a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote>at the northwest angle of the United States Life Saving Station situated in section twenty-three, township four south, range nineteen west, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan; thence south fifty-four degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and ninety-three feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E,,” at shore line; thence north seventy-four degrees and eleven minutes east three hundred feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.,” following the line of the shore; thence north fifteen degrees and forty-nine minutes west one hundred and fifty feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U. S. L. H. E.”; thence north eighty-seven degrees and eleven minutes west three hundred and thirteen feet to a four-by-four pine post, marked “U.S. L. H. E.”; thence south thirty-five degrees and thirty minutes west one hundred and fifty-nine feet to the place of beginning, containing approximately one and seven hundred and twenty-four one-thousandths acres, more or less, together with all buildings and improvements thereon: which property is shown on drawing number seventeen thousand three hundred and twenty-one, bearing the legend, “Office of the Lighthouse Inspector, Twelfth District, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lighthouse Depot, Saint Joseph, Michigan. General Plan of Depot. Scale as noted. Approved July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. N. M. Works, Superintendent. Lewis M. Stoddard, Inspector,” on file in the Navy Department.</p>
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<num value="a">(a) </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the word “person” as used in paragraph (b), (c), next <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency ship construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1192.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of terms used.</p></sidenote>hereafter shall include any individual, trustee, firm, association, company, or corporation. The word “ship” shall include any boat, vessel, submarine, or any form of aircraft, and the parts thereof. The words “war material” shall include arms, armament, ammunition, stores, supplies, and equipment for ships and airplanes, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof. The word “factory” shall include any factory, workshop, engine works, building used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or any process, and any shipyard or dockyard. The words “United States” shall include the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/720">720</page>continental and insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="b">(b) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority vested in the President.</p></sidenote>
<chapeau class="inline">The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">First.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To order ships or war material from any person.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To place an order with any person for such ships or war material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require and which are of the nature, kind, and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compliance obligatory.</p></sidenote> person. Compliance with all such orders shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts theretofore placed with such person. If any person owning, leasing, or operating any factory equipped for the building or production of ships or war material for the Navy shall refuse or fail to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such an order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantity, or quality of ships of war materials so ordered at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such person, or of any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient.</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">Second.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To modify existing contracts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, to modify or cancel any existing contract for the building, production, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession of factory if order refused, etc.</p></sidenote>or purchase of ships or war material; and if any contractor shall refuse or fail to comply with the contract as so modified, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such contractor, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire factory, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient.</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">Third.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To require whole output of factory etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">To require the owner or occupier of any factory in which ships or war material are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such factory, and within the limit of the amounts appropriated therefor, to deliver such output or parts thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President.</content></level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">Fourth.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To take over factory for Government use.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">To requisition and take over for use or operation by the Government any factory, or any part thereof, without taking possession of the entire factory, whether the United States has or has not any contract with the owner or occupier of such factory.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to cease at end of the war.</p></sidenote> That all authority granted to the President herein or by him delegated shall cease six months after a final treaty of peace shall be proclaimed between this Government and the German Empire.</p></content></level>
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<paragraph class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="d">(d) </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for modified contracts, etc.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That whenever the United States shall cancel or modify any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, or take over any factory or part thereof, or any ships or war material, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b), it shall make just compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part payment if unsatisfactory and suit allowed for remainder.</p></sidenote>therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof so determined by the President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per centum shall make up such amount <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape May air station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 344, amended.</p></sidenote> That the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy at Cape May, New Jersey, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following at the end thereof:</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/721">721</page>
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>“And provided further</i>, That in the event the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession authorized if no satisfactory agreement made.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1912.</p></sidenote>Navy is unable satisfactorily to consummate the negotiations for the purchase thereof under the provisions of said Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for and in behalf of the United States the immediate possession of and title to such land, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant or appertaining thereto deemed by him to be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and to make compensation therefor under the terms and provisions of the legislation contained in this Act; and the appropriation of $150,000 appropriated in said Act, approved <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation available.</p></sidenote>October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for the payment of compensation for said property so taken over by the President.”</proviso></p></quotedContent></content></paragraph>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of ordnance. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance and ordnance stores</inline>: For procuring, producing, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote>preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for necessary improvements at and maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and armor and projectile plant, and for target practice; for the maintenance, repair, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passenger vehicles.</p></sidenote>operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service m navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition depots: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, etc., services.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1033.</p></sidenote>That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition depots for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $2,950,000; in all, $30,522,279:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That ordnance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of materials to meet general needs.</p></sidenote>materials procured under the various Ordnance appropriations shall hereafter be available for issue, to meet the general needs of the naval service, under the appropriation from which procured.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, $2,400,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smokeless powder.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">New batteries for ships of the Navy</inline>: For batteries and outfits <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New batteries for ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1034.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote>for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen, $85,014,110.50: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $20,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That $41,259,523.50 of this amount shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing obligations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 370, 487.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1173.</p></sidenote>available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ammunition for vessels</inline>: For procuring, producing, preserving, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1034.</p></sidenote>and handling ammunition for vessels, $73,289,530: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $11,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That $23,210,120 of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing obligations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 370, 487.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1173.</p></sidenote>amount shall be available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedoes and appliances</inline>: Tor the purchase and manufacture of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedoes and appliances.</p></sidenote>torpedoes and appliances, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, $10,000,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/722">722</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supplies.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Reserve ordnance supplies</inline>: For reserve and miscellaneous <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing obligations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 370, 487.</p></sidenote>ordnance supplies, $63,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That $30,500,000 of this amount shall be available to meet obligations authorized under this heading in the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station, Newport, R. I.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island</inline>: For labor and material; general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, etc.</p></sidenote> For new and improved machinery and tools for torpedo factory, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental work.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Experiments, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing and torpedo shell and other projectiles, fuses, powders, and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy, $385,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at ammunition depots and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy mine depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erecting and equipping.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1827, 1869.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Navy mine depot</inline>: For the erection and equipment of a depot for the storage of high explosives and the loading of mines, on a site to be selected and acquired by the President, $3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy nitrate plant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erecting, equipping and operating.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Navy nitrate plant</inline>: For the erection, equipment, and operation of a plant for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, production of synthetic ammonia, its oxidation to nitric acid, and the manufacture of ammonium nitrate, for each and every expense connected therewith, including the employment of all necessary expert, drafting, and clerical assistance, $9,150,000, to be available until expended.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote> bureau of yards and docks.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely, for books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, operation or repair, purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay for employees on leave, $10,500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $2,000,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of passenger automobileslimited.</p></sidenote>the purchase of more than one hundred and fifteen passenger-carrying automobiles for official use within the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price restriction.</p></sidenote>United States and its insular possessions: </proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/723">723</page>the purchase of more than one hundred such passenger-carrying automobiles at a greater cost than $500 each and fifteen at a greater cost than $2,000 each:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of high-powered cars.</p></sidenote>Navy is authorized to distribute the high-powered automobiles now owned and in use in the United States and its insular possessions to such places and service as they may be required.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For contingent expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, 4250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Emergency expenses, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For emergency <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>expenses and extensions of public works at navy yards and naval stations, 44,750,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public works, bureau of yards and docks. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital construction</inline>: For additional temporary hospital construction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional temporary hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designated places.</p></sidenote>and repairs as may be necessary at the points named herein and to provide same with suitable hospital facilities, Chelsea, Massachusetts, $350,000; Newport, Rhode Island, $500,000; New London, Connecticut, $150,000; Brooklyn, New York, $1,400,000; Wards Island, New York, $1,250,000; Pelham, New York, 3900,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $355,000; League Island, Pennsylvania, 3800,000; Norfolk, Virginia, 41,250,000; Hampton Roads, Virginia, 4500,000; Charleston, South Carolina, 3850,000; Parris Island, South Carolina, 4175,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, $65,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $150,000; overseas, $1,000,000; contingent, $600,000; in all, $10,295,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary storage</inline>: For temporary storage, $1,000,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary storage.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire</inline>: Addition to machine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote>shop, $200,000; addition to foundry, $130,000; power-plant improvements, $150,000; in all, $480,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Submarine base, New London, Connecticut</inline>: For the further <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London, Conn., submarine base.</p></sidenote>development of the submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including the erection and equipment of repair shops, the provision of additional berthing space, and the erection of quarters and barracks for officers and men, $750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts</inline>: Improvement of central <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote>power plant, $425,000; water front improvements, $400,000; machine shop and foundry, $900,000; in all, $1,725,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, New York, New York</inline>: Water front improvements, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote>$750,000; central power-plant improvements, $500,000; in all, $1,250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: Dry dock, to complete, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dry dock, etc.</p></sidenote>$2,000,000; central power-plant improvements, $300,000; tracks, streets and sewers, $100,000; in all, $2,400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Depot of supplies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: For the erection <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps supplies depot.</p></sidenote>of a lumber shed and necessary railroad sidings on land now owned by the Government and occupied as a portion of the Depot of Supplies, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of $40,434.23 of appropriation of $200,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional lands, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of unexpended balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 215.</p></sidenote>in the Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, making appropriations to supply deficiencies, for the purchase of additional land, Depot of Supplies, Marine Corps, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is hereby made available for the purchase of all necessary land lying between Alter Street, Ellsworth Street, and Fifteenth Street, in the city of Philadelphia, including all buildings thereon and for adapting said buildings for uses connected with said depot.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: Fuse and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote>primer loading house, Bellevue magazine, $25,000; boundary fence, Bellevue magazine, $20,600; cranes for buildings, $375,000; central power plant and distributing systems, extensions, $85,000; seven <page identifier="/us/stat/40/724">724</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land for Gun Factory.</p></sidenote> ordnance storehouses, Bellevue magazine, $440,000; for the acquisition of additional land on the east side of the Naval Gun Factory lying south of M Street and west of Eleventh Street and for the removal of buildings thereon and the grading of the ground and construction of walls enclosing said land and equipping same for use, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Closing of streets, etc.</p></sidenote>$488,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the acquisition of the land hereby authorized, all portions of public streets on which any squares so taken over shall abut and lying between the same, and all public alleys within said squares together with such portions of streets and public alleys as lie between the present navy yard and the land so acquired, are hereby abandoned and closed and said portions of said streets and public alleys shall be regarded as set apart and reserved for naval purposes; in all, $1,433,600.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other lands reserved for naval purposes.</p></sidenote> That portion of Eleventh Street southeast lying south of the south <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote>line of O Street southeast and west of the west face of the new Anacostia bridge is hereby abandoned and closed, and said portion of said street, together with such land owned by the United States as is bounded on the north by the south line of O Street; on the east by the west face of the new Anacostia bridge; on the south by the waters of the Anacostia River; and on the west by the west line of Eleventh Street, extending in a southerly direction from its point of intersection with the south line of O Street and prolonged to its intersection with the waters of the Anacostia River, is hereby set apart and reserved for naval purposes and placed under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Access to Anacostia Bridge.</p></sidenote>control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That at all times the proper authorities of the District of Columbia shall be permitted to have access to the area above described for the purpose of making examinations of, and repairs to, the said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present leases terminated.</p></sidenote>bridge:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That all leases heretofore granted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to parties occupying said above described area are hereby, in accordance with the terms of such leases, terminated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantico, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands to be acquired for Marine Corps post.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1880.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia</inline>: The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act all of the land specified in the report of the board appointed by the Major General Commandant, Marine Corps, dated January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, at Quantico, Virginia, as a permanent Marine Corps post, and the sum of $475,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dry dock, etc.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia</inline>: Dry dock, to complete, $2,000,000; water-front improvements, $500,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $300,000; tracks, streets, and sewers, $150,000; galvanizing shop, $100,000; toward steel and lumber storage (limit of cost, $850,000), $400,000; in all, $3,450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional buildings.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Buildings and grounds, Naval Academy</inline>: Extension of Bancroft Hall, to complete, $1,850,000; and the limit of cost is increased to $2,850,000; improvements central power plant and distributing systems, $325,000; general store building, $100,000; building for seamanship and navigation, and other instruction purposes, $1,000,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for this purpose not to exceed $1,500,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made; garage, $30,000; in all, $3,305,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Royal, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine recruiting station.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina</inline>: For twelve additional barracks buildings, four lavatories, and six mess halls, $60,000; dredging and reclaiming marsh land, $35,000; sea wall, $25,000; lining dry dock with concrete, $25,000; street paving, $7,000; cement sidewalks, $7,000; trees and shrubbery, $1,000; medical officers’ quarters, $10,000; in all, $170,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parris Island.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entire island to enlarge station.</p></sidenote> The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act all of the remaining portion of Parris Island for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/725">725</page>the enlargement of the Marine Recruiting Station, Port Royal, South Carolina; and the sum of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for this purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Charleston, South Carolina</inline>: For the construction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dry dock, etc.</p></sidenote>of a large dry dock (limit of cost, $4,000,000), $1,150,000; dredging, to continue, $25,000; railroad system extension, $15,000; toward water-front improvements, $200,000; boat storage, $10,000; central power plant improvements, $250,009; in all, $1,650,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, Key West, Florida</inline>: Station improvements, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine base, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote>$25,000; for the development of a submarine base, $1,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for this purpose not to exceed $1,500,000 in addition to the appropriations herein made; in all, $1,025,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval aeronautic station, Pensacola, Florida</inline>: Improvements <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeronautic station.</p></sidenote>central power plant and distributing systems, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana</inline>: Floating crane, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote>$30,000; improvements, central power plant and distributing systems, $280,000; water-front improvements, $100,000; shell house, $40,000; in all, $450,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Mare Island, California</inline>: Maintenance of dikes and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote>dredging, $100,000; improvements central power plant and distributing system, $250,000: structural shop and auxiliary improvements, $1,000,000; in all, $1,350,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The buildings and improvements in connection with and appurtenant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light station transferred to Navy.</p></sidenote>to the Mare Island Light Station, California, are hereby transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce to the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for naval purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington</inline>: Improvements, central <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote>power plant and distributing systems, $325,000; purchase of additional land adjoining the navy yard, $300,000; for grading, filling, and sea-wall construction (limit of cost to be $750,000), $400,000; in all, $1,025,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii</inline>: Auxiliary water supply, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>$41,275.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa</inline>: Construction of quarters, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tutuila, Samoa.</p></sidenote>$9,000; additional water-supply system, including not to exceed $500 for the purchase of land, $15,000; storehouse, $15,000; sea wall, $5,000; miscellaneous, $6,000; in all, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, Guam</inline>: Repair and extension of roads, $30,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p></sidenote>cold storage, $40,000; boathouse, $20,000; miscellaneous and extensions, $10,000; in all, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba</inline>: Concrete pier, $140,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guantanamo, Cuba.</p></sidenote>telephone and transmission system, $25,000; road construction, $15,000; storage facilities, $20,000; in all, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval magazine, New England Coast</inline>: Dredging, $30,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazines, New England coast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indianhead, Md.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powder factory.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Proving Ground, Indianhead, Maryland</inline>: Improvements to powder factory, $140,000; pyro storage, $20,000; m all, $160,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the building of or providing for the construction of a railroad <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connecting railroad.</p></sidenote>to connect the Naval Proving Ground and the Naval Smokeless Powder Factory at Indianhead, Maryland, with existing or contemplated railway lines, under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy, authority being granted for the immediate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of way.</p></sidenote>condemnation or acquisition of the necessary right of way, $850,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania</inline>: The President <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mifflin, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote>is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania; and for this pur<page identifier="/us/stat/40/726">726</page>pose $360,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval magazine, New York Harbor</inline>: Quarters for marine officer and medical officer, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lafayette, N.Y.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval magazine, Fort Lafayette, New York</inline>: Dredging channel, $26,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Denmark, N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey</inline>: The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey; and for this purpose $18,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island, buildings</inline>: Boathouse and diving school, $100,000; emergency torpedo repair shop, $100,000; extension of industrial roads, $20,000; extension of sea wall, $5,000: rebuilding carpenter shop, $25,000; improvements central power plant systems, including quay wall and fill at power house, $800,000; in all, $1,050,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for increasing ordnance facilities in the vicinity of the naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island; and for this purpose $100,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo storage.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Torpedo storage</inline>: For additional storage for torpedoes at ordnance stations, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel depots.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Depots for coal</inline>: For depots for coal and other fuel, Guantanamo, Cuba, $90,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $40,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $60,000; San Diego, California, $70,000; Mare Island, California; $270,000; Melville, Rhode Island, $160,000; contingent, $50,000; care and custody of naval petroleum reserves, $10,000; in all, $750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California training station.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval training station, California, buildings</inline>: Water supply, $65,000; roads and streets, $10,000; in all, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peking, China.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine barracks.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Marine Barracks, Peking, China</inline>: Power plant, $25,000; barrack buildings, to complete, $85,000; in all, $110,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island training station.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Rhode Island, Buildings</inline>: Sea-wall improvements, $225,000; remodeling boathouse, $20,000; officers’ quarters, $15,000; fire apparatus house and garage, $30,000; in all, $290,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for the enlargement of the Naval Training Station, Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island, and for this purpose $100,000 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes training station.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Illinois, Buildings</inline>: Dredging harbor, $35,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> The President is authorized to acquire under the authority and provisions of this Act additional land for the enlargement of the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, and for this purpose $887,500 is hereby appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Diego, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps base.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Marine Barracks, San Diego, California</inline>: Toward the establishment of a Marine Corps base, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel depot.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval Fuel Depot, San Diego, California</inline>: Marine railway, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton Roads, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval base.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 207.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia</inline>: Toward water-front improvements and permanent improvements to station, including piers, bulkheads, filling, grading, and so forth, $3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Repairs and preservation at navy yards</inline>: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $4,000,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/727">727</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works, $46,694,375, and the amounts herein appropriated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts available until expended.</p></sidenote>therefor, except for repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations, shall be available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of $4,300 of the appropriation of $10,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission on navy yards, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance tor expenses continued.</p></sidenote>for expenses of a commission of naval officers to investigate the question of navy yards and naval stations contained in the Act making appropriations for the Naval Service, approved August <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 371.</p></sidenote>twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is further continued and made available until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Paymaster General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Susie A. Van Kirk.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to, for death of son.</p></sidenote>Mrs. Susie A. Van Kirk, mother of the late Dean R. Van Kirk, ensign, National Naval Volunteers, an amount equal to one year’s pay at the rate received by that officer at the date of his death, May first, nineteen hundred and seventeen.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of medicine and surgery. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p></sidenote>commission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, including one bookkeeper at $1,600 and one clerk at $1,400 at the naval medical supply depot, Brooklyn, and toward <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supply.</p></sidenote>the accumulation of a reserve supply of medical stores, $5,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For tolls and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, including officers and enlisted men who die within the United States; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of non-passenger-carrying <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles, etc.</p></sidenote>wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of two passenger-carrying motor vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, and of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy, and of a motor omnibus for the transportation of convalescent patients and attendants at the Naval Hospital at Las Animas, Colorado, to be used only for official purposes; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to the Government Hospital for the Insane; for dental outfits and dental material, and all other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dental outfits.</p></sidenote>necessary contingent expenses; in all, $1,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of remains</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting remains of officers, etc.</p></sidenote>Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries, and of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Militia and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia, Volunteers and Reserve Force.</p></sidenote>National Naval Volunteers and the Naval Reserve Force when on active service with the Navy, who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his dis<page identifier="/us/stat/40/728">728</page>cretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of fund.</p></sidenote>United States, $350,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and shall be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of hospital patients.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Care of hospital patients</inline>: For the care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and in other than naval hospitals, for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional lands.</p></sidenote>the rental and purchase of land, at Key West, Florida, and at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, $4,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lyons, Colo., naval hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">United States Naval Hospital, Fort Lyons, Colorado</inline>: For the purchase of about four hundred and twenty acres of land for the enlargement and development of the Naval Hospital, Fort Lyons, Colorado, $19,600.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote> bureau of supplies and accounts.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of the Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Pay of the Navy</inline>: Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, etc.</p></sidenote>$33,234,498; officers on the retired list, $3,374,391; commutation of quarters for officers, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, machinists, pharmacists, pay clerks, and mates, naval constructors, and assistant naval constructors, $2,821,248, and also members of Nurse Corps (female), $44,200; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote>conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $25,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $540,255; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge, $1,400,000; interest on deposit by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 714.</p></sidenote>men, $15,000; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, inducting men in the engineers’ force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, one hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five men, plus ten thousand men for aviation service, plus fourteen thousand men in trade schools; and pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, and for the pay of enlisted men detailed for duty with the Naval Militia, $121,630,172; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $540,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apprentice seamen.</p></sidenote>deem necessary to appoint; and twenty-four thousand apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, $8,019,600; pay of the Nurse Corps, $670,800; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Reserve Force.</p></sidenote> $55,800; retainer pay and active-service pay of members of the Naval Reserve Force, $55,001,982; in all, $227,372,946; and the money herein <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote>specifically appropriated for “Pay of the Navy ’ shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as “Pay of the Navy,” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shore quarters for submarine officers.</p></sidenote>and for that purpose shall constitute one fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That during the war, in such cases as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, this appropriation shall be available for the hire of quarters for officers attached to submarines when they are required to be on shore and Government quarters are not available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Navy</inline>: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than com<page identifier="/us/stat/40/729">729</page>missioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, chief machinists, chief pay clerks, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 50 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of officers and men of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; subsistence of officers and men of the naval auxiliary service; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve Force during period of active service; and for subsistence of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations to prisoners.</p></sidenote>Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed 30 cents per diem for each ration so commuted; and for the purchase of United States Army <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army emergency ration.</p></sidenote>emergency rations as required; in all, $75,520,216, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and small stores fund</inline>: For purchase of clothing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing and small stores fund.</p></sidenote>and small stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the “Clothing and small stores fund,” $27,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: For fuel; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>the removal and transportation of ashes and garbage, from ships of war; books, blanks, and stationery, including stationery for commanding and navigating officers of ships chaplains on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ships; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters for ships; packing boxes and materials; interior fittings for general storehouses, pay offices, and accounting offices in navy yards; expenses of disbursing officers; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for the same; laboratory equipment; purchase of articles of equipage at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote>home and abroad under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith, and the manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards: musical instruments and music; mess outfits; soap on board naval vessels; athletic outfits; tolls, ferriages, yeomen’s stores, safes, and other incidental expenses; labor in general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices in navy yards and naval stations, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under “General account of advances”; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food inspection,</p></sidenote>and reimbursement to appropriations of the Department of Agriculture of cost of inspection of meats and meat food products for the Navy Department: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborer, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $4,000,000; in all, $17,836,625.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: All freight and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, Department and bureaus.</p></sidenote>express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,000,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/730">730</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and transportation.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps"> Fuel and Transportation</inline>: Coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels; and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining coal, etc., in Alaska, for naval use.</p></sidenote>transportation and storage of both, $49,400,000, $1,000,000 of which, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may in his discretion, be used by the Secretary of the Navy in mining coal, or contracting for the same in Alaska, the transportation of the same, and the construction of coal bunkers and the necessary docks for use in supplying <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection of areas.</p></sidenote>ships therewith; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to select from the public coal lands in Alaska such areas as may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels for carrying fuel.</p></sidenote>be necessary for use by him for the purposes stated herein: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when, in the opinion of the President, the prices asked for the charter of vessels for the transportation of fuel are excessive, he is authorized to purchase vessels suitable for the purpose, and, if money is not otherwise available, to pay for them from the appropriation “Fuel and transportation.”</proviso></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote> bureau of construction and repair.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair of vessels.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Construction and repair of vessels</inline>: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard and Lighthouse vessels.</p></sidenote>of construction and repair; repair and maintenance of vessels of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services; submarine chasers, patrol boats; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote>force under the bureau; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, lanterns, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs limit not applicable.</p></sidenote>vessels, $60,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limitations imposed by existing law relative to repairs to vessels of the Navy shall not apply to the expenditure of funds made available in this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen (ship keepers), and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction plants.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Construction plants at navy yards</inline>: For repairs and improvements of machinery and implements at construction plants at navy <page identifier="/us/stat/40/731">731</page>yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $10,000; Boston, Massachusetts, $25,000; New York, New York, $35,000; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $25,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $35,000; Charleston, South Carolina, $10,000; Mare Island, California, $35,000; Puget Sound, Washington, $25,000; in all, $200,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of steam engineering. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineering</inline>: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering repairs, machinery, etc.</p></sidenote>auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service, including expenses of office of Director of Naval Communications and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of Naval Communications.</p></sidenote>the purchase of land as necessary for sites for radio shore stations; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment supplies.</p></sidenote>required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, pay of classified force under the bureau; incidental expenses for navy vessels, naval yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; instruments and apparatus, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Radio work.</p></sidenote>supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work in radiotelegraphy at the naval radio laboratory: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote>appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $3,035,000:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Radio shore stations.</p></sidenote>That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for the purchase of land for sites for radio shore stations shall not exceed $10,000; in all, engineering, $50,000,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For original investigation and extended experimentation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering experimental station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental work.</p></sidenote>of naval appliances</inline>: Testing implements and apparatus; purchase and installation of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, and for maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds, $160,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The foregoing appropriations for the Naval Establishment shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval appropriations available for, while cooperating with Navy.</p></sidenote>available for similar expenses of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services while cooperating with the Navy in so far as the regular appropriations for these services are insufficient therefor; and, when expenditures are thus made, naval appropriations need not be reimbursed from the appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much of the naval appropriations for the fiscal years nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of credits.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen as is necessary may be transferred on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the regular appropriations of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Services.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary promotion of officers during present war.</p></sidenote>authorized during the period of the present war to promote temporarily, with the advice and consent of the Senate, commissioned line officers and engineer officers of the United States Coast Guard <page identifier="/us/stat/40/732">732</page>below the rank and grades of captain and captain of engineers to the ranks and grades of the Coast Guard not above captain and captain of engineers, respectively, without regard to number or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on rank and grade.</p></sidenote>length of service in rank or grade: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such temporary promotions may be to such rank and grade in the Coast Guard not above captain or captain of engineers as correspond to the rank and grade that may be attained in accordance with law, either permanently or temporarily, by line officers of the regular Navy of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructors.</p></sidenote>same length of total service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That constructors of the Coast Guard now authorized by much total service in the Coast Guard as the officer of the Construction Corps of the Navy at the foot of the permanent or temporary list of those with the rank of lieutenant commanders may be temporarily <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service credit.</p></sidenote>promoted to the rank of captain of the Coast Guard:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That for the purposes of this Act service in the past Guard to be counted must have been continuous:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precedence, etc., not disturbed.</p></sidenote>That nothing contained in this paragraph shall operate to disturb the relative position of officers in the Coast Guard with reference to precedence or promotion, but all such officers otherwise qualified shall be advanced in rank with or ahead of officers in the Coast Guard who were their juniors on the date of this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of captain commandant, and engineer in chief.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relative rank.</p></sidenote> That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized during the period of the present war to promote temporarily, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the captain commandant of the Coast Guard to the rank of commodore in the Navy and brigadier general in the Army, and the engineer in chief of the Coast Guard to the rank of captain in the Navy and colonel in the Army, officers of the Coast Guard holding permanent commissions above the rank and grade of first lieutenant and first lieutenant of engineers as follows: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bank of captains.</p></sidenote>Not to exceed two-fifths of the captains authorized by law, and not to exceed one-third of the captains of engineers authorized by law, to have the rank of senior captain in the Coast Guard; and not to exceed one-third the senior captains authorized by law, to have <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion by selection.