SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 200. 1908. 385 First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian Canal .Q¤¤¤iQ¤¤¤¤iS¤i¤¤- Commission, including assistant purchasing and ship ing agents, and rr£l1i·irisi§i;s.m me all other employees in the United States, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and tele- I¤¤i<*<*¤¤¤1<+¤p<=¤¤e¤· graph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Rm, Canal building in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars, and 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), twenty-seven thousand dollars, and the unex- B,,,,,m_ pended balances of appropriations for these objects available June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight; · Third. For pay of members of the Commission and officers and ggg§¤xL¤gg2;·§¤· t employees on the Isthmus other than skilled and unskilled labor, uepmmems. ’ 6 °" inc uding civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, ,,,,P{‘§',,‘§{{,’§f§§· "‘“·~ levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants, steno raphers, storekeep— ers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subgyremen, watchmen, wagon masters, stewards, hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessariliy and temporarily detailed for '1`¤¤¤1><>¤¤·v <i¤¤¤i¤¤· duty away from the sthmus, for the epartments of construction and en ineering, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, and expenses incident to conducting hearings and examinin estimates for a ropriations on the Isthmus, three million four hundred thousand dollhrs; Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including L¤b<¤- 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, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, eight million four hundred thousand dollars; F ifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equip- lP¤:¤¤¤¤¤¤f ¤¤¤=¢¤— ment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling °°°‘° °` expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, an such other expenses not in the United States as the Commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, and to enable P_;-‘<!;1¤w¤I¤g¤¤§¤:v¤f¤r the Secretary of War to purchase for the Panama Railroad Company Comlbady. ° r°"d two steamships of American register each to be of not less than nine thousand gross registered tonna e and at a cost of not to exceed one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, said ships to be con- Operation. trolled and operated by said Panama Railroad Company in like manner as other ships of said Company including the transportation of sup- _ plies, equipment and material for use in the construction of the Panama Canal and the transportation of officers and employees of the Panama _ Canal Commission: Provided, That when said ships are no longer .{?,C{,'§Q‘g§Q,. ,0 Navy required for use as aforesaid in the transportation of supplies, equip- Wlgigd ¤<> 1¤¤s¤r ra ment and material for the construction of the Panama Canal the same q ' shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy for use as colliers or other auxiliary vessels belonging to the Navy, twelve million eight hundred thousand dollars; Sixth. To continue the equipment and construction of the Panama *’“““m ******0*** Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million one hundred thousand dollars; no part of said sum Restriction. shall be expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per centum inter-
