SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 141. 1915. 1045 odicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and care of horses, horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles, and motor-propelled trucks, and bicycles, to be used only for ofhcial purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, tggplewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, mclu g their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; storage of documents belongingkto the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street car tic ets, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foreglpin $57,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $48,650 s allgbe deducted from auumemi awww other appropriations made for e Escal year nineteen hundred and §32¤E§§,““€t$t§3§${ sixteen and added to the appropriation ‘Contingent expenses, De- S¤ggLY3g¤*¤¤5§{¤¤· partment of Commerce/’ in order to facilitate the purchase through ’p` ' the central purchasin office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty- six, page Eve hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which continugent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as fo ows: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce——Investigating cost of production, $3,700, promcting commerce, $4,500, promotinghgmmerce (South and Central America), $1,200, commercial attac , $4,500; Sgeneral exlplpgnses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, teamboait- pection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500· instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $2,000; Bureau of Standards——equi(pment $1,500, general expenses $2 000; general expenses, Coast an Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; an the said total sum of $105,650 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of _Commerce, to e expended through ,,,'f,§}, ‘,{° §;§’,,$,,'{,"°g} the centra purchasing omce (Division of Supplies), Department of suPP!f¤5- Commerce, and shall also be available for o gects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title ‘ Contingent ex nses, De artment of Commerce," in this Act. Fir rent ofp buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500 R•*¤¤· DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. ,,,§·¤·¤¤·¤¤= 0* M Omucn or mn Smcnnrxnrz Secretary of Labor,_$12,000; Assist- a$l·'£Y°Z’2ZY’A°’is°°°°’ ant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; dmbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division, $2,500· appointment clerk, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, four of class t ree, seven of class two, four of class one five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; four assistant messengers; three messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; ten laborers; four watchmen; nine charwomen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $88,300. Commissmm 0, Commissioners or Coxcinmrroxz To enable the Secretary of ceqcuanen. Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of °°"37*"‘m‘ the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint Commis- Pmmmsubsismm sioners of Conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not .4»a,p.ea>. exceeding $4 pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved, Auvust first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and travelincr ex enses, including an executive clerk at $2,000 in the District of Columbia, $50,000.
