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the proper and orderly conduct of such features as may be planned for the combined fleets and to provide for the safety of the vessels participating therein; and such rules and regulations when so issued and published shall have the force and effect of law.

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Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchase and erection of towers and buildings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high power radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,000,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $400,000, to be available until expended.

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Approved, June 30, 1914. [38 Stat., 393, 407.]

Joint Resolution Extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, are continued and made available for and during the first half of the month of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, unless the regular appropriations provided therefor in bills now pending in Congress shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; and a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount shall be expended for such operations than as the sum of one twenty-fourth of the appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen bears to the whole of the appropriations of said fiscal year: Provided further, That the total expenditures for the whole of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen under the several appropriations hereby continued, and under the several appropriation bills now pending, shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts finally appropriated therefor in the several bills now pending, except in cases where a change is made in the annual, monthly, or per diem compensation or in the numbers of officers, clerks, or other persons authorized to be employed by the several appropriations hereby continued, in which cases the amounts authorized to be expended shall equal one twentyfourth of the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and twenty-three twenty-fourths of the appropriations contained in the several bills now pending when the same shall have been finally passed, unless the salary or compensation of any office shall be increased or diminished without changing the grade or the duties thereof, in which case such salary or compensation shall relate to the entire fiscal year and run from the beginning thereof:

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Joint Resolution To continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "Joint resolution extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies."

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled Joint resolution extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies," approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, are extended and continued in full force and effect for and during the last half of the month of July, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen; and to continue during the last half of the month of July, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the operation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in securing a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers, subject to the Act to regulate commerce. authorized by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise

appropriated, not to exceed the sum of $65,000, together with any unexpended balance of a similar sum appropriated for the first half of said month of July. Approved, July 16, 1914. [38 Stat., 774.]

An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, 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, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fiftecn, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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The head of every executive department and other Government establishment shall transmit to Congress, on the first day of its next session, a statement showing, for the first three months of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the following relative to typewriting machines purchased during that period: The model, character, contract price, and make of each machine purchased; the relative cost of repairs and supplies for such makes of typewriters; the model, character, amount allowed, and make of each machine given in exchange; total number purchased and total number given in exchange; aggregate cost, aggregate allowance on exchanges, and aggregate net cost of all machines. And there shall be submitted to Congress, on the first day of the session following the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, statements of all of the foregoing facts for the entire period of that fiscal year.

SEC. 5. No appropriation made in this or any other Act shall be available for the purchase of any motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the service of any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or any branch of the Government service, unless specific authority is given therefor, and after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen there shall not be expended out of any appropriation made by Congress any sum for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for any branch of the public service of the United States unless the same is specifically authorized by law, and in the estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and subsequent fiscal years there shall be submitted in detail estimates for such necessary appropriations as are intended to be used for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of all motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, specifying the sums required, the public purposes for which said vehicles are intended, and the officials or employees by whom the same are to be used.

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Approved, July 16, 1914. [38 Stat., 508.]

An Act For the relief of Mary E. Goodley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Mary E. Goodley, mother of William Goodley, the sum of $1,000, to compensate her for the death of her son, the said William Goodley, who was killed on October eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, while in the discharge of his duty as a cranesman on the Panama Canal in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Approved, July 17, 1914. [38 Stat., 1306.]

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, 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 73828°-17

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COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $65,000;

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PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

Building to install the Government exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: For the construction of a suitable building in that part of the reservation of the United States known as the Presidio of San Francisco, State of California, in which the Government Exhibit Board, created by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall install, display, and safeguard the exhibit of the Government of the United States at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, $500,000: Provided, That the said building shall be so located and planned and shall be of such a permanent character as will make it available and useful for military purposes of the United States after the close of the said exposition, and shall be on such general plan and design and in such location as shall be approved by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That the said building shall be erected under the authority of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as he may direct: Provided further, That not exceeding $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended from the appropriation made herein, on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, for entertaining the officers and representatives of foreign governments who may attend and participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority of Congress.

