QUARANTINE STATIONS Quarantine stations. Boston, Massachusetts, Quarantine Station: For repairs to wharf, roofs, and so forth, $8,000. Boston, Mass. Charleston, South Carolina, Quarantine Station: For improving Charleston, S. C. existing facilities, $3,000. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Quarantine Station: For additional wharf facilities, installation of new boiler, and miscellaneous mate rials for repairs, $18,500. Marcus Hook, Pa. Mobile, Alabama, Quarantine Station: For completion, $100,000. Mobile, Ala. existing facilities, $2,000. New York, New York, Quarantine Station: For improving New York, N. Y. existing facilities, $7,540. Port Townsend, Washington, Quarantine Station: For improv-Port Townsend ing existing facilities, $2,500. The foregoing work under marine hospitals and quarantine stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Work under Supervising Architect. etc. Repairs, equipment, Repairs and preserva PUBLIC BUILDINGS, REPAIRS, EQUIPMENT, AND GENERAL EXPENSES Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all tion. 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; 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 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: Provided, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $115,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of quarantinestations, etc. marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and not ment buildings. exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors' Buildings in the 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, $930,000. Provisos. Treasury Depart Personal services restriction. Mechanical equip ment. etc. 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, hoist- teating, lighting, ing, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatictube 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 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: Provided, Provisos. quarantine stations, etc. ment buildings. Pneumatic-tube serv Marine hospitals, That of the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $100,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the TreasTreasury Depart- ury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors' Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors' Building, and not exceedvice, New York City. ing $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 necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, Personal services re- 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, $521,700. 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, $100,000. striction. Vaults, safes, locks. and General expenses. tendence, etc. hold goods of superintendents, etc. etc. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For salaries of architectural and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $428,960; expenses Expenses of superin- 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 Transporting house- the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total Office rent, supplies, expenditure of $4,500; 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; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, superintendent's furniture and supplies, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually payable from other appropriations: Provided, That no expendiTransporting operat- tures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, New York, for which payment may be made in advance; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photoOther contingencies. graphic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental Proviso. ing supplies. Salamanca, N. Y. 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 Objects excluded. 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, $521,960, of which amount not to exceed $226,860 may be expended trict. for personal services in the District of Columbia. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, OPERATING EXPENSES Services in the Dis Operating expenses. Operating force. Personal services, as sistant custodians, etc. Pay 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 (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, $6,500,000: Provided, That the foregoing Buildings for which appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public available. buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the 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. Proviso. Furniture, etc. Buildings excluded. Personal services re 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 and repairs of same 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 extension 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 fore- Provisos. going appropriation shall not be used for personal services except striction. 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: Provided further, That all furniture now owned by the niture. United States in 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. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating Fuel, light, power, purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Use of present fur Operating supplies. water, etc. Gas governors. Provisos. Rental therefor. Advance fuel tracts authorized. etc. con Custody of lands, p. 739. Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings 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, and for the transportation of articles or supplies authorized herein (including the customhouse in the 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), $3,011,500. 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 35 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: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property R.B., secs. 3749, 3750, of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers' fees in connection therewith, $50. Miscellaneous. Printing House for the Blind. Expense. Post Office Department appropriations. Vol. 5. p. 80. Department ex penses. Office of Postmaster General. Postmaster General, and office personnel. Department build ings. Personal services, operating force. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND t To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $40,000. TITLE II.-POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, namely: POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT; WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with "The Classification Act of 1923," $187,840; in all, $202,840. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with "The Classification Act of 1923," for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the Mail Equipment Shops Building, $225,632. SALARIES IN BUREAUS AND OFFICES For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with "The Classification Act of 1923," in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $406,320. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $33,300. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Department bureaus and offices. Allotments for personal services. Department contin gent expenses. For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, Stationery, etc. and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000. etc. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, Heating, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $53,000. For telegraphing, $6,500. lighting, Telegraphing. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other laborsaving devices; not to exceed $3,000 for purchase, exchange, hire, Vehicles, etc. and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 43 of the Stockholm convention of the Universal Postal Union, $52,000, of which sum not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $500 may be expended for actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department. For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,000. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,124,620. Furniture. ing. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or Capitol Reimbursing for heating, etc., WashingPower Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric ton City post office current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Build- building. ing at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $47,000. Field service appro Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of the Post priations not to be used Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be for the Department. expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: Provided, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and Provise. employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when expenses of officials traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appro- tions. priations for the service in connection with which the travel is Payment of traveling from service appropria |