Public Law 64–209

An Act

Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings, construction, sites, and rent. 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: Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Akron, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Albion, Michigan, post office: For completion, $16,000. Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Altus, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $500. Amherst, Massachusetts, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Andalusia, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Anoka, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $25,000. Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Ashland, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Ashland, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Athens, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Atlanta, Georgia, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $5,000. Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Aurora, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $19,000. Austin, Texas, courthouse and post office: For remodeling and repairs, $35,000. Bakersfield, California, post office: For continuation, $54,000. Baltimore, Maryland, immigrant station: For continuation, $100,000. Barnesville, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Bartow, Florida, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Basin? Wyoming, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Batavia, New York, post office: For completion, $40,000. Bay City, Michigan, courthouse, post office, and customhouse: For lookouts, $2,000. Bay City, Texas, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Bayonne, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $500. Beeville, Texas, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Belton, Texas, post office: For continuation, $23,000. Bemidji, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $500. Berlin, New Hampshire, post office: For continuation, $26,000. Berwick, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $175,000. Blackwell, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $10,000. Bluffton, Indiana, post office: For site and commencement, $12,500. Bonne Terre, Missouri, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Boone, Iowa, post office: For lookouts, $1,500. Brenham, Texas, post office: For completion, $15,000. Bridgeport, Connecticut, post office: For such remodeling, changes, and improvements as may be necessary for the requirements of the Postal Service, $10,000. Brooklyn, New York, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $10,000. Buckhannon, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Buena Vista, Virginia, post office: For site, $2,500. Buffalo, New York, customhouse and post office: For mail conveying machinery. $7,000. Buffalo, Wyoming, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $31,000. Cairo, Illinois, customhouse and post office: For lookouts, $2,500. Calumet, Michigan, post office: For site, $8,000. Cambridge, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $500. Cameron, Texas, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Caribou, Maine, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Carlinville, Illinois, post office: For site, $2,000. Carroll, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $500. Carrollton, Illinois, post office: For site, $2,000. Carson City, Nevada, courthouse, post office, and so forth: For lookouts, $2,500. Caruthersville, Missouri, post office: For site, $250. Cedar Falls, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $500. Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $49,000. Chamberlain, South Dakota, post office: For site and commencement, $2,000. Chariton, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Charles City, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Charleston, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500. Charles Town, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, site and building, $3,000. Charlotte, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $3,500. Cherokee, Iowa, post office: For site and continuation, $1,900. Cherryvale, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For mailconveying machinery, $10,000. Chillicothe, Missouri, post office: For completion, $20,000. Cody, Wyoming, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Cohoes, New York, post office: For continuation, $500. Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $70,000. Coshocton, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Cuero, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Davenport, Iowa, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $1,500. Decatur, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $5,000. De Funiak Springs, Florida, post office: For site, $1,000. De Land, Florida, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Denton, Texas, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Des Moines, Iowa, courthouse: For continuation, $500. Dickinson, North Dakota, post office: For continuation, $36,000. Douglas, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $40,000. Dowagiac, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $22,000. Dubois, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Durango, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Durant, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $5,000. East Las Vegas, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $500. East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $50,000. East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $20,000. East St. Louis, Illinois, post office and courthouse (extension): For continuation, $50,000. Eatonton, Georgia, post office: For site, $750. Elkhart, Indiana, post office: For lookouts, $1,000. Elkins, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Ellensburg, Washington, post office: For continuation, $30,000. El Paso, Texas, post office: For continuation, $100,000. Elyria, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Evansville, Indiana, post office and customhouse (extension): For completion, $75,000. Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Farmington, Missouri, post office: For site, $5,000. Fayette, Missouri, post office: For site and commencement, $5,300. Fitzgerald, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Flint, Michigan, post office: For lookouts, $3,000. Fordyce, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $5,000. Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $5,000. Fort Morgan, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Fort Plain, New York, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Fort Wayne, Indiana, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $5,000. Franklin, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Franklin, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Frederick, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $36,000. Fremont, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Front Royal, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Fulton, Missouri, post office: For completion, $10,000. Galesburg, Illinois, post office: For lookouts, $2,500. Gardiner, Maine, post office: For completion, $10,000. Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $400. Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $40,000. Gouvemeur, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000. Grand Junction, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Greensburg, Indiana, post office: For site, $12,000. Greenwich, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $40,000. Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $36,000. Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Hammond, Louisiana, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $6,000. Harrisonville, Missouri, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Hartford, Connecticut, customhouse and post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $3,000. Hastings, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $500. Hiawatha, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Holty Springs, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Hoosick Falls, New York, post office: For site and commencement, $13,850. Hornell, New York, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Houghton, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $500. Humboldt, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $20,000. Huntington, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Huntington, West Virginia: For rent of temporary quarters of Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $10,000. Indiana, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Jndianapolis, Indiana, courthouse and post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $20,000. Jackson, Michigan, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $3,000. Jacksonville, Florida, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $1,500. Jamestown, North Dakota, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Jasper, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Jersey City, New Jersey, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $5,000. Kalispell, Montana, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Kendallville, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $500. Keokuk, Iowa, courthouse, post office, and so forth: For lookouts, $1,500. Kirksville, Missouri: For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $2,000. Knoxville, Tennessee, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $3,500. Laconia, New Hampshire, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Lakeland, Florida, post office: For continuation, $500. Lancaster, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Lancaster, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Las Cruces, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $5,000. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Lincoln, Nebraska, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $5,000. For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $2,000. Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $26,000. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Logan, Ohio, post office: For completion, $20,000. Los Angeles. California, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $4,000. Lyons, New York, post office: For site, $15,000. Limit of cost, $15,000. McComb, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $19,000. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Madison, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Madisonville, Kentucky, post office: For site, $5,000. Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Marion, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Marion, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Marlin, Texas, post office: For completion, $5,000. Marquette, Michigan, courthouse and post office: For lookouts, $1,500. Martin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Media, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Memphis, Tennessee, subpost office: For continuation, $500. Mena, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Merrill, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $25,000. Middletown, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $55,000. Middletown, Ohio, post office: For completion, $40,000. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For lookouts, $10,000. For mail-conveying machinery, $5,000. Minden, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $30,000. Missoula, Montana: For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $2,000. Moberly, Missouri, post office: For completion of extension, $5,000. Rent oi temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $2,000. Monessen, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Monongahela, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $10,000. Montclair, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Moultrie, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Mount Carmel, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Murray, Kentucky, post office: For site, $4,500. Muskegon, Michigan, post office and customhouse (extension): For completion, $20,000. Nacogdoches, Texas, post office: For completion, $30,000. Nashville, Tennessee, post office and customhouse: For continuation of extension, $100,000; For mail-conveying machinery, $3,500. Naugatuck, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $30,000. Navasota, Texas, post office: For completion, $20,000. Neenah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $33,000. New Albany, Indiana: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $1,500. Newark, New Jersey, customhouse and post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $10,000. New Braunfels, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $28,000. Newcastle, Wyoming, post office: For site, $1,400. New Haven, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $100,000. New Orleans, Louisiana, customhouse and post office, (old): The provision in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for remodeling, repair, or improvement of the old customhouse and post office shall include such lighting fixtures as may be necessary. Newport, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $40,000; For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. New York, New York, assay office: For continuation, $125,000. Norfolk, Virginia, courthouse and post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $6,000. