SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 384. 1910. 771 THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. 1¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤1~ To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended $‘,?,Y*§§“§,“& under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act enti— i I tled "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: irst. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian Canal §,§§,‘}§e"j°“’}Q}°°*‘{’,}g Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and United Swwa all other employees in the United States, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and tele- I"°"""‘“"°‘P°”°°°- graph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama R°“‘· Canal building in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars, text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts of the Isthmian Canal, one thousand dollars), seventy thousand dollars. Third. For pay of members of the commission and oflieers and df°¤¤fn”ggg°¤· °'°·· employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, flyer ccniimasnminc udrng civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transit- $§§'}§{l,§'§l°y°°’ °“ men, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen and stewards, mcludi those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in thendgepartments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’ s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, three million nine hundred thousand _ dollars: Promkled, That not more than five thousand dollars of this {.°,§‘§."},'{’;,,,m,,,,,,_ appropriation shall be paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission. Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including L"°°" engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths and other artisans, and their helpers; janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermasteis, disbursements and examination of accounts, thirteen million five hundred thousand dollars. Fifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies and equip- ,.;£f'§$l,']’°° °‘ ""°°` ment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, am such other expenses not in the United States as the commission deems necessar to best promote the constrmtrtion of the Isthmian Canal, for the dlepartments of construction and engineering, quartermastefs, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, fifteen million dollars. Sixth. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph serv- “'°°°“"“°°"’· ice, stationery and printing, ocal 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 4 ontingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermastefs, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, nine hundred thousand dollars. a.