</p></sidenote>the rank of captain in the Navy and colonel in the Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the senior captains, captains, and captains of engineers to be temporarily promoted as herein provided, shall be selected as provided by law for promotion by selection in the Navy.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District superintendents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, etc., during the war.</p></sidenote> That during the period of the present war, the senior district superintendent, the three district superintendents next in order of seniority, the four district superintendents next below these three in order of seniority, and the junior five district superintendents shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of captain, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, and third lieutenant in the Coast Guard, respectively.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No present commissions vacated.</p></sidenote> That the permanent and probationary commissions of officers of the Coast Guard shall not be vacated by reason of the temporary promotions and advancements authorized by this Act, nor shall said officers be prejudiced in their relative lineal rank in regard to their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>promotion as provided for in existing law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no officer who shall receive a temporary promotion or advancement under this Act shall be entitled to pay or allowances except under such promotion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former status to be resumed.</p></sidenote>or advancement:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That upon the termination of the temporary promotions and advancements authorized by this Act, the officers so promoted and advanced shall revert to the rank <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p></sidenote>and grade from which temporarily promoted or advanced, unless such officers in the meantime, in accordance with law, become entitled to promotion to a higher grade or rank in the permanent Coast Guard, in which case they shall revert to said higher grade or rank, and shall, after passing the prescribed examinations, be commissioned accordingly.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/733">733</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all temporary promotions and advancements authorized by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of temporary promotions.</p></sidenote>this Act shall continue in force only until otherwise directed by the President, and not later than six months after the termination of the present war.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any officer of the Coast Guard temporarily promoted or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grade, etc., of officers retired.</p></sidenote>advanced in grade or rank in accordance with the provisions of this Act who shall be retired from active service under his permanent commission while holding such temporary grade or rank, except for physical disability incurred in line of duty, shall be placed on the retired list with the grade or rank to which his position in the permanent Coast Guard at the date of his retirement would entitle him.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That officers of the United States Coast Guard on sea duty or on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign service increased pay applicable.</p></sidenote>shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States during the period of the present war shall receive the same increase of pay and allowances in all respects as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for officers of the Navy of corresponding rank.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That nothing contained in this Act relating to the Coast Guard <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No existing pay, etc., reduced.</p></sidenote>shall operate to reduce the rank, pay, or allowances that would have been received by any person m the Coast Guard except for the passage of this Act.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>naval academy. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of professors and others, Naval Academy</inline>: Pay of professors <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of professors, etc.</p></sidenote>and instructors, including one professor as librarian, 8235,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One swordmaster, $1,700; assistants: one $1,500; one $1,300; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instructors, etc.</p></sidenote>headmaster in physical training, $2,000; instructors in physical training: one $1,800; two at $1,500 each; three at $1,300 each; assistant librarian, $2,400; cataloguer, $1,600; shelf assistants: two at $1,200 each; secretary of the Naval Academy, $2,500; clerks: two at $1,900 each; two at $1,700 each; two at $1,600 each; four at $1,400 each; four at $1,200 each; seven, $1,100 each; seven, $1,000 each; draftsman, $1,700; surveyor, $1,500; services of organist at chapel, $300; captain of the watch, $1,460; second captain of the watch, $1,300; twenty-two watchmen, at $1,160 each; three telephone switchboard operators, at $660 each: mail messenger, $1,100. In all, pay of professors and others, Naval Academy, $329,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of ordnance and gunnery</inline>: Leading ordnanceman, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of ordnance and gunnery.</p></sidenote>$1,450; electrician, $1,680; ordnancemen: one, $1,280; one $1,150; one $1,100; ordnance helpers: two $1,030 each; two, $1,000 each; storeroom and record keeper, $840; in all, $11,560.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Departments of electrical engineering and physics</inline>: One <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departments of electrical engineering and physics.</p></sidenote>instrument maker, $1,800; three electrical machinists, $1,758 each; one mechanic, $1,758; laboratorian, $1,500; in all, $10,332.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of seamanship</inline>: Two coxswains, $500 each; three <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of seamanship.</p></sidenote>seamen, $450 each; in all, $2,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of marine engineering and naval construction.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Department of marine engineering and naval construction; </inline>Master machinist, $2,300; assistant, $1,800; pattern maker, $1,800; boiler maker, blacksmith, three machinists, molder, and coppersmith, $1,758 each; one pattern maker and one blacksmith, $1,680 each; one instructor in mechanical drawing, $2,100; machinists and other employees, $9,515.20; in all, $33,181.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commissary department</inline>: Chief clerk and purchasing agent, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissary department.</p></sidenote>$1,800; chief cook, $1,500; cooks: fourteen, $900 each; eighteen, $600 each; stewards: one, $1,800, four assistants, $1,200 each; two head waiters, $900 each; six assistant head waiters, $720 each; head pantrymen: two, $900 each; bakers: chief, $1,500; nine, $960 each; nine, $720 each; butchers: head, at $960; four assistants, $780 each; one butcher’s helper, $600; four baker helpers, $420 each; firemen: six, $600 each; necessary waiters, at not to exceed $25 per month each, $35,100, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits allowed for payments to waiters.</p></sidenote>and directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing officer for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/40/734">734</page>and eighteen payments to waiters not in excess of the rate fixed by appropriation Acts and the aggregate amounts appropriated; coffeemen: two, $600 each, four, $420 each; four dish pantrymen, $420 each; four utility men, $420 each; linemen: one, $600; two, $420 each; four seamstresses, $600 each; stenographers: two, $1,080 each: typists: three, $900 each; two drivers, $720 each; scullions and other unskilled labor (wages in no case to exceed $50 per month), $2,000; in all, $121,280.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Department of buildings and grounds</inline>: One messenger to superintendent, $750; necessary building attendants, $34,200; in all, $34,950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency temporary employees.</p></sidenote> For the employment of such additional temporary force of employees in the various departments of the Naval Academy as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business on account of the existing emergency, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, $643,113.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy</inline>: Text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, and materials for instruction purposes, $89,550.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> Purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p></sidenote> For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commandant.</p></sidenote> For contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, current and miscellaneous expenses, $98,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance and repairs.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy</inline>: For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, namely: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote> fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy; coal and other fuel;’ candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music, musical and astronomical instruments; and for the pay of employees on leave, $507,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Rent of buildings for the use of the academy, and commutation of rent for bandsmen, at $8 per month each, $3,936.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, maintenance and repairs, $510,936.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Naval Academy, exclusive of public works, $1,252,849.20.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote> marine corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Pay, Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of officers, active and reserve list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active and reserve list, $9,891,624.50.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/735">735</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The title of clerks for assistant paymasters is hereby changed to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title and pay established.</p></sidenote>pay clerk, who shall hereafter receive the same pay, allowances, and other benefits now provided by law for clerks for assistant paymasters; and the total number of pay clerks shall not exceed ten for duty in the office of the paymaster, Marine Corps, fifteen for duty in the paymaster’s department at large, and one for each assistant paymaster: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to reduce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay, etc., reduction.</p></sidenote>the pay, allowances, or other benefits granted by existing law to any clerk for assistant paymaster now in service.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p></sidenote>major generals, three brigadier generals, six colonels, four lieutenant colonels, eleven majors, twenty-one captains, fourteen first lieutenants, two second lieutenants, and one paymaster’s clerk, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, $218,907.56.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Active and reserve list.</p></sidenote>noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $38,877,795.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired.</p></sidenote>retired list: For nine sergeants major, one drum major, twenty-one gunnery sergeants, thirty-four quartermaster sergeants, thirty-eight first sergeants, fifty-nine sergeants, thirteen corporals, one principal musician, sixteen first-class musicians, one second-class musician, one drummer, and thirteen privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, $168,477.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undrawn clothing.</p></sidenote>clothing undrawn, $128,358.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>troops, $377,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote>where there are no public quarters, $427,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of civil force</inline>: In the office of the major general commandant: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil force.</p></sidenote>Temporary special assistant to the major general commandant, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; one messenger, at $971.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the paymaster: Ono chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at $2,250; one clerk, at $1,800; clerk at $1,600; one clerk, at $1,500; one clerk, at $1,400; one clerk, at $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the quartermaster: Temporary special assistant to the quartermaster, $2,750; one chief clerk, at $2,250; two clerks, at $1,800 each; one clerk, at $1,500; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; technical engineer, $2,300; one draftsman, at $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, San Francisco, California: One chief clerk, at $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One chief clerk, at $2,000; one messenger, at $840.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/736">736</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote> In all, for pay of civil force, $45,711.28, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, pay, Marine Corps, $50,135,874.14.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote> maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Marine Corps</inline>: For enlisted men serving ashore; subsistence and lodging of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof; commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers; payments of board and lodging of applicants for enlistment while held under observation, recruits, recruiting parties, and enlisted men where it is impracticable to otherwise furnish subsistence, or in lieu of board, commutation of rations to recruiting parties, and enlisted men traveling on special duty at such rate as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe; ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for offices and preservation of rations, $15,053,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, Marine Corps</inline>: For enlisted men authorized by law, $32,470,480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, light, etc.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Marine Corps</inline>: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps; fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $1,523,715.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military stores.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of equipments, etc.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Military stores, Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of chief armorer, at $4 per diem; purchase and repair of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, canteens, rifle slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waistbelts, waist plates, cartridge belts, spare parts for repairing rifles, machetes; tents, field cots, field ovens, and stoves for tents, instruments for bands; purchase of music and musical accessories, articles of field sports for enlisted men, signal equipment and stores; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice; good-conduct badges; medals and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; incidental expenses of schools of application; construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction camps, etc.</p></sidenote>gymnasiums for enlisted men, establishment, rental, and maintenance of camps of instruction, target ranges, and entrance fees in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote>competitions; procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, $25,277,750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation and recruiting.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps</inline>: For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruit depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising authorized hereafter.</p></sidenote> $2,531,856: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter authority is hereby granted to employ the services of advertising agencies in advertising for recruits under such terms and conditions as are most advantageous to the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., to barracks.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps</inline>: Repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require, $4,258,204.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Forage, Marine Corps</inline>: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $294,930.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/737">737</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps</inline>: Commutation of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters with troops.</p></sidenote>quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, for officers and enlisted men serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster, and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, assistant paymasters, assistant quartermasters, at $21 each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at $10 each per month, $1,215,467.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Marine Corps</inline>: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men, and retired officers on active duty during the war, and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcoth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $10,577,780.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for the maintenance of Quartermaster’s Department, Marine <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing and accounting.</p></sidenote>Corps, $93,203,682; and the money herein specifically appropriated for the maintenance of the Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with the existing law as maintenance. Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reserve supplies, Marine Corps</inline>: Toward the procurement of a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1174.</p></sidenote>reserve stock of clothing, arms, and equipment, and other necessary military supplies, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $16,677,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total Marine Corps, including reserve supplies, Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, $160,016, 756.14.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/738">738</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate possession of lands, etc., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1820, 1868, 1874.</p></sidenote> The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the amounts herein appropriated therefor, to take over immediately for the United States possession of and title to each and all of the parcels of land, including appurtenances and improvements for the acquisition of which authority is herein granted and for which appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be made.</p></sidenote>are herein made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit if amount unsatisfactory.</p></sidenote>the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall he entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.</p></sidenote>centum will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, section one hundred and forty-five, of the Judicial <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest immediately.</p></sidenote>Code:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of the Navy.</p></sidenote> increase of the navy.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Early construction directed of vessels previously ordered.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 616.</p></sidenote> Of the vessels authorized to be constructed prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, in the “Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the construction of which has not heretofore specifically been directed to be begun shall be begun as soon as practicable, but not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo boat destroyers.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, torpedo-boat destroyers</inline>: On account of torpedo-boat destroyers heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $125,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo boats.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, torpedo boats</inline>: On account of submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of coast submarines increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 616.</p></sidenote>$32,397,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limit of cost of the coast submarines authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby increased by the sum of $25,000 each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor and armament.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, armor and armament</inline>: Toward the armor and armament for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $20,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, ammunition</inline>: On account of ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized, to be available until expended, $7,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total increase of the Navy heretofore authorized, $184,397,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval emergency fund.</p></sidenote> naval emergency fund.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount to be expended under the President for specified objects.</p></sidenote> To enable the President to secure the more economical and expeditious delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo-boat destroyers, submarine chasers, and other naval craft, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $100,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipping navy yards for ship building, etc.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Improving and equipping navy yards for construction of ships and to meet urgent needs of navy yards, stations, and bases</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to equip the navy yards <page identifier="/us/stat/40/739">739</page>with suitable and necessary machinery, implements, building ways, and equipment for the construction and repair of such vessels as may have been or may be assigned to navy yards and to meet urgent needs of navy yards, stations, and bases, $10,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay to officers using time-measuring device on work of employee.</p></sidenote>available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash rewards, etc.,</p></sidenote>available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 718.</p></sidenote>in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific authority required for Department use.</p></sidenote> for any expense of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All unexpended balances of appropriations made for the Naval <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances continued, etc.</p></sidenote>Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen in the naval appropriation Act and the several Acts making deficiency appropriations are hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. The balances existing, after all payments made prior to the passage of this Act have been charged, shall be transferred to and merged with the corresponding appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charges allowed against balances.</p></sidenote>contained in this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That prior to the transfer there may be charged against these balances the expenditures prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of the accrued pay of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, accrued pay of civilian employees, and supplies issued from the Naval Supply Account.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All appropriations contained in this Act are hereby made immediately <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available, etc.</p></sidenote>available, but no appropriation in this Act shall be used for payment of deficiencies.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 1, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 115: To amend sections forty-four hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>115</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-07-02</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>115.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend sections forty-four hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-02">July 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/2104">S. 2104</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/183">Public, No. 183</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That sections forty-four <sidenote>Steamboat-Inspection Service.</sidenote>hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and they are hereby, amended to read as follows:
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4402"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4402.</num>
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<p class="inline">That there shall be a supervising inspector general, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Inspector General.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, qualifications, pay. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4402/p853">R. S., sec. 4402, p. 853, amended</ref>.</p></sidenote>who shall be appointed from time to time by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall be selected with reference to his fitness and ability to systematize and carry into effect all the provisions of law relating to the Steamboat-Inspection Service, and who shall be entitled to a salary of 85,000 a year and his actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business assigned him by competent authority, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/740">740</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, duties, etc.</p></sidenote> “The Secretary of Commerce may appoint a deputy supervising inspector general, who shall be the chief clerk of the bureau and in the absence of the supervising inspector general have power to act in his stead, and who shall be entitled to a salary of $3,000 per year.</p>
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<num value="4404"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4404. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, qualifications, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4404/p853">R.S., sec. 4404, p. 853, amended</ref>.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">There shall be eleven supervising inspectors, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of them shall be selected for his knowledge, skill, and practical experience in the uses of steam for navigation, and shall be a competent judge of the character and qualities of steam <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote>vessels and of all parts of the machinery employed in steaming. Each supervising inspector shall be entitled to a salary of $3,450 a year and his actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business assigned him by competent authority, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4414"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec</inline>. 4414. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors of hulls and boilers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/s4414/p854">R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854, amended</ref>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 106.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection districts and ports.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">There shall be in each of the following collection districts, namely, the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California; New London, Connecticut; Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Bangor, Maine; New Haven, Connecticut; Michigan, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Willamette, Oregon; Puget Sound, Washington; Savannah, Georgia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Oswego, New York; Charleston, South Carolina; Duluth, Minnesota; Superior, Michigan; Apalachicola, Florida; Galveston, Texas; Mobile, Alabama; Providence, Rhode Island; and in each of the following ports: New York, New York; Jacksonville, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Norfolk, Virginia; Evansville, Indiana; Dubuque, Iowa; Louisville, Kentucky; Albany, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Saint Louis, Missouri; Port Huron, Michigan; New Orleans, Louisiana; Los Angeles, California; Juneau, Alaska; Saint Michael, Alaska; Point Pleasant, West Virginia; and Burlington, Vermont; Honolulu, Hawaii; and San Juan, Porto Rico; one inspector of hulls and one inspector of boilers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The inspector of hulls and the inspector of boilers in the districts and ports enumerated in the preceding paragraphs shall be entitled to the following salaries, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries at specified districts and ports increased.</p></sidenote> “For the port of New York, New York; at the rate of $2,950 per year for each local inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“For the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; San Francisco, California; and Puget Sound, Washington; and the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Buffalo, New York; and New Orleans, Louisiana, at the rate of $2,700 per year for each local inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“For the districts of Michigan, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Duluth, Minnesota; Providence, Rhode Island; Chicago, Illinois; and the ports of Albany, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Portland, Maine; Los Angeles, California; Juneau, Alaska; Saint Michael, Alaska; and Norfolk, Virginia; Honolulu, Hawaii; and San Juan, Porto Rico; at the rate of $2,500 per year for each local inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“For the districts of Oswego, New York; Willamette, Oregon; Detroit, Michigan; and Mobile, Alabama; and the ports of Saint Louis, Missouri; and Port Huron, Michigan; at the rate of $2,350 per year for each local inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“For the districts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New Haven, Connecticut; Savannah, Georgia; Charleston, South Carolina; Galveston, Texas; New London, Connecticut; Superior, Michigan; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/741">741</page>Bangor, Maine; and Apalachicola, Florida; and the ports of Dubuque, Iowa; Toledo, Ohio; Evansville, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Burlington, Vermont; Jacksonville, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; and Cincinnati, Ohio; at the rate of $2,100 per year for each local inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“And in addition the Secretary of Commerce may appoint, in districts <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries increased.</p></sidenote>or ports where the volume of work requires them, assistant inspectors, at a salary, for the port of New York, of $2,500 a year each; for the port of New Orleans, Louisiana; the districts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; and the district of San Francisco, California, at $2,350 per year each, and for all other districts and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’ salary reduced.</p></sidenote>ports at a salary of $2,100 a year each; and he may appoint a clerk to any such board at a compensation not exceeding $1,500 a year to each person so appointed. Every inspector provided for in this or the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote>preceding sections of this title shall be paid his actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business assigned him by competent authority, together with his actual and reasonable expenses for transportation of instruments, which shall be certified and sworn to under such instructions as shall be given by the Secretary of Commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Assistant inspectors, appointed as provided by law, shall perform <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of assistant inspectors.</p></sidenote>such duties of actual inspection as may be assigned to them under the direction, supervision, and control of the local inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Secretary of Commerce may appoint not exceeding four <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling inspectors.</p></sidenote>traveling inspectors when in his judgment they are necessary for the improvement of the service, each of whom shall be entitled to a salary of $3,000 a year and his actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That all officers and employees provided for in this Act shall not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not entitled to additional compensation, 1919.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 814.</p></sidenote>receive the additional compensation authorized by section six of the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“And the Secretary of Commerce may from time to time detail said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details authorised.</p></sidenote>assistant inspectors of one port or district for service in any other port or district, as the needs of the Steamboat-Inspection Service may, in his discretion, require, and the actual necessary traveling expenses of assistant inspectors so detailed, while traveling on official business assigned them by competent authority, shall, subject to such limitations as the said Secretary may in his discretion prescribe, be paid in the same manner as provided in this section for inspectors.”</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 116: Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>116</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>116.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-02">July 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12000">H. R. 12000</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/184">Public, No. 184</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions appropriations.</p></sidenote>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 nineteen, and for other purposes, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Army and Navy pension, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalid, etc., pensions.</p></sidenote>children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/742">742</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy pensions.</p></sidenote>$220,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote>That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examining surgeons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $50,000.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 117: Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>117</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-07-02</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>117.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-02">July 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12599">H. R. 12599</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/185">Public, No. 185</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 5, p. 80.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster General.</p></sidenote> office of the postmaster general.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment shop building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post office inspectors.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">For salaries of post-office inspectors</inline>: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions, at $3,000 each; thirty inspectors, at $2,400 each; twenty inspectors, at $2,250 each; thirty-two inspectors, at $2,100 each; twenty inspectors, at $2,000 each; thirty inspectors, at $1,900 each; ninety inspectors, at $1,800 each; sixty inspectors, at $1,700 each; sixty inspectors, at $1,600 each; and sixty-five inspectors, at $1,500 each; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $968,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> For per diem allowance of inspectors in the field while actually traveling on official business away from their homes, their official domiciles, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary allowances.</p></sidenote>General, not to exceed $4 per day: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster General may, in his discretion, allow inspectors per diem while temporarily located at any place on business away from their homes or their designated domiciles for a period not exceeding twenty consecutive days at any one place, and make rules and regulations governing the foregoing provisions relating to per diem:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>That no per diem shall be paid to inspectors receiving annual salaries of $2,000 or more, except the thirty-two inspectors receiving $2,100 each, $350,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at division headquarters.</p></sidenote> For compensation to clerks at division headquarters, fifteen, at $1,800 each; fifteen, at $1,600 each; twenty, at $1,400 each; thirty, at $1,200 each; ten, at $1,000 each; and ten, at $900 each; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $154,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> For traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem allowance, inspectors in charge, and the chief post-office inspector, and expenses incurred by inspectors not covered by per diem allowance, unusual and extraordinary expenses necessarily incurred for maintenance by inspectors over and above per diem allowance while traveling on official business in connection with the postal service of Alaska, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, $43,850.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/743">743</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For livery hire incurred by inspectors not covered by their per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livery hire.</p></sidenote>diem allowance, including livery hire in connection with the installation and inspection of rural routes, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>$7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rewards, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death of offender.</p></sidenote>post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securing information.</p></sidenote>That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $5,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals, $25,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of a special assistant to the Attorney General <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special assistant to Attorney General in postal cases.</p></sidenote>to assist in the defense of cases against the United States arising out of the transportation of the mails, and in other cases and matters affecting the postal revenues, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Postmaster General, $1,000.</p>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the first assistant postmaster general. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $35,000,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant postmasters, first and second-class offices.</p></sidenote>post offices, five, at not exceeding $4,000 each; fifty, at not exceeding $3,000 each; ten, at not exceeding $2,500 each; ten, at not exceeding $2,000 each; fifteen, at not exceeding $1,900 each; fifty, at not exceeding $1,800 each; one hundred, at not exceeding $1,700 each; one hundred and seventy, at not exceeding $1,600 each; two hundred and fifteen, at not exceeding $1,500 each; one hundred and seventy-five, at not exceeding $1,400 each; three hundred and sixty, at not exceeding $1,300 each; six hundred, at not exceeding $1,200 each; five hundred and fifty, at not exceeding $1,100 each; three hundred and fifty, at not exceeding $1,000 each; one hundred and thirty, at not exceeding $900 each; seventy, at not exceeding $800 each; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $4,075,000. And the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments restricted.</p></sidenote>appointment and assignment of assistant postmasters hereunder shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, first and second-class offices.</p></sidenote>post offices:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,200.</p></sidenote>of money order, and superintendents of registry, ten, at not exceeding $3,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Auditors, and superintendents of mails, fifteen, at not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,000.</p></sidenote>$3,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of mails, superintendents of delivery, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,700.</p></sidenote>and superintendents of mails, twenty-three, at not exceeding $2,700 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of mails, cashiers, superintendents of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,600.</p></sidenote>delivery, and superintendents of mails, thirty, at not exceeding $2,600 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of mails, cashiers, superintendents of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,500.</p></sidenote>delivery, superintendents of mails, and superintendents of stations, thirty-five, at not exceeding $2,500 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,400.</p></sidenote>of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, finance clerks, stenographers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, super<page identifier="/us/stat/40/744">744</page>intendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, sixty, at not exceeding $2,400 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,200.</p></sidenote> Assistant superintendents of mails, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, finance clerks, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, and superintendents of stations, seventy, at not exceeding $2,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,000.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendent of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, examiners of stations, finance clerks, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, superintendents of inquiry, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and ninety, at not exceeding $2,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,800.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and eighty, at not exceeding $1,800 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,700.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and ninety, at not exceeding $1,700 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,600.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerics, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter and superintendents of stations, four hundred and twenty-five, at not exceeding $1,600 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,500.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, ten hundred and fifty, at not exceeding $1,500 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,400.</p></sidenote> Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerics, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money <page identifier="/us/stat/40/745">745</page>order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, two thousand six hundred, at not exceeding $1,400 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,300.</p></sidenote>superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, special clerks, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, seven thousand one hundred, at not exceeding $1,300 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,200.</p></sidenote>superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, chief stamp clerks, clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty, at not exceeding $1,200 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, stenographers, superintendents <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,100.</p></sidenote>of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, seven thousand seven hundred, at not exceeding $1,100 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, clerks in charge of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,000.</p></sidenote>stations, stenographers, superintendents of carriers, and superintendents of second-class matter, two thousand five hundred, at not exceeding $1,000 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, clerks in charge of stations, and stenographers, two thousand, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At 900.</p></sidenote>at not exceeding $900 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks and clerks in charge of stations, two thousand one hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At 800.</p></sidenote>and sixty-nine, at not exceeding $800 each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And to provide for the promotion of eighty-five per centum of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of clerks provided for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First class offices.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 751.</p></sidenote>clerks in first-class post offices from the fifth to the sixth grade, and for the promotion of fifteen per centum of the clerks in the sixth grade to the designation of “special clerk” in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second class offices.</p></sidenote>the $1,300 grade, and for the promotion of fifteen per centum of the designated “ special clerks” m the $1,300 grade to the designation of “special clerk” in the $1,400 grade, and to provide for the promotion of eighty-five per centum of the clerks in second-class post offices from the fourth to the fifth grade, and for the promotion of fifteen per centum of the clerks in second-class post offices from the fifth to the sixth grade: <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That there may also be employed at first-class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foremen and stenographers.</p></sidenote>post offices foremen and stenographers at a salary of $ 1,300 or more per annum; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $62,750,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the appointment and assignment of clerks <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments restricted.</p></sidenote>hereunder shall be so made during each fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than the sum appropriated; and to enable the Postmaster General to carry out the provisions of this Act and also the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, classifying clerks and city letter carriers in first and second class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase in clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 751.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1206.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate number.</p></sidenote>post offices, he may hereafter exceed the number of clerks appropriated for for particular grades:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of clerks in the aggregate as herein authorized be not exceeded:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter when any employee in the Postal Service <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Overtime pay allowed in lieu of compensatory time.</p></sidenote>under the law is entitled to compensatory time for Sunday or holiday service, if he so elects, he may be paid for overtime in lieu thereof.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/746">746</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printers, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote> For compensation to printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, twenty-two, at $1,200 each; four at $1,100 each; and thirty-one at $1,000 each; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $71,070.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, at $900 each; in all, including increases hereinafter provided, $1,989,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract station clerks.</p></sidenote> For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, $1,180,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks.</p></sidenote> For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $3,428,572.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separating mails.</p></sidenote> For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $730,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions.</p></sidenote> For unusual conditions at post offices, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third class offices.</p></sidenote> For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clerical services, $2,400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clerks.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter no allowance in excess of $300 shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is $1,000, $1,100, or $1,200; nor in excess of $400 where the salary of the postmaster is $1,300, $1,400, or $1,500; and that no allowance in excess of $500 shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is $1,600 or $1,700; nor in excess of $800 where the salary of the postmaster is $1,800 or $1,900.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant postmasters.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Postmaster General may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, expend not exceeding $400,000 for the employment, at a maximum salary of $600 per annum, of assistant postmasters at post offices of the third class where the salary of the postmaster is $1,800 or $1,900 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, light, and fuel.</p></sidenote> For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post offices, $6,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten-year leases permitted hereafter.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Postmaster General may, in the disbursement of the appropriation for such purposes, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post offices of the first, second, and third classes at a reasonable annual rental, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, third class offices.</p></sidenote>to be paid quarterly for a term not exceeding ten years; and that there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post office for rent a sum in excess of $500, nor more than $100 for fuel and light, in any one year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote> For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 751.</p></sidenote> For pay of letter earners at offices already established, including substitutes for letter carriers absent without pay, and for the promotion of eighty-five per centum of the letter carriers in first-class post offices from the fifth to the sixth grade, and for the promotion of eighty-five per centum of the letter carriers in second-class post offices from the fourth to the fifth grade, and for the promotion of fifteen per centum of the letter carriers in second-class offices from the fifth to the sixth grade, City Delivery Service, $49,100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes, etc.</p></sidenote> For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, $4,685,715.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers, etc., new offices.</p></sidenote> For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers at offices where city delivery service is established during the year, $94,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicle allowances.</p></sidenote> For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wagon service.</p></sidenote>and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for fiscal year 1918.</p></sidenote>$6,700,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $300,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the payment of this service during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garage leases.</p></sidenote>eighteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Postmaster General may, in his <page identifier="/us/stat/40/747">747</page>disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail-messenger service, $2,700,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for fiscal year 1918.