rates of $7,500 and $12,000 per annum to such commissioners as were in office on June 5, 1920, if otherwise entitled thereto. Not to exceed $3,750 of the unexpended balance of the appropria- For 1921. tion for salaries of commissioners for the fiscal year 1921 is made available for the payment of difference in compensation between the rates of $7,500 and $12,000 per annum to such commissioners as were in office June 5, 1920, if otherwise entitled thereto. Board created under Vol. 41, pp. 891, 990. William S. Benson. Not to exceed $10,500 of the unexpended balance of the appropri- Merchant Marine Act. ation for salaries of commissioners for the fiscal year 1921 is made available for the payment of compensation to the entire board of seven members created under the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, at the rate of $12,000 per annum, and also for the compensation of William S. Benson, as agent of the President, at the rate of $12,000 per annum, from March 4, 1921, to the date of the termination of his services as such agent. Salaries of commis Not to exceed $17,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropri- sioners not confirmed ation for salaries of commissioners for the fiscal year 1921 is made by the Senate. available, and in addition thereto the sum of $3,633.33 is appropriated, for payment of salaries of the following commissioners at the rate of $12,000 per annum for the period while acting as such commissioners, notwithstanding their nominations were not confirmed by the Senate: William S. Benson, Frederick I. Thompson, John A. Donald, Joseph N. Teal, Guy D. Goff, Charles Sutter, Chester H. Rowell. EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND. Emergency shipping fund. Construction of ves Proviso. Toward the completion of vessels now under construction, $36,- sels. 852,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for any authorized expenditure of the United States Shipping Board Emer- expenses. gency Fleet Corporation in an amount not to exceed the sums expended by such corporation from April 1, 1921, to the date of the approval of this Act on account of vessels under construction during that period. For the completion of vessels now under construction, fiscal year 1922, $25,000,000. Completing vessels. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. Foreign intercourse. Relief and protecRELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN: For the relief tion of American seaand protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the men. Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $100,000. Contingent Expenses, Foreign Missions: The Secretary of State is authorized to make payment of rent for dispatch agencies in the United States from the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, foreign missions," made by the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1921, notwithstanding the provision of section 2 of such Act. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $92,000. Dispatch agents. Rent allowed. Vol. 41, p. 1217. Contingent ses, missions. expen Treasury Depart ment. Office of Secretary. Additional officers, etc., for 1922. Division of Deposits. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. 1922. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. For the salaries of officers and employees during the fiscal year 1922 at annual rates as follows (now being paid from the appropriation "Expenses of Loans"): Commissioner of the Public Debt, $6,000; Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, $6,000; Division of Deposits: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks-one $2,250, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $16,610. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: For the force to be transTransferred force, ferred to this division on account of the transfer of duties from the Division of Public Moneys, at annual rates of compensation during the fiscal year 1922, as follows: Assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; two messengers, at $840 each; assistant messenger, $720; in all, $24,300. Expenses under For expenses incident to the discharge of the duties imposed upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the Transportation Act, 1920, and the Federal Control Act, approved March 21, 1918, as amended, Vol. 40, pp. 35, 289, and for expenses arising in connection with loans and credits to 504, 841, 1312. Vol. 41, p. 548. Expenses of loans. avail Appropriation avag by Commissioner of Office Department. Vol. 40, p. 1035. Public debt issues after June 30, 1921. Expenses of, to be Liberty Bond Acts. Vol. 40, pp. 37, 292. foreign Governments under the Liberty Loan Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act and in connection with credits granted or conditions entered into under the Act providing for the relief of populations in Europe and contiguous countries, including personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1922, $25,000. The appropriation for "Expenses of loans," contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year stamps, etc., expenses 1922, is hereby made available for expenditures in the Office of the Public Debt, and Post Commissioner of the Public Debt and for expenditures in the Post Office Department in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of war savings and thrift stamps, as provided in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved November 4, 1918. The paid as authorized, in appropriation for "Expenses of loans" contained in section 8 of the First Liberty Bond Act and in section 10 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, is hereby made applicable to any operations arising in connection with any public debt issues made subsequently to June 30, 1921, pursuant to the authority contained in the First Liberty Bond Act or the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended and supplemented, the provisions of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 29, 1920, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That with respect to operations on account of any such issue hereafter made such appropriations shall be available only until the close of the fiscal year next following the fiscal year in which such issue was made. Vol. 41, p. 646. Proviso. Comptroller of the Currency. Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency. Additional employ. ees, 1922. OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY. For expenses of Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks): For additional employees during the fiscal year 1922 at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerk counters-three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; seven counters at $1,000 each; in all, $14,800. INTERNAL REVENUE. Internal revenue. Relief of estate of. For the purchase, at not more than par and accrued interest, of Joseph Matthews. second Liberty loan 4 per cent bonds, to the face value of $1,000, and for the payment of an amount of interest equivalent to the interest on $1,000 face amount of such bonds from November 15, 1917, to the interest-payment date next preceding the delivery of such bonds, for the relief of the estate of Joseph Matthews, of Solvay, New York, $1,050, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National Prohibition Act" and the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,' approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the "Revenue Act of 1918," including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $200,000. BUREAU OF WAR RISK INSURANCE. Enforcing National Prohibition and Nar- Vol. 41, p. 305. 