Public Law 64–5

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE. For the participation by the Government of the United States in, and to meet the necessary expenses of, the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, whose sessions at Washington have been fixed for December twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to January eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, inclusive, in addition to the sum of $50,000 heretofore appropriated therefor and including the same purposes authorized therein, the further sum of $35,000.

POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues. For mail bags, $100,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 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, at the Government Printing Office, $56,444.17.

LEGISLATIVE. capitol police. For sixteen additional privates at the rate of $720 per annum each, from December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, both dates inclusive, 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, $6,240; one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

Approved, December 17, 1915.