Travel, etc. Appropriation from ficiency in postal reve For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient the Prout for f to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum service to supply deequal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby nues. appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. ployees in executive SEC. 2. Those civilian positions in the field services under the Civilian field emseveral executive departments and independent establishments, the departments to be paid compensation of which was fixed or limited by law but adjusted for adjusted compensation. the fiscal year 1925 under the authority and appropriations contained in the Act entitled "An Act making additional appropria- Vol. 43, p. 704. tions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services," approved December 6, 1924, may be paid under the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1927 at rates not in excess of those permitted for them under the provisions of such Act of December 6, 1924. ence, etc., to be fur partments, etc., in field service. Appropriations avail able. SEC. 3. The head of an executive department or independent Quarters, subsistestablishment, where, in his judgment, conditions of employment nished civilians of derequire it, may continue to furnish civilians employed in the field service with quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and laundry service; and appropriations for the fiscal year 1927 of the character heretofore used for such purposes are hereby made available therefor: Provided, That the reasonable value of such allowances shall be determined and considered as part of the com- part of compensation. pensation in fixing the salary rate of such civilians. Approved, March 2, 1926. CHAP. 44.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes. Proviso. March 3, 1926. [H. R. 8722.] [Public, No. 36.] First Deficiency Act, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 1926. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1926, and June 30, 1927, and for other purposes, namely: LEGISLATIVE Legislative. Salaries: For compensation of Senators, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $75,000; For 1926, $240,000. For compensation of the Vice President, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $975; For 1926, $3,275. 43892°-27-11 Senators. Compensation, 1925, 1926. Vice President. Compensation, 1925, 1926. Folding. Balance priated. reappro Vol. 43, p. 581. Financial Clerk, deemed successor to officer in event of death, etc. To pay Ruth Hanna McCormick, widow of Honorable Medill To pay to Belle Case La Follette, widow of Honorable Robert M. For payment to Jennie C. Ralston, widow of Honorable Samuel To pay to Rizpah S. Ladd, widow of Honorable Edwin F. Ladd, late a Senator from the State of North Dakota, $10,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1926, $125,000: Provided, That hereafter Senate resolutions providing for inquiries and investigations shall contain a limit of cost of such investigation, which limit shall not be exceeded except by vote of the Senate authorizing additional amounts. For the purchase and exchange of an automobile for the Vice President, fiscal year 1926, $5,135.75. For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate, fiscal year 1926, $2,500. 66 The unexpended balance of the appropriation Contingent Expenses, Senate, Folding Documents, 1925," is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926. Hereafter, in the event of the death, resignation, or disability of the Secretary as disbursing Secretary of the Senate, the Financial Clerk of the Senate shall be deemed his successor as a disbursing officer, under his bond as Financial Clerk, and he shall serve as such disbursing officer until the end of the quarterly period during which a new Secretary shall have been elected and qualified, or such disability shall have been ended. operators. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES To pay the widow of George B. Churchill, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, $10,000. To pay the widow of Arthur B. Williams, late a Representative from the State of Michigan, $10,000. To pay the widow of John Jacob Rogers, late a Representative from the State of Massachusetts, at the rate of $10,000 per annum from the date of his death to the date of her election as a Representative in Congress, $2,527.78. The foregoing appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Salaries: For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1925, $367,833.33; For 1926, $1,103,000. Additional telephone For compensation of three additional telephone operators at the rate of $100 per month each from April 1 to June 30, 1926, inclusive, $900. Substitute telephone operator. Miscellaneous items. For pay of substitute telephone operator, fiscal year 1926, $623.70. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Appropriation Additional reappro- Act for the fiscal year 1925, $13,856.10, and in addition thereto the sum of $8,000 of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1924 is reappropriated and made available. priation. Vol. 42, p. 1271. The unexpended balance of the appropriation "Contingent Expenses, House of Representatives, Folding Documents, 1925," is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1926. The limitation on expenditures by the Clerk of the House of Representatives for supplies or untensils used in the barber shops of the House Office Building or House wing of the Capitol, made by the Act of July 16, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 462), shall not hereafter apply to the purchase of necessary furniture. BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS Folding. Reappropriation. Barber shop. Limit on purchases for, removed. Vol. 38, p. 462. Biographical Congressional Directory. Completing new edition. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay, upon vouchers approved by the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, for completing the new edition of the Biographical Congressional Directory, 1789 to 1925, inclusive, including illustrations, as provided for in House concurrent resolution adopted Feb- Vol. 43, p. 1616. ruary 6, 1925, fiscal year 1926, $7,500; and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States: Provided, That the manuscript from which such Directory is printed shall be returned by manuscript. the Public Printer to the Joint Committee on Printing for preservation. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Proviso. of Architect of the Capitol. House Office Building: For bronze letter slots for the doors of House Office Buildthe building, fiscal year 1926, $1,800. Letter slots for doors. For reimbursement of the maintenance fund of the House Office change. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Library of Congress. For printing and binding, including the copyright office and the Printing and binding. publication of the catalogue of title entries of the copyright office, binding, rebinding, and repairing of Library books, and for the Library building, fiscal year 1926, $25,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Government Printing Office. Two Congressional printing To enable the Public Printer to pay for two Congressional Record Record printing presses contracted for during the fiscal year 1923 under presses. appropriations the balances under which have lapsed and been covered into the Treasury, $122,350. TO EXECUTIVE OFFICE For the expenses of the Aircraft Board appointed by the President in September, 1925, to be expended at the discretion of the President and to include the reimbursement of the traveling and subsistence expenses of the members of the board, fiscal year 1926, $11,963.34. UNITED STATES BOARD OF TAX APPEALSAVE OI For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Board of Tax Appeals, including personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, stenographic reporting services, traveling expenses, necessary expenses for subsistence or Executive Office. Aircraft Board. Tax Appeals Board. All expenses. Printing and bind ing. Efficiency Bureau. Salaries and expenses. Commission of Fine Arts. Expenses. Ericsson Memorial Commission. Dedication expenses. General Accounting Office. Accounts of disburs ing officers for expenses ing parks, etc., for on Outdoor per diem in lieu of subsistence, car fare, stationery, furniture, office BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY For an additional amount required for salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Efficiency, including the same objects specified for this purpose in the Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, $15,000. COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS For additional amount required for the Commission of Fine Arts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes, $1,400. ERICSSON MEMORIAL COMMISSION For all expenses incident to the dedication of the John Ericsson Memorial, including printing and binding, fiscal year 1926, $3,500. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE The Comptroller General is authorized and directed to credit the of employees, examin- accounts of the disbursing officers of the Departments of the Interior President's Committee and Agriculture with payments heretofore or hereafter made from to be creditedcreation, the appropriations for maintenance of national parks and national forests on account of obligations heretofore incurred, for transportation, subsistence, supplies, and other necessary expenses incurred by the committee of departmental employees and collaborators created upon recommendation of the President's Committee on Outdoor Recreation, to examine and report on proposed changes in the status of lands reserved for national park or national forest purposes. National Capital OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS Public Buildings, etc. Repairs to temporary buildings. Veterans' Bureau. Additional hospital facilities and services. Vol. 43, p. 389. Contracts. Vol. 43, pp. 681, 1317. Further facilities, etc. For extraordinary structural repairs to temporary buildings, $140,000, to continue available until June 30, 1927. UNITED STATES VETERANS' BUREAU Hospital facilities and services: For further carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize an appropriation to enable the Director of the United States Veterans' Bureau to provide additional hospital facilities," approved June 5, 1924, $3,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927, being the amount of the contract authorization contained in the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1924," as amended by the "Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1925." For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize an appropriation to provide additional hospital and out patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans' Act, 1924," approved March 3, 1925, $5,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1927. Adjusted service certificate fund: For an amount necessary under section 505 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924, to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, $70,000,000, to remain available until expended. Military and nava compensation. Vol. 41, p. 371; Vol 43, p. 1304. Proviso. Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount required for the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1926 or in prior fiscal years for death or disability provided by the Act approved October 6, 1917, as amended, fiscal year 1926, $11,250,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for "Military and naval compensation, Vol. 43, p. 532. Veterans Bureau, 1925 and prior years" in the Act approved June 7, 1924, shall be available for the fiscal year 1926 and prior years. Military and naval insurance: For an additional amount required insurance. for military and naval insurance, fiscal year 1926, $27,000,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GENERAL EXPENSES Office of the director of traffic: For personal services in accordance with the classification Act of 1923; for purchase, installation, and maintenance of traffic lights, signals, controls, and markers, painting white lines, labor, traffic surveys, city planning in relation to traffic regulation and control, and such other expenses as may be necessary in the judgment of the commissioners, fiscal year 1926, $41,755. Military and naval District of Columbia. Director of traffic. penses, etc. Plumbing inspection Plumbing inspection division: For temporary employment of division. additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be required, fiscal year 1926, $2,100. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY For personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, fiscal year 1926, $1,800. Free Public Library. Personal services. Employees' com District of Columbia employees' compensation fund: For carrying pensation fund, D. C. out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appro-Payments for injupriation Act approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Vol. 41, p. 104. Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the Vol. 39, p. 742. United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes," approved September 7, 1916, fiscal year 1926, $5,000. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS For postage for strictly official mail matter, fiscal year 1926, $4,000. STREET AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR For paving roadways under the permit system, fiscal year 1926, $20,000. Street improvements: For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, suburban roads, and suburban Postage. Streets, etc. Paving roadways. Street improvements. |