40, p. War Risk Insurance Bureau. Field expenses. Salaries: Not to exceed $75,000 of the appropriation for stationery and minor office supplies, fiscal year 1921," is made available to, fiscal year 1921. for "salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and expenses of not more than eight temporary branch offices" during such fiscal year. Pay restriction, 1922, amended." Modification of al The third proviso of the paragraph making appropriations for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, as contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Provided further, That no lowances. person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at not exceeding Numberincreased. $7,500 each, nine at not exceeding $5,000 each, twenty-eight at not exceeding $4,500 each, thirty-six at not exceeding $4,000 each, forty-two at not exceeding $3,500 each, forty-nine at not exceeding $3,000 each, sixty-eight at not exceeding $2,500 each, and two hundred and fifteen at not exceeding $2,000 each." Medical and hos Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, and hospital pital services for benservices, medical examinations, funeral expenses, traveling expenses, eficiaries. and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $8,710, 272. Hospital facilities for Restriction on ing, etc., plants, reP1, p. 1365. ex-soldiers, etc. amount for remodel Vol. Allotments to Volun Hospital Facilities: The following provision contained in the last paragraph of the Act entitled "An Act providing additional hospital facilities for patients of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Division of Rehabilitation, and for other purposes," approved March 4, 1921, to wit, "of which sum not to exceed $6,100,000 shall be used for remodeling or extending existing plants," is hereby repealed. The total amount appropriated by the said Act shall be available for the purposes specified in the said Act and allotments may be made from said teer Soldiers' Home. amount at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to be transferred to its credit and disbursed by it under the approval and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purposes of the said Act: Provided, That the surplus property not required by the War Department mentioned in said Act and any transferred. suitable surplus property of the Navy Department not required for its use shall be transferred for use in constructing, equipping, and supplying any of such hospitals. Proviso. Public buildings. New York, N. Y. Baltimore, Md. Boston, Mass. General expenses. Amount for trans increased. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. New York, New York, Quarantine Station: For improvements, including the water supply system, power plant, and additional barracks, $500,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. Baltimore, Maryland, Quarantine Station: For improvements, including rebuilding of wharves, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922, $25,000. Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station: For improvements, including additional barracks, $150,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922. General expenses: The limitation upon the amount which may be porting supplies, etc., expended from the appropriation "General expenses of public buildings, fiscal year 1921," for transporting drawings, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, is increased from $10,000 to $20,000. Vol. 41, p. 977. Operating force. Furniture, etc. Birmingham, Ala. Columbia, S. C. Honolulu, Hawaii. Billings, Mont. Operating supplies. Public Health Service. Prevention of epidemics. Proviso. Detailed report. Quarantine stations. Fees to be promulgated. Proviso. Restriction. 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, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $35,000. 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, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $30,000. Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse (new): furniture, $55,000. : For Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For furniture, $23,000. Honolulu, Hawaii, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For furniture, $65,000. Billings, Montana, Federal building: For furnishings for court room and chambers for judge, clerk, marshal, attorney, and jury, $3,200. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $550,000. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. 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, trachoma, influenza, or infantile paralysis, 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, $309,000: Provided, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress. On and after July 1, 1921, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to promulgate such a schedule of fees to be charged vessels at each of the national quarantine stations as will be fair and reasonable for the services rendered by each station: Provided, That this authority shall not be applicable to any quarantine station where the fees are now fixed by law. DIVISION OF LOANS AND CURRENCY. Loans and Currency Division. Distinctive paper. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For additional amount necessary to complete the purchase of one hundred and for. thirty-six million sheets of distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $56,708.13. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. Engraving and printing. Number of sheets for Vol.41, p. 880, amend The limitation for the fiscal year 1921 as to the number of delivered currency, etc., notes, sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal 1921, increased. reserve currency is increased from one hundred and twenty-three ed. million two hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred and thirtysix million. COAST GUARD. Coast Guard. Transfer of allotment Vol. 41, p. 879. Not to exceed $20,000 of the amount appropriated for the fiscal tocontingent expenses. year 1921 under the subhead "Rations" is transferred and made available for expenditure during that fiscal year under the subhead "Contingent expenses. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For purchase of file holders and file cases for use of the Coast File holders, etc. Guard and the accounting bureaus of the department, $2,500. WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. Chickamauga and boulevard on. Ridge Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: For cost Chattanooga Park. of examination and preparation of report upon the improvement and maintenance of the Government boulevard on Missionary Ridge, in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, as directed in an Act approved February 2, 1921, $500. SHILOH NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: For continuing the establish- Establishing. ment of the park, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $3,000. Barracks and Quarters, Insular Possessions: The unobligated balance of the appropriation for continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery and for temporary cantonments for overseas garrisons in the Philippine Islands, contained in the Fortification Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, is continued and made available for the same purposes until June 30, 1922. Vol. 41, p. 1095. Barracks and quar- Philippine Islands. Engineer Depart Pittsburgh Plate Engineer Department: The sum of $110,000 of the unexpended ment. amount of the appropriation "Engineer operations in the field, Glass Company. 1919," shall remain upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation until June 30, 1922, to permit payments to be made to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company for searchlight mirrors under its contract therefor dated July 30, 1918. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $7,500. |