For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $2.10. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $4.13. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), 23 cents. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT-POSTAL SERVICE Out of the Postal Revenues For balances due foreign countries, $5,999.39. For city delivery carriers, $762.57. For clerks, contract stations, $20.14. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $2,722.17. For clerks, third-class post offices, $150. For compensation to postmasters, $329.19. For electric and cable car service, $260.93. For foreign mail transportation, $14,228.86. For indemnities, domestic mail, $10,478.14. For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,963.89. For mail messenger service, $388. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $707.57. For person and property damage claims, $98.20. For post office equipment and supplies, $13.76. For railroad transportation, $30,646.51. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,156.12. For Rural Delivery Service, $176.61. For separating mails, $313.19. For special delivery fees, $33.84. Post Office Depart ment. For temporary city delivery carriers, $738.78. For temporary clerk hire, $2,742.04. For unusual conditions at post offices, $200. For village delivery service, $70.81. For vehicle service, $777.28. Additional to meet change. Total, audited claims, section 2, $1,212,033.67, together with such increases in rates of exadditional sum due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office. For payment of the claim in favor of the Pitt River Power Company, San Francisco, California, allowed by the Comptroller General under the authority of the Act of February 2, 1925 (Private Act Numbered 118), $1,767. River Power Pitt Vol. 43, p. 1550. Payment of claims from. Vol. 40, p. 499. The Navy pension fund is hereby made available for the payment Navy pension fund. of the claims, amounting to $349.86, allowed by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 29, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 499), as set forth in House Document Numbered 229, Sixty-ninth Congress. AUDITED CLAIMS Audited claims. Payment of addi Vol. 18, p. 110. SEC. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified tional. to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the services of the fiscal year 1923 and prior years unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 Vol. 23, p. 254. of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 53, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: INDEPENDENT OFFICES For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $4.20. For medical and hospital services, Veterans' Bureau, $563.95. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans' Bureau, $2,414.42. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $5.42. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE For industrial research, Bureau of Standards, $170. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For education of natives of Alaska, $275. For fees of examining surgeons, Pensions, $3. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $2.33. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $94.71. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE For increase of compensation, Department of Justice, $277.33. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $2.50. For salaries, circuit judges, $291.68. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $2,842.11. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $20. For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, $216.67. For salaries and expenses of clerks, United States courts, $607.79. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $1,091.90. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $1,060.02. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $70.45. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR For expenses of regulating immigration, $32.25. NAVY DEPARTMENT For pay of the Navy, $9,932.47. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,120.25. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $198.35. For aviation, Navy, $313.13. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,828.60. For maintenance, Quartermaster's Department, Marine Corps. $101.25. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $758.04. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $10.33. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $206.43. DEPARTMENT OF STATE For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $1,663.73. TREASURY DEPARTMENT For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $9.33. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $13.59. For collecting the war revenue, $986.10. For collecting the internal revenue, $70. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $1,499.91. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $3,321.51. For Coast Guard, $1,204.48. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $28. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $105.74. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $250. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $149.62. WAR DEPARTMENT For registration and selection for military service, $268.80. For increase of compensation, War Department, $480. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $49.32. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $3,289.05. For subsistence of the Army, $329.84. For regular supplies of the Army, $30.18. For clothing and equipage, $127.11. For Army transportation, $10,998.19. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $39.67. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $4,719.82. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $4,126.99. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $2,198.64. For Signal Service of the Army, $512.76. For Air Service, Army, $80.96. For preservation and repair of fortifications, $798.83. For manufacture of arms, $3.37. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $11,625.34. 