available until expended, to meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. George Watkin Oregon and Cali For compensation of George Watkin Evans for services as surveyor Evans. for the inspection of mineral deposits in Alaska, from July fifteenth Payment to. to twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September twentyfirst 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. To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the fornia railroad lands. Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to continue the classification Vol. 39, p. 218. 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. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and 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. For an amount supplemental and additional to the amount heretofore appropriated to pay the certified claims on account of labor, claims. supplies, material furnished and used in the construction of the Corbett tunnel and spillway, $3,556.96. TERRITORY OF ALASKA. Corbett tunnel. Alaska. Receipts from town Use for public utilities, etc. Vol. 38, p. 307. That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, not to site sales. 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: Provided, That such moneys as may have been heretofore or may hereafter be expended former payments. 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: Provided further, That a report of the expenditures hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. SAINT ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL. Rental for a system of telephones connecting the superintendent's, 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. Provisos. Report. of Saint Elizabeth's ice. National Park Serv Pay of employees. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 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 Vol. 39, pp. 309, 535. hundred and seventeen by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Pensions. Army and Navy. Provisos. PENSIONS. 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 ConNavy from Navy gress, $5,000,000: Provided, 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: Provided further, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately. funds. Separate accounts. Opinions of Attorney General. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $3,000. For purchase of library stacks, $7,000. Opinions of the Attorneys General: To enable the Attorney General Preparing Volume 30. to employ, at his discretion and irrespective of the provisions of secR.S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109. tion seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and the Vol. 39, p. 120. 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 R. S., sec. 383, p. 63. of section three hundred and eighty-three, Revised Statutes, $500. Detection, etc., of crimes. Robert S. Judge. Travel, etc. 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. 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. 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 R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718. 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. JUDICIAL. UNITED STATES COURTS. Judicial. United States courts. Texas western dis trict. For salary of the additional United States district judge in the District judge. State of Texas, to be appointed under the Act of February twentysixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500. For salary of the United States district judge for the district of 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. For salary of the clerk of the United States district court for the 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. Vol. 39, p. 938. Porto Rico district. Vol. 39, p. 965. Clerk. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals. 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. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous. 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. 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. Supplies. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary cloth- Support of prisoners. ing 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. Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including Leavenworth, Kans. the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $30,000. 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. 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. The use for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passengercarrying 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. Vehicles. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to give Credit in accounts. 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. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the Atlanta, Ga. 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. McNeil Island, Wash. Post Office Department. Contingent expenses. Miscellaneous. New equipment shops. 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, $10,000. 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. 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. 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. 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. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. 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. For the purchase of window shades, shelving, and racks, lumber, Equipment, removal automatic platform scales, interior telephones, clocks, and the misfrom old location, etc. cellaneous 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. POSTAL SERVICE. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES. OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. 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. OFFICE OF FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. 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. For mail messenger service, $60,000. OFFICE OF SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $16,000. OFFICE OF THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Second Assistant Postmaster General. Alaska star routes. Third Assistant Postmaster General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery Stamps. stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, $120,000. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, etc. $350,000. For manufacture of postal cards, $80,000. Stamped envelopes, Postal cards. matter. For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic, Indemnity, lost mail registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $16,000. OFFICE OF FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, Stationery. 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. For facing slips, plain and printed, card slide labels, intaglio seals, tags, linen labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $35,000. For wrapping paper, $8,000. Facing slips, etc. Wrapping paper. For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype stamps. 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. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. etc., Department of Com merce. Lighthouse Service. Collision damage claims. Claims for damages: To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 36, p. 537. 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. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Office expenses: For office expenses, including the same objects Office expenses. specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,097. Charts. Charts: For materials, supplies, and equipment for printing charts, Night printing force, including the employment in the District of Columbia of such per- etc. sonal 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. Vessels. Repairs, etc. Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer's supplies and other ship chandlery, $3,000. For furniture and other equipment in the outfitting of the steamer "Surveyor, "steamer. Surveyor, $7,356. 100768°-65-1-3 |