Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.

Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama

In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of and Colon." Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses.

Refund of tolls erro

In addition to the foregoing amounts there is appropriated, out of neously received. any money hereafter received as tolls, before such money is covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, amounts necessary to refund to the parties entitled thereto amounts which heretofore or may hereafter be erroneously received as tolls and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

may be transferred to

pital.

Upon the application of the governor of the Panama Canal the Sec-Insane Americans retary of the Interior is authorized to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Saint Elizabeths HosHospital, in the District of Columbia, for treatment all American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Canal Zone whose legal residence in one of the States and Territories or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish. Upon the ascertainment of the legal residence of persons so transferred to the hospital, the superintendent of the hospital shall thereupon transfer such persons to their respective places of residence, and the expenses attendant thereon shall be paid from the appropriation for the support of the hospital.

FORTIFICATIONS, PANAMA CANAL.

Subsequent transfer to legal residence.

Canal fortifications.

Available until expended.

For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, Post, pp. 201, 355. namely:

etc.

Clearings and trails.

For maintenance of clearings and trails, $20,000; For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including Preservation, repair, structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $10,000;

For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $7,500;

Electric plants, etc.

Seacoast batteries.
Submarine base.

For the construction of seacoast batteries, $332,000; Submarine base (Coco Solo Point): For dredging inner basin and channel to same, concrete dock, containing walls, finger docks, tracks, dry fill, electrical work, shops, storehouses, stationary crane, magazines and torpedo storage, shop and power tools, and plant equipment, $750,000: Provided, That the construction work hereunder shall be performed under the direction of the governor of the Panama Canal; tion. For the construction and development of an aeronautic station on the Canal Zone, $250,000;

For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $2,500;

Proviso.

Direction of construc-
Aeronautic station.

Submarine mine sup

plies.

Fire-control installa

For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at sea- tions. coast defenses, $10,000;

Airships, etc.

etc.

Proviso.

For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and rePurchases, buildings, pair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the aviation section for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, $500,000: Direction of construc- Provided, That the construction of buildings hereunder shall be performed under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal; For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $468,000;

tion.

Seacoast cannon.

Ammunition.

Proviso.

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manuAdditional contracts. facture at the arsenals, $1,985,000: Provided, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $700,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made;

Altering, installing, etc., seacoast artillery.

Post, p. 201.

No pay to officer using time-measuring de

ployee.

For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $335,000;

Ordnance Depot: For a building for storing artillery vehicles, $8,500;

For necessary equipment, including machinery and its installation, for the ordnance repair shops, $40,000;

For two magazines, $34,000;

For a building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $4,000; The appropriations of $160,000 for one dock and $100,000 for necessary dredging for the Ordnance Depot for the Panama Canal, contained in the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are repealed;

In all, $86,500;

In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,756,500.

Provided, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall vice on work of any em- be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such works; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant.

Cash rewards, limited.

etc.,

Increased pay to employees receiving not

SEC. 2. That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred more than $1,800 a year. and eighteen, for increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate per annum less than $1,200, and for increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so Applicable to em- much as may be necessary is appropriated: Provided, That this secployees under this Act tion shall only apply to the employees who are appropriated for in this Act specifically and under lump sums or whose employment is authorized herein, but shall not include employees of the Panama Detailed reports to be Canal on the Canal Zone: Provided further, That detailed reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing

Provisos.

except Panama Canal.

submitted.

the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein.

Charles L. Freer.
Income tax canceled

Institution.

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cancel the assessment of $13,252.21, being income tax on profit on of gift to Smithsonian the sale of Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, of twelve thousand and ninety-five shares of Parke, Davis and Company's stock, $1,000,000 of the proceeds from the sale of said stock having been given to the Smithsonian Institution for the erection of a building to house the art collections presented to the Nation by Mr. Freer under deed of gift dated May fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the remainder having been paid by Mr. Freer for the purchase of additional objects which have been added to the collections and presented to the Nation by him.

Sums for salaries to

SEC. 3. That all sums appropriated by this act for salaries of officers bein and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed.

Approved, June 12, 1917.

CHAP. 28.—An Act To authorize the issue to States and Territories and the District of Columbia of rifles and other property for the equipment of organizations of home guards.

June 14, 1917. [8.995.] [Public, No. 22.]

Home

guards

of

States, etc.
Issue of Army small

arms, etc., to, author

ized.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War during this existing emergency be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to issue from time to time to the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia for the equipment of such home guards having the character of State police or constabulary as may be organized by the several States and Territories and District of Columbia, and such other home guards as may be organized under the direction of the governors of the several States and Territories and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or other State troops or militia, such rifles and ammunition therefor, cartridge belts, haversacks, canteens, in limited amounts as available supplies will permit, provided that the property so issued shall remain the property of the United States and shall be receipted for by the gov- Accountability, etc. ernors of the several States and Territories and Commissioners of the District of Columbia and accounted for by them under such regulations and upon furnishing such bonds or security as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and that any property so issued shall be returned to the United States on demand when no longer needed for the purposes for which issued, or if, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, an exigency requires the use of the property for Federal purposes: Provided, That all home guards, State troops and militia receiving arms and equipments as herein provided shall have the use, in the discretion of the Secretary of War and under such regulations as he may prescribe, of rifle ranges owned or controlled by the United States of America.

