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October 6, 1917. [8. 2437.]

[Public, No. 62.]

Cape May, N. J. Appropriation for action site at.

ed.

Provisos.

CHAP. 77.-An Act To provide for the acquisition of an air station site for the United States Navy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the quiring naval air sta- 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 easements, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, the sum Expenditures limit of $150,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall authorize the payment of no part of this sum, except for perfecting the title Acquisition of addi. and dredging Cold Spring Harbor and the entrance thereto, in order tional lands without to make it more available for naval purposes: And provided further, 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 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 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 twentyfifth, 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.

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Conditions.

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Little Kanawha River.

Approved, October 6, 1917.

CHAP. 78.—An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company to construct a bridge across the Little Kanawha River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress Coal Company may is hereby granted to the Gilmer-Pittsburgh Coal Company, or its bridge, Gilmer, W. Va. 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 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.

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Amendment.

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SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, October 6, 1917.

CHAP. 79.-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.

October 6, 1917.

[H. R. 5949.] [Public, No. 64.]

Deficiencies appro

priations for war ex

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- penses, etc. propriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Ante, p. 182. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

For compensation of the two additional commissioners, authorized 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.

EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND.

Interstate Commerce
Commission.

Pay of additional
Ante, p. 270.

Emergency Shipping Fund.

Purchasing, etc.,

The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring shipping plants, ships, plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course etc. Limit of cost inof construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus creased. under construction, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropria- Ante, p. 182. tion Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $250,000,000 to $515,000,000, and there is appro

priated for this purpose the sum of $200,000,000.

The cost of construction of ships authorized by the urgent deficiency Building ships. 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.

Purchase of other

For the purchase of ships, other than those heretofore or herein ships. authorized, $150,000,000.

Acquisition, etc., of

For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for ship- plants for ship buildbuilding, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement ing. or extension of such plants as are now, or may be hereafter acquired or established, $35,000,000.

FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

Vocational Educa

tion.

Expenses

The appropriation provided by section seven of the Act creating Board. the Federal Board for Vocational Education, approved February Vol. 39, p. 933. 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.

allowed

Acceptance of State

board designated by governor if legislature Vol. 39, p. 932.

did act.

In any State the legislature of which met in nineteen hundred and 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 tion. 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.

Conditional recogni

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Consular prisoners.

Limit of cost for feed

ing fiscal year 1918.

Vol. 39, p. 1058.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

For additional employees in the Department of State, $85,000: Provided, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.

For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, repairs and material for repairs, and miscellaneous items, including expenses of the passport office in New York, $25,000.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.

That portion of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic ing, not operative dur- 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.

Clerks of embassies and legations.

Clerk hire at consulates.

Contingent expenses, missions.

For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $88,000.

For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $325,000.

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, dragomans, 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 Printing in Depart- 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, $132,000.

Dispatch agents.

ment.

Contingent expenses, consulates.

Traveling expenses.

Diplomatic and consular officers in China.

tional compensation for.

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.

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.

To enable the President in his discretion and in accordance with Allowances of addi- 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.

For the relief of American citizens in Germany or German occupied Relief of American territory and American prisoners of war who may be taken by German etc. forces, $80,000.

citizens in Germany,

Relief of American

For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seamen. 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.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.

Treasury Department.

Secretary's Office.

Two additional As

Charles D. Hamner.

For two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, to be sistant Secretaries. 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. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed Credit in accounts. 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.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.

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, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $7,500.

For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, 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.

OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY.

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ees.

Comptroller's Office.

For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and Additional employseventeen, 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.

OFFICE OF TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES.

Treasurer's Office.

Additional employ

For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and ees." 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.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500.

Public buildings.

Charlotte, N. C.

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Expenses, collecting taxes under War Revenue Act.

Ante, p. 300.

Evansville, Indiana, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,500.

Millersburg, Ohio, post office (site): For completion under the present limit of cost, $500.

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.

New York, New York, customhouse: For changes, remodeling, repairs, and new vaults, $35,000.

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.

INTERNAL REVENUE.

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: Provided, That not more than Amount for punish- $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 detection of such violations: Provided further, That not more than $850,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in the District of Columbia.

Provisos.

ing violations of revenue laws.

Amount for expenses of Bureau, D. C.

ers.

Deputy commission

Assignment

duties.

Agents, gaugers,
Vol. 39, p. 1090.

etc.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to assign to of 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. 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 March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the employment of revenue agents, inspectors under war storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers, and gaugers is hereby made availrevenue act payable able 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.

Deputy collectors and

from appropriations for. Ante, p. 300.

Engraving and Printing Bureau.

Additional work authorized for 1917. Ante, p. 5.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

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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

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