ment, etc. Proviso. reference (not exceeding $500), subscriptions for which may be paid in advance; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other Machinery, equipmachines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $200,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer: Provided, That inks, glues, and other supplies manufactured by the to departments, etc. Government Printing Office in connection with its work may be furnished to departments and other establishments of the Government upon requisition, and payment made from appropriations available therefor; for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Inspection. Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding $1,000); for indexing salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,150, one cataloguer at $2,880, and two cataloguers at $2,150 each); and for all the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $2,400,000, to which shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress, the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office, and printing and binding (not exceeding itol. $1,500) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol when authorized by the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an amount not exceeding this sum. sional Record. Congres Paper, materials, etc. Charged to Congress. Architect of the Cap Authority for Con Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing gressional work. appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Payment for work ments, etc. ordered by depart Proviso. During the fiscal year 1927 any executive department or independent establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit or certification in advance of payment: Provided, That proper adjust-djustment of ac ments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in counts. advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned. All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books ing capital. of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office, for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. Sums paid for work to be credited to work Estimates for departments, etc., to be items. All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1928 for printing and binding for any department or establishment, so far as the Bureau incorporated in single of the Budget may deem practicable, shall be incorporated in a single item for printing and binding for such department or establishment and be eliminated as a part of any estimate for any other purpose. And if any amounts for printing and binding are included as a part part of other estimates. of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set Details to be given if Proviso. Engraving and forth in detail in a note immediately following the general estimate for printing and binding: Provided, That the foregoing requirePrinting Bureau ex- ments shall not apply to work to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. cepted. Restriction on paying detailed employees. Payment for postal card presses. Office of Superintendent of Documents. Superintendent, and personnel. Provisos. Compensation allow ances for night, etc., work. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. Payment of not to exceed the contract price of $125,000 for three postal card presses ordered in fiscal years 1924 and 1925 shall be made upon audit and order of the Joint Committee on Printing; and such audit, order, and payment shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties concerned as to correctness of the account. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $382,050: Provided, That employees in the Office of the Superintendent of Documents may be paid compensation for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work at rates not in excess of the rates of additional compensation for such work allowed to other employees of the Government Printing Office under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office," approved Deemed a separate June 7, 1924: Provided further, That for the purpose of conforming to section 3 of this Act, this appropriation shall be considered a separate appropriation unit. Vol. 43, p. 658. unit. Contingent expenses. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference (subscriptions to which may be paid in advance); directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies, paper, twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $85,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $18,400; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000; in all, $188,400: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries restricted. tory libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries. Proviso. Supplying deposi Reports of departments, etc., may be discontinued. Proviso. În order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1927 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: Profor public inspection. vided, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection. Originals to be kept Purchases, without reference to Supply Committee. Vol. 28, p. 601. Private vehicle restriction. Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations under the "Government Printing Office," as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. SEC. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. Hereafter the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives and the Congressional staCommittee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, respectively, shall make and issue regulations specifying limited. the classes of articles which may be purchased by or through the stationery rooms of the House and Senate. tionery room. Purchase through, Restriction on ex ceeding average salaries offices designated. in Vol. 42, p. 1488. If only one position in a grade. Advances allowed in unusually meritorious SEC. 3. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than cases. the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher Not applicable to rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades clerical-mechanical 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, (2) to require the No fixed salary rereduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed duced. as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is Transfers to another transferred from one position to another position in the same or tion." different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under Higher salary rates any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when permitted. such higher rate is permitted by "The Classification Act of 1923," and is specifically authorized by other law. Approved, May 13, 1926. CHAP. 295.-An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Fox River in the State of Illinois on State Road Numbered 18, connecting the villages of Yorkville and Bristol in said State. position without reduc May 13, 1926. [H. R. 10244.] [Public, No. 223.) Fox River. County, Ill. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge bridging, in Kendall authorized by Act of Congress, approved February 16, 1924, to be built by the State of Illinois across the Fox River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation in the county of Kendall, and State Vol. 43, p. 13, amendof Illinois, on the spur of State Road Numbered 18, connecting the villages of Yorkville and Bristol, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. ed. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, May 13, 1926. CHAP. 296.-An Act To authorize the commissioners of McKean County, Pennsylvania, or their successors in office, to construct a bridge across the Allegheny River at a certain location where a highway known as State Highway Route Numbered 211 crosses said river at a location within the limits of the Borough of Eldred or not distant more than one-half mile north of said Borough of Eldred, McKean County, Pennsylvania. May 13, 1926. [H. R. 10246.] Public, No. 224.]* Allegheny River. McKean County, Eldred. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commis- Pa., may bridge, at sioners of McKean County, Pennsylvania, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, Construction. Amendment. and operate a free bridge and approaches thereto across the Allegheny River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, where a highway is now located or may be changed or relocated by highway department of Pennsylvania, now known as State Highway Route Numbered 211, crosses said river at a location within the limits of the Borough of Eldred or not distant more than one-half mile north of said Borough of Eldred, McKean County, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 13, 1926. May 13, 1926. [H. R. 10470.] [Public, No. 225.] Mississippi River. may bridge. CHAP. 297.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Little Falls, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the southeast corner of lot 3, section 34, township 41 north, range 32 west. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Little Falls, Minn., United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the city of Little Falls, Minnesota, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between a point near the southeast corner of lot 3, section 34, township 41 north, range 32 west, in the county of Morrison, in the State of Minnesota, and a point opposite in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906. Construction. Vol. 34, p. 84 Amendment. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 13, 1926. May 13, 1926. [S. 2733.] [Public, No. 226.] North Carolina. Army cots. rom ac CHAP. 298.-An Act For the relief of the State of North Carolina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of countability for loss of North Carolina and the United States property and disbursing officer of the National Guard of the State of North Carolina are hereby relieved from accountability for one hundred and seventy-five folding canvas cots, property of the United States, valued at $430.50, which were loaned by such State to the mayor of New Bern, North Carolina, for the use of persons rendered homeless and destitute as a result of conflagration in that city in December, 1922, and which were lost or rendered unfit for service. Approved, May 13, 1926. May 14, 1926. [H. R. 10501.] [Public, No. 227.] Revenue Act of 1926. CHAP. 299.-An Act To repeal section 806 of the Revenue Act of 1926. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the stamps by postmasters, United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 806 Ante, p. 101, repealed. of the Revenue Act of 1926 be, and is hereby, repealed. repealed. Approved, May 14, 1926. CHAP. 300.-An Act Authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims. May 14, 1926. [H. R. 178.] [Public, No. 228.] Minnesota. Chippewa Indians of Claims of, against quishing lands, etc., to United States for relin Court of Claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States by either party as in other cases, notwithstanding the lapse of time or statutes of be adjudicated limitation, to hear, examine, and adjudicate and render judgment in any and all legal and equitable claims arising under or growing out of the Act of January 14, 1889 (Twenty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 642), or arising under or growing out of any subsequent Act of Congress in relation to Indian affairs which said Chippewa Indians of Minnesota may have against the United States, which claims have not heretofore been determined and adjudicated on their merits by the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United States. Vol. 25, p. 642. Time for filing. SEC. 2. Any and all claims against the United States within the purview of this Act shall be forever barred unless suit or suits be instituted or petition filed as herein provided in the Court of Claims within five years from the date of the approval of this Act, and such suit or suits shall make the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota party plaintiff and the United States party defendant. The petition Verification, etc. shall be verified by the attorney or attorneys employed to prosecute such claim or claims under contract with the said Chippewa Indians approved in accordance with existing law; and said contract shall be executed in their behalf by a committee or committees to be selected by said Chippewa Indians as hereinafter provided. Official Evidence admitted. letters, papers, documents, and records, or certified copies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the Government shall give access to the attorney or attorneys of said Chippewa Indians to such treaties, papers, correspondence, or records as they may require in the prosecution of any suit or suits instituted under this Act. by Counter claims to be SEC. 3. In said suit or suits the court shall also hear, examine, considered. consider, and adjudicate any claims which the United States may have against the said Chippewa Indians, and any payment or payments which may have been made by the United States upon any claim against the United States by said Indians shall not operate as an estoppel, but may be pleaded as an offset in such suit or suits as may gratuities, if any, paid to or expended for said Indians subsequent to January 14, 1889. money or property taken, etc., confined to therefrom. SEC. 4. If it be determined by the court that the United States, Decision of court that in violation of the terms and provisions of any law, treaty, or have been unlawfully agreement as provided in section 1 hereof, has unlawfully appro- the value at time therepriated or disposed of any money or other property belonging to of with interest allowed the Indians, damages therefor shall be confined to the value of the money or other property at the time of such appropriation or disposal, together with interest thereon at 5 per centum per annum from the date thereof; and with reference to all claims which may be the subject matter of the suits herein authorized, the decree claims of the court shall be in full settlement of all damages, if any, committed by the Government of the United States and shall annul and cancel all claim, right, and title of the said Chippewa Indians in and to such money or other property. Decree a full settlement, canceling further for a greater distribu SEC. 5. If in any suit by all the Chippewas of Minnesota against Bands with claims the United States it appears to the court that any band or bands of tive share of interest. said Indians are, or claim to be, the exclusive legal or equitable owners, or are entitled to, or claim, a legal or equitable interest greater than an equal distributive share with all the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, in the proceeds of any judgment or decree |