Assistant surgeons. Acting assistant surgeons. Other employees. Fuel, etc. Furniture. Hygienic laboratory. Maintenance of hos pitals. Vol. 37, p. 757. Admission of cases for study. Outside treatment. Proviso. special training in the diagnosis of insanity and mental defect for duty in connection with the examination of arriving aliens with special reference to the detection of mental defection; For additional assistant surgeons, $50,000; For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000; For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $477,606; For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000; For fuel, light, and water, $70,000; For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $45,000; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, which are not included under special heads, $245,000: Provided, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study, persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time; For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, Treatmentof officers, $126,000: Provided, That hereafter commissioned officers and pharmacists, and those employees of the service devoting all their time to field work, shall be entitled to hospital relief when taken sick or injured in line of duty; etc. For journals and scientific books, for use of the Public Health Service; subscriptions for journals for use of the service may be paid for in advance, $500; In all, $1,819,746, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act of Congress approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Puntarasa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport, Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine system of Alaska; quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, including the leprosy hospital; and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, and including not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $155,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President of the United States, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or Field investigations of public-health matters: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000, of which the sum of $40,000 shall be immediately available. Report of expendi tures. Field investigations. Additional building. Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia: For ad- Laboratory; ditional building for research work, disinfection, experiments, and housing animals, $25,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and operating municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of con- ties. tagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000. CENTRAL HEATING AND POWER PLANT. with Central heating and power plant, D. C. Construction author plied therefrom. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to have ized. constructed, under the direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, upon the land and wharf property of the United States hereinafter described, a central heating, lighting, and power plant, to furnish heat, light, and power for the buildings, old and new, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the buildings of the Department Buildings to be supof Agriculture, the Treasury Building, the White House and the buildings on the grounds thereof, the State, War, and Navy Building, the Winder Building, the Mills Building, the Court of Claims Building, the buildings, old and new, of the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Army Medical Museum Building, the Fish Commission Building, the Washington Monument, the District Building, the Post Office Department Building, and the buildings, when constructed on the site heretofore acquired, for each of the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor. Limit of cost. Contracts authorized. Connection with The total limit of cost of such central heating, lighting, and power plant, including all necessary buildings, boilers, engines, generators, pumps, machinery appliances and equipment, tunnels, ducts, and so forth, is fixed at not to exceed the sum of $1,494,104, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts to the full limit of cost hereby fixed. Authority is given for making a cross connection between the cen- Capitol power plant. tral heating, lighting, and power plant aforesaid and the Capitol power plant, so that either plant may supply to the other electric energy in case of a breakdown or other emergency, such connection to be equipped with the necessary meters so that reimbursement may be made for the amount of current actually supplied by either of said plants to the other. The lease dated April eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, between the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and John Miller for wharf property in the District of Columbia, situated on the Potomac River and described as structures numbered twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven, section three, as shown on the official map placed in evidence by the United States in the case of the United States against Martin F. Morris and others (One hundred and seventyfourth United States, page one hundred and ninety-six), for a period of five years ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and any interest thereunder, is terminated without compensation 98633°-63-1-3 Lease of wharf property terminated. for heating, etc., plant. Designated as site under the covenant contained in said lease that it may be terminated at any time without compensation by Act of Congress, and the land and property covered by said lease, being land owned by the United States fronting on Water Street between Thirteenth and Thirteenthand-a-half Streets southwest, together with land owned by the United States on the Potomac River, fronting on Water Street, between Thirteenth-and-a-half and Fourteenth Streets southwest, are hereby designated as the site for said heating, lighting, and power Reservation for Dis- plant: Provided, That the building or buildings of said central heating, lighting, and power plant shall be so located upon said site as to reserve a sufficient area for an asphalt plant for the District of Columbia in the event of such asphalt plant being hereafter authorized. For the commencement of said plant the sum of $150,000 is appropriated. trict asphalt plant. Amount to commence construction. Employment of additional technical services. International ex changes American ethnology. The Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized and empowered to employ, without reference to the civil-service laws and regulations, on a salary basis in the Office of the Supervising Architect such technical services as may be deemed necessary in connection with the plans, specifications, and construction of the power plant herein provided for and to pay for such services at such price or rates of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable from the appropriation herein before made: Provided, That not to exceed $35,000 shall be available from said appropriation for such technical services: And provided further, That the foregoing authorization for securing the services of specially qualified persons shall be in addition to and independent of the authorizations and appropriations for personal services in the Office of the Supervising Architect otherwise made. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. For beginning the construction of a modern fireproof hospital building for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women and a lying-in asylum, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (Seventeenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty), the said building to be erected on the site belonging to the United States, to replace the present building of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, to cost not more than $300,000, including heating apparatus, elevators, lighting and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, $100,000, the construction of said building, and the expenditure of the appropriation herein, to be under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, $42,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperalogue of Scientific Lit- tion of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Cata erature. International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500, the same to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical servatory Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. Ob Replacing book Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries: Toward replacing stacks. wooden shelving and galleries with fireproof bookstacks in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building for the libraries of the Government bureaus under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including the necessary heating and lighting apparatus and repairs to the floor, columns, walls, and windows, $15,000. National Museum. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances Salaries, etc. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000; For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- etc. phonic service, $50,000; Heating, tions, etc. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the Preserving collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, $300,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications; For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, Books, etc. including payment in advance for subscriptions, $2,000; For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; Repairs. Postage. lighting, collec National Zoological Park. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, payment in advance for subscriptions, and exclusive of architect's fees or compensation, $100,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of Half from District the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. revenues. Readjustment of Purchase of additional lands. Readjustment of boundaries: For acquiring, by condemnation, boundaries. all the lots, pieces, or parcels of land, other than the one hereinafter excepted, that lie between the present western boundary of the National Zoological Park and Connecticut Avenue from Cathedral Avenue to Klingle Road, $107,200, or such portion thereof as may be necessary, said land when acquired, together with the included highways, to be added to and become a part of the National Zoological Park. The proceeding for the condemnation of said land shall be instituted by the Secretary of the Treasury under and in accordance with the terms and provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: Provided, That the tract of land hereinafter described, containing five thousand eight hundred and twenty square feet, shall be excepted from such condemnation, namely, the parcel recorded on the books of the assessor Condemnation proceedings. Vol. 34, p. 151. efits. of the District of Columbia as 4 and now assessed in the names of Thomas R. and Martha G. Harney: Provided further, That Assessment of ben- in determining the amounts to be assessed against the lots, pieces, or parcels of land in the neighborhood of the land to be condemned for the extension or enlargement of said park the jury shall take into consideration the respective situations and topographical conditions. of said lots, pieces, or parcels of land and the benefits and advantages they may severally receive from the extension or enlargement of said park by the adding thereto of said land to be condemned, and shall assess such benefits against said lots, pieces, or parcels of land and against any and all other lots, pieces, or parcels of land the jury may find benefited by the said extension or enlargement of said park, as aforesaid, as the jury may find said lots, pieces, or parcels of land Collection of assess will be benefited: And provided further, That as the several assessments authorized to be made are made by the jury, they shall severally be a lien upon the land assessed and shall be collected as special improvement taxes in the District of Columbia, and shall be payable as provided in subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law To be deposited to for the District of Columbia; such assessments, when collected, to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States. ments. Vol. 34, p. 151. credit of United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. etc. Salaries. Expenses. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. For salaries of seven commissioners, at $10,000 each, $70,000. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, $950,000, of which sum there may be Amount for counsel, expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $65,000 may be expended for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia. To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. Rent. Enforcing account ing by railroads. 36, p. 566. Arbitrating railway Railway safety appliances. Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p.943; Vol. 36, pp. 298, 350. Safe locomotive engine boilers, etc. Vol. 36, p. 913. To carry out the objects of the "Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees," approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, $10,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, including the employment of inspectors, $150,000. For the payment of all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, "To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto," including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary and allowances in lieu of subsistence while away from official headquarters to persons whose traveling expenses are authorized by said Act to be paid at not to exceed $4 per day, $220,000. |