</p></sidenote>exceed $100,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the payment of this service during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare and bicycle allowance, $625,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For street car collection service, $9,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street car collection.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Detroit River postal service, $7,250. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit River,</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare.</p></sidenote>$13,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees to special-delivery messengers, $3,200,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote>of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the second assistant postmaster general. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $430,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star Routes, Alaska.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency service.</p></sidenote>is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboats, aeroplanes, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H., contract.</p></sidenote>routes or by aeroplanes, $1,185,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the contract now in force for carrying the mail on Lake Winnepesaukee from the post office at Laconia, New Hampshire, shall be readjusted so that the yearly salary paid the carrier, who furnishes his own equipment, shall be $1,800 per annum:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter, when <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriage by freight or express if excessive rate asked, etc.</p></sidenote>there is no competition on a route and the rate of compensation asked is excessive, or no proposal is received, the Postmaster General may require that the mails he carried as freight or express, and it shall be unlawful for any common carrier by water to refuse to carry the mails when so required, and the penalty for such offense shall be a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty if vessel refuse.</p></sidenote>fine of $500. Each day of refusal shall constitute a separate offense:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for aeroplane service.</p></sidenote>General is authorized to expend not exceeding $100,000 for the purchase, operation, and maintenance of aeroplanes for an experimental aeroplane mail service between such points as he may determine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by railroad routes, $60,645,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad routes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight train conveyance.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special arrangement in freight trains or otherwise.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight on postal cards, etc.</p></sidenote>newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, $95,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Railway Mail Service</inline>: For fifteen division superintendents, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway Mail Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division superintendents, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 751.</p></sidenote>at $3,250 each; two assistant superintendents, at $2,350 each; fifteen assistant division superintendents, at $2,250 each; one hundred and fifteen chief clerks, at not exceeding $2,100 each; four hundred and sixty-five clerks, grade ten, at not exceeding $1,800 each; two thousand and thirty-two clerks, grade nine, at not exceeding $1,700 each; three hundred and ninety-three clerks, grade eight, at not exceeding $1,600 each; eight thousand two hundred and ninety-nine clerks, grade seven, at not exceeding $1,500 each; one thousand and seventy-eight clerks, grade six, at not exceeding $1,400 each; one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight clerks, grade five, at not exceeding $1,300 each; three thousand eight hundred and one clerks, grade four, at not exceeding $1,200 each; sixty-five clerks, grade three, at not exceeding $1,100 each; one thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/40/748">748</page>nine hundred and seventy-four clerks, grade two, at not exceeding $1,000 each; one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven clerks, grade one, at not exceeding $900 each; in all, including increases <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full time credited when deadheading.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote>hereinafter provided, $32,500,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That railway postal clerks shall be credited with full time when deadheading under orders of the department, and the appointment and assignment of clerks here under shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum; and, to enable the Postmaster General to reclassify the salaries of railway postal clerks and make necessary appointments and promotions, he may exceed the number <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate limited.</p></sidenote>of clerks in such of the grades as may be necessary:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of regular clerks in the aggregate as herein authorized be not exceeded.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel allowances.</p></sidenote> For travel allowances to railway postal clerks, acting railway postal clerks, and substitute railway postal clerks, including substitute railway postal clerks for railway postal clerks granted leave with pay on account of sickness, $1,613,959.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $48,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, including rental of offices for division headquarters, and chief clerk, Railway Mail Service, in Washington, District <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent for terminal offices.</p></sidenote>of Columbia, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not under the Postal Laws and Regulations properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to terminal railway post offices, $732,156.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, assistant superintendents.</p></sidenote> For per diem allowance of two assistant superintendents while actually traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster General, not to exceed $4 per day, and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding $500; in all, $2,420.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric and cable cars.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate of pay.</p></sidenote> For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, $555,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing such service, except that the Postmaster General, in cases where the quantity of mail is large and the number of exchange points numerous, may, in his discretion, authorize payment for closed-pouch service at a rate per mile not to exceed one-third above the rate per mile now paid for closed-pouch service, and for mail cars and apartments carrying the mails not to exceed the rate of 1 cent per linear <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside of cities.</p></sidenote>foor per car-mile of travel:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the rates for electric car service on routes over twenty miles in length outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That not to exceed $25,000 of the sum hereby appropriated may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, where unusual conditions exist or where such service will be more expeditious and efficient and at no greater cost than otherwise, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitution of wagon service.</p></sidenote>and not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation may be expended for regulation screen or motor screen wagon service which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates, etc., to be fixed by Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote>may be authorized in lieu of electric or cable car service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby empowered and directed as soon as practicable to fix and determine <page identifier="/us/stat/40/749">749</page>from time to time the fair and reasonable rates and compensation for the transportation of mail matter by urban and interurban electric railway common camera and the service connected therewith, prescribing the method or methods by weight or space, or both, or otherwise, for ascertaining such rate or compensation and to publish same, and orders so made and published shall continue in force until changed by the commission after due notice and hearing:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for refusing established rates.</p></sidenote>That it shall be unlawful for any urban or interurban electric railroad to refuse to perform mail service at the rates or methods of compensation thus provided for such service when required by the Postmaster General so to do, and for such offense shall be fined $100. Each day of refusal shall constitute a separate offense.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of foreign mails, $5,800,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea post service.</p></sidenote>the Postmaster General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding $103,000, to cover the cost to the United States of maintaining sea post service on steamships conveying the mails.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For censorship of foreign mails, $1,620,000, of which amount <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Censoring foreign mall.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To cease at end of war.</p></sidenote>$200,000 shall be available immediately: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the authority under this appropriation shall cease to be in effect when the existing state of war shall have passed, the date of which shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statements of appointments for, etc.</p></sidenote>That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to submit to Congress at the beginning of its regular session in December of each year a detailed statement of all persons appointed and the salary or compensation paid or allowed to each:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use forbidden of mail from American military forces, censored abroad.</p></sidenote>no part of this appropriation shall be expended to pay the expense of censoring mail from the military forces connected with the American Expeditionary Force, which mail has been censored in Europe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For balances due foreign countries, $681,700. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances to foreign countries.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the third assistant postmaster general. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster General</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps.</p></sidenote>stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, $1,100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes and wrappers.</p></sidenote>$3,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote>envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $18,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of postal cards, $580,000. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal cards.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ship, steamboat, and way letters, $150. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship, etc., letters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for lost registered, etc., mail.</p></sidenote>domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, $670,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articles in the international mails, in accordance with convention stipulations, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the service of the Postal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., Postal Savings System.</p></sidenote>Savings System, office of the director, $500.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the fourth assistant postmaster general. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, etc.</p></sidenote>printed and engraved matter, binding and carbon paper, and other miscellaneous items for the money-order and registry systems; the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/750">750</page>preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Envelope inspector, etc.</p></sidenote>public of pamphlet containing general postal information; the pay of one envelope inspector at $1,800 per annum, and one assistant at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal Savings supplies.</p></sidenote>$900 per annum; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including blank books, forms, pamphlets, rubber stamps, canceling devices, certificates and cards and stamps for use <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 817</p></sidenote>in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, and registration of the bonds authorized by the act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $725,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmarking, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote> For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype plates, and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous articles, letter scales, etc.</p></sidenote>purposes; and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the Postal Service, $275,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twine, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tying devices.</p></sidenote> For wrapping twine and tying devices, $370,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this amount the Postmaster General is authorized to expend not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase of and experiments with tying devices or cords for the Postal Service.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous equipment and supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrier service, etc.</p></sidenote> For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchase and repair of furniture, letter boxes, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erection, manufacture, repair, and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; and other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, including offices of the fourth class having or to have rural-delivery service, $400,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping supplies.</p></sidenote> For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter, at $1,200 per annum, and nine requisition fillers, at $1,000 each per annum, for assignment in connection therewith, $193,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post route maps.</p></sidenote> For miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc.</p></sidenote>for photolithographic reproduction, $20,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sale to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical and technical works.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceling machines, etc.</p></sidenote> For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus and other labor-saving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, $405,000: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail-distributing machines.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this amount the Postmaster General is authorized to expend $100,000 for the installation of experimental mail-distributing machines.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail bags, locks, etc.</p></sidenote> For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at <page identifier="/us/stat/40/751">751</page>Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Postal Service as may be deemed expedient, $1,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and insular possessions.</p></sidenote>That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $5,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor, equipment shops.</p></sidenote>Washington, District of Columbia, $285,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star route transportation.</p></sidenote>Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discontinued if served by rural delivery.</p></sidenote>$8,675,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter no part of this appropriation shall be expended for continuance of any star-route service the patronage of which shall be served entirely by the extension of Rural Delivery Service, nor shall any of said sum be expended for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further restriction.</p></sidenote>star-route service for a patronage a major portion of which has been served by Rural Delivery Service, unless the services of a qualified rural carrier can not be secured.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of rural carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers, etc.</p></sidenote>annual leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service, and for the incidental expenses thereof, $65,800,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station clerks.</p></sidenote>hereby appropriated may be used for the compensation of clerks in charge of rural stations:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That on and after July first, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of horse routes, modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 423, amended.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen, rural carriers assigned to horse-drawn vehicle routes on which daily service is performed shall receive $24 per mile per annum for each mile said routes are in excess of twenty-four miles or major fraction thereof, based on actual mileage, and rural carriers assigned to horse-drawn vehicle routes on which triweekly service is performed shall receive $12 per mile per annum for each mile said routes are in excess of twenty-four miles or major fraction thereof based on actual mileage:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle carriers.</p></sidenote>That the pay of carriers who furnish and maintain their own motor vehicles and who serve routes not loss than fifty miles in length may be fixed at not exceeding $2,160 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For village delivery service in towns and villages having post <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Village delivery.</p></sidenote>offices of the second or third class, $720,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote>of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="inline">That during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increase for fiscal year 1919.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant postmasters and supervisory officials.</p></sidenote>hundred and nineteen, the annual salaries fixed by law for assistant postmasters at first and second class post offices, and supervisory officials, whose compensation is $2,200 and less per annum, shall be increased $200, and those whose compensation is in excess of $2,200 shall be increased five per centum; that clerks in first and second class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and carriers, first and second class offices.</p></sidenote>post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service shall be divided into six grades, as follows: First grade, salary $1,000; second <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New grades.</p></sidenote>grade, salary $1,100; third grade, salary $1,200; fourth grade, salary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p></sidenote>$1,300; fifth grade, salary $1,400; sixth grade, salary $1,500. Clerks and carriers shall be promoted successively to the sixth grade: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic transfers July 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>That on July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, clerks in first and second class post offices and letter carriers in the City Delivery Service who are in grades two, three, four, five, and six, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1200.</p></sidenote>under the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, as amended, shall pass automatically from such grades and the salaries they receive thereunder to the new grades, one, two, three, four, and five, respectively, with the salaries provided for such grades in this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway mall clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grades established.</p></sidenote>Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the salaries of railway postal clerks shall be graded as follows: Grade one at $1,100; grade two at $1,200; <page identifier="/us/stat/40/752">752</page>grade three at $1,300; grade four at $1,400; grade five at $1,500; grade six at $1,600; grade seven at $1,700; grade eight at $1,800; grade nine at $1,900; grade ten at $2,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification of salaries and railway post offices.</p></sidenote> The Postmaster General shall classify and fix the salaries of railway postal clerks, under such regulations as he may prescribe, in the grades provided by law; and for the purpose of organization and establishing maximum grades to which promotions may be made successively, as hereinafter provided, he shall classify railway post offices, terminal railway post offices, and transfer offices with reference to their character and importance in three classes, with salary grades as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classes of offices.</p></sidenote> Class A, $1,100 to $1,400; class B, $1,100 to $1,500; and class C, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments of clerks and salaries.</p></sidenote>$1,100 to $1,700. He may assign to the offices of division superintendents and chief clerks such railway postal clerks as may be necessary, and fix their salaries within the grades provided by law without <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic transfer to new grades.</p></sidenote>regard to the classification of railway post offices: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That on July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, railway postal clerks shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 555.</p></sidenote>pass automatically from the grades they are in and the salaries they receive under the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to the corresponding grade, with salaries provided for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to fiscal year 1919.</p></sidenote>in this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the classifications and increases of salaries provided for in this section shall not be continued beyond the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increases restricted.</p></sidenote>That the salary of clerks, carriers and railway postal clerks shall be increased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifications effective July 1, 1918.</p></sidenote>not more than $200:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the classifications herein provided for shall not become effective until July first, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase for other employees.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the salaries of such other employees fixed by law or paid from lump-sum appropriations provided for in this Act, including laborers in the Railway Service, who receive $800 per annum or less shall be increased twenty per centum per annum; those who receive in excess of $800 and not more than $1,500 shall be increased fifteen per centum per annum; and those who receive in excess of $1,500 and not more than <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural carriers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On horse routes.</p></sidenote>$2,200 shall be increased ten per centum per annum. Rural carriers assigned to horse-drawn vehicle routes now receiving a compensation of $1,200 or less per annum, exclusive of mileage allowance for miles on routes over twenty-four miles in length, shall receive, in addition thereto, twenty per centum of the amount of such compensation. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials excluded.</p></sidenote>Such increases shall not apply to the special assistant to the Attorney General appropriated for in this Act and to postmasters at offices of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth class postmasters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for all cancellations.</p></sidenote>the first, second, and third classes:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That postmasters of the fourth class shall receive the same compensation as now provided by law, except that they shall receive one hundred per centum of the cancellations of the first $80 or less per quarter:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increases allowed.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That, if the compensation does not exceed $50 for any one quarter, fourth-class postmasters shall be allowed an increase of twenty per centum of the compensation allowed under existing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No office advanced.</p></sidenote>law: </proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no office shall be advanced to third class <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes, etc., clerks and carriers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay established.</p></sidenote>by reason of the temporary increases herein provided:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter substitute, temporary, or auxiliary clerks and letter carriers at first and second class post offices shall be paid at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees excluded from increases.</p></sidenote>the rate of 40 cents an hour:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangement with the Post Office Department, or to employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the increased compensation, at the rate of five per centum and ten <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay not computed as salary.</p></sidenote>per centum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not be computed as salary in construing this <page identifier="/us/stat/40/753">753</page>section. So much as may be necessary for the increases provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for increases.</p></sidenote>for in this Act is hereby appropriated.</proviso></p>
</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter watchmen, messengers, and laborers in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eight hours a day.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work of designated employees restricted to.</p></sidenote>first and second class post offices, and railway postal clerks assigned to terminal railway post offices and transfer offices, shall be required to work not more than eight hours a day, and that the eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours, and that in cases of emergency or if the needs of the service <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Overtime pay for emergency excess.</p></sidenote>require they may be required to work in excess of eight hours a day, and for such additional services they shall be paid in proportion to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensatory time for Sunday, etc., work by railway mail clerks.</p></sidenote>their salaries as fixed by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter when the needs of the Postal Service require the employment on Sundays and holidays of railway postal clerks assigned to terminal railway post offices and transfer offices, they shall be granted compensatory time in the same manner as provided by law for clerks and carriers in first and second class offices.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Postmaster General is authorized to investigate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts for vehicle service, envelopes, etc., prior to June 30, 1917.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation and adjustment of, authorized.</p></sidenote>conditions arising from contracts in the star route, screen wagon and other vehicle service entered into prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and from contracts for furnishing envelopes, blanks and blank books, and the Official Postal Guide, for contracts entered into prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, with a view to determining whether any adjustment should be made in the compensation and to adjust the same for materials or services hereafter to be furnished or rendered in cases where the facts disclose the necessity for such adjustment, or, in his discretion, with the consent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation by mutual assent.</p></sidenote>of the contractor and his bondsmen, the Postmaster General may cancel such contracts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the provisions of section three of the Act of March <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requisition fillers, watchmen, etc., to have ten percent increase in 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1069.</p></sidenote>third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes,” providing increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate of more than $480 and not exceeding $1,000 per annum, shall apply during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen to all requisition fillers, watchmen, messengers, and laborers.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Postmaster General may, under such rules and regulations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liberty bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of, authorized in lieu of other sureties.</p></sidenote>as he shall prescribe, accept United States liberty loan bonds in lieu of either corporate or personal surety from contractors, officers, and employees of the Postal Service to indemnify the Government against losses resulting from the failure of any contractor, officer, or employee of the Postal Service to properly discharge his official duty.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That to promote the conservation of food products and to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor-vehicle truck routes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental operation of, near cities, for food products.</p></sidenote>facilitate the collection and delivery thereof from producer to consumer, and the delivery of articles necessary in the production of such food products to the producers, the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to conduct experiments in the operation of motor-vehicle truck routes in the vicinity of such cities of the United States as he may select, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and the cost of such experiments, not exceeding $300,000, may be paid by the Postmaster General out of any unexpended appropriations of the Postal Service, and the Postmaster General shall report the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of results.</p></sidenote>result of such experiments to the Congress at the earliest practicable date.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, deliver <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeroplanes and auto mobiles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delivery of, for mail service, from War Department, if unsuitable for its purposes.</p></sidenote>and turn over to the Postmaster General from time to time, and without charge therefor, for use in the Postal Service, such aeroplanes and automobiles or parts thereof as may prove to be, or as shall become, unsuitable for the purposes of the War Department but suitable for <page identifier="/us/stat/40/754">754</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment from specified appropriations.</p></sidenote>the use of the Postal Service; and the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to use the same, in his discretion, in the transportation of the mails and to pay the necessary expenses thereof out of the appropriation for inland transportation by steamboat or other power boat or by aeroplanes or star route.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees in Army, etc., service during the war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reassignment to duties, etc., when discharged.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">Employees, including substitute employees, of the Postal Service who have entered the military or naval service of the United States or who shall hereafter enter it during the existence of the present war, shall, when honorably discharged from such service, be reassigned to their duties in the Postal Service at the salary to which they would have been automatically promoted had they remained in the Postal Service, provided they are physically and mentally qualified to perform the duties of such positions.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of postmasters for losses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War savings, thrift stamps, etc., included.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page two hundred and seventy-eight), authorizing the Postmaster General to adjust certain claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, fire, or other unavoidable <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 278, amended.</p></sidenote>casualty, be so amended as to include United States War Savings Certificate Stamps, United States Government Thrift Stamps, war tax revenue stamps, and funds received from the sale of such stamps: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not embrace any claim for losses as aforesaid which accrued prior to September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and all such claims must be presented within six months from the time the loss occurred.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlistments in Army and Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting allowance to postmasters repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 186, 560.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">The provision of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, an Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense and for other purposes, and the Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, an Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, authorizing the payment of $5 to postmasters at second, third, and fourth class offices for each recruit secured by them and accepted by the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, is hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal-savings deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permissible amount extended, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 816; Vol. 39, p. 159.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That hereafter the balance to the credit of any one person in a postal-savings depository, exclusive of accumulated interest, shall not exceed $2,500. Non-interest paying deposits shall not be accepted. All laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal-savings stamps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 815, amended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That section six of the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended so that the proviso in said section shall read as follows:
<quotedContent>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of 10-cent adhesive stamps authorized.</p></sidenote> “Provided, That in order that smaller amounts may be accumulated for deposit, any person may purchase for 10 cents, from any postal-savings depository, specially prepared adhesive stamps to be known as ‘postal-savings stamps,’ and attach them to a card which <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card to be printed.</p></sidenote>shall be furnished for the purpose. A card with ten postal-savings <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accepted for opening account or redemption.</p></sidenote>stamps affixed shall be accepted as a deposit of $1 either in opening an account or in adding to an existing account, or may be redeemed in cash.”</p></quotedContent></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation from the Treasury to meet deficiencies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That if the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenue of said department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 118: Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Aurelio Collazo, citizen of Cuba.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>118</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 755</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-02</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/40/755">755</page>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>118.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Aurelio Collazo, citizen of Cuba.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-02">July 2, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/sjres/86">S. J. Res. 86</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/35">Pub, Res., No. 35</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War 
<sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aurelio Collazo, of</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cuba.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admitted to West Point.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath and service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1320,1321/p227">R. S., secs. 1320,1321 p. 227</ref>.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit Mr. Aurelio Collazo, a citizen of Cuba, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby, and that the said Aurelio Collazo shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the course in the various departments of instruction, and that the said Aurelio Collazo shall not be admitted to the academy until he shall have passed the mental and physical examinations prescribed for candidates from the United States, and that he shall be immediately withdrawn if deficient in studies or conduct and so recommended by the academic board:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the case of the said Aurelio Collazo the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 2, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 128: To give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>128</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-07-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>128.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-03">July 3, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/1553">S. 1553</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/186">Public, No. 186</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That this Act shall be known 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Migratory Bird Treaty Act.</p></sidenote>by the short title of the “<shortTitle>A|Migratory Bird Treaty Act.</shortTitle>
”</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content>That unless and except as permitted by regulations made <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts relating to migratory birds declared unlawful.</p></sidenote>as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport, cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means whatever, receive for shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at any time or in any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of the convention between the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p.1702.</p></sidenote>States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<content>That subject to the provisions and in order to carry out 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations to be made, allowing hunting, etc.</p></sidenote>the purposes of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of such birds, to determine when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in accordance with such determinations, which regulations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp, 1712,1863.</p></sidenote>shall become effective when approved by the President.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num>
<content>That it shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipments contrary to State, etc., laws, prohibited.</p></sidenote>any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or District to or through another State, Territory, or District, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the State, Territory, or District in which it was captured, <page identifier="/us/stat/40/756">756</page>killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importing in violation of laws of Canada, unlawful.</p></sidenote>It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Summary arrests for violations.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That any employee of the Department of Agriculture authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of this Act shall have power, without warrant, to arrest any person committing a violation of this Act in his presence or view and to take such person immediately for examination or trial before an officer or court of competent jurisdiction; shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent jurisdiction for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act; and shall have authority, with a search warrant, to search any place. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction of courts.</p></sidenote>The several judges of the courts established under the laws of the United States, and United States commissioners may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure, etc.</p></sidenote>probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. All birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made pursuant thereto shall, when found, be seized by any such employee, or by any marshal or deputy marshal, and, upon conviction of the offender or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture on conviction, etc.</p></sidenote>Act or of any regulation made pursuant thereto, shall be forfeited to the United States and disposed of as directed by the court having jurisdiction.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That any person, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of said convention or of this Act, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any regulation made pursuant to this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction there of shall be finca not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further protection by States allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open seasons not to be extended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the several States and Territories from making or enforcing laws or regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of said convention or of this Act, or from making or enforcing laws or regulations which shall give further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, if such laws or regulations do not extend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates approved by the President in accordance with section three of this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taking, etc., for scientific or breeding purposes allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That until the adoption and approval, pursuant to section three of this Act, of regulations dealing with migratory birds and their nests and eggs, such migratory birds and their nests and eggs as are intended and used exclusively for scientific or propagating purposes may be taken, captured, killed, possessed, sold, purchased, shipped, and transported for such scientific or propagating purposes if and to the extent not in conflict with the laws of the State, Territory, or District in which they are taken, captured, killed, possessed, sold, or purchased, or in or from which they are shipped or transported if the packages containing the dead bodies or the nests or eggs of such birds when shipped and transported shall be marked on the outside thereof so as accurately and clearly to show the name and address of the shipper and the contents of the package.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.39, pp. 467,1156.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.37, p. 847.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That the unexpended balances of any sums appropriated by the agricultural appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, for enforcing the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/757">757</page>
hundred and thirteen, relating to the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds, are hereby reappropriated and made available until expended for the expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and regulations made pursuant thereto, including the payment of such rent, and the employment of such persons and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees authorized.</p></sidenote>means, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and necessary investigations connected therewith: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person who is subject to the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No draft exemption.</p></sidenote>draft for service in the Army or Navy shall be exempted or excused from such service by reason of his employment under this Act.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num><content>That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalidity of any clause, etc., not invalidate remainder of Act.</p></sidenote>Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num><content>That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inconsistent laws repealed.</p></sidenote>of this Act are hereby repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num>
<content>Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Breeding, etc., on farms not prevented.</p></sidenote> breeding of migratory game birds on farms and preserves and the sale of birds so bred under proper regulation for the purpose of increasing the food supply.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num><content>That this Act shall become effective immediately upon its <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effective immediately.</p></sidenote>passage and approval.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 3, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 129: To authorize the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, a corporation, to construct bridges across the branches and tributaries of the Big Sandy and their tributaries, in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, in the State of Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>129</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 757</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>129.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, a corporation, to construct bridges across the branches and tributaries of the Big Sandy and their tributaries, in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, in the State of Virginia.</officialTitle> <sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-03">July 3, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/s/4127">S. 4127</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/187">Public, No. 187</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the W. M. Ritter 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Sandy River, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. M. Ritter, Lumber Company may bridge, in Buchanan and Dickenson Counties, Va.</p></sidenote>Lumber Company, a corporation, created, organized, and existing under the laws of the State of West Virginia (and duly qualified to do business in the State of Virginia), its successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate bridges’ and approaches thereto, over and across the branches and tributaries of the Big Sandy River and their tributaries, in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, in the State of Virginia, at points suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content>That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote>expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. 130: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>130</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 757</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>130.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-03">July 3, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12633">H. R. 12633</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/188">Public, No. 188</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/758">758</page>
appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:</content></section>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p>
</sidenote>LEGISLATIVE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote>Senate.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Senators.</p></sidenote>For compensation of Senators, $720,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>For mileage of Senators, $51,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vice President’s office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Vice President:</inline> Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain:</inline> For Chaplain, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Senate. assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Secretary:</inline> Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; financial clerk, minute and Journal clerk, principal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; reading clerk, $3,600; executive clerk, and assistant financial clerk, at $2,750 each; librarian, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant Journal clerk, and printing clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, four at $2,220 each, two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers— three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room, $720;
in all, $94,410.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Document room. Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Document room:</inline> Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,000; assistants—two at $2,250 each, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $11,580.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and messengers to committees.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clerks and messengers to the following committees:</inline> Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Agriculture and Forestry— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Appropriations—clerk $4,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440, laborer, $720: To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $l,200; Banking and Currency—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Canadian Relations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Census—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger$1,200; Civil Service and Retrenchment—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Coast and Insular Survey— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Coast Defenses—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, two messengers at $1,200 each; Conservation of National Resources—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Cuban Relations— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Education and Labor— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Engrossed Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200 ; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; To Ex-
