SEC. 8. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to transfer, free of charge, to the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, for use in the execution, under his direction, of any civil work or works authorized by Congress, such material, supplies, instruments, vehicles, machinery, or other equipment pertaining to the Military Establishment as are or may hereafter be found to be surplus and no longer required for military purposes. Surplus Army sup plies, etc., to be transferred for civil work under Engineers. SEC. 9. That section 4 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 25, 1910, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as ed. follows: Collisions. Vol. 36, p. 676, amend Injuries by vessels, By collisions. Other damages to "SEC. 4. That whenever any vessel belonging to or employed by etc., in river and har the United States engaged upon river and harbor works collides with bor work. and damages another vessel, pier, or other legal structure belonging to any person or corporation, and whenever, in the prosecution of river and harbor works, an accident occurs damaging or destroying property. property belonging to any person or corporation, and whenever per- To property of emsonal property of employees of the United States, who are employed ployees, in efforts to on or in connection with river and harbor works, is damaged or save life, etc. destroyed in connection with the loss, threatened loss, or damage to United States property, or through efforts to save life or to preserve United States property, the Chief of Engineers shall cause an immediate examination to be made, and if, in his judgment, the facts and by Chief of Engineers. circumstances are such as to make the whole or any part of the damages or destruction a proper charge against the United States, the Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, shall have authority to adjust and settle all claims for damages or destruction caused by the above designated collisions, accidents, and so forth, in cases where the damage or expense does not exceed $500, and pay the same from the appropriation directly involved, and to be reported to Conreport such as exceed $500 to Congress for its consideration.' Approved, June 5, 1920. CHAP. 253. An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other pur poses. Adjusting of claims Exceeding $500, to gress. June 5, 1920. [H. R. 14335.] [Public, No. 264.] Third Deficiency Ap Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are propriation Act, 1920. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely: AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND. To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $10,000. ANTHRACITE COAL COMMISSION. American Printing House for the Blind. p. Expenses. 272. Anthracite Coal Commission. Salaries and ex The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year penses. 1920 for the Bituminous Coal Commission is made available during Proclamations, p. 56. the fiscal years 1920 and 1921 for expenses of the Anthracite Coal Commission, including salaries and expenses of officers, employees Ante, p. 50. and witnesses, personal services in the District of Columbia, purchase of supplies, printing and binding, reporting proceedings, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith. District of Columbia. Employees' Compensation Fund expenses. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. SALARIES. District of Columbia Employees' Compensation Fund: For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of Public Laws, 1st sess., the government of the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties and for other purposes," approved September 7, 1916, $500. P. 104. Vol. 39, p. 742. Contingent expenses. Printing reports, fiscal year 1919. Judicial expenses. Coroner's expenses. Deputy coroner. Care of District Building. Free Public Library. Additional car fare allowance. p. 73. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, for submission to Congress, $979.67. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, fiscal year 1919, $103.55. For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner's office and the morgue, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1917 and 1920, as follows: For 1917, $2.50; For 1920, $2,000. Coroner's office: For amount required to pay the deputy coroner during the absence of the coroner for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $95; For 1920, $60. District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, labor, and miscellaneous supplies, fiscal year 1917, $18.60. Free Public Library: For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1916, 1918, and 1920, as follows: For 1916, $7.15; For 1918, $42.60; For 1920, $1,750. Authority is granted to expend during the fiscal year 1920, in Public Laws, 1st sess., addition to the sum of $5,000 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $2,000, for the purchase of car fares, from appropriations contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920. Suburban roads, etc. IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. For current work of repairs to suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $20,000. For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, including the maintenance of motor vehicles, $5,000. For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $27.50. ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT. Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917, $4. ROCK CREEK PARK. Care and improve For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and so forth, ment. including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1915, $50.06. Longevity pay: For longevity pay for director of intermediate Longevity pay. instruction, supervising principals, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the following fiscal years: For 1910, $200; For 1912, $200; For 1920, $46,000. Allowance to principals: For allowance to principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia," approved June 20, 1906, $2,348.50. Furniture, etc., for For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, manual training. and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, fiscal year 1917, $79.03. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $16,600. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1916, $1.23; For 1917, $172.60. For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $157.50. Fuel, light and power. Contingent expenses. Supplies to pupils. Apparatus, etc., For purchase of apparatus and technical books and extending the physics departments. equipment and for maintenance of the physics departments in the Business, Central, Eastern, Western, and Dunbar High Schools for the fiscal years that follow: For 1916, $140.49; For 1917, $5. Repairs and im For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and provements. for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $10,000. Double pay prohibi Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation tion not applicable to Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply to employees school gardens. Vol. 39, p. 120. Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Expenses. Vol. 31, p. 844. of the school garden department of the public schools of the District of Columbia. Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia InstiR. S. sec. 4864, p. 942. tution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $1,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Colored deaf-mutes. For maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $467, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the board of education. For instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, $1,467, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. METROPOLITAN POLICE. For maintenance of motor vehicles, fiscal year 1917, $7.50. FIRE DEPARTMENT. For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $4,000. For forage, $2,400. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $500. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $1,200. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound service, $400. Chemical laboratory: For maintaining and keeping in good order, and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, fiscal year 1917, $8.40. The appropriation of $500 contained in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1919, for repairing the roof and retort of the public crematorium, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1921. COURTS. Juvenile Court: For compensation of the acting judges of the Juvenile Court for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $20; For 1919, $170. Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $250. For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $200. For meals of jurors and of prisoners temporarily detained at court awaiting trial, $25. Police court: For meals and lodging of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, fiscal year 1918, $20. For witness fees, fiscal year 1916, $1.50. Miscellaneous. Police court. Municipal court: For contingent expenses, including books, law Municipal court. books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,200. Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de Lunacy writs. lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, including Vol. 33, p. 740. the employment of an alienist at not exceeding $1,500 per annum, and a clerk at $900 who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, $1,400. COURTS AND PRISONS. Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $2,000. Courts and prisons. Supreme court. Support of convicts Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation out of the District. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $20,000. CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Board of Charities: For the maintenance of one motor ambulance, $400. WASHINGTON ASYLUM AND JAIL. Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repair to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including an allowance to the superintendent of not exceeding $360 per annum for maintenance of vehicles for use in discharge of his official duties, $8,500. Board of Charities. Washington Asylum and Jail. Support of jail pris Support of prisoners: For maintenance of jail prisoners, and so oners, etc. forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $11,500. Home for Aged and Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, and so Infirm. forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $1,162.99. Tuberculosis Hos Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, and so forth, pital." including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $2,500. 154272°-20 42 |