to ninety-nine million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six, and the limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from two million four hundred and fifty thousand to two million six hundred and fifty thousand. For engravers' and printers' materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internalrevenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Vol. 39, p. 275. Materials, etc. Further use of power war authorized. Vol. 37, p. 430. Proviso. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, during the presses during present continuance of the war with Germany, to have all bonds, notes, checks, or other printed papers, now or hereafter authorized to be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, printed in such manner and by whatever process and on any style of presses that he may consider suitable for the issue of such securities and other papers in the form that will properly safeguard the interests of the Government, except that such presses as are used in printing from intaglio plates shall be operated by plate printers: Provided, That in the execution of such work only such Limited to retention part of it shall be transferred from the present method of executing of plate printers. it as will permit of the retention in the service of such permanent plate printers as are now engaged in the execution of such work, or such temporary plate printers, similarly employed and who can qualify under civil-service regulations for permanent appointment, and all Acts or parts of Acts heretofore enacted relative to the use of stripension power and hand presses in the printing of securities of the Government and power presses. are hereby suspended and declared to be not in effect during the continuance of said war, and at the termination of the war such Acts or parts of Acts shall be in effect and force as heretofore. re of as to hand Vol. 37, p. 430. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. ice. Public Health Serv. geons. For additional amount for pay of acting assistant surgeons (non-Acting assistant surcommissioned medical officers), $100,000. 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, $300,000. QUARANTINE SERVICE. Boston Quarantine Station: For six barracks buildings, two mess halls, hospital building, officers' quarters, attendants' quarters, heating and plumbing, lighting, sewage, drainage, and water works, $113,000; boarding and disinfecting vessel, $40,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment and disinfecting equipment, $34,800; in all, $187,800. Interstate tine service. quaran Quarantine stations. Boston. Cape Charles. Cape Charles Quarantine Station: For seven barracks buildings, New buildings, etc. three mess halls, officer's quarters, remodeling building for attendants, heating plant and plumbing, lighting plant and equipment, disinfection building and equipment, laundry building and equipment, sewage, drainage, and approach work, hospital building and equipment, $143,500; disinfecting and boarding vessel, $40,000; míscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $42,326; in all, $225,826. Reedy Island. Reedy Island Quarantine Station: For attendants' quarters, Quarters, etc. officers' quarters, and laundry and equipment, $25,000; miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $7,000; in all, $32,000. Savannah. New buildings, etc. Supervision of construction. Mints and assay offices. New Orleans, La. District of Columbia. Public Utilities Commission. Contingent expenses. Central garage. Coroner's expenses. Advertising. Car tickets. cular pupils. Savannah Quarantine Station: For four barracks buildings, two mess halls, hospital building, attendants' quarters, heating and plumbing, lighting, sewage and water, laundry and equipment, $79,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $19,644; in all, $98,644. The foregoing construction work under "Quarantine stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MINT: For wages of workmen and other employees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $630. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION: For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $352.03. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES: For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number tags for horsedrawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $5,500. For tools and equipment, lighting fixtures, conduits, heating apparatus, and paving driveway for the central garage, $3,000. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner's office and the morgue, jurors' fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $715. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000. The limitation upon the amount that may be expended for car Allowance for tuber- tickets during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is increased by such sum as it may be necessary to expend for that purpose from the appropriation for "transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children." Calvert Street Bridge. Benning Road Viaduct. Vol. 38, p. 1141. Highway Bridge. Playgrounds. New swimming p. 691. Bridges: The appropriation for preparation of plans for construction of a bridge to take the place of the existing Calvert Street Bridge crossing Rock Creek, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Benning Road Viaduct and Bridge: For an additional amount for the objects set forth in the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for constructing a suitable viaduct and bridge to carry Benning Road over the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, $50,000. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $4,000. PLAYGROUNDS: For the construction of two swimming pools, Vol. 30, png pools. shower baths, appurtenances, and equipment, on sites to be selected by the commissioners, the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen with the additional sum of $5,000. Public Schools: For additional amount for installing heating and ventilating plant in the Elizabeth V. Brown (Chevy Chase) School, $15,000. Chevy Chase School. Health department. Vol. 39, p. 1031. Health department: The appropriation of $4,000 for repairs and alterations to the building formerly occupied as an emergency hospital for laboratory. is made available for repairs and alterations to such public building as the commissioners may be able to secure for use as a laboratory. Municipal court: For contingent expenses including books, law Municipal court. books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $150. Washington Asylum and Jail: For payments to destitute women and children, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $375.50. Abandoned families. Auto Livery Comand Federal Refund to. Refunding taxes: Authority is granted to pay out of the appropri- pany ation, "Refunding Taxes, District of Columbia," the sum of $69.58 to Taxicab Company. the Auto Livery Company and the sum of $44.64 to the Federal Taxicab Company for overpaid personal taxes. Judgments. Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and sixty-two and Three hundred and forty-two of this session, $18,097.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. Half from One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in appro- revenues. priations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Washington Aque Maintenance, etc. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT: For operation, including salaries of all duct. necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of Washington Aque- From water revenues. duct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the Filtration Plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $64,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the water department. WAR DEPARTMENT. TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES. War Department. Additional tempo Provisos. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks rary clerks, etc. and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,261,232: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the Detailed statement first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each: Provided further, That not more than thirty persons shall be employed hereun- compensations. der at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding ma to be submitted. Limitation on higher Contingentexpenses. Stationery. Armories and arsenals. Benicia, Cal. Frankford, Pa. chines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by Adjutant General's Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building and other buildings; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons, motor trucks, and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $400,000. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $300,000. a per ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. BENICIA ARSENAL, CALIFORNIA: For an addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse, $16,000; For two storehouses, $60,000; For a garage for motor trucks and automobile messenger wagon, $5,000; For an additional amount for an oil storehouse, $1,500; FRANKFORD ARSENAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: For additional amount for a primer shop and planning room, $35,000; For additional amount for a combination wall and picket fence' along the north side and a picket fence along the east and south sides for the arsenal reservation, $12,000; For additional amount for the construction and repair of roads, including railroad siding, $20,000; For additional amount for extension of high-explosive loading shop, $4,000; For additional amount for paint shop, $10,000; For additional amount for artillery firing range, including an explosion chamber, $25,000; For additional amount for small-arms firing range, including a Fire protection facili- proof house and target, $35,000; ties. Reappropriation. Picatinny, N. J. Proving ground. Buildings, equipment, land, etc. The appropriation of $24,000 for increasing facilities for fire protection, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; For a sea wall along the Delaware River, $36,000; For enlargement of instrument department building and construction of a shrapnel shop, $292,000; For a general storehouse, $260,000; For increasing facilities for assembling artillery ammunition, $150,000; For increasing facilities for the manufacture of small-arms ammunition, $205,000; For a target range, $15,000; For an addition to the fuse-shop building, $30,000; PICATINNY ARSENAL, DOVER, NEW JERSEY: For buildings for assembling powder charges, including an igniter building, a storehouse for completed cartridge bags, an office building, covered passageway connecting the same, heating plant, and toilets, $40,000. PROVING GROUND: For increasing facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms, and cor Condemnation of porations, resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose, and also the salaries and expenses of any agents appointed to assist in the procurement of said land or damages resulting from its taking, Provisos. $7,000,000: Provided, That if the land and appurtenances and im- land authorized. provements attached thereto, as contemplated under the foregoing appropriation, can not be procured by purchase, then the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be used for the carrying out of the purpose named in the aforesaid appropriation. That if said land and appurte- Compensation. nances and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, unsatisfactory. such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136. therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code. Upon the taking over of said property by the President as diately. aforesaid the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States: Provided further, That section three hun- plicable. dred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditures authorized hereunder. ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, ILLINOIS: For additional amount for increasing facilities for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, $1,295,200; For improving the water power plant, $175,000; For enlargement of office building, $150,000; For additional amount for a plant for the manufacture of rifle and hand grenades, including necessary buildings, $75,000; For a synchronous motor for the armory shop, $15,000; For lighting facilities for shops, $30,000; For increasing facilities for woodworking and for manufacturing equipments, $300,000; For a building for storing lumber, $25,000; For a railroad crane, $5,000; For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $90,000; For enlargement and repair of the filtration plant, $20,000; In all, $2,180,200. Suit, etc., if amount Title to vest imme Restriction not ap R. S., sec. 355, p. 60. Rock Island, Ill. SAN ANTONIO ARSENAL, TEXAS: For increasing railroad transporta- San Antonio, Tex. tion facilities, $9,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $21,000; In all, $30,000. SPRINGFIELD ARSENAL, MASSACHUSETTS: For the installation of a Springfield, Mass. plant for the generation and distribution of electric power at the water shops, $90,000; For the installation of a modern lighting system in shops, $25,000; For a physical and chemical laboratory, including buildings, $30,000; In all, $145,000. Post, p. 427. Proviso. TERMINAL FACILITIES: For terminal storage and shipping buildings Terminal facilities. and other facilities, including rentals and purchase of land, $10,000,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations authorized. for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $5,000,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made. |