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amine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Commerce—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Interior Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Justice—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440 ; Expenditures in the Department of Labor— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Navy Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Post Office Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of State—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Treasury Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the War Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, .messenger $1,200; Finance—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440, two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each; Fisheries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440 ; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Foreign Relations—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, messenger $1,440; Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Geological Survey— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Immigration— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Indian Depredations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Industrial Expositions—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; To Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Judiciary— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; Joint Committee on the Library—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Manufactures— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, assistant clerk during the period of the war $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mississippi River and Its Tributaries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; National Banks—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Pacific Islands and Porto Rico—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Pacific Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Patents—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, three assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440 ; Philippines—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440; Printing—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Private Land Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Health and National Quarantine— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Public Lands— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger
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$1,200; Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Revolutionary Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparing Senate Manual.</p></sidenote>messenger $1,200; Rules—clerk $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual, under the direction of the Committee on Rules, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Standards, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Territories—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Transportation and Sale of Meat Products—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—clerk $2,220 assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; University of the United States— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Woman Suffrage—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; in all, $430,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Yearbook,1917.</p></sidenote>For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote>
<inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper:</inline> Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote>two floor assistants at $2,000 each; messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-four at $1,440 each, one for the minority, $1,440; one $1,440, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,400; storekeeper, $2,220; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>each; janitor, $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; three attendants to womens toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,200, four at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $1,800, assistant superintendent $1,400, messenger for service to press correspondents $900; 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>
laborers—three at $800 each, thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,800; in all, $144,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police, Senate Office Building.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster,etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Post office:</inline> Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,587.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding room.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreman, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Folding room:</inline> Foreman, $1,600; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineer, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:</inline>
Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers—four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistance to Senators.</p></sidenote>For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: Thirty clerks, at $2,000 each; thirty assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; thirty messengers, at $1,200 each; in all, $132,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For stationery for Senators and the President <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses. Stationery.</p></sidenote>of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>
at Arms, $100; in all, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p></sidenote>carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Anns, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, driving, maintenance, exchange, and operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile for Vice President.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New automobile.</p></sidenote>of an automobile for the Vice President, $5,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $2,750 of this sum shall be used toward the purchase of a new automobile.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for folding, $1,500.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>$1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of furniture, $5,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, $970.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For rent of warehouse for storage of public document $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $140,000, of which sum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>$40,000 shad be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations, etc.</p></sidenote>including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $25,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporting debates.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $30,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>capitol police.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol police.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; ten additional privates, at $840 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $65,550.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, $200.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of disbursements.</p></sidenote>disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>joint committee’ on printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint Committee on Printing.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk, $3,000; inspector, under section twenty of the Act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 603.</p></sidenote>approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $2,000; stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Directory.</p></sidenote>indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>house of representatives.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Members, Delegates, and Rest dent Commissioners.</p></sidenote>Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote>For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Speaker’s office. Digest of Rules.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Speaker:</inline> Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain:</inline> For Chaplain, $1,200, and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Clerk:</inline> Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, $4,500; journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400: tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to chief clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, messenger and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in chief clerk’s office and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000; seven telephone operators, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in bathroom, at $900 each; six laborers, at $720 each; page in enrolling room, $720; two janitors, at $720 each; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $102,570.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineer, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: </inline>Chief engineer, $2,160; four assistant engineers at $1,440 each; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,400; electrician, $1,400; three laborers, at $800 each; in all, $41,920.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:</inline> Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720: Elections Number Three— clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720: Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and
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Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affair’s—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Patents— clerk $2.000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000; Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads—clerk $,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $171,790.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, etc.</p></sidenote> respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to committees, session.</p></sidenote>session, $5,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant at Arms:</inline> Sergeant at Anns, $6,500; deputy <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.</p></sidenote>sergeant at arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; messenger, $1,400’ stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of horse and wagon, $600; in all, $22,840,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police, House Office Budding.</p></sidenote>Arms: Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $14,850.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Doorkeeper:</inline> Doorkeeper, $5,000; maintenance and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doorkeeper, special employees, etc.</p></sidenote>repair of folding room motor truck, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, $1,600; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote>fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—seventeen at $720 each, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one $600 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and seven at $600 each ; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each ; superintendent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding room. Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote> folding room, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two folders, at $900 each; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,200 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages, etc.</p></sidenote>each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,500 each; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $13,800; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Document room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote>superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to pressroom, $1,000; in all, $147,920.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joel Grayson.</p></sidenote>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minority employees.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special designated employees.</p></sidenote>For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ,$2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized m the resolution of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of successors.</p></sidenote>Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conference minority.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Caucus messengers.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Postmaster:</inline> Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster, $2,200 ; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; messengers—thirteen (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,200 each, eighteen at $100 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $7,200; laborer, $720; in all, $31,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote>For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Official reporters</inline>: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; janitor, $720; in all, $33,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stenographers to committees.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Stenographers to committees:</inline> Four stenographers to committees, at $5,000 each; janitor, $720; in all, $20,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“During the session” to mean 120 days.</p></sidenote>Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and twenty days from December second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, both inclusive.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Clerk hire, Members and Delegates:</inline> To pay each Member, Delegate, and Resilient Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $2,000 per annum, in monthly installments, $880,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec31/p6">R. S., sec. 31, p. 6</ref>.</p></sidenote>accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on roll of employees.</p></sidenote>appropriation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all clerks to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments.</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses,</p></sidenote>twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 624.</p></sidenote>of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $10,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes, ’Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote>exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, driving, maintenance, exchange, and operation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile, Speaker.</p></sidenote>of an automobile for the Speaker, $5,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">. New car.</p></sidenote>than $2,750 of this sum shall be used toward the purchase of a new automobile.</proviso></p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General administration: Librarian, $6,500 ; chief assistant librarian, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Librarian, etc.</p></sidenote>$4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $900; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $600; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $22,560.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mail and delivery: Assistants—One in charge $1,600, chief $1,200, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail and delivery.</p></sidenote>one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Order and accession.</p></sidenote>$1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,380.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000 ; chief <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catalogue, classification, and shelf.</p></sidenote>classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $92,020.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Binding: Assistants—one in charge, $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding.</p></sidenote>$420; in all, $2,880.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bibliography.</p></sidenote>at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in ah, $8,640.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading rooms.</p></sidenote>Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), three at $1,000 each, two at charging desk at $1,080 each, five at $960 each (including one for Toner library and one for Washington library), one in room for the blind $900, twenty-seven at $840 each, six at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room, $960, Representatives’ reading; room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $720; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; in all, $62,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodical.</p></sidenote>assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Documents.</p></sidenote>Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, ono $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $6,720.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manuscript.</p></sidenote>Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps and charts.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Music.</p></sidenote>Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prints.</p></sidenote>Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian deposit.</p></sidenote>Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Reference Library.</p></sidenote>Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants— one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,340.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law Library.</p></sidenote>Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service) $1,500 ; in all, $9,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Semitic and Oriental Literature.</p></sidenote>Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,820.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copyright office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Copyright office:</inline> Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000; clerks.—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $420 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $104,740.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative Reference.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service designated.</p></sidenote>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, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>$30,000 ; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card indexes.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Distribution of card indexes:</inline> For service in connection with distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $17,000, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $46,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary services.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary services:</inline> For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrier service.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Carrier service</inline>: For service in connection with the Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Sunday opening: To</inline> enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of Library.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of books, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Increase of Library of Congress:</inline> For purchase of books for the Library, including payment hi advance for subscription books, and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books
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by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twenty, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawbooks.</p></sidenote>the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books for Supreme Court.</p></sidenote>be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p></sidenote> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $7,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Library building and grounds:</inline> Superintendent, $3,600; clerks— <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of building and grounds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent; etc.</p></sidenote>one $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000 each; property clerk, $900; messenger; assistant messenger; two telephone switchboard operators; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; nineteen watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; painter, $900; foreman of laborers. $900; sixteen laborers; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425: assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500: machinists— one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all $85,065.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra services of employees and additional employees under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote>superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote>apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service including new auto delivery wagon, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $2,000 for repairs to roof and $1,500 for pointing exterior stonework, $18,500, of which sum $1,500 shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For refitting old boiler room and coal vaults, $3,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boiler room.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>work pertaining thereto, $12,000, of which $2,000 shall be available immediately.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card stack.</p></sidenote>card division, $10,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
BOTANIC GARDEN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For superintendent, $2,250.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, assistants, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants and laborers, including assistant superintendent $1,300, clerk $1,000, gardener in charge of greenhouses $960, four gardeners at $900 each, two shipping clerks at $720 each, outside foreman $780, and skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $22,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and improvements.</p>
</sidenote>plants, and seeds; services, including skilled laborers and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem; materials, and miscellaneous supplies;
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/768">768</page>
traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the superintendent and his assistants not to exceed $200; street car tickets not exceeding $25; office equipment, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicle; under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $15,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote>EXECUTIVE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President.</p></sidenote>For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vice President.</p></sidenote>For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Office.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, executive clerk, etc.</p></sidenote>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; accounting 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, $76,780: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details of employees.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>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, $30,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Efficiency.</p></sidenote>BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority, etc., designated.</p></sidenote>To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-eighth, nine-teen hundred and sixteen, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, pp. 413 , 750;
Vol. 38, p. 1008.</p></sidenote>relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote>business in the various branches of the Government service ; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses not exceeding $3,000, and street car fare not exceeding $50; in all, $110,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings, $5,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil Service Commission.</p></sidenote>CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner, examinéis, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>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; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each, six at $l,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 $420 each. Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switch-board operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $285,970.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional employees for the Civil Service Commission, <sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>$150,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than two persons shall be employed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,400 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Field force:</inline> District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field force.</p></sidenote>four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680.</p>
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For five field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field examiners.</p></sidenote>work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from departments, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote>or other Government establishments in the District of Columbia to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. The Civil Service Commission shall, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of employees.</p></sidenote>however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expert examiners:</inline> For employment of expert examiners not in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expert examiners.</p></sidenote>the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote>acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistants.</p></sidenote>and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; director of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of Consular Service, Counselor.</p></sidenote>consular service, $4,500; counselor for the department, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—four at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers on drafting work.</p></sidenote>$4,500 each, four at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin America, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connection with foreign relations ; three assistant solicitors of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant solicitors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>department, to be appointed by the Secretary, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; law clerk, and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—seventeen of class four, nineteen of class tliree, twenty-five of class two, forty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), eighteen at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; six messengers; twenty-three assistant messengers; two messenger boys at $420 each ; packer, $720; four laborers; four telephone switchboard operators; chauffeur, $1,080; in all, $322,760.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following additional force: Officer to aid in important <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional force.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officer on drafting work, assistant solicitor, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>drafting work, $2,500; assistant solicitor, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, five of class two, ten of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; in all, $54,080.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further additional force.</p></sidenote>For the following further additional force: Officers to aid in important drafting work—one $4,500, one $2,500, to be appointed by the Secretary; assistant solicitor of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary, $2,500; law clerks—two at $2,250 each, one $2,000, to be appointed by the Secretary; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three, ten of class two, ten of class one; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; five female laborers, at $240 each; in all, $73,060.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>For additional employees in the Department of State, $200,000: <i>Provided</i>, That not more than six persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No other appropriation to be used for Department service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>No money appropriated by any other Act, except the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service, shall be used 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p.522.</p></sidenote>during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passport Bureau.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote>New York, New York, Passport Bureau: Passport agent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two ; messenger; messenger boy, $480; rent of offices, $2,500; stationery, furniture, fixtures, and other miscellaneous expenses, $2,000; in all, $15,620.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote>San Francisco, California, Passport Bureau: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the passport bureau, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs and material for repairs, $55,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lithographing.</p></sidenote>For services of lithographer and necessary materials for lithographic press, $1,500.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same; streetcar tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary and assistant.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Secretaries.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; assistant to the Secretary, $5,000; three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; two additional Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 347.</p></sidenote>in accordance with the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, actuary, etc.</p></sidenote>clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; five private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, five at $840 each; in all, $83,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>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; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers;
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mimeograph operator, $720; messenger boy, $420 ; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; chief engineer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, etc.</p></sidenote>$1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $600; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch, $1,400; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen; foreman of laborers, $1,200; seven chauffeurs at $720 each, and the transfer to said positions of six laborers from the rolls of the chief clerk’s office is hereby authorized independently of the civil-service rules; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; forty-five laborers; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720. Winder Building: Engineer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winder Building.</p></sidenote>$1,000; three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen; three laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); forewoman of char force, $480; eight charwomen. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cox Building.</p></sidenote>Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Auditor’s <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditors’ Building.</p></sidenote>Building: Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; five laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $204,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance and Internal Revenue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of buildings for.</p></sidenote>accommodation of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Eight elevator conductors, at $720 each; fourteen firemen; seven female laborers, at $660 each; laborer in charge, $720; twenty-one laborers; two forewomen of charwomen, at $480 each; sixty-seven charwomen: twenty-seven watchmen; in all, $71,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,250; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Supply Committee.</p></sidenote>clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, four of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $22,930.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.</p></sidenote>assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—thirteen of class four, nine of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $90,280.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs Division.</p></sidenote>of division, at $3,000 each; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $71,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Appointments: Chief of division,$3,000; assistant chief <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments Division.</p></sidenote>of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, four of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $26,310.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surety Bonds Section.</p></sidenote>one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $9,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Moneys Division.</p></sidenote>chief of division, $2,500; clerks—six of class four, four of class three, five of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $33,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loans and Currency Division.</p></sidenote>chief of division, $2,700; second assistant chief of division, $2,500;
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custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks— two at $2,000 each, thirteen of class four, thirteen of class three, two at $1,500 each, fourteen of class two, seventeen of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each (including one transferred from office of Auditor for Interior Department); assorter of bonds, $800; expert counter clerks—ten at $1,200 each, twenty at $1,000 each, twenty at $900 each, twenty at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; machine operator, $840; two messengers; five assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; skilled laborers—two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; eighteen laborers; addressograph and graphotype operators—five at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; in all, $250,130.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and Stationery Division.</p></sidenote>Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500: assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; six laborers; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $37,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail and Files Division.</p></sidenote>Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of mail, $2,500; registry clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $12,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing clerk’s officer</p></sidenote>Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $25,190.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Risk Insurance Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 393,600.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of War Risk Insurance:</inline> For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, authorized by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior Acts, as follows: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Director, deputies, and other employees.</p></sidenote>For salaries of the director and commissioners, and of such deputies, assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>may deem necessary, $3,000,000; rental of quarters, $140,000; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, including not exceeding $100 for law books and books of reference and subscriptions to periodicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote>and not exceeding $150 for street car tickets, $60,000; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office and necessary printing of forms, and so forth, for use abroad may be done abroad, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>$200,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $150,000; traveling expenses, including not exceeding $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $40,000; purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle, $1,000; in all, $3,591,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal Farm Loan Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members of board, chiefs of divisions, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 360.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Federal Farm Loan Bureau:</inline> Four members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $4,500; assistant secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; chiefs of divisions—bond division $3,000, statistical division $3,000, appraisement division $3,000, charter and reports division $3,000; assistant chief, bond division, $2,500; custodian of securities, $2,500; seven examiners of securities, at $2,400 each; twelve registrars at $4,000 each; chief examiner, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>$5,000; irrigation expert adviser, $4,800; clerks—three of class three, five of class two, nine of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; stenographers—four at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messenger; four assistant messengers; in all, $191,620.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, exclusive of stationery and printing and binding; $50,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $241,620.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Architect’s Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Architect, superintendents, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 638.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Supervising Architect:</inline> Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3.000, assistant superintendent, $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750,
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assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief, $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; administrative clerks—eight at $2,000 each; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; two assistant messenger’s; messenger boys—one $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $221,020.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Comptroller of the Treasury:</inline> Comptroller, $6,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller’s Office.</p></sidenote>
assistant comptroller, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks—two at $2,400 each, two at $2,200 each, thirteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional law clerks.</p></sidenote>
at $2,000 each; five expert accountants at $2,100 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—twelve of class four, seven of class three, four of class two, three of class one, one $1,000; three messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $109,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Chief Clerk in the office of Comptroller of the Treasury hereafter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk to countersign warrants.</p></sidenote>shall have the power, in the name of the comptroller, to countersign all classes of warrants.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Auditing accounts abroad:</inline> For salaries and expenses incurred 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditing accounts abroad.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 293.</p></sidenote>under section twelve of the Act of September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including traveling expenses, per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for officers and employees absent from Washington, rent, cablegrams and telegrams, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, office equipment and exchange thereof, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $700,000, of which not exceeding $25,000 may be expended at Washington for the purposes of this section, but no officer or employee shall receive for duty in Washington any compensation other than his regular salary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Treasury Department:</inline> Auditor, $4,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division. $2,250; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-six of class four, thirty of class three, thirty-six of class two, forty-three of class one, thirty at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, $250,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for War Department:</inline> Auditor, $4,000; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>and chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division of accounts, $2,500; chief of claims and records division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks—thirty-nine of class four, sixty-six of class three, eighty-three of class two, one hundred and thirteen of class one, thirty at $1,000 each; nine at $900 each; skilled laborer (qualified as carpenter), $900; skilled laborer (to act as foreman of laborers), $900; two messengers; eight assistant messengers; twelve laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $501,890.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Navy Department:</inline> Auditor, $4,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-one of class four, thirty-eight of class three, twenty-one of class two, fifty-five of class one, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; helper, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $247,710.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Interior Department:</inline> Auditor, $4,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote>chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of di-
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vision, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four; seventeen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty of class one, two at $1,000 each, four at $900 each (one transferred to Division of Loans and Currency) ; four check assorters (unapportioned), at $1,000 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $123,830.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments</inline>: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each ; clerks—eighteen of class four, one of class four (special examiner), twenty of class three, seventeen of class two, thirteen of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $128,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Post Office Department:</inline> Auditor, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal book-keepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, forty-three of class three, forty-nine of class two, fifty-one of class one, twelve at $900 each; skilled laborers—five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, five at $660 each; messenger boys—five at $540 each, four at $480 each, five at $420 each; nine male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all, $324,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees on mechanical devices.</p></sidenote>For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of absentees.</p></sidenote>and vouchers of the Postal Service, $297,130: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $43,200 may be used for the payment of compensation to said employees absent on leave.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal Savings System.</p></sidenote>Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $17,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Treasurer:</inline> Treasurer, $8,000 ; Assistant Treasurer $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each; five section chiefs, at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, $2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twenty-eight of class three, eight at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, seventy-four of class one, forty at $1,000 each, sixteen at $900 each; expert counters—thirty-three at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, forty-four at $ 1,000 each, sixty-one at $900 each, twelve at $800 each, twenty-six at $720 each, six at $600 each; two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent ; seventeen counters, laundry machines, at $900 each ; fourteen messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, eight at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $630,390.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption of national currency.</p></sidenote>For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant teller, $2,000; assistant book-keeper, $2,000 ; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-seven at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each, thirty-five at $800 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $224,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal Savings System.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cutting machine repairs.</p></sidenote>Treasurer of the United States, $200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Register of the Treasury:</inline> Register, $4,000; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Register.</p></sidenote>register, $2,500; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three laborers; in all, $89,220.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Comptroller of the Currency:</inline> Comptroller, $5,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Comptroller of the Currency.</p></sidenote>deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each, one $2,000; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks— eleven of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, seventeen of class three, nineteen of class two, twenty-eight of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—one $480, one $420; in all, $167,560.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National currency expenses.</p></sidenote>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, $420; two charwomen; in all, $43,520.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special examiners.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue:</inline> Commissioner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.</p></sidenote>$6,500; deputy commissioners—one $4,000, one $3,600; chemists— chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400 ; heads of divisions—four at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each ; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—three at $2,000 each, thirty-five of class four, thirty-one of class three, forty-four of class two, forty-three of class one, thirty-two at $1,000 each, forty-five at $900 each; four messengers; seventeen assistant messengers; sixteen laborers; in all, $381,710.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following, on account of the Act imposing income taxes on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additionalemployees on income tax,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy commissioner, heads of divisions, etc.</p></sidenote>corporations and individuals, namely: Deputy commissioner, $4,000; heads of divisions—one $3,500, one $2,500; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each ; attorney, $3,600 ; law clerk, $2,000 ; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, seventeen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty-four of class two, forty of class one, forty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-eight at $900 each; seven messengers; four assistant messengers; m all, $306,160.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamp agents.</p></sidenote>$3,400, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Coast Guard</inline>: Two chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Guard Office.</p></sidenote>two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; draftsman, $1,500; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerks—four of class four, ten of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, ten at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $81,110.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote>as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 641.</p></sidenote>appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and
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nineteen shall not exceed $5,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing Bureau.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Engraving and Printing:</inline> Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; medical and sanitary officer, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—six of class three, twelve of class two, ten of class one, eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each, fifteen at $840 each, three at $780 each, nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—one at $900, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; sixty watchmen, at $720 each; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900: four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on paying for services.</p></sidenote>each; in all, $246,710; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secret Service Division.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Secret Service Division:</inline> Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $20,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Director of the Mint.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Director of the Mint:</inline> Director, $5,000; examiner, $3,000; computer, and adjuster of accounts $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400 ; assistant in laboratory, $ 1,200 ; messenger ; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight.</p></sidenote>For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations, etc.</p></sidenote>For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precious metals statistics.</p></sidenote>annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service:</inline> Surgeon General, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, eight of class two (one of whom shall be translator), fourteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, $720; two laborers, at $540 each; in all, $74,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional deducted from bureaus, etc.</p></sidenote>Department and its several bureaus and offices, $62,200, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $235,800 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, 
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mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $6,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $700; Public Health Service, $3,500; Quarantine Service, $1,000; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $600; expenses of Coast Guard, $5,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $40,000; miscellaneous expenses of Internal-Revenue Service, $50,000; expenses of collecting the income tax, $70,000; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $45,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $62,200, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> countries, and for postage for the Treasury 
Department, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding.</p></sidenote>Department, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reference books, etc.</p></sidenote>directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations to secure better administrative methods, etc.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings, $21,350.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles, etc.</p></sidenote>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, $5,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Files.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of file holders and file cases, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>
baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote>gas and electric fight fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street-car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $16,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor-saving machines.</p></sidenote>For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpets, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolera and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire alarm.</p></sidenote>For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury and Winder Buildings, $2,003.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for Post Of fice Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for the Post Office Department:</inline> For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Control of expenditures.</p></sidenote>of reference, and city directories, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tabulating equipment, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $194,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rental allowance.</p></sidenote>prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $37,400 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting internal revenue.</p></sidenote>collecting internal revenue.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collectors, surveyors, etc.</p></sidenote>For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees.</p></sidenote>revenue offices, $3,565,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 684.</p></sidenote>States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, gauges, etc.</p></sidenote>>For salary and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, fees and expenses of gaugers, and salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, $1,200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting income tax.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 756.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 306, 329, 777.</p></sidenote>Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collecting the income tax as provided in Title I of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and subsequent Acts, including the employment of agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, and messengers in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p></sidenote>collection districts, $3,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than