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation of extension, $49,000. Olney, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500. Omaha, Nebraska, courthouse, customhouse, and post office: For lookouts, $3,700. Oneida, New York, post office: For site, $15,000. Oneonta, New York, post office: For retaining wall, $8,000. Opelika, Alabama, post office: For completion, $15,000. Orange, Texas, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Orlando, Florida, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Owego, New York, post office: For continuation, $500. Paintsville, Kentucky, post office: For site, $4,000. Palatka, Florida, post office: For completion, $10,000. Peoria, Illinois, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $1,000. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $50,000; For lookouts, mezzanine floors, remodeling, and so forth, $30,000. Pikeville, Kentucky, post office and courthouse: For site, $7,000. Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $7,500. Pittston, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Portland, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $425,000. Pottstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $36,000. Prescott, Arkansas, post office: For site and commencement, $5,000. Pulaski, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Putnam, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $10,000. Quincy, Illinois, post office and courthouse: For lookouts, $1,000. Quitman, Georgia, post office: For completion, $5,000. Raton, New Mexico, post office: For continuation, $500. Reading, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Red Bluff, California, post office: For continuation, $500. Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $26,000. Rhinelander, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $1,000. Richfield, Utah, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For additional land, $450,000. Ridgway, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $35,000. Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $22,000. Rogers, Arkansas, post office: For site and commencement, $1,000. Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Rumford, Maine, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Saco, Maine, post office: For site and commencement, $10,500. Saginaw, Michigan, post office: For lookouts, $2,500. Saint Augustine, Florida, courthouse and post office: For lookouts, $1,000. Saint Johns, Oregon, post office: For site, $5,000. Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, post office: For site and commencement, $9,000. Saint Joseph, Missouri, post office: For alterations, and so forth, to the post-office workroom, $2,600. Saint Louis, Missouri, post office: For lookouts, $5,000. So much of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen as appropriates $25,000 for mailconveyor system connecting the new post-office building at Saint Louis, Missouri, with the adjacent railroad station and any necessary extension of the system into the railroad building and the post-office building is repealed. Saint Marys, Ohio, post office: For site, $7,500. Saint Paul, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $8,000. Saint Peter, Minnesota, post office: For site and commencement, $2,300. Saint Petersburg, Florida, post office: For completion, $35,000. Salamanca, New York, post office: For completion, $30,000. Salisbury, Maryland, post office: For site and commencement, $10,500. San Pedro, California, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $500. Santa Fe, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For site and commencement, $30,500. Saranac Lake, New York, post office: For continuation, $500. Savanna, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Sayre, Pennsylvania, post office: For site and commencement, $7,500. Seymour, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $25,000. Seymour, Indiana, post office: For completion, $15,000. Shawnee, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $500. Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Shelbyville, Indiana, post office: For site and commencement, $17, 000. Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Sidney, Ohio, post office: For completion, $25,000. Skowhegan, Maine, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Somersworth, New Hampshire, post office: For site, $7,500. South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $40,000. South Boston, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Southbridge, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $500. Spanish Fork, Utah, post office: For site and commencement, $5,500. Springfield, Ohio, post office: For lookouts, $2,500. Stamford, Texas, post office: For continuation, $19,000. State College, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Statesboro, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Stockton, California, post office: For lookouts, $1,000. Syracuse, New York, post office: For continuation, $170,000. Tacoma, Washington, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For mail conveying machinery, $2,200. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $38,000. Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Terre Haute, Indiana, post office: For lookouts, $4,000. Thomasville, North Carolina, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Titusville, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $45,000. Tomah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, site and building, $3,500. Tullahoma, Tennessee, post office: For site and commencement, $2,500. Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $85,000. Twin Falls, Idaho, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Unionville, Missouri, post office: For site, $2,500. Valley City, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $60,000. Vancouver, Washington, post office: For continuation, $55,000. Van Wert, Ohio, post office: For completion, $25,000. Vermilion, South Dakota, post office: For site, $3,000. Vineland, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $500. Wahoo, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Walden, New York, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Warrenton, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Washington, District of Columbia: Interior Department offices. For completion, $756,000; Winder Building. For new roof and skylights, $3,500. Washington, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Washington, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Washington Court House, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Waterloo, New York, post office: For completion, $25,000. Waynesboro, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $500. Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Wellsburg, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $5,000. Wenatchee, Washington, post office: For continuation, $44,000. Wheeling, West Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For lookout gallery to connect present lookout gallery system, $2,500. Wilkesboro, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For completion, $8,000. Willow, California, post office: For completion, $35,000. Wilmington, North Carolina: Customhouse and appraisers’ stores: For continuation, $85,000. Post office and customhouse: For lookouts, $2,500; For rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incidental thereto, $1,200. Wilmington, Ohio, post office: For site and commencement, $1,500. Winnemucca, Nevada, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Woodbury, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Woodstock, Illinois, post office: For site, $10,000. Woodward, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For site and continuation, $2,500. Worcester, Massachusetts, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $1,400. Yoakum, Texas, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Ypsilanti, Michigan, post office: For completion, $20,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Hygienic Laboratory: The unexpended balances of the appropriations for “Hygenic Laboratory, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service” (grading, and retaining wall), and “Building, Hygienic Laboratory” (additional building for research work, disinfection, experiments, and housing animals), are reappropriated and made available “for buildings, fittings, and grounds.” quarantine stations. Boston Quarantine Station: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to accept, at a cost to the United States not to exceed $150,000, the transfer of the Boston quarantine station and hereafter to operate the same as one of the quarantine stations of the Public Health Service. Columbia River Quarantine Station: For repairs and equipment for detention hulk, $5,000. Mobile Quarantine Station: For detention hulk and equipment, or repairs to detention hulk, $10,000. New Orleans Quarantine Station: For boarding vessel and equipment, $25,000; for fire protection, $4,000; for dynamo and engine, including installation, for electric light for night inspection, $1,200; in all, $30,200. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses. 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 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 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: Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated 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 Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia: Provided further, 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 building, $800,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical 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: Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $40,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler, 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, 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: Provided further, 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 building, $450,000. Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, 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 exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $110,000. 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 five hundred and thirty-seven, part one): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; 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 stated, not to exceed $168,450; 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 $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; 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 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, $563,560. 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 commission accruing under 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 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 years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. public buildings, operating expenses. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings 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, $3,025,000, of which sum $25,000 shall be available for the above-named purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation 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. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and 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 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, $775,000: Provided, 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 building: And provided further, That hereafter gas and electric lighting fixtures for the equipment of public buildings and extensions in course of construction under the control of the Treasury Department, except such gas and electric lighting fixtures as are under contract or may be otherwise provided for by law, shall be paid for from the respective appropriations provided for the construction of such public buildings or extensions: And provided further, That all furniture now owned by the United States m 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: And provided further, That hereafter the annual appropriations for the care, maintenance, and repair of Federal buildings and their mechanical and vault and safe equipments, shall be available in the same manner and to the same extent for assay offices assigned quarters in Federal buildings under the authority contained in chapter five hundred and forty-six of the Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, page six hundred and fourteen), as such appropriations are available for other branches of the Government service quartered in such buildings. 