year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, shall not apply to unskilled alien laborers and to the foremen and superintendents of such laborers, employed in the construction of the Isthmian Canal, within the Canal Zone. 57

Approved, June 30, 1906. [34 Stat., 669.]

Joint Resolution To provide for the printing of sixteen thousand copies of Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed sixteen thousand copies of Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, being a special message of the President of the United States concerning the Panama Canal, to be accompanied by a map to be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, five thousand copies for the use of the Senate, eleven thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives to be distributed through the folding room. The plates owned by and in the possession of the Isthmian Canal Commission, shall be used in printing the said document hereunder so far as the Isthmian Canal Commission owns or controls the free use of the necessary plates. Approved, January 16, 1907. [34 U. S. Stats., 1418, 1419.]

An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

SEC. 33. That for the purpose of this Act the term "United States" as used in the title as well as in the various sections of this Act shall be construed to mean the United States and any waters, territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, except the Isthmian Canal Zone: Provided, That if any alien shall leave the Canal Zone 58 and attempt to enter any other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as permitting him to enter under any other conditions than those applicable to all aliens. 59

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Approved, February 20, 1907. [34 Stat., 908.]

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An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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57 Sec. 2 of act of June 19, 1912, p. 67, provides that the President may waive the 8-hour day provisions as to the Panama Canal during war time and until Jan. 1, 1915. Executive Order of same date was issued accordingly (E. O. 130). See also act of Mar. 4, 1917, p. 152, authorizing President to suspend the 8-hour law in case of national emergency.

58 See act of Mar. 2, 1905, p. 35, fixing status of merchandise (and persons) coming into United States from the Canal Zone.

59 Under authority of this act, the President issued Executive Order of Mar. 14, 1907 (E. O. 63) to prevent Japanese and Korean laborers from entering United States from Mexico, Canada, and Hawaii. See also Executive Order of Feb. 24, 1913 (E. O). 134) and act of Feb. 5, 1917, pp. 149, on this subject.

RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.

Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars.

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FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA.

Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals at Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals.

Approved, February 22, 1907. [34 Stat., 925.]

An Act To satisfy certain claims against the Government arising under the Navy Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the claims arising under the Navy Department hereinafter stated, the same being in full for, and the receipt of the same to be taken and accepted in each case as a full and final release and discharge of the respective claims, namely:

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(12) To pay to the Panama Railroad Company the cost of making good the damage to two pontoons, nine hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents.

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Approved, March 4, 1907. [34 U. S. Stats., 1291.]

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An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, namely:

To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two.

For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars;

For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal Building in the District of Columbia, twelve thousand dollars, and text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars), sixty-nine thousand dollars;

For pay of officers and employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, wagon masters, stewards, hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessarily and

temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two million seven hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths and other artisans, and their helpers, janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursements, and labor, quarters and subsistence, seven million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars;

For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the Commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian Canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, nine million forty-six thousand dollars; To continue the equipment and construction of the Panama Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; no part of said sum shall be expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per centum interest payable to the United States shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and by him accepted;

To pay the outstanding four and one-half per centum first-mortgage bonds of the Panama Railway Company October first, nineteen hundred and seven, two million two hundred and ninety-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, to be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States, as provided for appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal;

For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, five hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars;

For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, four hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, fifty thousand dollars;

For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses for account of the government of the Canal Zone, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars;

For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus, seven hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars;

For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses of the sanitation department on the Isthmus, eight hundred thousand dollars;

In all, twenty-seven million one hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, the same to be available until expended; Provided, That all expenditures from the appropriation herein made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two.

Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation.

SEC. 2. All funds collected by the government of the Canal Zone from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the Zone postal service, and from court fees and fines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatsoever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund of ten thousand dollars, to the maintenance of the public school system in the Zone, and to public improvements within the Zone. A detailed and classified statement of all receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.

SEC. 3. Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the Isthmian Canal contained in the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated to meet deficiencies heretofore incurred, and to further remain available until expended.

SEC. 4. That one hundred thousand dollars of the said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, "For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus for the departments of construction and engineering and administration," shall be transferred to the appropriation "For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama" of the same Act; that three hundred thousand dollars of the said appropriation "For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus for the departments of construction and engineering and administration," shall be transferred to the appropriation "For miscellaneous expenditures" for the same departments, of the same Act; that fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation "For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus for the construction and engineering and administration departments," shall be transferred to the appropriation "For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus," of the same Act; and that any unexpended balance of the appropriation in the said bill "To continue the reequipment of the Panama Railroad" may be paid to the Panama Railroad Company to reimburse that company for direct expenditures for equipment and construction: Provided, That all expenses so reimbursed shall first be approved by the Commission and then audited in all respects as if disbursed directly under the Commission.

SEC. 5. All sums appropriated hereunder and under the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the use upon the Isthmus of the several departments shall be available for the payment of the direct obligations of the Canal Commission, or of the Commission's obligations under any contract or contracts that have been or may hereafter be entered into for the construction of the Isthmian Canal.

SEC. 6. Nothing contained in section five ❝ of the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," shall prevent the President from entering into such contract or contracts as may be deemed expedient by him for the completion of the construction of the Panama Canal."

SEC. 7. The appropriations for the pay of officers and employees of the several departments on the Isthmus under the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall apply to the pay of such officers and employees when necessarily temporarily detailed upon duty away from the Isthmus.

SEC. 8. All amounts due from employees, whether to the Commission, Panama Railroad Company, or contractor, for transportation, board, supplies, or for any other service, are hereby authorized to be deducted from the compensation otherwise payable to the said employees, and to be paid to the authorized parties or to be credited to the appropriation out of which the transportation, board, supplies, or other service was originally paid.

An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

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For repairs and improvements to marine barracks and officers' quarters, Camp Elliott, Isthmian Canal Zone, Panama, ten thousand dollars.

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THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.

For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars.

For pay of officers and employees on the Isthmus other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrument men, transit men, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, wagon masters, stewards, hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two hundred and ten thousand and seven hundred dollars.

For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and other artisans, and their helpers, janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursements, and labor, quarters and subsistence, five million five hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the Commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian Canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, six million and eighty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the department of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars;

Appropriations made for the construction of the Isthmian Canal in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and in this Act shall continue available until expended.

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An Act Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several States or Territories, or between any of the States and Territories, or between the District of Columbia and any of the States or Territories, or between the District of Columbia or any of the States or Territories and any foreign nation or nations, shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee's parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.

SEC. 2. That every common carrier by railroad in the Territories, the District of Columbia, the Panama Canal Zone, 62 or other possessions of the United States shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee's parents; 62 See Employees' Compensation Act of May 30, 1908, p. 49, and notes thereunder.