Clothing. Navy Department. Hydrographic Office. Payment of equipment for storage of charts. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500; Clothing for all branches: For clothing for all branches, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000; In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $248,500. NAVY DEPARTMENT. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE. The appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, berdi. 39, pp. 95, 1099. Hydrographic Office, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and nineteen hundred and eighteen are made available for the purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications, and the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is made available for the payment of whatever outstanding contracts there may be for such equipment. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Allowance for technical services increased. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. The limitations specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Vol. 39, pp. 97, 1101. appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen on expenditures for skilled draftsmen and other technical services from appropriations and allotments under the Bureau of Yards and Docks are increased by the sums of $70,000 and $75,000, respectively. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES. For the payment of the claim adjusted and settled in accordance with naval appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), and certified to Congress during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Two thousand one hundred and four, $128.18. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. PAY, MISCELLANEOUS. For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $124,180.73. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Bureau of Ordnance. nance stores. Allowance for chemists, etc., increased. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including the same objects Ordnance and ordspecified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $315,000; and the limitation specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation "Ord- Vol. 39, p. 563. nance and ordnance stores" for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines is increased by the sum of $25,000. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $432,000. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance. Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs Repairs, etc. and preservation at navy yards and stations, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $314,000. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Surgeons' necessa Transporting re mains. Medical Department: For surgeons' necessaries for vessels in com-ries, etc. mission, navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $7,011.91. Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $686.28. Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For contingent, Contingent. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: For pay of the Navy, including the same objects Pay. specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,621,475.04. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $624,861.25. Provisions. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitation, Allowance for chemists, etc., increased. specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen Vol. 39, p. 604. hundred and seventeen, on expenditures from the appropriation "Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts," for pay of chemists and clerical, inspection, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the general storehouses, paymasters' offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices, is increased by the sum of $50,000. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $264,908.37. Freight. Fuel and transportation: For fuel and transportation, including Fuel, etc. the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $934,059.40. General account of advances. Reimbursement. Pay, miscellaneous. Bureau of Yards and Medical Department. Coal, etc. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and re pair. Bureau of Steam En gineering. Engineering. Vol. 39, p. 605. ance increased. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF ADVANCES. To reimburse "General account of advances" created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the "General account" on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen, and nineteen hundred and sixteen amounts as follows: Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,871.99; Naval training station, Rhode Island, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $81.31; Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $28.46; Medical Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $420.70; Coal and transportation, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,327.38; BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. Construction and repair of vessels: For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,715,000. BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. Engineering: For engineering, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year Clerical, etc., allow- nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,668,840; and the limitation specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation "Engineering" for pay of clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material, is increased by the sum of $56,210. NAVAL ACADEMY. Current and miscellaneous expenses: For current and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,200. MARINE CORPS. For pay, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $70,000. For clothing, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $676,318. Contingent: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Interior Department. Public buildings. Capitol. Capitol Building: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs Repairs, etc. thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,800. Senate elevators. Reappropriation. For overhauling the elevator machinery in the Senate wing of the Capitol and installation of new control boards, fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,360, and the $3,000 appropriated for said purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For labor and material for the protection of the Capitol Building buildings and grounds. and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies and for each and every item incident thereto, $23,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Protection, etc., of New Department Interior Department Building (new): Assistant superintendent, office building. $2,000; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers-twenty-seven at $660 each, seventeen at $600 each, fourteen at $540 each, one $480; six female laborers at $400 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; general machinist, $1,500; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians' helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers' helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; eighteen watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $83,640 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building, $152,545.75; Contingent expenses. Equipment, furni Expenses of removal For labor, equipment, and materials required for the laboratories ture, etc. of the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines; for steel and wood filing furniture, including bookcase sections, transfer storage boxes, and card index sections; for special steel and wood furniture, including map cases, specimen cases, and drafting tables; for office furniture, including desks, chairs, tables, wardrobes, rugs, mirrors, and clocks; and for such other furniture and furnishings as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the use and accommodation of the several bureaus and offices in the building, $100,000; For every expenditure, including personal services of mechanics and from old locations, etc. laborers, requisite for and incident to the removal of the furniture, equipment, effects, the taking down, removal, and fixing in place of printing, lithographic, and other presses, photographic and laboratory equipment, and other machinery of all kinds, of the various bureaus. and offices of the Interior Department, Washington, District of Columbia, from their present locations to the new Interior Department offices, including readjustment of files and records of the Patent Office, Pension Office, and Bureau of Education, $40,500; Continued available, In all, $293,045.75, to continue available during the fiscal year 1918. nineteen hundred and eighteen. Additional furniture, Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to expend such etc., from present apadditional sums, not exceeding $50,000, as in his judgment may be propriations. necessary for the purchase of furniture and laboratory equipment that may be required by the Geological Survey, Bureau of Mines, General Land Office, Office of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service, in the new Interior Department Building in Washington, District of Columbia, the cost of these purchases to be paid from appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows: Designation of funds. Geological Survey: For topographic surveys, for geologic surveys, for investigation of mineral resources of Alaska, for chemical and physical researches, for preparation of illustrations, for preparation of report on mineral resources, for gauging streams, for purchase of necessary books for the library, for engraving and printing geologic maps, and for topographic surveys of national forests. Bureau of Mines: General expenses, for investigating mine accidents, for testing fuel, for mineral mining investigations, for investigations of petroleum and natural gas, for purchase, equipment, and operating of mine rescue cars, for expenses mining experiment stations. Office of Indian Affairs: Surveying and allotting Indian reservations, and for irrigation, Indian reservations. General Land Office: Surveying the public lands, for depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and so forth, for contingent expenses of land offices. Land Office Building. General Land Office Building: For dismantling and rebuilding Shelving for patents. wooden shelving for the storage of patents, including necessary labor and material, $5,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Courthouse, D. C. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount to provide temporary quarters by rental or otherwise for the courts, judges, and officials connected therewith, and for other offices, officials, and employees of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, pending the reconstruction of the said courthouse, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, Half from District 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. revenues. Court of Claims Court of Claims Building: For labor, materials, furniture, and for general repairs, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including offices in the field service under the General Land Office and the Office of Indian Affairs, $40,150. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Of the unexpended balance of the current appropriation of $700,000 for surveying the public lands there is made available to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, not to exceed the sum of $12,500 for the hire of clerks to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors general's offices upon returns of surveys filed therein, and not to exceed the further sum of $10,000 for the salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office. The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $2,055.67, authorized in the deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the completion during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), is made |