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PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS.

For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal:

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

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For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications of the Panama Canal, for which there may be no special appropriation available, including structures erected for submarine-mine defense, and for maintaining channels for access to submarine-mine wharves, $25,000;

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, $30,000;

For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, including surveys for roads, Canal Zone, $3,000;

For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $6,250;

For the purchase or reclamation of land required for the defenses of the Panama Canal, $80,000;

CHIEF OF COAST ARTILLERY.

For the construction of fire-control stations, the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, and for subaqueous, sound, and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, $25,000;

For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $10,000;

CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $15,000;

ARMAMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS.

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 manufacture, $250,000;

For the alteration and 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, $75,000;

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS.

For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the Coast Artillery troops to be stationed in the vicinity of the Panama Canal, including water, sewer, and electrical systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $100,000;

The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus or reserve stocks of the War Department;

In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $619,250.

SEC. 2. That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.

SEC. 3. That except as expressly otherwise authorized herein, no part of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of any material at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the cost of manufacturing such material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the estimated cost of manufacture by the Government.

SEC. 4. That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion of an arsenal's equipment at a different rate: Provided, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall 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 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 the Secretary of War is authorized to proceed with the installation of guns and howitzers in such order of priority as he may deem expedient, at places for which appropriations have been, or hereafter may be, made for emplacements for such guns and howitzers.

SEC. 7. That so much of the Fortification Appropriation Act approved July 5, 1884, as pertains to the appointment of a board for the purpose of testing rifled cannon is hereby rescinded.

Approved, March 3, 1921.

JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that certain Acts of Congress, joint resolutions, and proclamations shall be construed as if the war had ended and the present or existing emergency expired. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the interpretation of any provision relating to the duration or date of the termination of the present war or of the present or existing emergency, meaning thereby the war between the Imperial German Government and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government and the Government and people of the United States, in any Acts of Congress, joint resolutions, or proclamations of the President containing provisions contingent upon the duration or the date of the termination of such war or of such present or existing emergency, the date when this resolution becomes effective shall be construed and treated as the date of the termination of the war or of the present or existing emergency, notwithstanding any provision in any Act of Congress or joint resolution providing any other mode of determining the date of such termination. 221 Any Act of Congress, or any provision of any such Act, that by its terms is in force only during the existence of a state of war, or during such state of war and a limited period of time thereafter, 222 shall be construed and administered as if such war between the Governments and people aforesaid terminated on the date when this resolution becomes effective, any provision of such law to the contrary notwithstanding; excepting, however, from the operation and effect of this resolution the following Acts and proclamations, to wit: Title 2 of the Act entitled "The Food Control and District of Columbia Rents Act," approved October 22, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes, page 297), the Act known as the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October 6, 1917 223 (Fortieth Statutes, page 411), and all amendments thereto, and the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Liberty Bond Acts, the Supplement to the Second Liberty Bond Act, and the Victory Liberty Loan Act; titles 1 and 3 of the War Finance Corporation Act (Fortieth Statutes, page 506), as amended by the Act approved March 3, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes, page 1313), and Public Resolution Numbered 55, Sixty-Sixth Congress, entitled "Joint resolution directing the War Finance Corporation to take certain action for the relief of the present depression in the agricultural sections of the country, and for other purposes," passed January 4, 1921; also the proclamations issued under the authority conferred by the Acts herein excepted from the effect and operation of this resolution: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as effective to terminate the military status of any person now in desertion from the military or naval

See following acts referring to "present war or existing emergency": act of May 9, 1918, p. 188. amending naturalization laws; act of July 1, 1918. p. 195, relating to manufacture of war materials; and act of July 18, 1918, p. 200, relating to charter rates and freight rates.

"See following acts referring to "a state of war" or "a time of war": Secs. 9 and 11 of act of Sept. 7. 1916. p. 140, establishing a Shipping Board; sec. (a) of act of Mar. 4, 1917, p. 152, relating to priority of orders for war materials; various provisions of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, pp. 161-172; act of Apr. 20, 1918, p. 187, relating to destruction of war materials; act of May 22, 1918, p. 191. relating to departure and entry control; and act of Oct. 29, 1919, p. 216, further regulating entry of aliens into the United States. See also proclamation of Aug. 8, 1918 (E. O. 240-242) relating to departure and entry control.

223 pp. 174-185.

service of the United States, nor to terminate the liability to prosecution and punishment under the selective service law, approved May 18, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes, page 76), of any person who failed to comply with the provisions of said Act or of Acts amendatory thereof: Provided further, That the Act entitled "An Act to amend section 3, title 1, of the Act entitled 'An Act to punish acts of interference with foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,' approved June 15, 1917 224 (Fortieth Statutes, page 217), and for other purposes," approved May 16, 1918 225 (Fortieth Statutes, page 553), be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that said section 3 of said Act approved June 15, 1917, is hereby revived and restored with the same force and effect as originally enacted. Nothing herein contained shall be held to exempt from prosecution or to relieve from punishment any offenses heretofore committed in violation of any Act hereby repealed, or which may be committed while it remains in force as herein provided.2 Approved, March 3, 1921.

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AN ACT Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, 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, 1922, namely:

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 of 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 of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who died abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, $1,000,000: 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 1921, is made available during the fiscal year 1922 for the above purposes and 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.

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

324 p. 161.

275 p. 190.

26 See opinion of Attorney General as to effect of above joint resolution (32 Op. Atty.-Gen. 505), opinion rendered Apr. 11, 1921.

the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the Uuited 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 horse-drawn 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, $7,250,000, 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, $9,000,000, 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 1922, 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 persons 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, 1920; 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 1922.

In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year 1922 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad 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 service; 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 by-products 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.

In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year 1922, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses.

To enable the President to cause an investigation to be made as to the petroleum resources and the production of petroleum in other countries, $35,000.

SEC. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year 1922, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed.

SEC. 3. Any journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publication which is now being issued by a department or establishment of the Government, may, in the discretion of the head thereof, be continued, within the limitation of available appropriations or other Government funds, until December 1, 1921, when, if it shall not have been specifically authorized by Congress before that date, such journal, magazine, periodical, or similar publication shall be discontinued. Approved, March 4, 1921.

AN ACT Relating to the landing and operation of submarine cables in the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall land or operate in the United States any submarine cable directly or indirectly connecting the United States with any foreign country, or connecting one portion of the United States with any other portion thereof, unless a written license to land or operate such cable has been issued by the President of the United States: Provided, That any such cable now laid within the United States without a license granted by the President may continue to operate without such license for a period of 90 days from the date this Act takes effect: And provided further, That the conditions of this Act shall not apply to cables, all of which, including both terminals, lie wholly within the Continental United States.

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