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, 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, 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), $1,700,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: Provided, 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. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen 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. 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. coast guard. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows: 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 twentyone cadets and cadet engineers who are hereby authorized, and one civilian instructor, $3,780,000; For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $430,000; For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $900 each, $10,800; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $260,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $310,000; 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, $175,000; For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $30,000; For carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $50,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $20,000; For telephone lines and care of the same, $20,000; For compensation for special services, $64,000; For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions for 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. In all, $5,199,800. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $175,000. engraving and printing. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen of not exceeding ninety million delivered sheets of United States currency, fourteen million seven hundred and fifty thousand delivered sheets of national-bank notes and Federal reserve currency, eighty-four million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, one million five hundred thousand delivered sheets of emergency revenue stamps, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, one million six hundred and fifty thousand delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps required under Act of December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and two million four hundred and fifty thousand delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees 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 seventeen, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,408,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and without increasing the rate of pay for any class of services in the Bureau beyond the rate paid therefor January first, nineteen hundred and sixteen: Provided, 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 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. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to deliver the engraved plates of portraits that have been or may hereafter be made of deceased Senators and Representatives in Congress, to their heirs or legal representatives on such terms and conditions as he may determine. 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, $1,653,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, 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, 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. 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, $751,500, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction oi 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 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 seventeen. miscellaneous objects, treasury department. 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. 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. 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 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 crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed at any one time hereunder: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law. 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 seventeen, $15,000. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fiftythree 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 examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, 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 accounts at mints, $115,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight 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, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin 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. Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection 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 sub treasury offices, $5,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, not less than seventy-three million five hundred thousand sheets, and for national-bank currency and Federal reserve bank currency, not less than thirteen 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 one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $415,000. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to enter into a contract for the manufacture of distinctive paper for a period not to exceed four years. 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. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred 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 horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, 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 for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $200,000: Provided, 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 witnesses, United States courts.” Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands and other property of the 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 thirth-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees in connection therewith, $300. customs service. For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $10,000,000. 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 seventeen, together with the further sum of $25,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $30,000. 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, $7,500. public health service. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $711,550; For additional assistant surgeons, $25,000; For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000; For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $517,106; 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; For fuel, light, and water, $75,000; For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $45,000; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $256,000: Provided, 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; 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, $170,000; For journals and scientific books, $500; In all, $2,058,156, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, 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, 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. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, or trachoma, 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: Provided, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and 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, $250,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000. Studies of rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including personal service, $25,000. Study of pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $40,000. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including personal service, $10,000.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For repair of nurses cottages, $2,350; for purchase and installation of X-ray apparatus and necessary equipment therefor, $2,500; for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $11,494; in all, $16,344, 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, and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for special equipment and furnishing to complete Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, including labor and material and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 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, $32,000. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archgeologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000. 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. 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. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $25,000; For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $46,000; 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; For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000; For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and. material, $10,000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, National Museum, $383,500. 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 horses 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, $100,000; 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.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $75,000. 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 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 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 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia. To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce 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. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed 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 when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $245,000. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce 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 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 buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000. 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,” 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 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, $220,000.

UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. 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, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of 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. Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. 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, eight of class two, fifteen of class one, eighteen at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $154,580. 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; the travel expense and per diem in lieu of subsistence to the commissioners and other employees under their orders in making any investigation or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington; no salary shall be paid hereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum; $244,500. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oil cloth, 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, $15,000. For rental of building or quarters, $15,000. For witness fees, and mileage, as provided in section nine of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $15,000.

ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION. 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 commence proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $50,000, payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, 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 present session: Provided further, That the said commission is hereby authorized to settle and compromise all questions and controversies between the United States and adverse claimants of titles to lands within or adjacent to the area desired for said parkway, in accordance with the recommendations of the said report submitted in compliance with the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, subject to the approval of the Attorney General of the United States, who may, in such settlement and compromise or in any condemnation proceedings requested by said commission, exercise the power in him conferred by section three hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided further, That the said lands when acquired shall be a part of the park system of the District of Columbia, subject to the provisions of section two of the Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, chapter five hundred and forty-three).

WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing facilities for fire protection, $5,000; For increasing storage facilities, $28,000; For repairs to wharf, $6,000; For repairs to shop and other buildings, $5,000; For continuing brick wall in main issue storehouse, making it practically a fire wall, and for rearrangement of the interior of the building, including the erection of a loading platform, $2,500; For improving the water supply, $5,000: In all, $51,500. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For a general shop building, $106,800; For extension of artillery ammunition storehouse, $33,000; For extension of instrument department building, $22,920; For extension of fuse shop building, $132,300; For extension of artillery case shop building, $42,000; For extension of lead shop building, $12,000; For metal storehouse, $25,800; For a storehouse for current manufactures, $54,000; For purchase of additional land, $125,000; For one sewer and connections, $9,000; For garage for motor trucks, $12,000; For construction or repair of roads, walks, and sea wall, $11,600; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $24,000; For increasing the facilities of the arsenal for the manufacture of field artillery ammunition, $183,750; For five magazine buildings, including necessary barriers and fences about the buildings, railroad connections, sewer lines, lighting mains, and so forth, $90,900; In all, $885,070. Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot, Fort Shafter Reservation: For five storehouses, $99,000; For six gun sheds, $6,500; For five magazines, $85,000; For two shop buildings, $35,500; For office building, $12,000; For barracks building, $12,000; For set of field officer’s quarters, $6,000; For set of company officer’s quarters, $5,000; For two sets of quarters for noncommissioned officers, $6,000; For stable, $6,000; For wagon shed and garage, $3,000; For necessary water, sewer, and electrical connections, $5,500; For transportation facilities, construction of roads, and so forth, $18,500; In all, $300,000. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: For increasing facilities for manufacture of powder, $53,000; For buildings for assembling powder charges, $25,000; For the purchase of additional land, $7,500; In all, $85,500. Powder factory: For the establishment of a plant, or the enlargement of any existing plant owned by the Government, for the manufacture of powder on a site owned by the Government or to be procured by purchase or condemnation, or in the discretion of the Secretary of War on any suitable site that may be tendered without cost to the United States which he is authorized to accept, $500,000. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For high service tank and connections, $20,000; For road repairs, $13,000; For bath and toilet room addition to barracks building, $24,000; For one auto fire engine, $7,500; Toward providing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition at a total cost not exceeding $1,250,000, under a contract or contracts which are authorized, or otherwise, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, $500,000; For increasing capacity for manufacture of field artillery vehicles, $90,000; For storehouse for artillery vehicles, $34,000; For concrete retaining wall on the east side of Fort Armstrong Avenue, $4,700; For two sets of quarters for noncommissioned officers, $10,000; For ice-making plant, $16,000; For the construction of coal bins, including the installation of a coal-hoisting apparatus in boiler house of shop F, $5,500; For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500; For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $18,000; In all, $755,200. Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For one range tower, $5,000; For a fireproof vault in office building, for the storage of valuable records, $1,500; For a building to contain toilet facilities, $1,500; For a fireproof stable, $8,000; For a tool and breechblock storage house, $12,000; For extension of concrete traverses in rear of proof battery, $10,000; In all, $38,000. San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For one storehouse and its equipment, $60,000; For improving the water supply, $4,200; For rebuilding roads and walks, $3,000; In all, $67,200. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For extension of wing of milling shop, $5,500; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $20,000; For repairs to streets, $7,100; In all, $32,600. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For improving and modernizing the smith shop, $52,600; For increasing capacity for manufacture of gun carriages, $500,000; For increasing capacity for manufacture of armor-piercing projectiles, $215,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $11,725; For a building for housing electric engine and locomotive crane, $5,000; For replacing roof on building containing hardening plant, $3,400; For construction and installation of conveying apparatus for handling coal for power plant, $10,000; For extension of coal pockets, $2,000; In all, $799,725. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional 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. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For improvement of large gun shop, $680,000; For extension of smith shop, $12,000; For machine-tool equipment for field and siege gun shop, $37,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $17,700; For the purchase and installation of an air compressor, $6,000; For increasing capacity of water-power plant, $2,500; For repairs to stone and brick walls surrounding the arsenal reservation, $5,000; For extension of locker room and toilet facilities, $23,000; For one lumber storage shed, $5,000; For the construction of storage platforms in large gun shop, $1,500; For one railroad car for shipping sixteen-inch and fourteen-inch guns between Watervliet and Watertown Arsenals and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, $14,000; In all, $803,700. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $350,000. quartermaster corps. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus; but no part of this sum shall be used for the purchase of land for construction of buildings at Coast Artillery posts, nor for the establishment of any disciplinary barracks, $127,000. Military Post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Toward the construction under a contract or contracts which are authorized, or otherwise, 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, $1,000,000. Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction and enlargement of barracks and quarters for the Coast Artillery and other buildings in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $420,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters to cost in excess of the limits established in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated $383,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended for the necessary buildings, including heating, lighting, and plumbing systems, roads, and walks, water and sewer systems, and so forth, required for the accommodation of four companies of Coast Artillery at San Pedro, California. Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and 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 sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,060 For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, 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. 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. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine Islands and Hawaii, and for temporary cantonments for over-sea garrisons, $69,000. That the internal-revenue taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature under the law enacted by that body on December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, as amended by the law enacted by that body on February fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the tonnage tax on vessels engaged in foreign trade enacted by that body on February fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore or hereafter is hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed. Vessels owned by citizens of the Philippine Islands and documented as such by the government of said islands shall hereafter be exempt in ports of the United States from payment of tonnage taxes and light dues; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, upon certification by the Commissioner of Navigation, to refund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, tonnage taxes and light dues imposed upon vessels owned and documented as aforesaid entering ports of the United States since August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be construed as exempting said vessels from any taxes or dues imposed by the government of the Philippine Islands. National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $120,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120. For the addition of a kitchen and bathroom to the lodge in the Salisbury National Cemetery, to be erected under the supervision of the Secretary of War, $1,500. 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 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 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 hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,000. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: Provided, 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 to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided further, 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. 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. 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, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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, $57,500. To exhume, transport to San Francisco, and reinter in the national cemetery at San Francisco the remains of Orman K. Osbon, late a private in the First South Dakota Infantry, also a private in the Thirty-sixth Regiment United States Volunteers (Colonel J. Franklin Bell), and at the time of his death a teacher in the United States schools in the town of Bolinao, Province of Zambales, Luzon, Philippine Islands, $200, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250. 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; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation 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. Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little 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 bo disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200. national military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, 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 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. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment 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; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $25,800. 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 bearing 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. 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. engineer department. Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements, $152,500, including not to exceed $15,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $10,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including not exceeding $5,000 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 of War: Provided, 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. For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improving 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 Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $38,700. For completing the widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improving the surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $6,000. 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. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For repair of post-and-chain 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. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horsedrawn and two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000. For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing paths, $25,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $15,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $10,000. To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For improving the site of the old high-service reservoir, at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and R Street northwest, which is made a part of the park system of the District of Columbia, under the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, $5,000. For replacing the post and chain fence around Rawlins Park with a cement coping and for rearranging the walks and improving the planting, $3,000. For moving out the sea wall on the river side of west Potomac Park, $15,000. For extending Easbys Point sewer in west Potomac Park, $12,000. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For one double park lodge in Montrose Park, $3,500. For a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the railroad embankment, $50,000. 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. Under appropriations contained herein no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing 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. For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. 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. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $21,000; For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; In all, $24,820, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing fines, $500. 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. 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, $3,000. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. 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, $6,000. 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 hereby made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Lincoln Memorial Commission: For continuing the erection of the 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, $700,000. Aqueduct Bridge: Toward 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, $100,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of War to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of said bridge in an amount not exceeding $900,000, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated, one half of the above sums to be payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater: For completing the construction, under the direction of a commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, Ivory G. Kimball, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, the commander of Camp One hundred and seventy-one, United Confederate Veterans of the District of Columbia, and Charles W. Newton, representing the United Spanish War Veterans, of a memorial amphitheater, including a chapel, at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and in accordance with the plans of Carrere and Hastings, architects, of New York City, adopted by the commission heretofore appointed, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $100,000. 