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$215,000 of the foregoing sum may be used for the employment, in
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services, etc., in Bureau.</p></sidenote> the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, of necessary clerical and other personal services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting war revenue taxes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 300.</p></sidenote>as provided in an Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including the employment of necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters, postage, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $8,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishing violations of laws, etc.</p></sidenote>$500,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That not more than $1,172,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for Bureau, D. C.</p></sidenote>of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Collecting the cotton-futures tax: For expenses to enforce the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting cotton futures tax.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 476.</p></sidenote> provisions of part A of the Act approved August eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, known as the cotton-futures Act, including the employment of attorneys, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, and messengers at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary, $20,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Collecting the tax on estates, munitions, and so forth: For expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting tax on estates, munitions, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 756. 782.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 324.</p></sidenote>of assessing and collecting the tax as provided by Titles I, I, and III, of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and subsequent Acts, and to pay such sums as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem necessary, $340,000; and the Commissioner 
<sidenote> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, etc.</p></sidenote>of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to appoint and pay from this appropriation all necessary officers, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, messengers, and janitors, and to rent such quarters, incur expense for telephone service, purchase such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for employment or use in the District of Columbia, or any collection district of the United States, or any of the Territories thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>That not more than $40,000 of the amount appropriated may be used for the employment in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia of necessary clerical help at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricting opium, etc., sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 785.</p></sidenote>the provisions of the Act approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound,
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deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, etc.</p></sidenote>their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>collection districts, including not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $325,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, not to exceed $500, and reasonable expenses for not exceeding sixty days immediately following the injury of field officers or employees in the Internal-Revenue Service while in fine of duty, of medical attendance, surgeon’s and hospital bills made necessary by reason of such injury, and for horses crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to Congress of employees, rent, etc., in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement showing the number, designation, and annual rate of compensation of the persons employed and the amounts expended for rent and other authorized purposes in the District of Columbia from the foregoing appropriations for the collection of internal revenue.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p></sidenote>independent treasury.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant treasurers’ offices.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Boston, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200, five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Chicago, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; attendant for money laundry machines, $1,200; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; m all, $71,420.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cincinnati.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans.</p></sidenote>
<inline class="smallCaps">New Orleans, office of assistant treasttrer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks—one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer,
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$1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; tour guards, at $720 each; in all, $28,170.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">New York, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote>$8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check pay division—chief $3,000; assistant chief, $2,000, bond clerk and assistant vault clerk $2,800, paying teller $3,000, assistant paying teller $2,250, receiving teller $2,800; redemption division— chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250, vault and authorities clerk $2,500; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, eight at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards—chief $1,500, one $1,200, four at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; twelve money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $150,460.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia.</p></sidenote>$5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,300, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each ; in all, $49,770.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant treasurer, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis.</p></sidenote>$4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying toller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer:</inline> Assistant
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco.</p></sidenote> treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $2,800; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; messenger, $840: four watchmen, at $720 each; two guards, at $720 each; in all, $27,160.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>mints and assay offices.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<inline class="smallCaps">Carson, Nevada, Mint:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall also perform <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson City, Nov,</p></sidenote>the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500.
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Denver, Colorado, Mint</inline>: Superintendent, $4,500 ; assayer, $3,000; 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p></sidenote>superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coming department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $45,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For wages of workmen and other employees, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote> and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500;
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chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Philadelphia Mint:</inline> Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $68,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other employees, $440,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 776.</p></sidenote>For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $177,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote>
<inline class="smallCaps">San Francisco, California, Mint:</inline> Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $170,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Boise, Idaho, assay office:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall abo perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deadwood, S. Dak.</p></sidenote>
<inline class="smallCaps">Deadwood, South Dakota, assay office:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Helena, Mont.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Helena, Montana, assay office:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">New York assay office</inline>: Superintendent, $5,000 ; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800 ; clerks—two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $51,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other employees, $160,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 777.</p></sidenote>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, $136,000.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salt Lake City, Utah, assay office</inline>: Assayer in charge, who shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt Lake City, Utah.</p></sidenote>also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, $600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Seattle, Washington, assay office:</inline> Assayer in charge, who shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seattle, Wash.</p></sidenote>also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of ’cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400; in all, $11,450.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, and other employees, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,700.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of War, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000 ; assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 515.</p></sidenote>and chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500 ; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, seven of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; nine assistant messengers; two telephone switch board operators; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; six watchmen; three watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers ; hostlers— one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $155,940.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following as authorized by the Act approved April sixth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second and Third Assistant Secretaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 515</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Second Assistant Secretary of War, $4,500; Third Assistant Secretary of War, $4,500; in all, $10,850, of which sum $1,850 shall be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary Employees</inline>: For the temporary employment of such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employees.</p></sidenote>additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $10,277,250: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of War shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed statement of employees, etc., to be submitted.</p></sidenote>submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restrictions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 643.</p></sidenote>to each:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum and not more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 each per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Adjutant General’s Office:</inline> Chief clerk, $2 500; ten chiefs of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’ss Office.</p></sidenote>divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifty-eight of class four, seventy-four of class three, one hundred and sixteen of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; eleven messengers; sixty-one assistant messengers; four watchmen; twenty-one laborers; in all, $852,540; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/784">784</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector General’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Inspector General:</inline> Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $18,160.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge Advocate General’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Judge Advocate General:</inline> Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $35,740.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Office:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers ; in all, $45,960.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsman, etc.</p></sidenote>The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $53,280, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Radio engineer, etc.</p></sidenote>The services of one radio engineer and such radio assistants, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 847.</p></sidenote>Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>That the entire expenditures for this purpose tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $5,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster General’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Quartermaster General:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,750; principal clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty of class two, ninety-three of class one, fifty-nine at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; advisory architect, $4,000; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; supervising engineer, $2,750; hydraulic and sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $410,340.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeon General’s of flee.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Surgeon General:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,100; assistant chemist, $1,600; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; entomologist, $1,600; photographer, $1,500; two translators at $1,800 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, thirteen of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two at $900 each; engineer,$1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; eleven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $185,740.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Chief of Ordnance:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, seventeen of class two, thirty-six of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—two at $780 each, two at $720 each; laborer; in all, $126,210.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entire expenditures <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>for tins purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $800,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Chief of Ordnance is authorized to appoint one of the Army <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing officer for civilian employees.</p></sidenote>officers serving in his office as disbursing officer to pay the civilian employees in the Ordnance Office authorized in this or any other appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Chief of Engineers:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Office.</p></sidenote>divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers ; three assistant messengers ; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $112,510.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote>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 estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Insular Affairs:</inline> Law officer, $4,500; chief clerk, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote>$2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $85,230.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Militia Bureau:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote>three of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $49,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Chief of Coast Artillery:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery Office.</p></sidenote>one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses, War Department:</inline> For purchase of professional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase oi a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle for Secretary.</p></sidenote>official use of the Secretary of War; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and motorcycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motorcycles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $1,000; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>$750,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/786">786</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>
For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, $75,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of public buildings and grounds:</inline> Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two and stenographer, two of class one ; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $17,940.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foremen, etc.</p></sidenote>For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Park watchmen.</p></sidenote>For sergeant of park watchmen, $950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Day force.</p></sidenote>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; and one in Montrose Park; twenty-three in all, at $840 each, $19,320.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night force.</p></sidenote>For night watchmen, as follows: Three in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and adjacent reservations; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one in Garfield Park and neighboring reservations; one in Iowa, Scott, and Thomas Circles and neighboring reservations; two in Stanton and Lincoln Parks and neighboring reservations; two in Lafayette and McPherson Squares, and Franklin and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations ; two for greenhouses and nursery ; and four in Potomac Park; twenty-two in all, at $840 each, $18.480.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wakefield, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc.</p></sidenote>For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, repair, and operation of two motorcycles at $144 each, $288.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchasing and suppljung uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $3,145.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part from District revenues.</p></sidenote>Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and grounds, the sum of $37,641.50 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.</p></sidenote>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Main building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc.</p></sidenote>Office of superintendent: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks— two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the <page identifier="/us/stat/40/787">787</page>watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; seventy watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; nine skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; sixteen firemen; twenty-five elevator conductors, at $720 each; twenty-five laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; sixty-seven charwomen; gardener, $720; attendant, $480; in all, $151,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, city directories, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and dictionary, $48,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near Seventeenth 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Annex.</p></sidenote>Street northwest:</inline> Engineer, $1,200; six firemen; five elevator conductors, at $720 each; seven watchmen; skilled laborer, $840; four laborers; forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in all, $20,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">State Department Annex:</inline> Laborer, $660.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State Department Annex.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">War and Navy Department Buildings (Henry Park Reservation)</inline>: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Park Buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 598.</p></sidenote>For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,000; three messengers, at $720 each; electricians—chief $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman, $1,500; two painters, at $1,200 each: four carpenters, at $1,200 each; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators, at $1,000 each; ten general mechanics, at $1,000 each; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineers, four at $1,200 each; steamfitter, $1,080; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven at $720 each; laborers—foreman $1,000, fifty at $660 each; nine female laborers, at $480 each; 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guards, etc.</p></sidenote>guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,000 each, six sergeants at $840 each, one hundred and fifty-five at $720 each; charwomen—four forewomen at $300 each, eighty at $240 each; in all, $245,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, motorcycle repairs and supplies, miscellaneous <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent exposes.</p></sidenote>items, printing, and city directories, $90,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,000; estimate clerk, $1,800; stenographers—one $1,800, one $1,200, one $1,000; clerks— one of class four, three of class three, five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each, one $900; three copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $420, one $400, one $360; in all, $82,860.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary employees:</inline> For the employment of such additional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employees.</p></sidenote>temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows:</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Office of the Secretary, $20,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Office of the Solicitor, $1,804;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Judge Advocate General, $21,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of Naval Intelligence, $10,000;</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/788">788</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hydrographic Office, $55,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval Observatory, $11,620;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Steam Engineering, $45,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Construction and Repair, $72,660;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Yards and Docks, $55,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Navigation, $100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $150,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of employees, etc.</p></sidenote>In all, $654,584: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Solicitor:</inline> Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one, $2,500, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in au, $20,590.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Records and Library.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Naval Records and Library:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records); four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $21,000. All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge Advocate General’s Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Judge Advocate General:</inline> Chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—one $2,200, one $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $17,010.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Naval Operations.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Chief of Naval Operations:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one ; four at $ 1,000 each, one $900 ; telegraphers—chief $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,100; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $31,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Navigation:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200, two at $2,000 each, five of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, eleven of class one, three at $1,100 each, seventeen at $1,000 each, five at $900 each ; fourteen copyists ; nine copyists, at $840 each ; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $100,990.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Intelligence Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Naval Intelligence:</inline> Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $17,100. </p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Hydrographic Office:</inline>Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—one $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts— one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, our at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800 ; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600 ; lithographers—chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two nega
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tive cutters, at $1,000 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger;six laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $124,020.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote>directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographic charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and pubheations; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of a hand press; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and g same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Branch offices.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Mario, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $12,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services in Washington restricted.</p></sidenote>or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Observatory:</inline> Astronomer, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Observatory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>$2,800; Assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class two; instrument maker, $1,500: electrician, $ 1,500 ; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,000; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; nine laborers; in all, $47,040.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computations.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000.</p>
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For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $3,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and stationery ; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, elec-
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tric 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, $10,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds and roads.</p></sidenote>For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $6,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nautical Almanac Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Nautical Almanac Office:</inline> For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris ami Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $19,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computers.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Steam Engineering</inline>: Chief clerk, $2,250 ; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, five of class three, six of class two, two at $1,300 each, seven of class one, two at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; copyist; two expert radio aids, at $3,130 each; expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsmen— one (who shall be an expert in marine construction) $2,000, one $1,400, assistant $1,200; two blue printers, at $720 each; four assistant messengers; laborers—three at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $65,210.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote>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 seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>from the appropriation “Engineering”: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine-teen shall not exceed $236,140. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Construction and Repair:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, fifteen at $1,000 each; seven copyists; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, one $480, one $400; in all, $73,350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p> </sidenote>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 Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>
<i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $318,941.16. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Ordnance:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; draftsman, $1,400; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one $1,300, four of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $34,610.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote>The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations
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for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $94,783.76. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts:</inline> Civilian assistant, $2,500; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote>chief accountant, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, eight of class three, nine of class two, eighteen of class one, twelve at $1,100 each, twentyeight at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $480, two at $400 each; laborer; in ail, $136,270.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote>two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; copyist, $840; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer, $480; in all, $24,150.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Yards and Docks:</inline> Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote>class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—three at $600 each, one $480; two laborers; in all, $29,170.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote>as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such appropriations and allotments: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote>this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $400,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Division of Naval Militia Affairs</inline>: For the following, authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Militia Affairs Division.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 238.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 712.</p></sidenote>by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief clerk, $1,800; clerks— two of class two, three of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each; messenger boys—one $600, one $400; in all, $14,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote>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 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 712.</p></sidenote>for “ Arming and equipping Naval Militia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Naval Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For professional and technical books and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, Books, etc.</p></sidenote>periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including citv directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, furniture, etc.</p></sidenote>materials; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy ; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; street car tickets not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of
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records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $270,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 704.</p></sidenote>Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use of navalappropriations.</p></sidenote>No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided tor on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote> DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistants chiefclerks.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant, Inspectors, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>$4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department, at $2,500 each; six inspectora, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; ex pert accountant, $2,000 (transferred from the Indian Office) ; clerks— our at $2,000 each, twelve of class four (one transferred to Solicitor’s Office), two at $1,740 each (one transferred from the Bureau of Mines and one from the Geological Survey), sixteen of class three (two transferred to Solicitor’s Office), one $1,620 (transferred from Bureau of Mines), one $1,500 (transferred from Geological Survey), nineteen of class two (including one transferred from Pension Office and three transferred to Solicitor’s Office), one $1,320 (transferred from Reclamation Service), twenty-five of class one (including one transferred from Geological Survey), four at $1,000 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Mines), one $840 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; seven copyists (one transferred to Solicitor’s Office); classified laborer, $1,140 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); skilled laborer, $840 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote>typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; eleven chauffeurs at $720 each; ten messengers (including one transferred from Pension Office); seven assistant messengers (including one in lieu of a messenger boy at $720 transferred from Geological Survey and one transferred to Solicitor’s Office) ; twenty-one laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; gardener, $600 (transferred from Geological Survey) ; laborer; messenger boys—one $540 (transferred from Geological Survey), one $420 (in lieu of one transferred from Pension Office at $400) ; five packers at $660 each ; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight female laborers, at $400 each; captains <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote>of the watch—one $1,200, one $840 (transferred from Pension Office); lieutenants of the watch—one $1,020 (transferred from Geological Survey), three at $840 each (two transferred from Geological Survey and one from Bureau of Mines) ; three sergeants of the watch
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at $750 each (transferred from Pension Office) ; sixty-eight watchmen (including seventeen transferred from Pension Office, two from Reclamation Service, two from Bureau of Mines, six from Geological Survey, and one in lieu of one at $840 transferred from Geological Survey) ; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen ; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk to sign tribal deeds.</p></sidenote>his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $320,270.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Land Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote>assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720 ; fourteen laborers ; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $35,060.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Building for Interior Department offices, care and maintenance:
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent, laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> Assistant superintendent, $2,000 ; clerk of class two (in lieu of superintendent of building, $1,400, transferred from Pension Office); foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each ; laborers—sixty-five at $660 each (including twenty-three transferred from Pension Office, thirteen from General Land Office, and two from Geological Survey), forty-five at $600 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Mines, one from Geological Survey, four from Patent Office, and eleven in lieu of eleven at $540 each transferred from Patent Office), sixteen at $540 each (one in lieu of one at $480 transferred from General Land Office, three in lieu of three at $480 each transferred from Bureau of Education, eleven in lieu of eleven at $480 each transferred from Geological Survey, and one in lieu of one at $400 transferred from Bureau of Education); seventeen female laborers at $400 each (including ten transferred from Pension Office and one from Geological Survey); sixteen charwomen (one in lieu of one at $270 transferred from Geological Survey and fifteen tranferred from Pension Office) ; engineer, $1,200 (transferred 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote>from Geological Survey); two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; nine firemen (including two transferred from Pension Office); general machinist, $1,500; electrician, $1,400 (in lieu of assistant electrical engineer at $1,800 transferred from Geological Survey); substation operators—three at $1,200 each, three assistants at $900 each; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; painter, $900 (transferred from Pension Office); carpenters—chief $1,320 (transferred from Geological Survey), two at $900 each (transferred from Geological Survey); cabinetmaker, $900 (transferred from Pension Office); plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; janitor, $600 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote>(transferred from Geological Survey); eighteen watchmen; copyist (transferred from Pension Office); four messengers (three transferred from Pension Office and one from Patent Office) ; two assistant messengers (transferred from Patent Office) ; three messenger boys at $420 each (one transferred from Patent Office and two in lieu of two at $400 each transferred from Pension Office); in all, $158,580.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor’s Office.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Solicitor:</inline> Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each ; assistant attorneys—one $3,000’, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert $2,000; clerks—one of class four (transferred from Secretary’s office), six of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter) (including two transferred from Secretary’s office), three of class two (transferred from Sec-
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retary’s office), one of class one; copyist (transferred from Secretary’s office) ; messenger (transferred from Pension Office) ; three assistant messengers (one transferred from Secretary’s office and two from Pension Office), in all, $90,950.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p></sidenote>For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p></sidenote>For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six inspectors and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Land Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">General Land Office:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—fourteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-seven of class three, eighty-three of class two, eighty-nine of class one, seventy-seven at $1,000 each; sixty-five copyists; twenty-six copyists, at $720 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; three laborers (thirteen transferred to building for Interior Department offices) ; packer, $720 ; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $672,790.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence, etc., investigations.</p></sidenote>For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $6,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law books.</p></sidenote>For law books for the law library, $400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote>For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use.</proviso></p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State and Territorial maps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarged homestead areas.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Files.</p></sidenote>For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Office.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Indian Office:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—
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one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $320,790.</p>
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<inline class="smallCaps">Pension Office:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension Office.</p></sidenote>$3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; nine medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-seven principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000: eleven assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks— ninety-three of class four, eighty-three of class three, two hundred and forty-seven of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), three hundred and twenty of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; thirty-six copyists (one transferred to building for Interior Department offices) ; twenty-three messengers (one transferred to Secretary’s office, three to building for Interior Department offices, and one to Solicitor’s office); six assistant messengers (two transferred to Solicitor’s office) ; skilled laborer, $660; six messenger boys, at $420 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office and two to building for Interior Department offices) ; in all, $1,322,620.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appointment shall not be made to any of the positions herein appropriated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on filling vacancies.</p></sidenote>for in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions not actually filled June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor shall more than fifty per centum of other vacancies actually occurring in the $1,200 grade, nor more than twenty-five per centum of such vacancies actually occurring in all other grades or positions, except those with salaries of $2,250 or above, or $1,000 or below, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, be filled by original appointment or promotion. The salaries or compensation of all places which may not be filled as hereinabove provided for shall not be available for expenditure, but shall lapse and shall be covered into the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per them at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., investigations.</p></sidenote>employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $90,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor-saving devices, etc.</p></sidenote>machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Offices.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Patent Office:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law examiners, at $2,750 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; two examiners of interferences, at $2,700 each; examinera of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; examiners—forty-five principals at $2,700 each, ninety firat assistants at $2,400 each, ninety second assistants at $2,100 each, ninety third assistants at $1,800 each, ninety fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an as
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sistant examiner, $2,000; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty-five of class one, ninety-one at $1,000 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; ninety copyists; forty copyists, at $720 each; three messengers (one transferred to building for Interior Department offices); thirty-three assistant messengers (two transferred to building for Interior Department offices); thirteen laborers, at $600 each (four transferred to building for Interior Department offices); forty-five examiners’ aids, at $600 each; twenty-four copy pullers, who shall be selected without regard to apportionment, at $480 each; in all, $1,416,500.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary typewriters.</p></sidenote>For special and temporary services of typewriters certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $2.50 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records, $5,000.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase of law, professional and other reference books and publications and scientific books and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copies of weekly issue of patents, etc.</p></sidenote>For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers; $140,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating use of inventions.</p></sidenote>For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau, Berne.</p></sidenote>For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Education.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Education:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each: collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two copyists; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $79,860.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural and industrial education, etc.</p></sidenote>For investigation of rural education, industrial education, and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote>For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote>For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School and home gardening</p></sidenote>For investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturing towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,500.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special reports.</p></sidenote>For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distributing documents, etc.</p></sidenote>For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and
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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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elementary, etc., education investigations.</p></sidenote>evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $9,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be employed 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kindergarten education.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $4,300: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.</p></sidenote>Grounds:</inline> Superintendent, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,750; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $ 1,000 ; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660 ; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each ; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; book-keeper and accountant, $2,200; in all, $30,710.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior:</inline> The following <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department, including $30,000 for the Civil Service Commission: Furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car tickets not exceeding $250, and expressage; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle for Secretary.</p></sidenote>official use of the Secretary of the Interior; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and motor tracks, motorcycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; diagrams; awnings; filing and labor-saving devices; constructing model and other cases and furniture; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses,fuel and fights, typewriting and adding machines; $165,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electrical power, electric fight, gas, window washing, and telephone <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies for Department Office Building.</p></sidenote>service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building for Interior Department offices, $100,000.</p>
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For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>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 $20,000 for the Civil Service Commission; $100,000, and, in addition thereto, sums amounting <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional deducted from specified appropriations.</p></sidenote>to $46,350 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, as follows: Surveying public lands, $2,000; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geological Survey, $2,100; Bureau of Mines, $3,500; Indian Service, $34,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $600; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $100,000, the total appropriation
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for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, periodicals, etc.</p></sidenote>For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of quartern for department trucks, and for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $2,400.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyors general.</p></sidenote>SURVEYORS GENERAL.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and office expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 797.</p></sidenote>For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote>Alaska: Surveyor general and ex efficio secretary of the Territory, $4,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $16,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote>Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $13,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote>California: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $12,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $16,400.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p></sidenote>Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $20,310;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $1,800; in all, $25,110</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote>Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $13,060;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $16,810.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote>Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $18,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $22,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada.</p></sidenote>Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $10,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $13,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote>New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $18,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $900; in all, $21,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote>Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $12,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,100.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote>South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $3,100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $300 ; in all, $5,400.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote>
Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $14,640;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $18,390.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote>Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $8,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $11,750.</p>
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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p></sidenote>Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, $9,700;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,200.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on clerk hire, etc.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarily <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary details authorized.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The use of the fund created by the Act of March second, eighteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office work, surveys in railroad land grants.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 937.</p></sidenote>hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote>be used for the purposes above indicated.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government in the Territories.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Territory of Alaska:</inline> Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote>each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the governor’s offices and the executive mansion, 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, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repainting of the executive mansion at Juneau, Alaska, including interior repainting, kalsomining, and decorating, $750.
Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative expenses.</p></sidenote>members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; printing of laws, $3,500; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $4,500; in all, $46,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Territory of Hawaii</inline>: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote>justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,200, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,200.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative expenses.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
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, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., to Members restricted.</p></sidenote>That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provide <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 150.</p></sidenote>a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post Office Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office, Postmaster General:</inline> Postmaster General, $12,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster General, chief clerk, etc.</p></sidenote>chief derk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000;
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private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, assistant to chief clerk, confidential clerk to Postmaster General, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.</p></sidenote>and chairman, board of inspection, at $2,000 each; chief inspector, $4,000; chief clerk to chief inspector, $2,000; purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk to purchasing agent, $2,000; assistant attorneys— one, $2,750, one $2,500; three at $2,000 each; bond examiner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>$2,500; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—eighty-eight of class four, one hundred and thirty-four of class three, two hundred and eight of class two, two hundred and seventy-six of class one, one hundred and eighty-three at $1,000 each, thirty-one at $900 each; skilled draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $1,000; blue printer, $900; assistant blue printer, $840; telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, watch men, engineers, etc.</p></sidenote>switchboard operators; two messengers in charge of mails, at $900 each; twenty-two messengers; thirty-five assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,200; additional to three watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; thirty-four watchmen; two engineers, at $1,200 each; nine assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two blacksmiths or steamfitters, at $1,000 each; three oilers, at $840 each; fifteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,600; assistant electricians—two at $1,200 each, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpenters, laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>three at $1,000 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each; carpenters—one $1,400, three at $1,000 each; awning maker, painter, and plumber, at $1,000 each; assistant plumber, $900; laborers—foreman $900, assistant foreman $840, two at $840 each, seventy-six at $720 each, three at $660 each; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, nine at $480 each; fifty-eight charwomen; actual necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $1,516,540.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Readjustment of salaries.</p></sidenote>In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in any class may be fixed by the Postmaster General at $100 below the salary fixed by law for such class and the unused portion of such salary shall be used to increase the salary of any clerk in any class entitled thereto by not less than $100 above the salary fixed by law for such class.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments to bureaus, etc.</p></sidenote>The Postmaster General shall assign to the several bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Post Office Department such number of the employees herein authorized as may be necessary to perform the work required therein; and he shall submit a statement showing such assignments and the number employed at the various salaries in the annual Book of Estimates following the estimates for salaries in the Post Office Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Censorship, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>,pp. 230,425,654.</p></sidenote>For enforcement of title twelve of the Espionage Act, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and section nineteen of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of First Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office, First Assistant Postmaster General:</inline> First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of post-office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents of divisions, etc.</p></sidenote>service—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; division of  postmasters’appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; superintendent, division of dead letters, $2,500; chief, division of correspondence, $2,000; in all, $32,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents of di visions, etc.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office,Second Assistant Postmaster General:</inline> Second Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent, $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; division of railway mail service—general
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superintendent $4,000, assistant general superintendent $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; in all, $27,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office, Third Assistant 
Postmaster General:</inline> Third Assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents of divisions, etc.</p></sidenote>Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500: division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk in charge of administrative section, and clerk in charge of audit section, at $2,000 each; superintendents of divisions—stamps $2,750, finance (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determmefor the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250, classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500, money orders $2,750; chief clerk division of money orders, $2,250; in all, $37,050.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General</inline>: Fourth Assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents of divisions, eta</p></sidenote>Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; topographer, $2,400; in all, $19,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total salaries, $1,682,990.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses, Post Office Department</inline>: For stationery <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, etc., plant.</p></sidenote>repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $55,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telegraphing, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For telegraphing, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For painting, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horse-drawn <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles.</p></sidenote>passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of a motor track, and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $3,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $300; 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For rent of stables, $500.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $33,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official Postal Guide.</p></sidenote>and the amounts received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be used as a further appropriation for the publication of copies of such guide.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 5, p. 80.</p></sidenote>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.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Attorney General:</inline> Attorney General, $12,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitors for Departments, etc.</p></sidenote>Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000; Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys, assistants, etc.</p></sidenote>one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and
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matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys— one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of prisons, etc.</p></sidenote>Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation division.</p></sidenote>clerk, $2,000; chief of division of investigation, $4,000; examiners— two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, ten of class two, twenty of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote>messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven’ laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of Accounts.</p></sidenote>twenty-four charwomen. Division of Accounts: Chief, $2,750; administrative accountant, $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,200; clerks—three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $467,620.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses:</inline> For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery,</p></sidenote>For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typweriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street-car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $37,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vehicles, etc.</p></sidenote>For official transportation, including the purchase of a motor-
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor for Attorney General.</p></sidenote>propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the Attorney General to cost not exceeding $3,500, and for the maintenance, repair, and operation thereof, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $6,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of
Columbia, $36,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor of the Treasury.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Solicitor of the Treasury:</inline> Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, who shall also discharge the duties of chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each ; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $27,230.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce:</inline> Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040.</p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor:</inline> Solicitor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor of the Department of Labor.</p></sidenote>$5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—appointments $2,500, publications $2,500, supplies $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, twelve of class two (including one transferred from Bureau of Fisheries), nineteen of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; five assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; fifteen laborers; cabinetmaker, $1,200; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900 ; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $189,040.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Lighthouses:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighthouses Bureau.</p></sidenote>$4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250, one $2,000; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,440, one $1,200; in all, $65,430.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Census Office:</inline> Director, $6,000; five chief statisticians, at $3,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Census Office.</p></sidenote>each; chief clerk, $2,500; geographer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,500; nine expert chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty of class three, sixty-five of class two, two hundred and eighty-five of class one, ninety at $1,000 each, eighty-one at $900 each; skilled laborers—tliree at $900 each, one $720; three messengers; five assistant messengers; four unskilled laborers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $739,240.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securing information for reports.</p></sidenote>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; not to exceed $10,000 for the temporary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employees.</p></sidenote>employment of clerks, stenographers, and machine operators in the District of Columbia, to be selected from the registers of the Civil Service Commission, and to be paid at the rate of not to exceed $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vital statistics.</p></sidenote>other records; temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tobacco statistics.</p></sidenote>statistics authorized by law in addition to any other fund available therefor: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the compensation of not to exceed ten <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of special agents.</p></sidenote>special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at a rate not to exceed $8 per day, $490,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For constructing tabulating machines, and for experimental work <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tabulating machines, etc.</p></sidenote>in developing, improving, and constructing an integrating counter
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for use in statistical work and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punching machines for 14th Census.</p></sidenote>For the construction, purchase, rental, or repair of punching machines for use in punching cards of the Fourteenth Decennial Census, $60,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce:</inline> Chief, $6,000; assistant chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, one $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; stenographer to chief of bureau, $1,600; editorial assistant, $2,000; editorial clerk, $1,600; clerks—twelve of class four, six of class three, two at $1,500 each, eighteen of class two, eighteen of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each ; messenger; four assistant messengers ; laborer; two messenger boys, at $420 each in all, $154,120.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promoting commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, including exchange on official checks, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: <proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of publications.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding $3,000 of this sum may be expended for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of our commercial interests.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promoting ecommerce with South and Central America.</p></sidenote>To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promoting commerce with the Far East.</p></sidenote>To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including the employment of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commercial attachés.</p></sidenote>Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $125,000: 
<proviso><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special post allowances.</p></sidenote><i>Provided</i>, That not more than $25,000 of the foregoing sum may be used by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to officers and employees of the commercial attaché service, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned.</proviso></p>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Steamboat-Inspection Service:</inline> Supervising Inspector General, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam boat Inspection Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 739.</p></sidenote>$4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $19,440.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors, at $3,000 <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 740.</p></sidenote>each, $33,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law, $174,100;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports: New York, thirty-six at $2,000 each; New Orleans, six at $1,800 each; Baltimore, eight at $1,800 each; Providence, four at $1,800 each; Boston, eight at $1,800 each; Philadelphia, ten at $1,800 each; San Francisco, twelve at $1,800 each; Buffalo, six at $1,600 each; Cleveland, ten at $1,600 each; Milwaukee, four at $1,600 each; Chicago, four at $1,600 each; Grand Haven, four at $1,600 each; Detroit, four at $1,600 each; Norfolk, six at $1,600 each; Seattle, ten at $1,600 each; Portland (Oregon), two at $1,600 each; Albany (New York), two at $1,600 each; Duluth, two at $1,600 each; Portland (Maine), two at $1,600 each; New London, two at $1,600 each; two traveling inspectors, at $2,500 each; $256,200;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $463,300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 741.</p></sidenote>$1,500 a year to each person, of clerk to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>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 of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, $130,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/p852-869/">R. S., Title LII, pp. 852-869</ref>
.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navigation Bureau.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Navigation:</inline> Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $2,750; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two stenographers and typewriters to be employed not to exceed six months at the rate of $75 per month each; two messengers; in all, $38,130.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping commissioners.</p></sidenote>exceeding the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; Newport<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport News added.</p></sidenote> News, $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, $30,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire.</p></sidenote>Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners, $47,700: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That one <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance.</p></sidenote>clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $1,800 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $8,365.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admeasurements of vessels.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,100, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counting passengers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>$250.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/806">806</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $26,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preventing overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc.</p></sidenote>To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, in addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all. necessary expenses in connection therewith, $18,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wireless communication on steamers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 829; Vol. 37, p. 199.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post, p. 809.</p></sidenote>Wireless-communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication’’ and carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include salaries of employees in Washington not exceeding $8,050 traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $45,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standards Bureau.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Standards:</inline> Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, one qualified in optics $3,600, two at $3,600 each, one $3,300, three at $3,000 each; assistant to the director, $3,600; associate physicists— five at $2,700 each, five at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, seven at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—twelve at $1,800 each, thirteen at $1,600 each, eighteen at $1,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, one $3,500, one $3,000; associate chemists—three at $2,700 each, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each; assistant chemists—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each; physical chemist, $1,800; laboratory assistants—twenty-three at $1,200 each, eighteen at $1,000 each; laboratory helpers—two at $840 each, four at $720 each, three at $600 each; aids—fourteen at $900 each, sixteen at $720 each; twenty laboratory apprentices, at $540 each; secretary, $2,200; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; chief clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, two at $720 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; office apprentices—four at $540 each, two at $480 each, two at $420 each; five elevator boys at $480 each; mechanicians—chief $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; machinist, $1,200; shop apprentices—two at $600 each, two at $540 each, three at $480 each; eight watchmen; skilled woodworkers— foreman of woodworking shops $1,500, one$l,200, two at $1,000 each; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, five at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographers—one $1,400, one $1,200; packer, $840; two messengers; assistant messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,600, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; two pipefitters at $1,000 each; five firemen; glassblowers—one $1,600, one $1,200; glassworker, $1,600; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $900; foreman of janitors and laborers $900; fourteen laborers; janitors—three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $432,360</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>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, $75,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/807">807</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $6,000.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for beat, light, and power ; office expenses, stationery, books <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 809.</p></sidenote>
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 member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, purchase, and repair of a passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of grounds.</p></sidenote>water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">High-power electric currents, etc.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Structural materials investigations.</p></sidenote>as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $125,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing machines tor physical constants.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-resisting building materials.</p></sidenote>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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of the standards and methods of measurements <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Measurements of public utilities.</p></sidenote>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, $50,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway equipment Investigations.</p></sidenote>wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous testing, etc.</p></sidenote>soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $30,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Radio communication standardisation.</p></sidenote>employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial colors standardization, etc.</p></sidenote>color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/808">808</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clay products processes.</p></sidenote>To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc.</p></sidenote>To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials essential to the industries or in laboratory investigations, as authorized by law, such as the determination of the value of gravity, thermal conductivities of materials, mechanical equivalent of heat, metallurgical constants such as specific and latent neats of metals and alloys, the electrochemical equivalent of metals, the velocity of light; including data important in the efficient planning of industrial processes, and in the effective utilization of the properties of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeronautical engineering investigations, etc.</p></sidenote>To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and or the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments ana investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Optical glass production.</p></sidenote>For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Checking chemical analyses.</p></sidenote>For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distribution of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses and in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Textiles, paper, etc., standardization.</p></sidenote>To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sugar standardation. etc.</p></sidenote>For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by war conditions, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other substances, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cooperative standardiring of gauges, screw threads, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 912.</p></sidenote>To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $150,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage batteries.</p></sidenote>For the renewal of storage batteries, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce:</inline>For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscel<page identifier="/us/stat/40/809">809</page>laneous expenses are not specifically made, including purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges ; fuel, lighting and heating; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Secretary of Commerce; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and of motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500 ; streetcar tickets, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $70,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $50,750 shall be deducted 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through Supply Committee.</p></sidenote>from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 531.</p></sidenote>through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-six, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows: Bureau of Foreign and domestic Commerce—promoting commerce $6,000, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $6,000, promoting commerce in the Far East $2,000 ; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500 ; instruments for measuring vessels, $500 ; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000; Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be expended through Division of Supplies.</p></sidenote>sum of $120,750 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">During the present war section thirty-seven hundred and nine of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minor purchases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3709/p733">R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733</ref>.</p></sidenote>the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Commerce when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary:</inline> Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division of publications and supplies, $2,500; appointment clerk, $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications and supplies, $2,000 ; librarian
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/810">810</page>
(transferred from Children’s Bureau), $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three (including one transferred from Bureau of Labor Statistics), nine of class two (including one transferred from Children’s Bureau), ten of class one (including one transferred from Children’s Bureau), nine at $1,000 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Labor Statistics), four at $900 each; three telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; five assistant messengers; five messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,100; two skilled laborers, at $840 each: electrician, $1,000; three firemen; eleven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); lieutenant of the watch, $840; six watchmen; eleven charwomen; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $128,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners of conciliation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 37, p. 738.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 696.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Commissioners of conciliation</inline>: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and traveling expenses, including an executive clerk at $2,000 in the District of Columbia, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor Statistics Bureau.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Labor Statistics:</inline> Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistician, $3,000; six statistical experts, at $2,000 each; employees—two at $2,760 each, one $2,520, five at $2,280 each, one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three (one transferred to the Secretary’s Office), ten of class two, seventeen of class one, eight at $1,000 each (one transferred to the Secretary’s Office); two copyists; messenger; three assistant messengers-two laborers; in all, $172,960.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, special agents,etc.</p></sidenote>For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employees and for their transportation; experts andtemporary assistance for field service outside of the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary statistical assistants, etc.</p></sidenote>Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day ; temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registeis and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for subvention to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Association tor Labor Legislation.</p></sidenote>“International Association for Labor Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $70,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals, etc.</p></sidenote>For periodicals and newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data and court decisions for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration Bureau.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Immigration:</inline> Commissioner General $5,000; Assistant Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; law examiner, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, seven of class two, ten of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $69,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information Division.</p></sidenote>Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization Bureau.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Naturalization:</inline> Commissioner, $4,000, deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, sixteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each: messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $97,010.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/811">811</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Children’s Bureau:</inline> Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; experts— 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s Bureau.</p></sidenote>one on sanitation $2,800, industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, statistical $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, four of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), seventeen of class one (one transferred to Secretary’s office), ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $102,040.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Child life, mortality, etc.</p></sidenote>of children and child life, and especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, $72,120: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not exceeding eight <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation of $2,000 each per annum and above that sum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence, experts, etc.</p></sidenote>exceeding $4, of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to he paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed ; purchase of reports and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials for publication, etc.</p></sidenote>material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, newspapers and clippings to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $94,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Child Labor Division: To enable the Secretary of Labor to carry <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">ChUd Labor Division.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 675.</p></sidenote>into effect the provisions of the Act of September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes,” in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay restriction.</p></sidenote>$125,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent expenses, Department of Labor:</inline> For contingent 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car tickets not exceeding $150, lighting and heating; maintenance and repair of a motor track and passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $2,000; in all, $45,000; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional from Im migration expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 531.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 695.</p></sidenote>not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be expended through Division of Publication and Supplies.</p></sidenote>the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/812">812</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minor purchases.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3709/p733">R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733</ref>.</p></sidenote>During the present war section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Rent:</inline>For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote>
JUDICIAL.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Supreme Court:</inline> Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circuit courts of appeals.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Circuit Courts of Appeals:</inline> Thirty-three circuit judges, at $7,000 each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $265,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District Judges.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">District courts:</inline> Ninety-seven district judges, at $6,000 each, $582,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii district court.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">District court, Territory of Hawaii:</inline> Two judges, at $6,000 each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $16,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico district court.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">District Court for Porto Rico:</inline> District judge, $5,000; clerk, $3,000; in all, $8,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired judges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 1161.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Retired judges:</inline> Salaries of judges retired under section two hundred and sixty of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eleven hundred and sixty-one), so much as may be necessary or the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Appeals. D. C.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Court of Appeals, District of Columbia:</inline> Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $230 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports.</p></sidenote>deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume ; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>of the clerk’s office, $1,000; in all, $36,710, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court, D. C.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Supreme Court, District of Columbia:</inline> Chief justice, $6,500; five associate justices, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>$43,100, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Park Commissioners.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 184.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">National Park Commissioners:</inline> For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Ramier, and Yellowstone National Parks, at $1,500 each, $6,000. The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books for Judicial officers.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Books for judicial officers:</inline> For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transmittal to successors.</p></sidenote>the direction of the Attorney General: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “ The property of the United States,” $16,000.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/813">813</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court of Customs Appeals:</inline> Presiding judge and four associate <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Customs Appeals.</p></sidenote>judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $54,840.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous ex penses.</p></sidenote>and elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing: pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $5,660; in all, $12,660.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Court of Claims:</inline> Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p></sidenote> each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $59,080.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditors, etc.</p></sidenote>in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $9,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporting decisions.</p></sidenote>printing of the fifty-third volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1765/p314">R.S.. sec. 1765, p, 314</ref>.</p></sidenote>Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p></sidenote>and seventy-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $500, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodian.</p></sidenote>to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 1765, p.314.</p></sidenote>hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p></sidenote>Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.</p></content></appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><content class="inline">That the pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc.</p></sidenote>messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num><content class="inline">That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay for permanently incapacitated persons.</p></sidenote>and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num>
<content>That no part of any money appropriated by this or any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Typewriting ma chines.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on prices to be paid lor.</p></sidenote>other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in construing this section the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determination of character of machines.</p></sidenote>Commissioner of Patents shall advise the 
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/814">814</page>
as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details for service outside of District of Columbia restricted.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons in the classified service at Washington, District of Columbia, shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice investigations excepted.</p></sidenote>from which the detail is made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional $120 pay to civilian employees and of District of Columbia at $2,500 and less.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, additional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For rate between $2,500 and $2,620.</p></sidenote>compensation at the rate of $120 per annum: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than $2,500 and less than $2,620 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,620 per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote>annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than thirty per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay 1918 not computed as salary.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That the increased compensation at the rates of five and ten per centum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not be computed as salary in construing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction if pay Increased $200 a year during 1917 or 1918.</p></sidenote>this section:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That where an employee in the service on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or shall receive during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen an increase of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If entering service since June 30, 1917.</p></sidenote>salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall Be granted the increased compensation provided herein only <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate required to grant increase.</p></sidenote>when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay of employees adjusted by wage boards, etc.</p></sidenote>the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specified employees not entitled.</p></sidenote>The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January first, nineteen hundred and sixteen ; employees whose duties require only a portion of their time, except chaiwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals; persons employed by or through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants ; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Govern<page identifier="/us/stat/40/815">815</page>ment of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad employees not deemed united States employees.</p></sidenote>service in foreign countries. The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the railroads taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a recognition of the employees of such railroads as employees of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double salary prohibition not applicable hereto.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 582.</p></sidenote>Act approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the naval appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided in this section who otherwise is entitled to, receive the same.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Piecework employees.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation to determine pay.</p></sidenote>shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen days in the said fiscal year would amount to $2,500 or less: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this method of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable to regular per diem pay.</p></sidenote>computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for increased pay of Government employees.</p></sidenote>provided in this section to employees of the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for District of Columbia employees, half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except to employees of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water Department employees from water revenues.</p></sidenote>Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trust fund employees from trust funds.</p></sidenote>provided in this section to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed reports on first day ofnext session.</p></sidenote>regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal year the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate.</p></content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 3, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 137: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>137.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-08">July 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12541">H R. 12541</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/189">Public, No. 189</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications appropriations.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available immediately and to continue available until expended, namely:</content></section>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Depart ment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery war Instruction.</p></sidenote> at Coast Artillery posts, including necessary material and labor therefor
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/816">816</page>
and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days, $1,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances consoli dated and reappropri ated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1305.</p></sidenote>The unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for “installation and replacement of electric-light and power plants at seacoast fortifications”, for “purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses, including searchlights for antiaircraft defenses and accessories therefor,” and for “purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses” in the United States are consolidated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote>and made available for the following purposes: For the installation and replacement of electric-light and power plants at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote>seacoast fortifications in the United States; the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United Sates, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sound-ranging equipment.</p></sidenote>searchlights for antiaircraft defenses and accessories therefor; and the procurement and installation of sound-ranging equipment for use in the United States, the insular possessions, and the Panama Canal, and for salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other employees necessary to procure and install the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc.</p></sidenote>For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures for the torpedo defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc., electric plants.</p></sidenote>For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $40,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo structures, etc.</p></sidenote>For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1306.</p></sidenote>storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves, $260,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laguna Merced Reservation, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of right of way, etc.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer to the owners of the adjacent land, to complete consideration for the transfer to the United States of an easement in other land of said owners, the title of the United States to a right of way now owned by the United States and located between the tract of land known as the Laguna Merced Reservation and an abandoned public highway formerly known as Ocean House Road (also called Ocean Avenue) in the city and county of San Francisco, California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor passenger vehicles.</p></sidenote>For purchase, maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, expenditures are authorized to an amount not exceeding $3,250 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, from funds available from appropriations for fortifications in the continental United States.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote>under the chief signal </heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control station.</p></sidenote>For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $180,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation stations for seacoast defenses.</p></sidenote>For the establishment of eight aviation stations for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the United States, including the acquisition of land, buildings, heating, lighting, plumbing, water, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites.</p></sidenote>sewers, roads, and walks, $8,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That land may be acquired for the said stations only after a determination by the Secretary of War that sites on existing governmental reservations can not be utilized.</proviso></p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armament.</p></sidenote>
armanent of fortifications.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, field, and siege cannon.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, 
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/817">817</page>
and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $500,000,000:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso></i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1031, 1171.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $729,731,295 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Such naval ordnance and ordnance material as the Secretary of War and the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers of naval ordnance, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> the Navy may determine necessary is authorized to be transferred from the Navy Department to the War Department: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if such ordnance and ordnance material <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions for reimbursement to Navy.</p></sidenote>is obsolete for naval purposes the transfer shall be made without reimbursement and payment to the Navy for other ordnance and ordnance material transferred hereunder shall be made only after estimates shall have been submitted to Congress and a specific appropriation for such payment shall have been made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for mountain, etc., cannon.</p></sidenote>field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and necessary storage facilities, $2,000,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1081, 1032, 1172.</p></sidenote>Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $1,793,734,550 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for seacoast cannon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1031.</p></sidenote>cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $3,885,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for practice.</p></sidenote>guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $1,700,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., mobile artillery.</p></sidenote>the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $200,000,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Chief of Ordnance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p, 1172.</p></sidenote>United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or other-wise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $100,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunication for field, etc., cannon practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1031.</p></sidenote>guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $84,600,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances covered into the Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gun and mortar batteries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 909.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 910.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land defenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, 199.</p></sidenote>heretofore made for fortifications in the continental United States, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely, $2,000,000 for construction of gun and mortar batteries; $20,540.19 for procurement or reclamation of land, or rights pertaining thereto, and so forth; $1,960,000 for the construction of land defenses in the United States, and so forth: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 199.</p></sidenote>$200,000 for contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories; $3,744,000 for purchase,
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 199.</p></sidenote> manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, and so forth; and $2,000,000 for the alteration and maintenance of seacoast <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering seacoast cannon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 200.</p></sidenote>artillery, and so forth; in all, $9,924,540.19.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>providing grounds.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proving grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprising 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote>the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance matériel, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/818">818</page>
experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $1,573,522.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional facilities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 200,352.</p> 