The provisions contained in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen," which provides for the participation of the United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, be amended as follows: Under the head of "To provide for the participation of the United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition," the paragraph on page eighty-one, which reads as follows: "The President of the United States is authorized to detail three civilian officers or employees from the executive departments as members of a commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission, one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission, shall be detailed from the Department of State. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each commissioner shall receive in addition to his original compensation his actual necessary traveling expenses and an allowance of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for clerical, office, and other necessary and actual expenses of said commission," and insert in lieu thereof the following: "The President of the United States is authorized to detail two civilian officers or employees from the executive departments, also one to be appointed from civil life, as members of the commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission; one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission, shall be detailed from the Department of State, the commissioner appointed from civil life to receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum until the exposition closes. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each commissioner detailed as aforesaid shall receive, in addition to his original compensation, necessary traveling expenses and an allowance of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence while on duty in San Francisco. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as

may be necessary, may be expended for clerk hire and actual expenses of said commission."

Copyright and patent branch office, Panama-Pacific International Exposition: To defray all the expenses connected with the establishment, equipment, and maintenance (including necessary printing) of the branch office at San Francisco, California, provided for in section two of the Act approved September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Public, Numbered Fourteen), $30,000, of which sum $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, each of whom is authorized to pay to the Public Printer the cost of any portion of such printing and binding required for the said branch office which may be ordered by him from the Government Printing Office; to designate from among the employees of the Patent Office and Copyright Office, respectively, such employees as may be actually necessary for the service of the respective divisions of the said branch office, one of the employees so designated from each of said bureaus to act as his disbursing officer; and to select and employ from time to time at San Francisco such additional persons as the exigencies of the work there may require. All persons from the Patent Office and Copyright Office thus designated for service at San Francisco shall receive no compensation other than their regular salaries, but while absent from Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged upon the business of the aforesaid branch office shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem allowance in lieu of the cost of subsistence to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior or Librarian of Congress designating such persons, not to exceed $3 per day.

The Government Exhibit Board, for which provision was made in the sundry civil Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall, after consultation by correspondence or otherwise with the heads of the executive departments and the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the American National Red Cross, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Librarian of Congress, the Public Printer, the Governor of Porto Rico, the Governor of Alaska, the Governor of Hawaii, and the United States Geographic Board, determine the nature, character, and extent of the exhibits of the United States Government to be made at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco, California, in nineteen hundred and fifteen, and shall be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as said board may decide shall be exhibited; and the said board is empowered to select, purchase, and exhibit articles or materials representing the activities of any department, office, commission, or organization named in this paragraph.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

To continue the construction of the Panama 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, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto :

First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Panama Canal, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $150,000;

Second. 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 offices in the District of Columbia not exceeding $7,500, textbooks and books of reference, $1,000, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal, $1,000), $62,000;

Third. For pay of the Governor of the Panama Canal and 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, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and

subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen, and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster's, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and for those employed in connection with the preservation of plans drawings, and other records, $2,414,000

Fourth. 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, quartermaster's, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $7,000,000;

Fifth. For the 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; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor cars, fire-fighting apparatus, towing locomotives, and other motor-propelled vehicles, and such other expenses not in the United States as the governor deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Panama Canal, and such expenses as are incurred in assembling, sorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal, which are unserviceable or no longer needed, including the amount necessary to continue the construction of the two colliers provided for under the act approved June twentythird, nineteen hundred and thirteen, subject to the limit of cost therein fixed, and including the payment of damages caused to the owners of private lands, or private property of any kind, by reason of the grants contained in the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the works of sanitation and protection therein provided for, whether compromised by agreement between the claimant and the chairman of the commission or allowed by a joint commission, and the payment for land and land under water as authorized in section three of the Panama Canal Act, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster's, subsistence, disbursements, and examination of accounts, and including also payment to the Wheeling Mold and Foundry Company, of Wheeling, West Virginia, of the sum of $9,076.21, to carry into effect an equitable settlement with that company which could not be made by reason of the ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury, this sum having been deducted as liquidated damages on the various contracts and being in excess of the actual damages to the commission, $9,000,000;

Sixth. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trains, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and employees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on official business; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, and all other incidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster's, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $725,000;

Seventh. For pay of officers and employees of the department of civil administration, including foremen, subforemen, skilled and unskilled labor, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus and for expenses of the official representation of Congress attending the formal opening of the canal, $500,000;

Eighth. For the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses;

Ninth. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, and contingent expenses of the departments of civil administration and law, including not exceeding $500 for law books, $72,000;

Tenth. For pay of the officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, attendants, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, and stewards, of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, $300,000;

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