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 motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and seven, as follows: Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement at the falls by the construction of a fourth lock, $500,000. For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and seven, as follows: Improving Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For continuing improvement, with a view to securing a depth of twenty-five feet, $20,000. For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Harbor of Refuge, Cape Lookout, North Carolina: For continuing construction in completion of contract authorization, $600,000. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For completing improvement of thirty-foot channel, $327,800. Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For completing improvement, subject to the conditions specified in the river and harbor Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $35,000. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $7,500. 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 preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000. California Debris 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. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; For purchase or construction of one patrol vessel, $75,000; In all, $160,260. office of chief of staff. Topographic maps, War Department: For reimbursing the United States Geological Survey for expenses incurred in making special topographic surveys of areas selected by the War Department, and for additional expenses incurred in securing such extra topographic data as are requested by the War Department in these or other areas, and engraving and printing the same on atlas sheets of the United States Geological Survey, $35,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to advance from this appropriation to the United States Geological Survey such sums as the Secretary of the Interior may request. medical department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $65,000. 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. Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto 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, $2,500. 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 by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. 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 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. For necessary improvements, repairs, and equipment for isolating building.for minor contagious diseases, $5,500, 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. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers 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 tne 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, payments due heirs of deceased members: Provided, 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; 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; dming-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000; 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, $103,000. 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, $72,000. Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $1,200. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, 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, $53,000: Provided, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm 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, $23,000; In all, $562,200. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For transportation of members of the home, $600; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $36,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $333,600. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $112,500; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $309,300. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $160,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $63,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $365,200. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $85,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $433,000. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $208,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $54,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $53,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $422,500. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $120,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $299,800. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $178,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $10,000; In all, $373,000. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $120,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,500; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $284,500. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000; For transportation of members of the home, $4,000; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $13,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000; In all, $163,000. 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, $225,000. 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, $3,500; in all, $49,800. The headquarters of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be established and hereafter maintained at the Central Branch, National Military Home, Ohio, and shall occupy for offices, without expenditure for rent, any general or post fund building. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,820,900: Provided, 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. 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 Homo for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $1,125,000: Provided, 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: Provided further, 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. back pay and bounty. 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 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 seventeen, $50,000. 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 seventeen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $2,000.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings. Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension Buildings, and of the General Land Office Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steamheating 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. Court of Claims Building: For labor and material and for general repairs, Court of Claims Building, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $8,200. Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs 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. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500. 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, $30,000. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards 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 four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $35,000, made in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, together with the further sum of $35,000. So much of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen as authorizes the use of the Maltby Building and the buildings on the west side of New Jersey Avenue between B and C Streets northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, by the Department of Agriculture is repealed. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For restoration and reconstruction of the exterior and interior of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, 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 Buildings and Grounds, $200,000, 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. public lands service. 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, $525,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange 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 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: Provided, 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, $345,000. 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. Depredations 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 for 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 motor cycles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same: Provided, 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: Provided further, 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 fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence. 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 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. 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 in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: Provided, 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. 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. 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, $15,000. 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 and seventeen: Provided, 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, $15,000. surveying the public lands. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townsnips occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, 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 indemnitv 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, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest 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 that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, and, 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 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 hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be 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 the United States: Provided further, 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 wherever practicable. Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, 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 Casa Grande, $5,000. united states geological survey. 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; 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; m all, $29,900. 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, per diem in lieu of subsistence for employees engaged in field work or traveling on official business, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; purchase for field use only of geologists, topographers, and engineers, of not exceeding ten motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $7,000, and not exceeding twenty horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $3,000, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles not exceeding $5,300; to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, $20,000; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, $350,000: Provided, 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; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, $350,000; 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; For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $1,8,280; For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, $75,000; 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 utilizing the water resources, $150,000; For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000; For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000; In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,255,520. bureau of mines. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary 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, $70,000; For investigation as to the cause of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of mmers, 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, $347,000; 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, including personal services in the bureau at Washington, District of Columbia, not in excess of the number and total compensation of those so employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $135,000; 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: Provided, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, nor shall any part thereof be used for work authorized or required by law to be done and that is being done by any other branch of the public service; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, and subsistence, $100,000. Not exceeding twenty per centum of the foregoing sum and not exceeding ten per centum of the sum for investigation as to causes of mine explosions may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for personal services in the District of Columbia. 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, $70,000, of which sum not exceeding ten per centum may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for personal services in the District of Columbia. For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of three mining experiment stations, authorized by the act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $75,000; 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 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, $42,700, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $4,305; For purchase of three additional mine rescue cars, $53,000; For equipment for three new mine rescue cars, $13,500; For operating three new cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, materials and supplies, $35,000; For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said inspector, $2,500; For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500. 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 mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: Provided, 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; Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen 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: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mmes their necessary expenses or per diem, 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. Hereafter in the absence of the Director of the Bureau of Mines the assistant director of said bureau shall perform the duties of the director during the latter’s absence, and in the absence of the Director and of the Assistant Director of the Bureau of Mines the Secretary of the Interior may designate some officer of said bureau to perform the duties of the director during his absence. In all, Bureau of Mines, $955,005. reclamation service. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and therein designated “he reclamationfund”: 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 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; 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; 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; and compensation to artisans and laborers for injuries under the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five hundred and fifty-six), namely: Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $480,000 together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen: Provided, That there is hereby appropriated, out of said sum, the sum of $300 to reimburse the Moeur-rafford Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Arizona, for damages sustained by the reason of the inability, under existing law, of the United States to carry out a certain agreement between said company and the project manager in connection with a contract dated November twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eleven, between said company and the project manager of the Reclamation Service, Salt River project, Arizona, approved by the Director of the Reclamation Service on December twentieth, nineteen hundred and eleven; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operation, $759,000; together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $33,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $309,000; together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $288,000; Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $540,000 together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $302,000; Jackson Lake enlargement work, Idaho-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, conditioned upon the deposit of this amount by the Kuhn Irrigation and Canal Company and the Twin Falls Canal Company to the credit of the reclamation fund, $241,000; Garden City project, Kansas: For maintenance, operation, and incidental operations, $2,000; Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $160,000: Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $696,000; Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $205,000; Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $30,000; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $220,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $323,000 together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Hondo project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, and incidental operations, $4,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $595,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $50,000; Lawton project, Oklahoma: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $51,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $235,000; Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $180,000; together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $98,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $315,000; Okanogan project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $58,000; Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $798,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $762,000 together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations (secondary projects), $50,000; Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, 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 seventeen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year; Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably 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; All moneys refunded except repayments of construction and operation and maintenance charges, under the provisions of the Act shall be a credit to the appropriation for the project 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 in this Act; In all, for the Reclamation Service, $8,884,000. testimony in disbarment proceedings. 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. alaska, expenses in. 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,” to continue available until expended, $6,247,620. Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, 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. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, 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. Authority is granted to pay to Old Bettis, a native of Nenana, Alaska, the sum of $343.50, out of the appropriation for the Alaska Engineering Commission in compensation for a cabin with its contents, consisting of traps, guns, clothing, and other articles, which were burned as a result of a fire running from a smudge set by parties of the Alaskan Engineering Commission during the summer of nineteen hundred and fourteen. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $70,000. 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 indus-trial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: Provided, 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 duty: Provided, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. 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 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. Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, 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, $50,000. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction of Alaskan natives m the care and management of reindeer, $5,000. Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approved 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. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. national parks. Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, including not exceeding $300 for maintenance and repair of horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent in making inspections of the park, $5,500. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from park revenues not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle and maintenance, operation, and repair thereof, for use of the superintendent in making park inspections. For procuring feed for buffalo and salaries of buffalo keepers, $3,000. 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 line of the Glacier National Park, not to exceed $500 for the construction of a warehouse, and also not exceeding $10,000 to pay to the Great Northern Railway Company to reimburse said corporation for amounts actually expended by it in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen prior to the passage of this Act, for the repair of thirty-five miles of road in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation leading to said Glacier National Park: Provided, That said work shall be done under the supervision of and in a manner acceptable to the superintendent of the park, who shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior his approval of the work and the amount of expenditures made by said company for which reimbursement shall be made hereunder: Provided further, That before said payment is made said company shall transfer to the United States all of its interest in said road; in all, $110,000. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Glacier National Park that may be donated for park purposes. Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvements of road other than toll roads; including, not exceeding $500 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the supervisor and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $1,000 for a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the supervisor in inspection and other park work, the maintenance, operation, and repair thereof, not exceeding $75,000 for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet, El Portal-Yosemite Road, and not exceeding $150,000 for installation of a hydroelectric power plant ; in all, $250,000. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way whether over patented or other lands in the Yosemite National Park that may be donated for park purposes. Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, including $6,750, for construction of bridge at road crossing of Giant Forest Road on Marble Fork crossing of Kaweah River; in all, $22,300. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way whether over patented or other lands in the Sequoia National Park that may be donated for park purposes. For the purchase of such private holdings in the Sequoia National Park as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior are desirable for the better administration of the reservation, $50,000. General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, $30,000. 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. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, $10,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, and repairing and extension of roads, $8,000. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and protection, $2,500. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, $8,000. Protection of national monuments: For the preservation, devlopment, administration, and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $3,500. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to employ in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and pay, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, out of the several appropriations for protection, improvement and management of the various national parks including the Hot Springs Reservation and out of the revenues from rentals and privileges derived therefrom, a superintendent of national parks and to assist him such clerical or other services, not exceeding four persons, as the Secretary shall determine, and also to pay from said funds all necessary expenses of subsistence and travel of said superintendent when absent on duty outside of the District of Columbia. A detailed statement of all expenditures hereunder shall be made to Congress at its next session. government hospital for the insane. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, 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 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, not exceeding $8,000; $285,250, 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. After the passage of this Act the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be known and designated as Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Authority is granted during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to exchange typewriting machines, laundry machinery, and other equipment in purchasing new equipment of the same or like character. For the buildings and grounds, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. For a new fence, $14,000. For shop and storehouse building, $24,755. For electric elevators, $3,675. For moving, enlarging, and remodeling ice plant and for the purchase of additional machinery, $19,000. To further reimburse the United States, and in full, the amount due on account of one-half of the per capita cost of maintenance of indigent patients in the Government Hospital for the Insane from the District of Columbia in excess of the number charged to and paid for by said District during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine to nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, there shall be transferred from the revenues of the District of Columbia to the United States the sum of $282,754.26. columbia institution for the deaf. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $70,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000. For the construction of a new sewer from farm to West Virginia Avenue; for a twenty-five-horsepower engine and direct connected fifteen-kilowatt generator for power plant; and for additional machinery for the shop, $2,400. For the removal of the college women’s 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, $90,000, not more than $3,000 of which may be used for providing temporary quarters, through rental or otherwise, for the use of students and officers of the institution. Upon the passage of this Act the title to all that parcel of land lying between the west boundary of West Virginia Avenue, said avenue now being laid out with a width of sixty-six feet, and the east boundary of the grounds of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, said parcel of land fronting on Florida Avenue about ten and onehalf feet and containing one-tenth of an acre, more or less, and being formerly part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad right of way, shall be vested in the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, United States of America, trustee, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent for the said parcel of land to the said Columbia Institution for the Deaf. howard university 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; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $10,000; Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and naturalhistory studies and use in laboratories of the new science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000; For fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500; In all, $101,000. freedmen’s hospital. For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to 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; 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, $28,000; In all, $60,640. Hereafter all unclaimed money left at the Freedmen’s Hospital by deceased patients shall, after a period of three years, be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $50,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $50,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building at any Federal penitentiary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; 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 and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $26,000; in all, $73,000. For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary 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, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $17,000. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in 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. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and 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 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, 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 to exceed $18,500 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $485,000. Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United 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. 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 paragraph df section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $250,000: Provided, however, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful: Provided further, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, $7,500. Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and eighty copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at eight volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $2,880, for one hundred and eighty copies of Volume Ten, Federal Reporter Digest, $900; in all, $3,780. For fifteen copies of volume sixty 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. For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes—namely, two hundred and forty-one to two hundred and forty-four of the United States Reports to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890. 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.

