SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 117. 1922. 471 priated, for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, namely: TITLE I.—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. m?,§{3?"m°“t°’°°m` OFFICE or rim sEcRErAnY. S°¤°°¤*Y’¤ Om- Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, c,§l?k°Sf°f;gY· °$Si$‘°¤°· $5,000; assistant to the Secreta , $2,750; private secretary to the ` Secretary, $2,500; confidential hlerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisionsaplpointments $2,500, publications $2,500, supplies $2,100; assistant c ef, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, thirteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; two te e hone operators at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers at $840 each; five assistant messengers at $720 each; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors at $720 each; three firemen at $720 each; sixteen laborers at $660 each; cabinetmaker, $1,200; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; nine watchmen at $720 each; twenty-five charwomen at $240 each; in all, $196,050. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and °°“"i”g°“t°‘p°“S°S‘ bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specniihally made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, amphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; Iurniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-lpropelled passenger-carrying vehicles and of motor trucks and bicyc es, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; te1e§aph an telephone service; tyipgwriters, adding machines, and o er labor-saving devices, inclu g their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; rental of water-cooling plant in Commerce Building, not to exceed $1,400; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this deplartment; street car fares, not exceeding $300; and) ah other misce aneous items and necessary __ expenses not included in the foregoing, $80,200, and in addition ,,,,‘§{I,‘l,‘°‘§°”,‘{,l*{,Y,}’,’;,$§Q thereto sums amounting to $87,250 shall be deducted from other xéug g`§;_g;¤g;;1§ appropriations made for the fiscal year 1923 and added to the appro- mime. priation "Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce," in order V°*‘°°*"‘m‘ to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Statutes at Large, volume 36, page 531), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices or which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations_are specifically made as follows: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce——promoting commerce, $8,000; promoting commerce (South and Central America), $13,000; commercial attaches, $5,000; promoting commerce in the Far East, $5,000; export industries, $23,000; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $8,500; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $7,500; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for counting passen-
