any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government 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 work.

SEC. 5. That no part of the moneys appropriated in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise.

SEC. 6. That all orders or contracts for manufacture of material pertaining to approved projects, which are placed with arsenals or other ordnance establishments and which are chargeable to armament of fortifications appropriations, shall be considered as obligations in all respects in the same manner as provided for similar orders placed with commercial manufacturers.

SEC. 7. That whenever any Government bureau or department procures, by purchase or manufacture, stores or materials of any kind, or performs any service for another bureau or department, the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or materials are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisitions of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct expenditure: Provided, That funds so placed with the procuring bureau shall remain available for a period of two years for the purposes for which the allocation was made unless sooner expended;

SEC. 8. That the following unexpended balances, or portions of the unexpended balances, or combined unexpended balances, or portions of combined unexpended balances of appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, as set forth in this section, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely:

Sea walls and embankments, Panama Canal, $3,000.

Submarine mine structures, $15,200.

Armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $2,306,481.73.
Submarine mines, Panama Canal, $231,082.21.

Approved, May 21, 1920. [41 Stat., 611.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, 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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE.

Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express

charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $15,000.

SEC. 6. That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum: Provided, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than $2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 60 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: Provided further, That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not be computed as salary in construing this section: Provided further, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1919, has received during the fiscal year 1920 or shall receive during the fiscal year 1921, an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee, whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1919, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall be granted the increased compensation provided herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation: Provided further, That the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone;218

Approved, May 29, 1920. [41 Stat., 665, 689.}

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.

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, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

DEPARTMENT Of Agriculture.

WEATHER BUREAU.

General Expenses, Weather Bureau: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture,

28 Similar provision in acts of June 12, 1917, p. 156; July 3, 1918, p. 196; and Mar. 1, 1919, p. 206. See compensation fixed under sec. 5, Panama Canal Act, p. 82.

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.

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 30, 1921, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

PAYMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the ninth annual payment, due on February 26, 1921, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000.

RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.

Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $100,000.

Approved, June 4, 1920. [41 Stat., 748, 749.]

AN ACT To remove a certain tract or lots of land in Cristobal, Canal Zone, from the operation and effect of the Executive Order of the President of December 5, 1912, pursuant to the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes, chapter 390, page 565).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following tract of land situated within the Canal Zone, and more particularly described as lots numbered six hundred and forty-one, six hundred and forty-three, six hundred and forty-five, and six hundred and forty-seven, in the town of Cristobal, Canal Zone, the same being bounded on the north by Eleventh Street, on the east by Bolivar Street, on the south by lot numbered six hundred and forty-nine, and on the west by a vacant lot, the said lots or tract of land having an extension from north to south of one hundred and twenty feet and from east to west of one hundred feet, and measuring in superficial area twelve thousand square feet, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from the operation and effect of the Act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, known as the Panama Canal Act 19 (Thirty-seventh Statutes, chapter 390, page 565), and the subsequent Executive order of the President, issued pursuant to the said Act of Congress under date of December 5, 1912.220

SEC. 2. The Panama Railroad Company is hereby authorized to sell, transfer, and convey said lots or tracts of land with all improvements thereon to any other person or persons or association of persons and retain the consideration therefor for its own

use.

Approved, June 5, 1920. [41 Stat., 948.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, 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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:

19 Sec. 3, p. 80.

220 (E. O. 132.)

WAR DEPARTMENT.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES: Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees: For interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service, and accepted applicants for enlistment; interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, $21,549,000; Provided, That the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment and also to citizens of the United States who may have died while serving in the armies of the Allies associated with the American forces: Provided further, That, in addition to the foregoing sum, the unobligated balance of the appropriation "Disposition of Remains of Officers, Soldiers, and Civil Employees," for the fiscal year 1920 is made available during the fiscal year 1921 for the care and maintenance of graves of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees of the Army abroad, and for the preparation and shipment of their remains to their homes, or to national cemeteries: Provided further, That there may be expended from and after the approval of this Act and until June 30, 1921, from this appropriation and the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920, a total amount not exceeding $250,000 for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, War Department, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to the disposition of the remains referred to herein; this sum may be expended notwithstanding the third proviso of the paragraph entitled "Temporary employees, War Department," contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL.

For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster's service of the Army, persons transferred from the Canal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, $1,000,000;

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

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 $45,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $104,000;

THE PANAMA CANAL.

For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rent and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September 7, 1916, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, $7,531,851, together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act;

For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $850,000;

For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge $7,500, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $900,000;

In all, $9,281,851, to be available until expended.

Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section 4 of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year 1921 under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted, respectively, in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on July 1, 1919; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year 1921.