43892°-27-13 State Department. Treasury Department. War Department. Post Office Department. Additional, to meet increase in rates of exchange. National Sesquicentennial Exposition. Government exhibits, etc., at Philadelphia Exhibition. penses. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $5,137.77. For vocational training of soldiers, $760. For armament of fortifications, insular possessions, $7,225.31. For civilian assistants to engineer officers, $533.15. For civilian military training camps, $127.94. For claims for medical and hospital treatment rendered members of Officers' Reserve Corps, Air Service, Army, $464. For hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons, $43.09. For proving grounds, Army, $23,085.67. For replacing medical supplies, $71.97. For quartermaster supplies and services, rifle ranges, civilian instruction, $1,746.70. For searchlights and electrical installations for seacoast defenses, $3,652.32. For transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers, $18.31. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $242.57. For aviation, Navy (Navy transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $1.47. For construction and maintenance military and post roads, $4,827.69. For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology (Agriculture transfer to War, Act May 21, 1920), $96.93. For Vicksburg National Military Park, $10.02. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPOSTAL SERVICE (Out of the postal revenues) For aeroplane service between New York and San Francisco, $190.65. For balances due foreign countries, $7.28. For city delivery carriers, $349.89. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $216.60. For compensation to postmasters, $31.87. For indemnities, domestic mail, $2,512.37. For indemnities, international registered mail, $433.40. For rent, light, and fuel, $901.16. For shipment of supplies, $26.03. For temporary clerk hire, $537.60. Total, audited claims, section 3, $229,982.29, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange, as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the certificates of settlement of the General Accounting Office. NATIONAL SESQUICENTENNIAL EXPOSITION SEO. 4. For carrying out the public resolution of the Sixty-ninth Congress entitled "Joint Resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the sesquicentennial celebration in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and authorizing an appropriation Allotment of ex- therefor, and for other purposes, 99 as follows: For the exhibit and participation by the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government and such other expenditures as may be deemed necessary by the National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, actual and necessary traveling expenses, rent, and all other expenditures authorized by section 1; compensation Ante, p. 133. of the Commissioner of Sesquicentennial Exposition as authorized by section 3; $1,186,500, of which not more than $250,000 shall be allocated to the War Department and not more than $350,000 to the Navy Department as authorized by section 1; for the further participation by the Government for the construction of buildings as authorized by section 2, $1,000,000; in all, $2,186,500, to remain available during the fiscal year 1927. BOSTON SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Commissioner. Boston Sesquicentennial Celebration. Evacuation Day Sesquicentennial Commis SEC. 5. To enable the Government of the United States to participate in the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Evacuation sion created. of Boston by the British, to be held in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, March 17, 1926, there is hereby created a Federal Commission to be known as the United States Evacuation Day Sesquicentennial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) and to be composed of five commissioners, as follows: One person to be appointed by the President of the United States, two Senators by the President of the Senate, and two Representatives by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The commission shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. For actual and necessary traveling and Expenses of commissubsistence expenses of the commission while discharging its official in celebration. duties outside the District of Columbia, $1,000; and for participation on the part of the United States in such celebration, $5,000, to be expended in the discretion of the commission; in all, fiscal year 1926, $6,000. SEC. 6. This Act hereafter may be referred to as the "First CHAP. 46.-An Act To grant the consent and approval of Congress to the South Platte River compact. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to the compact signed by the commissioners for the States of Colorado and Nebraska at the city of Lincoln, State of Nebraska, on the 27th day of April, anno Domini 1923, and thereafter approved by the Legislature of the State of Colorado by an Act approved February 26, 1925 (Session Laws, Colorado, 1925, chapter 179, pages 529-541), and by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska by an act approved May 3, 1923 (Session Laws, Nebraska, 1923, chapter 125, pages 299-310), which compact is as follows: "The State of Colorado and the State of Nebraska, desiring to remove all causes of present and future controversy between said States, and between citizens of one against citizens of the other, with respect to the waters of the South Platte River, and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for these purposes and, through their respective governors, have named as their commissioners: Composition. sion and participation Title of Act. South Platte River "Delph E. Carpenter for the State of Colorado, and Robert H. compact. Willis for the State of Nebraska, who have agreed upon the following articles: "ARTICLE I "In this compact 1. The State of Colorado and the State of Nebraska are designated, respectively, as 'Colorado' and 'Nebraska.' |