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An Act To pay certain employees of the Government for injuries received while in the discharge of their duties, and other claims.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That twenty-two thousand two hundred and thirtyone dollars and thirty-eight cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay certain employees of the United States Government for personal injuries received while in the discharge of their duties, without any fault on their part; the same being in full, the receipt of the same to be taken in each case as full and final release and discharge of the respective claims, namely:

To pay one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars to John and Bessie Maher, dependent father and mother of Edward Maher, who lost his life on the Isthmus of Panama, said sum being equal to one year's pay at the rate of compensation being paid him at the time of his death.

To pay one thousand five hundred dollars to Oscar F. Lackey, for injuries received while in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission as assistant engineer in construction of the Panama Canal on November twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five.

To pay two thousand dollars to Pedro Sanches, as compensation for the loss of both hands, which were blown off by a premature explosion of dynamite in Culebra Cut, Canal Zone, on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight.

To pay one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents to John H. Cole, as compensation for severe personal injuries and the loss of his right hand while in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission in the Canal Zone on May seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.

To pay one thousand five hundred dollars to Robert Coggan, dependent father of Clifford J. Coggan, who was killed in the line of his duty while in the employ of the United States Government on the Panama Canal.

Approved, February 18, 1913. [37 Stat., 1373.]

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

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

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, $20,000.

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An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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 they are hereby,

appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not'otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes:

PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Marine barracks, Isthmus of Panama: Erection of barracks, quarters, and other buildings for accommodation of marines, $400,000.

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Approved, March 4, 1913. [37 Stat., 902.]

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen 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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

PAYMENT TO PANAMA UNDER TREATY OF NOVEMBER EIGHTEENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the first annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000.130

Approved, March 4, 1913. [37 Stat., 913.]

An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, 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, namely:

THE PANAMA CANAL.

SEC. 2. That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, all moneys received by the Isthmian Canal Commission, or the governor of the Panama Canal, from any services rendered or materials and supplies furnished employees, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, the Panama Government, and other departments of the United States Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and so forth; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished vessels and to those unable to obtain similar labor, materials, supplies, and services elsewhere, shall be credited to the appropriation from which payments for the materials, supplies, labor, or other services were originally made; except that moneys received from the sale of material and equipment purchased and used for construction purposes, and as a reimburse

° Art. XIV, p. 18. See also notes under act of Mar. 4, 1909, p. 54.

ment for the expenditures incurred in constructing waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, including interest on such expenditures, excluding payments on account of the expenses for maintenance of such waterworks, sewers, and pavements incurred under agreement with the Panama Government, and otherwise herein disposed of, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and except that after the canal is opened for use and operation the net profits accruing from the operations herein authorized shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States, as provided for the profits accruing from the business authorized in section six of the Panama Canal Act.

That until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him.

Approved, May 1, 1913. [38 Stat., 2.]

An Act Providing certain legislation for the Panama California Exposition to be held in San Diego, California, during the year nineteen hundred and fifteen.

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 require the Panama California Exposition Company, of San Diego, California, to deposit with a depository, to be named by the Secretary of the Treasury, such sum or sums of money as in the discretion of the Secretary shall be necessary to cover awards, medals, certificates, prizes, and premiums, and all other obligations incurred by said corporation with exhibitors at the Panama California Exposition, which money shall be held by said depository as a pledge to the United States Government for a faithful fulfillment of the above obligations; or the Secretary of the Treasury may, in lieu of such pledge, accept a good and sufficient bond from said exposition company, to be approved by him and conditioned for the faithful performance of every liability or obligation incurred by said exposition company in respect to exhibitors at said exposition, to be held in San Diego, California, during the year nineteen hundred and fifteen.

SEC. 2. That all articles that shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purposes of exhibition at the Panama California Exposition upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell, for delivery at the close thereof, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on the grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on such articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure, the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use, and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of any illegal sale, use, or withdrawal.

Approved, May 22, 1913. [38 Stat., 3.]

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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 fourteen, namely:

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 Isthmian Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $153,393;

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 the Panama Canal building in the District of Columbia, $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 of the Panama Canal, $1,000), $63,000;

Third. For pay of members of the commission and officers and employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transit men, 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, $2,725,000: Provided, That not more than $5,000 of this appropriation shall be paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission;

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, $6,125,000;

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, and such other expenses not in the United States as the commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Panama Canal, including the construction in the United States in Government or private yards, in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Navy Department, and to have a cargo capacity of twelve thousand tons of coal and a speed of at least fourteen knots per hour, two colliers to cost not exceeeding $1,000,000 each, 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, $5,000,000;

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 the member of the commission in charge of the department of civil administration, of officers and employees, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including foremen, subforemen, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, together with the

necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, $500,000;

Eighth. For skilled and unskilled labor for the department of civil administration, the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon;

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, together with the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, $74,000.

Tenth. For pay of the member of the commission in charge, of 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, $450,000;

Eleventh. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind, for the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, $150,000;

Twelfth. For materials, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, medical aid and support of the insane, and of indigent persons permanently disabled, while in the line of duty and in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission, from earning a livelihood, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, including not exceeding $100,000 for the construction of a quarantine station, $300,000;

The foregoing sums, so far as necessary, shall be available for the operation of the canal, for the permanent organization authorized to be established under the Panama Canal Act, for 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, for office buildings, quarters, and other necessary buildings, for the payment of claims arising out of injuries or deaths of employees, and for the consolidation and preservation of the files of papers and other records which have accumulated or may accumulate during the construction of the canal and needed or useful or having a permanent value or historical interest;

In all, $16,265,393, the same to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: Provided, That all expenditures from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Panama Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of 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, for the construction of office buildings and quarters, and other necessary buildings, exclusive of fortifications, and exclusive of the amount used for operating the canal and for the permanent organization after the canal is opened for use and operation, 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, and section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine.

Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforeseen at the time of the passage of this Act, 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 purposes 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 four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen 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 of 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 the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twelve; and all employments made or compensa

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