JUDICIAL. united states courts. 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, repair, and operation of horsedrawn 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, $1,580,000. 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 sixteen, 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 sixteen or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of 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 attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the. office of the United States district attorney, $620,000. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, $28,940. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $350,000. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special 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), $175,000. For fees of clerks, $215,000: Provided, That courts of the United 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. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $150,000. For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. 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. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $58,000. For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois: Provided, 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 order of the courts: Provided further, 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 States in Alaska 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 the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the 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 compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000. 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, $475,000. 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, $35,000. 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; care and treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppress mutiny; 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, $625,000. 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, $80,000; 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, $35,000; 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; 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, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards or employees who may be injured while endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppress mutiny, $65,000; 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, $4,500; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one, $1,500, one $600; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; stenographer, $900; four 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, $52,080; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $80,280; For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $268,080. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $70,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $30,000; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $45,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $3,500; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—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, $43,000; in all, $75,100; For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $227,600. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $6,500; For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $11,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $600; For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $10,500; in all, $17,100; In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $48,200. 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; six matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of, and skilled helpers in, industries, $3,800; assistant farmer 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 eight in number, $3,360; secretary and treasurer, $900; in all, $34,276; 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; In all, National Training School for Boys, $44,776.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service. Point Vincente, California, Light Station: For estab fishing a light and fog-signal station at Point Vincente, California, $80,000. Saint Johns River, Florida, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Saint Johns River, Florida, below Jacksonville, $66,000. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Lighthouse Depot: For improvements at Woods Hole lighthouse depot, Massachusetts, $50,000. Fighting Island Channel, Michigan, aids to navigation: For improving aids to navigation and establishing new aids in the Fighting Island Channel, Detroit River, Michigan, $25,000. Florida Reefs, Florida, aids to navigation: For establishing additional lighted aids for Florida Reefs, and repairs and improvements to existing aids, $75,000. Hudson River, New York, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Hudson River, New York, $100,000. Mississippi River, Louisiana, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Mississippi River below New Orleans, $50,000. Conneaut, Ohio, aids to navigation: For a light and fog signal and improving the present aids to navigation in Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, $63,500. Kellett Bluff, Washington, Light Station: For establishing a light and fog-signal station at or near Kellett Bluff, Henry Island, Washington, or at some point on the west coast of San Juan Island, Washington, $40,000. Coquille River, Oregon, aids to navigation: For improvement of aids to navigation at or near the entrance to Coquille River, Oregon, $6,000. Toledo Harbor, Ohio, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation in Toledo Harbor, Ohio, $15,000. Dog Island, Maine, Light: For establishing a light at or near Dog Island entrance to Saint Croix River, Maine, $3,500. Delaware River, Pennsylvania and Delaware, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigation and establishing new aids on the Delaware River, Pennsylvania and Delaware, $80,000. Eighth lighthouse district, tender and barge: For constructing or purchasing, and equipping a small tender and barge for eighth lighthouse district, Texas and Louisiana, $20,000. lighthouse service. General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental 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; purchase and maintenance of one motor cycle for service in the Hawaiian Islands; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: Provided, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $200 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 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 t enders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons 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 of quarters where necessary for keepers oi 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, including per diem in lieu of subsistence allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; 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 expenses of the offices of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $2,790,000. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,070,000. 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, $375,000. coast and geodetic survey. 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 from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Provided, 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; 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: Provided, 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, $90,000; For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $225,000; 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, $11,720; 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 hydrographic examinations, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600; 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; determinations 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, $80,000; For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $10,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, 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 of the International Geodetic Association, $3,000; In all, field expenses, $425,320. 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, $56,000. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $285,000. Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; assistants, 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—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, five at $2,500 each, eight at $2,400 each (including one at $2,280 now paid from appropriation “offshore soundings”), nine at $2,200 each (including one at $2,100 now paid from appropriation “offshore soundings”), eight at $2,000 each, nine at $1,800 each (including one now paid from appropriation “offshore soundings”), nine at $1,600 each (including one now paid from appropriation “offshore soundings”), nine at $1,400 each (including one at $1,320 now paid from appropriation “offshore soundings”), ten at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $184,900. Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library 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; Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, 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, copyist draftsman, $1,000; Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One $2,500, two at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, five at $1,200; Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at $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; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers: One $2,400, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; Carpenters: Three at $1,200 each, carpenter and painter, $900; 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, two at $900 each, five at $700 each; 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; In all, pay of office force, $213,420. 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 electro typing 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, $62,500. 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. Charts of the Coast Survey that are obsolete and have been superseded by charts containing more advanced information based on the most recent surveys, may be distributed free to educational institutions, each of such charts to have stamped or printed conspicuously thereon the words “For school use only.” bureau of fisheries. 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, $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; four charwomen at $240 each; m all, $106,180. Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers, at $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. Employees at large: Two field station 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 coxwains, at $720 each; in all, $17,220. Distribution (car) employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six 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. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500;foreman, $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; in all, $2,100. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,080; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and director, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; engineer, $1,100; skilled laborer, $780; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,000. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; skilled laborer, $720; fireman, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three skilled laborers, at $720 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 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 laborers, at $600 each; in all, $12,600. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. 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 laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,500; to be employed not exceeding six months—engineer at the rate of $1,000 per annum, laboratory aid at $75 per month, fish-culturist at $75 per month, two laborers at $60 per month each; in all, $3,620. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all $4,320. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four laborers, at $600 each; repair and improvement of water supply, $2,000; in all, $7,760. Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine laborers, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Springville (Utah) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; to be employed not exceeding six months—fish-culturist at $75 per month, one apprentice fish-culturist at $60 per month; in all, $2,310. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria: Superintendent, $1,500; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; laborer, $600; mail, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; machinist, $960; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,460. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $16,000. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, 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. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of fish-cultural 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, $360,000. No part of the appropriations herein for propagation of food fishes 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 fish-cultural 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. 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, $80,000. 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, $42,000. 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. 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 provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000. 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, 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. 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 sixteen, and in accordance with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, $20,000. Distribution cars: For purchase or construction of two steel cars for the distribution of useful food fishes, $40,000. Lobster-rearing plant: For construction of a lobster-rearing plant to be operated in connection with the existing hatcheries on the New England coast, including equipment, $5,000. Marine biological station, Key West, Florida: For completion of the marine biological station on the Gulf of Mexico at a point in the State of Florida, including the construction of buildings, wharves, and other structures and work as may be necessary, $25,000. Alaska fisheries service: For purchase or construction of two motor launches for use in connection with the Alaska fisheries service, $10,000. Fur-seal islands, Alaska: For new buildings and furnishings to replace those worn out and insanitary, repair of old buildings, and all other necessary improvements at Pribilof Islands, $20,000. Fish-cultural station, Duluth, Minnesota: For improvement of the water supply, to be available until expended, $2,000. Fish-cultural station, Gloucester, Massachusetts: For construction of retaining basin for brood fish, $3,000. bureau of standards. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad 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. For construction of a fireproof laboratory building to provide additional 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, $50,000.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. immigration stations. Ellis Island, New York: For installation of tiled floor in main inspection hall, with structural work incident thereto, $17,000; For concrete walks, including filling and incidentals, on northerly side of basin, main island, $20,000; For pipe trench between main power house and baggage and dormitory building, $4,000; In all, $41,000. immigration service. For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into 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 section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved 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 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 seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; and including not exceeding $2,000 for operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: Provided, 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 prescribe: Provided further, That not more than $10,000 of the sum hereby appropriated may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles: Provided further, That no part of the sum hereby 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 twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States.” For refund to the North German Lloyd Steamship Line of amount overpaid for hospital treatment of Zofia Gwizdala at the Ellis Island immigration hospital prior to May first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $502. For refund to the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) of amount erroneously paid for maintenance of John and Carl Antila between October nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the Ellis Island immigration station, $63.75. For refund of overpayment for refrigeration services furnished during the period from August first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $75. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of George Johannes, special disbursing agent, Department of Labor, the sum of $12.90, representing the amount reimbursed by him to Ettore Girolami, engineer in the Immigration Service, for expenses for lodging and meals at San Diego, California, which were disallowed by the Auditor for the State and Other Departments. naturalization service. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of 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 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 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; 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 and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and sixty-five): Provided, That in no event shall the whole amount allowed the clerk of a court and his assistants from this appropriation or any similar appropriation made hereafter exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of said clerk from naturalization fees during the fiscal year immediately preceding: Provided further, That payment is authorized for the services rendered during the month of June, nineteen hundred and sixteen by clerical assistants originally authorized by the Secretary of Labor where the allowance for salaries exceeds the one-half of the naturalization fees of the court for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; and for mileage 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. standardization of first aid methods. 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 civilservice registers, and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $75 per month, $2,000.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Printing ascertainment of electors for President and Vice President: To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirements of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $2,000.