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1707, 1731.</p></sidenote>Proving ground: For additional for increasing facilities for the proof and test of ordnance matériel, including the same objects, and under the same authority and conditions, specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,480,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote>sumbarine mines.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accessories for practice.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine matériel, and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $26,000.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote>
FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote>engineer department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries, Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote>For construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, $320,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, repair, etc.</p></sidenote>For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including structures for torpedo defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, at the following localities:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>Hawaiian Islands, $7,500;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote>Philippine Islands, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights, Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors in the Hawaiian Islands, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote>For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation at the following localities:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>Hawaiian Islands, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands,</p></sidenote>Philippine Islands, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea watts, etc., Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>For construction of sea walls and embankments, Hawaiian Islands, $12,,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile, Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote>For purchase, maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one automobile, expenditures are authorized to an amount not exceeding $1,900 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, from funds available from appropriations for fortifications in the Hawaiian Islands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wharf, Honolulu, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>For the construction of an engineer wharf at Honolulu, Hawaii, $30,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote>
under the chief signal officer.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control Installations.</p></sidenote>For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $15,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote>
ordnance department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for sea coast cannon.</p></sidenote>For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $2,775,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances covered into the Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 200.</p></sidenote>The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for fortifications in the insular possessions, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely, $800,000 for purchase, manufacture, and test <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 912.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 201.</p></sidenote> of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, and so forth; and $775,000 for alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, and so forth; in all, $1,575,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/819">819</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of the submarine-mine material in the insular <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of mine supplies.</p></sidenote>possessions, $10,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
under the chief of coast artillery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Coast Artillery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations.</p></sidenote>purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders.</p></sidenote>fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $51,707.</content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal:</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For maintenance of clearings and trails, $30,000;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clearings and trails.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>structures for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $25,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $15,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of seacoast batteries, $210,000;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of sea walls and embankments, $63,000;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea walls, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase or reclamation of land required for the defense of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">SLand, etc.</p></sidenote>the Panama Canal, $155,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights,</p></sidenote>fortifications on the Canal Zone, $158,400;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of electric light and power plants <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Installing electric plants.</p></sidenote>for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $17,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control installations.</p></sidenote>seacoast defenses, $15,000;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of fire-control stations and the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, $342,888.85;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition tor seacoast, etc., cannon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1032.</p></sidenote>and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $470,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following portions of the unexpended balances of appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Unexpended balances covered into the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 201.</p></sidenote>>heretofore made for fortification of the Panama Canal, respectively, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury, namely: $1,500,000 for the purchase, manufacture, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p.201.</p></sidenote>test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, and so forth; and $600,000 for the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery, and so forth; in all, $2,100,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ordnance Depot: For facilities for fire protection, $3,000; telephone <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Depot.</p></sidenote>
system, $2,500; painting buildings to reduce their visibility, $7,000; fence surrounding the depot reservation, $9,000; and additional for an office building, $3,000; in all, $24,500;</p>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cantonments, etc.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cantonment camp construction including necessary buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, and for repairing and remodeling existing buildings to render them suitable for sheltering troops, $500,000:<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the construction of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>..</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction under Governor.</p></sidenote>buildings hereunder shall be performed under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $2,025,788.85.</p></content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Ordnance and Fortification.</p></sidenote>BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, tests, etc.</p></sidenote>For all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor Elates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 489.</p></sidenote>the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian member.</p> <p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 769.</p></sidenote>eighty-eignt; salary of the civilian member of the board and for his necessary traveling expenses when traveling on duty as provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one ; necessary expenses of the board, including rent of offices in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia, at not exceeding 4900 per annum, and a per <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tests, etc.</p></sidenote>diem allowance of $2.50 to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station; test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the board, $50,000, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to use invention.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of War may direct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.</proviso></content></appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num><sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material to be of American manufacture.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on price for purchases.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That except as expressly otherwise authorized herein no part of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of any material at a price in excess of twenty-five per centum more than the cost of manufacturing such material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of twenty-five per centum more than the estimated cost of manufacture 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>..</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waived in emergencies.</p></sidenote>by the Government: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever in the opinion of the President the situation is such as to justify such action he may waive the limitations contained in this section.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">
Arsenal operations not to be restricted.</p></sidenote><content class="inline">That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employees.</p></sidenote>of an arsenal’s equipment at a different rate: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other tune-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 8, 1918.</actionDescription></action>
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<dc:title>Chap. 138: Providing for the protection of the uniform of friendly nations, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>138</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>138.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the protection of the uniform of friendly nations, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-08">July 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/11247">H. R. 11247</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/190">Public, No. 190</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That it shall be unlawful for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniform, etc., of friendly nations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized wearing of, unlawful.</p></sidenote>any person, with intent to deceive or mislead, within the United States or Territories, possessions, waters, or places subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to wear any naval, military, police, or other official uniform, decoration, or regalia of any foreign State, nation, or Government with which the United States is at peace, or any uniform, decoration, or regalia so nearly resembling the same as to be calculated to deceive, unless such wearing thereof be authorized by such State, nation, or Government.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any person who violates the provisions of this Act shall upon conviction <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for.</p></sidenote>be punished by a fine not exceeding $300 or imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, July 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 139: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>139</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1918-07-08</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>139.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-08">July 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12600">H. R. 12600</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/191">Public, No. 191</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 469,594.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 1020, 1161.</p></sidenote>appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:</content></section>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
EXECUTIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>housing for war needs.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Housing for war needs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The authorization fixed by section eight of the Act entitled “An 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of providing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 662.</p></sidenote>Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is increased from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000, and there is appropriated for the purposes thereof, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $40,000,000, to be expended in accordance with the authority and under the conditions prescribed in the said Act as amended by the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p.596.</p></sidenote>deficiency appropriation Act approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and eighteen and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted to make the necessary connections and to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol powerplant.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to group of building, Union Station Plaza.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>supply current from the Capitol Power Plant to the Union Station group of temporary housing. Payment for current shall be at the rates determined by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and the proceeds therefrom shall be credited to the proper appropriations for the Capitol Power Plant and be available for the purposes of such appropriations during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p></content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>contingent and miscellaneous expenses.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified<page identifier="/us/stat/40/822">822</page> under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobiles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase price increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 923.</p></sidenote>The limitation in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, of $900 for the purchase of automobiles seating four or more persons is increased to $1,500, and of $700 for automobiles seating less than four persons is increased to $1,200, inclusive of the value of the vehicle exchanged.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s expenses.</p></sidenote>For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,535;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $300.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>improvements and repairs.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suburban roads.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote>Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets: For the completion of the construction of suburban roads and suburban streets, as provided for in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $32,000, to continue <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 1014-1016.</p></sidenote>available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any unexpended balances of said appropriations are reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances for streets, etc., reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 1013-1017.</p></sidenote>Any unexpended balances of the appropriations contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or in the urgent deficiency Act, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for “work on streets and avenues,” “construction of suburban roads,” “repairs, streets, avenues and alleys,” and “for repairs to suburban roads,” are reappropriated and continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cathedral Avenue NW., extension.</p></sidenote>For expenses of condemnation, extension of Cathedral Avenue northwest, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, payable wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $175.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota Avenue NE., bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1018.</p></sidenote>Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the South Dakota Avenue Bridge, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 904; Vol. 39, p. 1018.</p></sidenote>Any unexpended balances of the following appropriations are reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: “Anacostia main interceptor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen,” and assessment and permit work, sewers, fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p></sidenote>public schools.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote>For additional for furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades, for the following schools: Eight rooms and assembly hall, E. V. Brown School, $4,000; two sewing schools $220; two cooking schools $450 ; two manual training shops $400 ; in all $5,070, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dunbar High School.</p></sidenote>For completing the equipment, and for furniture and furnishings for the Dunbar High School, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double salary restriction not applicable during vacation to teachers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, pp. 120, 582.</p></sidenote>Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended, shall not apply from July fifteenth to September fifteenth, nineteen
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/823">823</page>
hundred and eighteen, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not applicable to community centers.</p></sidenote>Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended, shall not apply to employees of the community center department of the public schools of the District of Columbia.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>health department.
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispensaries for tuberculosis and venereal diseases.</p></sidenote>of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the commissioners may accept such <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer services.</p></sidenote>volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this shall not be construed to authorize the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay prohibition.</p></sidenote>expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Bacteriological Laboratory: For purchase and installation of new<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bacteriological laboratory.</p></sidenote>apparatus, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $32.50.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>courts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supreme Court: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote>of the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $122;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $217;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $62.10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Juvenile Court: For pay of acting judges for the fiscal years that <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juvenile Court.</p></sidenote>follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $185;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $140;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Municipal Court: For contingent expenses, including books, law <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal Court.</p></sidenote>books, books of reference, fuel, fight, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $450.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Writs of lunacy: For writs of lunacy, including the same objects <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lunacy writs.</p></sidenote>specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $900.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of convicts.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of convicts:</inline> For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>reformatories and correctional institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington Asylum and Jail: The appropriation for support of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asylum and jail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supportai prisoners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1034.</p></sidenote>prisoners, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is made available for the payment of expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and reward for their capture, repairs and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, and for the support of prisoners.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Home for Aged and Infirm: Any unexpended balance of the appropriation 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and Infirm.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1036.</p></sidenote>for the purchase and installation of two electric generators, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/824">824</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training
School for Girls.</p></sidenote>National Training School for Girls: For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $5,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $75.94.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical charities.</p></sidenote>medical charities.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casualty Hospital.</p></sidenote>For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,186.85.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $10,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis Hospital.</p></sidenote>Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,800.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote>judgments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of.</p></sidenote>For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fifty-five of this session, $7,315.90, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum per annum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Helen C. Sheckels.</p></sidenote>For payment of the judgment in favor of Helen C. Sheckels, surviving executrix of Theodore Sheckels, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and ninety-five of this session, $4,606.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote>One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p></content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees Compensation Commission.</p></sidenote>EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks.</p></sidenote>For seven clerks, at $1,200 each, and one clerk, at $1,000, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $9,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experts, temporary assistants, etc.</p></sidenote>For experts, clerks, and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees detailed to work in France.</p></sidenote>For salaries of clerks and other employees of the commission detailed to work in France, and who may be authorized by the commission to adjudicate claims for compensation and perform such other duties as the commission may direct; for per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, rent, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses for carrying on the work of the commission in France, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $25,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote>INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical valuation of railroads.</p></sidenote>For valuation of the property of carriers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $462.61.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/825">825</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway safety appliances.</p></sidenote>regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $63,600.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Safe locomotive boilers, etc.</p></sidenote>February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $63,000.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>WAR TRADE BOARD.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Trade Board.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The amounts collected from exporters for cable charges during the <sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cable charges collections available for uses of.</p></sidenote>fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall be credited to the appropriation for the War Trade Board and be available for the purposes thereof during the said fiscal year.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting, etc.</p></sidenote>gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $1,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $7,000.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the auditor for the war department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For additional employees in the Office of the Auditor for the War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote>Department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of office desks, chairs, typewriters and exchange of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p></sidenote>the same, calculating machines, filing cases, payment for telegrams, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000.</p></content></appropriations></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of surgeon general, public health service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four clerks of class two, and a messenger at $840, fiscal year <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote>nineteen hundred and nineteen, $6,440.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>independent treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote>expenses of the Independent Treasury, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $15,000.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>bureau of engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
The limitation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work authorized extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 117.</p></sidenote> as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from six million to six million one hundred thousand.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating supplies.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $150,000.</p>
</content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote>quarantine service.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding, etc., vessel.</p></sidenote>Boston, Massachusetts, Station: For additional for a boarding and disinfecting vessel, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Charles, Va.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding, etc., vessel.</p></sidenote>Cape Charles, Virginia, Station: For additional for a disinfecting and boarding vessel, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote>For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for use of the War Department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requisition of buildings, etc., in District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>The Secretary of War is authorized, for the official purposes of the War Department, and within the limits of the appropriations for rent made by this or any other Act making appropriations for the War Department, to requisition the use of, and take possession of, any building or any space in any building, and the appurtenances thereof, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote>District of Columbia, other than a dwelling house occupied as such or a building occupied by any other branch of the United States Government, and he shall ascertain and pay just compensation for such use. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">If pay not satisfactory suit may be brought.</p></sidenote>If the amount of compensation so ascertained be not satisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of such amount and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote>seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, pp. 1093,1136.</p></sidenote>compensation for such use in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five, of the Judicial Code.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National cemeteries.</p></sidenote>national cemeteries.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote>For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $19,358.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.</p></sidenote>For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lieut. Louis Brunelet, French Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial at Arlington.</p></sidenote>For funeral expenses incurred in the burial of Lieutenant Louis Brunelet, Eighty-first Heavy Field Artillery, French Army, who died in Washington on November fourth and was interred in the Arlington National Cemetery on November sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $507.50.</p>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and Arsenals.</p></sidenote>armories and arsenals.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seawall.</p></sidenote>Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For seawall along the Delaware River at Frankford Arsenal, fiscal year nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 352.</p></sidenote>and nineteen, $25,000: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $36,000 for a seawall along the Delaware River at Frankford Arsenal contained in the urgent deficiency Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</proviso>
</p>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River and harbor work.</p></sidenote>river and harbor work.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damage claims.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 36, p. 676.</p></sidenote>To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered nine hundred and twenty-five, one thousand and thirty-five, and one thousand and sixty-eight, of the present session, $1,023.86.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>quartermaster corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage, including <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage and shipping facilities.</p></sidenote>all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and purchase of land, $50,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote>Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $2,750,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps:</inline> Postage; cost of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote>telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra duty pay, etc.</p></sidenote>under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels ; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote>for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules ; chests and issue outfits ; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $20,500,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote>materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for
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equipment and repair of equipment of laundries, dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat-repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, clothing-repair shops, tent-repair shops, and garbage-reduction works; for educational propaganda in connection with reclamation: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipage.</p></sidenote>for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizens’ outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge ; for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for destroyed clothing.</p></sidenote>indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $712,232,605.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular quartermaster supplies.</p></sidenote>Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection ; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessity power for the operation of moving-picture machines; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote>authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts ; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bakeries.</p></sidenote>the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice machines.</p></sidenote>the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laundries, etc.</p></sidenote>of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions: for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School supplies, etc.</p></sidenote>issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and schools for noncommissioned officers ; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc., for animals.</p></sidenote>enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts
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as may be mounted ; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote>orders and reports, including $69,955.83 on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $90,971,072.06.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote>including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, being for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,113.87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consolidated fund established.</p></sidenote>of the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote>magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation plants.</p></sidenote>at military posts; construction of reclamation plants; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Guard, in service.</p></sidenote>Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, including $150,166.82 for services rendered and supplies furnished on <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies to Panama.</p></sidenote>the Isthmus of Panama for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $27,767,860.32.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No commutation, etc.</p></sidenote>for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote>employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriations made herein for “Regular supplies, Quartermaster <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations avail able until December 31, 1918.</p></sidenote>Corps,” “Barracks and quarters,” “Roads, walks, wharves,
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and drainage,” “Construction and repair of hospitals,” and “Military post exchanges” shall continue available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges.</p></sidenote>Military post exchanges: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recreation buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote>lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved. May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be established hereafter, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, including $179.12 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p></sidenote>Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; pay of employees; disposal of drainage; dredging channels; and care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, including $7,879.01 for services rendered and supplies furnished on the Isthmus of Panama for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,177,183.01.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting galleries and ranges.</p></sidenote>Shooting galleries and ranges: For shooting galleries and ranges, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,457.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; and for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, including $539.66 on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $13,936,554.66.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian training camps.</p></sidenote>Civilian Military Training Camps: For the expense of maintaining, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, instruction, expenses, etc.</p></sidenote>upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed ; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection therewith, including textbooks <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments, transportation, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 198.</p></sidenote>and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of room.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Rent of buildings:</inline> For rent of a room in the American Federation of Labor building for six months, $150.</p></content></appropriations>
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<appropriations level="small"><heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Medical and Hospital Department, for meeting obligations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 597.</p></sidenote>incurred and to be incurred by authority of the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $33,000,000.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>FORTIFICATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>panama canal.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks, etc.</p></sidenote>and other buildings, necessary for accommodating the troops stationed there, including water, sewer, and lighting systems, roads, walks, and so forth, and for repairing and remodeling existing buildings to render them suitable for sheltering troops, $71,220.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For land defenses, Panama Canal, including the procurement and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land defenses.</p></sidenote>installation of searchlights, purchase of armored cars and locomotives, construction of roads and surveys incidental thereto, $1,600.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>insular possessions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For maintenance and repair of searchlights and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants, Hawaii.</p></sidenote>electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, in the Hawaiian Islands, $2,500.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new road pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks, on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judiciary Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, curbs, etc.</p></sidenote>E and F Street roadways through Judiciary Park, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $10,000, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balance <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 133.</p></sidenote>of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation waived.</p></sidenote>the said sums may be expended without reference to the limitation upon the cost for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.</proviso></p>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, etc., Department Buildings</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees distributed.</p></sidenote>Building may from time to time alter the distribution among the various office buildings under his direction and control of the employees allowed by law as he may find it necessary and proper to do.</p>
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<appropriations level="major"><heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote>same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $76,537.37.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collisions damages claims.</p></sidenote>under the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, on account of damages occasioned to private
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property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered twelve hundred and two of this session, $2,794.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General account of advances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 167.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">General account of advances</inline>: To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeronautics Commission.</p></sidenote>Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $129.55;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Helena station, Va.</p></sidenote>Naval training station, Saint Helena, Virginia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $133.54;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval auxiliaries.</p></sidenote>Maintenance, naval auxiliaries, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $106,443.55;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote>Outfits on first enlistment, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,911.60;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote>Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $88,086.05;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote>Maintenance, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3.479.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote>Pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,904.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote>Medical Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $311.64;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote>Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,711.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote>Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen, $31.14;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote>Machinery plant, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $394.66;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, New York, New York, $1,420.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $331.29;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, general account of advances, $268,289.60.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote>bureau of yards and docks.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p>
</sidenote>Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,875,000.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p></sidenote>public works, bureau of yards and docks.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training camps.</p></sidenote>Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $1,250,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote>Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $520,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terminal warehouses.</p></sidenote>Land for warehouses: For the purchase of land for terminal warehouses between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-second Streets and Second and Third Avenues, South Brooklyn, New York, $99,085.90, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote>bureau of medicine and surgery.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries.</p></sidenote>For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote>For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $200,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations avail able tor increased emergency obligations.</p></sidenote>The appropriations contained herein under the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment shall be available for the payment of
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/833">833</page>
obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Courthouse, District of Columbia: For reconstruction and furnishing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courthouse, D. C. Reconstruction, etc.</p></sidenote>of the courthouse, District of Columbia, including material and labor, and for each and every item incident thereto, $445,000, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>general land office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon and California railroad lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 218.</p></sidenote>Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to complete the classification of lands involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit, as authorized and directed by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $36,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $90,000 for this purpose contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 19.</p></sidenote>seventeen, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p>
</sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new boilers for the National Training School for Boys, fiscal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training School for Boys.</p></sidenote> year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $ 10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to allow in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courthouse, D. C.</p></sidenote>the accounts of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia items aggregating $442.14, covering payments for coal actually sup plied and used for heating the building occupied by the Supreme Curt for the District of Columbia and offices connected therewith, notwithstanding the failure to have said coal inspected and weighed as required by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For settlement in full of the claim of Henry R. Rathbone in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry R. Rathbone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> matter of the suit filed against the United States in the Court of Claims to recover damages on account of the failure to restore the premises known as number eight, Jackson Place, District of Columbia, to its condition existing prior to occupancy by the Department of Justice, $350.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opinions of Attorney General.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Editing,etc., Volume 31.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec.l765,p.314.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 120.</p></sidenote>and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and the provisions of section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume thirty-one of the Opinions of the Attorney General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec383/p63">>. S., sec. 383, p. 63</ref>.</p></sidenote>and eighty-three, Revised Statutes, $500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of one hundred and seventy-nine copies of volume <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Digest of Federal Reporter.</p></sidenote>eleven of the Digest of the Federal Reporter to complete sets now in the hands of various officials, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $895.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant attorneys in special cases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec366/p62">R. S., sec. 366, p. 62</ref>.</p></sidenote>attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/834">834</page>
cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $15,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’fees.</p></sidenote>For fees of clerks, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners’ fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec1014/p189">R.S.,sec. 1014, p.189</ref></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">.</p></sidenote>For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $80,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’fees.</p></sidenote>For fees of jurors, $25,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote>Leavenworth, Kansas, 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 eighteen, $42,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 eighteen, $4,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, 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 eighteen, $36,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p></sidenote>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 eighteen, $49,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 eighteen, $11,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, 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 eighteen, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash.</p></sidenote>McNeil Island, Washington, 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 eighteen, $1,250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 eighteen, $750.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, 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 eighteen, $3,825.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal Service,</p></sidenote>POSTAL SERVICE.</heading>
<appropriations level="intermediate"><heading>Out of the Postal Revenues.</heading>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Post master General.</p></sidenote>office of first assistant postmaster general.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote>For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $919,049.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special delivery fees.</p></sidenote>For special delivery fees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $713,680.24.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster General.</p></sidenote>office of second assistant postmaster general.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star routes, Alaska.</p></sidenote>
