FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35l4. 1906. 43]. dollars; Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-five medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nine chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of board of review, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty-five principal examiners, at two thousand dollars eac ; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, two thousand dollars; eighteen assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; sixty-nine clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred clerks of class two; three hundred and seventy clerks of class one; two hundred clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ninety-four copyists; superintendent of buildin , one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three firemen; twenty-seven messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; forty-three laborers; ten female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, skilled in his'trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; in all, one million seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. No vacancy now existing in the clerical or other classified service of sufgggggd "°¤“°*°’ the Pension Office, or which may occur after March first, nineteen` hundred and six, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, shall be filled by original appointment or by transfer from any other Tmnsrm. office or bureau of the Department of the Interior. Nor shall any transfers from said Pension Office existing March. first, nineteen hundred and six, be returned to said office. For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty out- `_€fgga*`}}gjfé_ °**‘·· **1* side the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons ` employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, und for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, and any other . necessary expenses, including te egrams, three hundred and fift * thousand dollars: Provided, That two special examiners or clerks dyetailed {,‘,Q‘{;{*'*;m, ummm and acting as chief and assistant chief of the division of special exam- spei-mlexaminém. iners may be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in lieu of per diem and all expenses for subsistence, a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia` by special direction of the Commissioner he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in field service; and the Secretary of the Interior shall sp apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency t erein. For an additional force of one hundred and twenty-five special e;‘}£f;‘;f"l “*’°“m examiners for one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from