LEGISLATIVE. Senate: To pay Mrs. Laura J. Shively, widow of Honorable Beniamin F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana, $7,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the first session of the Sixty-fourth 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 persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Conveying votes of electors for President and Vice President: For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of 25 cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for one distance only, $14,000. Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $9,000. 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 seventeen. 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. 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. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, $3,500. 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. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $45,712. Capitol power plant: For fighting 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, $90,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $82,924. 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 control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved 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. The Washington Terminal Railroad Company is required to place Garfield Park siding, leading to the Capitol power plant, where it crosses Virginia Avenue, in safe condition, both for vehicles and foot passengers crossing the same, and for failure to so do within ninety days after the passage of this Act said company shall be liable to a penalty of $10 for each day that said siding at said point remains in unsafe condition for the passage of vehicles and foot passengers, to be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the United States. The sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to enable the Superintendent of the Capitol, in case the Washington Terminal Railroad Company does not place the siding hereinabove referred to in safe condition for the purposes above mentioned within ninety days after the passage of this Act, to place said siding in safe condition as above described, and to collect in the name of the United States and on its behalf any sum of money so expended from the Washington Terminal Railroad Company by proper proceedings. Public Buildings Commission: With a view to ultimately providing permanent quarters for all the governmental activities in the District of Columbia in buildings owned by the Government, a commission is created to be composed of the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, all of whom shall serve thereon only so long as they are members of Congress, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the Supervising Architect or the Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury during any vacancy in said office. The said commission shall elect one of its members as chairman of the commission and is authorized to employ such expert clerical or other services as it may deem necessary, and shall avail itself of the advice of the Commission of Fine Arts. The said commission shall investigate and ascertain what public buildings are needed in the District of Columbia to provide suitable and adequate accommodations, with allowances for future expansion, for all of the offices, establishments, and public services of the Government in the District of Columbia, the proper location of such buildings, the probable cost thereof, and the probable cost of such new sites as they may deem it necessary for the Government to acquire. Any vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments were made. For expenses of said commission, $10,000, to remain available until expended and to be paid out on vouchers signed by the chairman of said commission. Said commission shall make final report to Congress not later than January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. public printing and binding. Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, $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; messengers—two 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. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; clerks—two of class one, one $840; chemist, $1,600; one messenger; in all, $10,180. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; and sixty-four watchmen; in all, $49,080. 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, $180,000. 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, $380,000. For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing 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 oi 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 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 $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 recive 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, $4,450,000. In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the lastnamed sum, $5,199,720; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $1,330,520. 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, 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. For the State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, $405,000. For the War Department, $225,000: Provided, 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. Section thirteen of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, which authorizes the payment for printing of matter relating to river and harbor works from river and harbor appropriations, is repealed, and hereafter such printing shall be done and paid for out of regular annual appropriations for printing and binding for the War Department. For the Navy Department, $157,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office, and not exceeding $12,000 for special printing and binding. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $300,000. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $575,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $175,000. For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the 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. For the Department of Justice, $35,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000 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 of the joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $177,500 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. For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000. For the Department of Labor, $150,000. For the Federal Trade Commission, $25,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $150,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000. That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby 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. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be 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 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. 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. 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. office of superintendent of documents. 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; cataloguers—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; shipper in charge, $1,400; 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; ten unskilled 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, $178,395. 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. THE PANAMA CANAL. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the construction, maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the 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, text books 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 and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for 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, 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 agreement between the claimants and the Governor of the Panama Canal or allowed by a joint land commission; 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 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 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: For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama Canal, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; equipping of colliers Ulysses and Achilles with self-discharging equipment at not exceeding $125,000 each and not exceeding $50,000 for covering certain unprotected surfaces of said colliers with bitumastic enamel; toward construction by contract or in navy yards complete in every detail, including self-discharging equipment and all other necessary apparatus, of two colliers at a total cost not exceeding $1,300,000 each under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor; also toward construction of one dock at Cristobal (numbered six) at a total cost not exceeding $1,500,000 under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor, $9,750,000. No part of this sum or of any unexpended balance of appropriations for construction and equipment of the Panama Canal shall be expended for construction or establishment of new quarantine stations. For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the 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, $5,750,000, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act. 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, $700,000. 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, $600,000. In all, $16,800,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: Provided, 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, exclusive of fortifications, colliers, dock six at Cristobal, and reb offering of steamships “Ancon” and “Cristobal,” which steamships shall not be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy, as provided in the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and exclusive of the fair value of the American legation building in Panama, as approved by the Secretary of War and Secretary of State, which building is authorized to be transferred without charge to the jurisdiction of the 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 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. Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforeseen 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, 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 seventeen 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 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 fifteen; 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 seventeen. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, 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 by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable material, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, 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. 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 seventeen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. fortifications, panama canal. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely: For maintenance of clearings and trails, $30,000. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $15,000. For maintenance and repair of search lights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $7,500. For the construction of seacoast batteries, $400,000; For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories on the Canal Zone, $47,000. For purchase of submarine mines and the necessary appliances to operate them for closing channels leading to the Panama Canal, $240,000. For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $2,500; For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $5,000. 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, $120,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purpose above mentioned not to exceed $180,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,600,000. 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, $68,000. For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the mobile army and Coast Artillery troops to be 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, $2,000,000; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,535,000. Provided, 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 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.

Approved, July 1, 1916.