For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $10,000.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/835">835</page>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of third assistant postmaster general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster General,</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity lost mail matter.</p></sidenote>registered mail, insured, and collection-delivery matter, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $630,000.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Botanic Garden: The limitation of $2 per day on the pay of skilled 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers’ pay limitation removed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 767.</p></sidenote>laborers and laborers in the Botanic Garden, contained m the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, hereby is removed, and skilled laborers and laborers may be employed and paid from such appropriations during the said fiscal year at rates to be fixed by the superintendent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">House Office Building: For construction and equipment of additional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p></sidenote>rooms at the House Office Building, and for each and every <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional rooms, etc.</p></sidenote>purpose connected therewith, $5,200, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Capitol Power Plant: For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol power plant Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote>for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $34,750.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote>day each from and including July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, until the close of the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, so much as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p></sidenote>carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote>of postage stamps for sale to Senators, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $300.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dennis M. Kerr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote>the Committee on Pensions during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-fifth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the Official Reporters of the proceedings and debates <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official Reporters.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement</p></sidenote>of the Senate for clerical expenses actually and necessarily incurred from September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,851.67.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To pay the widow of John H. Capstick, late a Representative from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John H. Capstick.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to widow.</p></sidenote>the State of New Jersey, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of William A. Jones, late a Representative from the State of Virginia, $7,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to the following contestant and contestee for expenses <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contested election expenses.</p></sidenote>incurred by them in the contested-election case audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One and Three:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mark R. Bacon, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mark R. Bacon.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel W. Beakes, $2,000;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel W. Beakes.</p></sidenote></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/836">836</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. J. Steels.</p></sidenote>T. J. Steele, $2,000;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George C. Scott.</p></sidenote>George C. Scott, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters and stenographers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>To reimburse the official reporters of debates to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300 each, and the official stenographers to committees to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $550 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them, $4,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and mail wagons.</p></sidenote>For additional for hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages, etc., until close of session.</p></sidenote>For the following employees, from and including July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, until the close of the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrance to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Session committee clerks.</p></sidenote>three session telephone operators at $75 per month each; and eight clerks to committees at $6 per day each; so much as may be necessary.</p>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.</p></sidenote>To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of Documents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote>Office of Superintendent of Documents: For the following employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, to be in lieu of the positions of stockkeepers, helpers, assistant messengers, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 699.</p></sidenote>mailers, skilled laborers, unskilled laborers, janitress, folders, and messenger boys, provided in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: Four stockkeepers at $1,126.80 each, twenty helpers at $1,001.60 each, fifty-eight skilled laborers at $876.40 each, eleven unskilled laborers at $876.40 each, and twenty-eight messenger boys at $500.80 each; in all, $99,033.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to designated employees increased.</p></sidenote>From and after the passage of this Act the compensation of all printer-linotype operators, printer-monotype-keyboard operators, makers-up, proofreaders, and pressmen employed in the Government Printing Office shall be at the rate of 65 cents per hour for the time actually employed, and that the pay of all compositors, book-binders, and bookbinder-machine operators employed in the Government Printing Office shall be at the rate of 60 cents per hour for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase to continue during the war, etc.</p></sidenote>time actually employed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That employees of the Government Printing Office whose wages are increased by the provisions of this Act shall be paid at the rates provided for herein during the period of the present war and for six months after the proclamation of peace, when the wages paid such employees shall thereafter be at the rates paid at the time of the passage of this Act, unless otherwise provided by law.</proviso></p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, United States courts.</p></sidenote>JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 24, p. 505.</p></sidenote>For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-one, and which have not been appealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote>Under the War Department, $344.88.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote>Under the Navy Department, $1,700.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote>In all, $2,044.88, 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.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/837">837</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of the judgment, including cost of suit, rendered <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Transportation Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 1353.</p></sidenote>against the Government under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company,” approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,664.08: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former appropriation repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 378.</p></sidenote>That the appropriation of $2,599.42 and interest thereon, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for payment of the judgment in favor of the Eastern Transportation Company, is repealed.</proviso></p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Court of Claims</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-two and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Under the Treasury Department, $21,297.79;</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, $59,804.54;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, $53,196.12;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Post Office Department, $2,409.11;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Interior Department, $17,820.09;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Department of Justice, $1,691.75;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
Under the Department of Commerce, $3,378.66;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, $159,598.06.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of the judgment in favor of the State of Massachusetts, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 355.</p></sidenote>certified to Congress m House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $886,389.68.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote>Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and seventy-eight of the present session, $4,395; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 853.</p></sidenote> be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote>States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals.</p></sidenote>shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to appeal.</p></sidenote>right of appeal shall have expired.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading>AUDITED CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Audited claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote>to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote>the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/838">838</page>
under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 254.</p></sidenote>under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-six, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</content></section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>For collecting the revenue from customs, $39.42.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paper money laundering machines, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $369,79.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, $240.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interstate quarantine service, $33.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For field investigations for public health, $241.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, office Commissioner of Internal Revenue, $44.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses, collectors of internal revenue, $39.90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $1.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws, $367.89.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, $366,091.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, $6,143.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $261,727.89.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance or drawback, $1,974.41.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $17.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $961.48.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Life-Saving Service, $1,269.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $1.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $93.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $17.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $70.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses of public buildings, $11.81.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For post office, Paris, Texas, $8.90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Providence, Rhode Island, quarantine station, $120.17.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $11,106.49.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $4,927.30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $95.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $121,120.31.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $31,109.12.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $3,366.63.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $2,725.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, $89.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $153,111.56.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, Act June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $160,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of officers and their baggage, $16.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $6,160.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $220,579.89.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/839">839</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water and sewers at military posts, $297.83.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, $97.52.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Army, $40.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical and hospital department, $17.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Signal Service of the Army, $2.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For civilian military training camps, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $265,062.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, $396.13.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of stoves, $51.75.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For keeping, transporting, and supplying prisoners of war, $42.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Shiloh National Military Park, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $80.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $13,328.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, $68.98.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $412.09.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $466.48.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $192.49.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $170.07.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, $15.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, $567.57.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Manne Corps, $1.40.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $440.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $122.38.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $83.69.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Navigation, $76.85.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $344.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $49.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $2,780.52.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $1,151.44.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, medicine and surgery, $70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $3,866.94.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $79.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $35.84.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $8,755.11.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $20.62.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $17.87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 962.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $455.57.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 60 cents.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor Interior Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For education of natives of Alaska, $80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reindeer for Alaska, $65.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, offices of surveyors general, $4.73.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $130.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, $513.63.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/840">840</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, $392.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $76.49.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigating mine accidents, $4.11,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Capitol Building and repairs, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12.29.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,219.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $792.82.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school and agency buildings, $159.37.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $109,453.05.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $626.71.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $312.03.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telegraphing, transportation, etc., Indian supplies, $2.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $2.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fulfilling treaties with Navajoes, schools, Arizona, $436.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $1,400.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For school facilities, Papago Indians, Arizona, $63.90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, $182.74.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation, Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $4.55.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Greenville, California, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and seventeen, $484.27.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $63.96.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $52.42.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $42.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $28.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 91 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $32.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying and allotting Colville Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $84.81.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indians of Yakima Agency, Washington, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to Indians of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $123.29.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $11.02.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor tor State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote>For expenses of special and select committees, Senate, $64.28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of inquiries and investigations, Senate, $112.34.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, $479.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $39,221.85.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/841">841</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $7,117.10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the United States and Great Britain, $731.21.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, Consular Service, $1,327.87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, consular assistants, $28.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance for clerks at consulates, $644.71.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish Dominions, and so forth, $175.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $802.04.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $2.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Interstate Commerce Commission, $336.45.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For library, Department of Agriculture, $52.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $405.53.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $79.07.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $332.86.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $37.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Forest Service, $180.09.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $155.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $440.27.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $5.68.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1.65.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 88 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census, $16.35.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, 83 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $55.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of public utility standards, Bureau of Standards, $227.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of railway materials, Bureau of Standards, $2.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $15.82.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For testing railroad scales, Bureau of Standards, $125.08.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $211.06.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $19.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $10.27.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of buoyage, $4,616.53.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of light vessels, $21,749.53.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $2.33.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $3.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 96 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of regulating immigration, $80.90.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 49 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, stationery, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125.10.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 50 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For protecting interests of United States in suits affecting withdrawn oil lands, $25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $89.14.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $18,794.49.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,343.36.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $623.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, United States courts, $6.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $30.78.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of bailiffs, United States courts, $30.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $1,450.11.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/842">842</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, 62 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $262.95.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of prisoners, United States courts, $27.55.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>For indemnities, international registered mail, $269.70.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For parcel-post insurance, $4.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnities, insured mail, 75 cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $108.99.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shipment of supplies, $141.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star-route service, $5.80.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star-route service, Alaska, $119.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railroad transportation, $4,506.89.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, $693.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks, first and second class post offices, $147.87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $578.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For clerks, third-class post offices, $40.16.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel, $209.06.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mechanical and labor-saving devices, $14,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For canceling machines, $12.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For city delivery carriers, $104.23.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For city delivery incidental expenses, $39.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $205.04.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For Railway Mail Service, vacation, $14.52.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $88.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Rural Delivery Service, $1,077.37.</p></content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Audited claims.</p></sidenote>AUDITED CLAIMS.</heading>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p, 110.</p></sidenote>carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and prior gears, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p.254.</p></sidenote>Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-nine, reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:</content></section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote>For refunding taxes illegally collected, $55,929.55.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $7,023.59.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $250.</p></content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote>For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $43.77.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $108.50.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $117.92.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.58.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/843">843</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $441.18.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For civilian military training camps, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $229,044.35.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, 
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote>Bureau of Construction and Repair, $15,197.67.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $15,197.68.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, $8.83.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote>and seventeen, $807.25.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $175.18.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $19.</p><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc. Departments.</p></sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $133.17.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For representation of interests of foreign governments arising out of hostilities in Europe, and so forth, nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $23,114.87.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe, $42,102.65.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $185.60.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, $1,302.20.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $68.09.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.</heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rural Delivery Service, $149.43.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>
</content></appropriations>
</appropriations>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 140: Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia for the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>140</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 843</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-08</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>140.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>Joint Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia for the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-08">July 8, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hjres/311">H. J. Res. 311</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/pubres/65/36">Pub. Res., No. 36</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the necessary operations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations of last fiscal year for Army, Department of Agriculture, and District of Columbia continued for July and August, 1918.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, pp. 957, 1008, 1019.</p></sidenote>of the Government, so far as they relate to the support of the Army and the Department of Agriculture, including food production operations heretofore provided for by law, and of the District of Columbia, as they were being carried on at the close of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, are hereby authorized to be continued notwithstanding that appropriations therefor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, or any part of such fiscal year, have not been made by law, and there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount sufficient to carry on such necessary operations during the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as the same were carried on during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and including also those operations now <page identifier="/us/stat/40/844">844</page> authorized by law and not carried on prior to July first, nineteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia, half from revenues thereof.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That expenditures for the District of Columbia shall be paid one-half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportionate amounts only to be expended.</p></sidenote>further</i>, That no greater amount shall be expended during either the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New operations.</p></sidenote>months of July or August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, than an amount equal to one-twelfth of the amount of any appropriations available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, excepting that the rate of expenditure for the month of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or for the month of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen, if either be greater than such one-twelfth, may be continued during the months of July or August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and where necessary operations have been or may be authorized by law without having been carried on prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, there may be expended during the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, only so much as may be necessary adequately to carry on the operations so authorized:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available only until regular appropriations made.</p></sidenote>also</i>, That the appropriation made by this resolution for any necessary operation shall not be available beyond the date when other appropriations hereafter are made therefor and the amount which may be expended hereunder shall be in lieu of an equal amount of an appropriation for the same purposes, if there be one hereafter made, it being the purpose of this resolution that an appropriation hereafter made, for any operation for the current fiscal year, shall not be in addition to the appropriation herein made but shall be considered as the sole appropriation so that any amount expended hereunder shall be treated as an expenditure under such appropriation for the current fiscal year.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing salaries continued until regularly provided for.</p></sidenote>This joint resolution shall be construed as authorizing salaries and compensation for officers, clerks, and other employees holding offices or employment for which specific salaries or compensation were appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, to continue during July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to be paid at the same rate while lawfully holding such offices or employment until the appropriations therefor have been made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and thereafter to be paid only at the rate provided in said appropriations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Availability of appropriations made since June 30, 1918.</p></sidenote>Appropriations for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen made in Acts approved since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be available for all purposes therein provided for from and including the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all obligations incurred pursuant to the terms of said Acts as approved are ratified and confirmed from and including the said first day of July.</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 8, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 142: To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>142</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 844</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>142.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize an additional issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend additional credit to foreign Governments, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-09">July 9, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12580">H. R. 12580</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/192">Public, No. 192</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Liberty</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond Act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized issue of bonds increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 503, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1309.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to allied Governments increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 504, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1312.</p></sidenote>
<section>
<content class="inline">That section one of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended by the Third Liberty Bond Act, is hereby further amended by striking out the figures “$12,000,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof the figures “$20,000,000,000.”</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<content class="inline">That section two of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended by the Third Liberty Bond Act, is hereby further amended by striking out the figures “$5,500,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof the figures “$7,000,000,000.”</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/845">845</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<content class="inline">That notwithstanding the provisions of the Second Liberty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securities payable in foreign moneys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 505, 510.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1311.</p></sidenote>Bond Act, as amended by the Third Liberty Bond Act, or of the War Finance Corporation Act, bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States payable in any foreign money or foreign moneys, and bonds of the War Finance Corporation payable in any foreign money <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempted from taxation when hold by nonresident aliens, etc.</p></sidenote>or foreign moneys exclusively or in the alternative, shall, if and to the extent expressed in such bonds at the time of their issue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, while beneficially owned by a nonresident alien individual, or by a foreign corporation, partnership, or association, not engaged in business in the United States, be exempt both as to principal and interest from any and all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, any State, or any of the possessions of the United States, or by any local taxing authority.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num>
<content class="inline">That any incorporated bank or trust company designated <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositary banks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 501.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May act as fiscal agents to sell and deliver securities.</p></sidenote>as a depositary by the Secretary of the Treasury under the authority conferred by section eight of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended by the Third Liberty Bond Act, which gives security for such deposits as, and to amounts, by him prescribed, may, upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, act as a fiscal agent of the United States in connection with the operations of selling and delivering any bonds, certificates of indebtedness or war savings certificates of the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num>
<content class="inline">That the short title of this Act shall be “Fourth Liberty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of this Act.</p></sidenote>Bond Act.”</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, July 9, 1918.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 143: Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>143</docNumber>
<citableAs>40 Stat. 845</citableAs>
<dc:date>1918-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>65</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP. </dc:type>
<docNumber>143.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1918-07-09">July 9, 1918</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/65/hr/12281">H. R. 12281</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/65/193">Public, No. 193</ref>.]</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following sums be, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1026.</p></sidenote>and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies of the Army</inline>: For all contingent expenses of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1026.</p></sidenote>Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff; for all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergencies.</p></sidenote>emergencies and extraordinary expenses, including the employment of translators and exclusive of all other personal services in the War Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated or classified to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, including the payment of a per diem allowance not to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem subsistence.</p></sidenote>exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence, to employees of the War Department traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts, $250,000.</p>
</content></section>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office, Chief of Stall.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army War College</inline>: For expenses of the Army War College, being <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote>for the purchase of the necessary stationery ; typewriters and exchange of same; office, toilet, and desk furniture; textbooks, books of reference; scientific and professional papers and periodicals; printing and binding; maps; police utensils; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including $25 per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College Building, $9,000.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/40/846">846</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies, Military Information Section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1026.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps;</inline> For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, periodicals and newspapers, drafting and messenger service, and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila, and the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $2,000,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Observing military operations abroad.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Military Observers Abroad</inline>: For the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War that the expenditures were necessary for obtaining military information, $100,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">United States Service Schools: To</inline> provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Army Service Schools (including the Army Staff College, the Army School of the Line, the Army Field Engineer School, the Army Field Service and Correspondence School for Medical Officers, and the Army Signal School) at Fort <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p></sidenote>Leavenworth, Kansas, the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Bill, Okla.</p></sidenote>Kansas, and the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and for the Infantry School of Arms at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, employment of temporary, technical, or special services, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportion as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Translators.</p></sidenote>best interests of the military service. Not exceeding $200 per month may be used for the payment of $100 per month to a translator at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and $100 per month to a translator at the School of Fire for Field Artillery, and the Infantry School of Arms, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to be appointed by the commandants of the schools named, with the approval of the Secretary of War, $82,810.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department</p></sidenote>.the adjutant general’s department </heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies at headquarters.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, headquarters of military departments, districts, and tactical commands</inline>: For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, including the Staff Corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, ice, and potable water for office use when necessary, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, payment for which may be made in advance, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the commanding officers of the several military departments, districts, and tactical commands, $20,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1027.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia.</inline>—For incidental expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing, and binding; hardware; materials; cost of special instruction of officers detailed as instructors; employment of temporary, technical, or special services; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for office <page identifier="/us/stat/40/847">847</page>furniture and fixtures, machinery, motor trucks, and unforeseen expenses, $12,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">special apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote>instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $10,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $1,500.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering and mine defense.</p></sidenote>instruments, special apparatus, and materials for the department of engineering and mine defense, $2,000.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><ref href="/us/rs/sec3648/p718">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718</ref>.</p></sidenote>Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Purchase of typewriting-machines</inline>: That purchase and exchange of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Typewriting machines.</p></sidenote>typewriting machines, to be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to ail departments of the Government at the same price.</p>
</content></appropriations>
<appropriations level="small"><heading>office of the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><inline class="smallCaps">Telegraph and telephone systems</inline>: Purchase, equipment, operation, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telegraph and telephone systems.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, operation, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1027.</p></sidenote>and repair of military, telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems; signal equipment and stores, field glasses, telescopes, heliographs, signal lanterns, flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; motorcycles, motor-driven and other vehicles for technical and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies for their operation and maintenance; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals newspapers, and maps for use in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, trunk line, long distance, and leased line telephone service at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, excepting local telephone service for the various <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote>bureaus of the War Department in the District of Columbia and toll messages pertaining to the office of the Secretary of War; electric time service; the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment and their operation at or connecting any post, camp, cantonment, depot, arsenal, headquarters, hospital, aviation station, or other office or station of the Army, but not including payment for individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial lines; electrical installations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrical plants.</p></sidenote>and maintenance at military posts, cantonments, camps, and stations of the Army; fire control and direction apparatus and materiel for field artillery; salaries of civilian employees, including those necessary as instructors at vocational schools ; supplies, general repairs, reserve supplies, and other expenses connected with the collecting and transmitting of information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimentation and research for the purpose of developing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experiments in signaling.</p></sidenote>improvements in apparatus and methods of signaling, including machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair purposes; purchase, lease, construction, alterations, and repair for such buildings required for storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel when not otherwise pro<page identifier="/us/stat/40/848">848</page>vided for, including the land therefor, the introduction of water, electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and other equipment required, $105,946,054.77.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviatical.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, manufacture, operation, etc., of aircraft.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1027.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Aerial appliances, aviation stations, and vocational training in aviation, and so forth</inline>: For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, repair, and operation of airships, war balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equipment <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>connected therewith; and all necessary buildings for equipment and personnel in any bureau or department charged with the production, procurement, storage, maintenance, repair, transportation, or operation of aeronautical equipment and material, and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of all motor-propelled passenger and equipment carrying vehicles which may be necessary for any such bureau or department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation stations, balloon schools, etc.</p></sidenote>And also, for the establishment, enlargement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of aviation stations, balloon schools, fields for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring lands, buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>testing and experimental work, including (a) the acquisition of land, or any interest in land, with any buildings and improvements thereon, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public property or lands.</p></sidenote>by purchase, lease, donation, condemnation, or otherwise: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That by order of the President any Government property or unappropriated or reserved public lands may be reserve from entry, designated, and used for such aviation stations or fields for testing <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving sites.</p></sidenote>and experimental work; (b) the improvement of such land by clearing, draining, seeding, and otherwise making the same suitable for the <sidenote>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water, lighting, plumbing, etc.</p></sidenote>purpose intended; (c) procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, telephones, telegraph, and sewerage to aviation stations, testing or experimental fields, and buildings and structures thereon by the extension of existing systems or the creation of new systems and their maintenance, operation, and repair, installation of plumbing, electric fixtures, and telephones, fire apparatus and fire-alarm systems and the maintenance, operation, and repair of all such systems, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence equipment.</p></sidenote>fixtures, and apparatus; (d) purchase of stoves and other cooking and heating apparatus, kitchen and tableware, and furniture and equipment for kitchens, mess halls, offices, quarters, barracks, hospitals, and other buildings, screens, lockers, refrigerators, and all <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc., supplies.</p></sidenote>other necessary equipment; (e) purchase of special lubricating oil, fuel, and all supplies of every kind and character necessary or advisable for maintenance and operation of aviation stations, and airplanes and motor vehicles, including electric light and power, telephones, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructing, etc., machinery, tools, etc.</p></sidenote>water supply, and sewerage service; (f) purchase and manufacture and installation of all kinds of machinery, tools, material, supplies, and equipment for construction, maintenance, and repair of aircraft, buildings, and improvements at aviation stations and balloon schools and testing and experimental stations, or property or appliances used in connection with aviation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special clothing.</p></sidenote>And also for the purchase or manufacture and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses at home and abroad.</p></sidenote>And also, for the actual and necessary expenses of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army and authorized agents sent on special duty at home and abroad for aviation purposes, including observation and investigation of foreign military operations and organizations, manufacture of aircraft, and engines; also special courses in foreign aviation schools and manufacturing establishments, to be paid upon certificates of the Secretary of War certifying that the expenditures are necessary for military purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vocational training.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instructors, tools, etc.</p></sidenote>And also, for vocational training, including employment of necessary civilian instructors in important trades related to aviation, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, and machines required for<page identifier="/us/stat/40/849">849</page>such training, purchase of textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, periodicals and magazines, and instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction at aviation schools and stations, and all other means to carry out the provisions <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 39, p. 186.</p></sidenote>of section twenty-seven of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, authorizing, in addition to the military training of soldiers while in active service, means for securing educational and vocational training of a character to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Also, to pay such civilian employees in the District of Columbia or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees, District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>elsewhere as may be necessary, and for the payment of their traveling and other necessary expenses.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter mileage to officers of the Army traveling on duty in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers from aviation appropriations.</p></sidenote>connection with aviation shall be paid from the appropriation for the work in connection with which the travel is performed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And also, for the payment of all expenses in connection with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Development of aircraft and appurtenances.</p></sidenote>development of suitable types of aviation engines, airplanes, balloons, and other aircraft appurtenances, including the cost of sample engines, airplanes, balloons, and appurtenances, cost of any patents and other rights therein, and costs of investigation, experimentation, and research in respect thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And also, for the payment of all expenses in connection with the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of manufacturing plants, etc.</p></sidenote>creation, expansion, acquisition, and development of plants, factories, and establishments for the manufacture of airplanes, aircraft, balloons, engines, and appurtenances, including provision for the purchase or lease of lands with the buildings thereon, and for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, etc.</p></sidenote>construction of permanent or temporary buddings for all purposes, including suitable office accommodations, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, purchase of machinery, tools, and employment of operatives, together with all administrative expenses necessary, the purchase and supply of raw and semifinished materials and of fuel and other things necessary for creating and extending the production of airplanes, balloons, aircraft, engines, and all appurtenances.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And also, for creating, maintaining, and operating at technical <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aviation technical instruction at schools and colleges.</p></sidenote>schools and colleges courses of instruction for aviation students, including cost of instruction, equipment, and supplies necessary for instruction and subsistence of students while receiving such instruction, $884,304,758: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President may hereafter <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of moneys by the President.</p></sidenote>apportion and allot the moneys herein or heretofore appropriated for aviation purposes in such manner as he may deem most advisable for the accomplishment of said purposes with the same force and effect as though such apportionment had been made by this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no person otherwise qualified for service as a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">College education not a requisite.</p></sidenote>cadet, pilot, military aviator, or other officer in the aviation service, shall be barred from such service by reason of not being equipped with a college education.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Exchange of aerial material</inline>: That, subject to the approval of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchanges of equipment.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of War, motor-propelled vehicles, airplanes, engines, parts thereof, balloons, and appurtenances may be exchanged in part payment for new equipment of the same or similar character to be used for the same purposes as those proposed to be exchanged.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mileage for foreign instructors</inline>: That during the present <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign instructors allowed mileage, etc.</p></sidenote>emergency, officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the United States Army as instructors or inspectors when traveling in the United States on authorized official business pertaining to aviation shall be entitled to receive, from funds appropriated by this Act, the same mileage and transportation allowances as are authorized for officers or enlisted men of the Regular Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Continuing the appropriations for the Signal Service</inline>: That <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds for fiscal year 1918, continued available.</p></sidenote>funds appropriated by the Act approved July twenty-fourth, nine<page identifier="/us/stat/40/850">850</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 243.</p></sidenote>teen hundred and seventeen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Signal Corps of the Army and to purchase, maintain, manufacture, repair, and operate airships and make appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 42.</p></sidenote>therefor and for other purposes,“ and the funds appropriated for the Signal Service of the Army in the Act approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled, “An Act making appropriations <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 355.</p></sidenote>for the support of the Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen,” and October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and prior years entitled, “An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies and so forth,” are hereby made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All moneys immediately available.</p></sidenote><inline class="smallCaps">Appropriation immediately available</inline>: That the moneys appropriated in this Act for Signal Corps and for aviation purposes shall be and become immediately available upon the passage of