Approved, June 14, 1917.

Return, etc.

Proviso.
Use of rifle ranges.

June 15, 1917. [H. R. 3971.]

[Public, No. 23.]

Deficiencies appro

penses, etc.

Post, p. 345.

CHAP. 29.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United priations for war ex- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, namely:

Council of National Defense.

Expenses of work,

etc., under.

Vol. 39, p.649.

Clerks, etc.

COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, employment of experts, and at R. S., sec. 167, p. 27. rates of compensation authorized by section one hundred and sixtyseven of the Revised Statutes of the United States of clerical and other assistance, supplies, including books of reference and periodicals, and for necessary expenses of members of the council, of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies going to and attending Proin District of meetings of the commission or subordinate bodies, $500,000: Pro

Provisos.

vided, That of the appropriations herein and heretofore made for the Council of National Defense there may be expended for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia not to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and not to exceed $50,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: Provided further, That in the expenditure of said moneys the existence of a state of war shall not be construed as enlarging the powers or duties of the Council of National Defense, but that such powers and duties shall remain as prescribed by the Act creating said council, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND.

The President is hereby authorized and empowered, within the limits of the amounts herein authorized

(a) To place an order with any person for such ships or material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require during the period of the war and which are of the nature, kind and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such person.

(b) To modify, suspend, cancel, or requisition any existing or future contract for the building, production, or purchase of ships or material.

(c) To require the owner or occupier of any plant in which ships or materials are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such plant, to deliver such output or part thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order.

(d) To requisition and take over for use or operation by the United States any plant, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, whether the United States has or has not any contract or agreement with the owner or occupier of such plant.

(e) To purchase, requisition, or take over the title to, or the possession of, for use or operation by the United States any ship now constructed or in the process of construction or hereafter constructed, or any part thereof, or charter of such ship.

Compliance with all orders issued hereunder shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts placed with such per

plants, etc., on refusal

son. If any person owning any ship, charter, or material, or owning, Possession of ships, leasing, or operating any plant equipped for the building or produc- of owner. tion of ships or material shall refuse or fail to comply therewith or to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantities or qualities of the ships or material so ordered, at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the President, the President may take immediate possession of any ship, charter, material or plant of such person, or any part thereof without taking possession of the entire plant, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient. Whenever the United States shall cancel, modify, suspend or requi- Compensation to be sition any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, acquire or take over any plant or part thereof, or any ship, charter, or material, in accordance with the provisions hereof, it shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President; and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.

determined by the

President.

Suit, etc., if amount
Procedure.

unsatisfactory.

etc.

Vol. 36, pp. 1093,1136.

Execution of powers,

Proviso.
Expenses of Emer-

The President may exercise the power and authority hereby vested in him, and expend the money herein and hereafter appropriated through such agency or agencies as he shall determine from time to time: Provided, That all money turned over to the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation may be expended as gency Fleet Corporaother moneys of said corporation are now expended. All ships constructed, purchased, or requisitioned under authority herein, or heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States, shall be managed, operated, and disposed of as the President may direct.

The word "person" as used herein, shall include any individual, trustee, firm, association, company, corporation, or contractor. The word "ship" shall include any boat, vessel, or submarine and the parts thereof.

The word "material" shall include stores, supplies, and equipment for ships, and everything required for or in connection with the production thereof.

The word "plant" shall include any factory, workshop, warehouse, engine works; buildings used for manufacture, assembling, construction, or any process; any shipyard or dockyard and discharging terminal or other facilities connected therewith.

The words "United States" shall include all lands and waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

Terms construed. "Person."

"Ship."

"Material."

"Plant."

"United States."

Termination of au

All authority granted to the President herein, or by him delegated, thority. shall cease six months after a final treaty of peace is proclaimed between this Government and the German Empire.

Limitation

Post, p. 345.

of ex

The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants, penditures. material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction shall not exceed the sum of $250,000,000, exclusive of the cost of ships turned over to the Army and Navy, the expenditure of which is hereby authorized, and in executing the authority granted by this Act for such purpose the President shall not expend or obligate the United States to expend more than the said sum; and there is hereby appropriated for said purpose, $150,000,000: Provided, That Proviso. this appropriation shall be reimbursed from available funds under, Reimbursements the War and Navy Departments for vessels turned over for the funds. exclusive use of those departments or either of them.

100768°-65-1-13

Appropriation.

from Army and Navy