Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 38 Part 1.djvu/694

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SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 223. 1914. 675 wagon masters, watchmen, and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination o accounts, and for those employed in connection with the preservation of plans, drawings, and other records, $2,414,000. Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including I**’°'· engineers, conductors, iircmen, 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, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $7,000,000; . Fifth. For the purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and ,,}’§'q°¤‘}{·,’,§,°‘;f,’°g',?c_“* equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying trav- ’ ’ ehnghexpenses mcident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere; purc ase, mamtenance, and retpair of motor cars, fire-iightinig apparatus, towing locomotives, an other motor-propelled vehic es and such other expenses not in the United States as the governor deems D,mSm°n of rm necessary to best promote the construction of the Panama Canal, and comment matchisuch expenses as are incurred in assembling, sorting, storing, repair- °°°‘ P ing, an sekggi material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or ereafter purch or acq)uired or the construction of the Panama Canal, Oommmu 8 We which are unservicea le or no longer needed, includinlg the amount mmm. necessary to continue the construction of the two co ers rovided ‘"'“""”‘ for under the Act approved Jime twenty-third, nineteen lhundred and thirteen, sub`ect to the limit of cost therein fixed, and including mmm ,0 www the payment of damages caused to the owners of private lands, or rreperty- private property of any kind, by reason of the grants contained in the vox. ss, p. m4. treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama proclaimed February twentysixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason o the construction, maintenance, o eration, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the works oi)sanitation and protection therein provided for, whether compromised by agreement between the claimant and the chairman of the commission or allowed P8 mm ,0 I 6, by a joint commission, and the payment for land and land under sw.? r °° water as authorized in section three of the Panama Canal Act, for the V°‘·“7· p` “‘“· departments of construction and engineer1ng, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements, and examination of accoimts, and including www Mold M also ayment to the Wheeling Mold and Foundry Company, 0 rsumny éompany. Wheeling, West Virginia, of the sum of $9,076.21, to carry into effect an equitable settlement with that company which could not be made by reason of the ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury, this sum having been deducted as licaluidated damages on the various contracts and being in excess of the actual damages to the commission, $9,000 000 · _ _ 1 Sixth. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, °°°" stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trams, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and emgoyees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on o -0181 business; expenses incident to conducting hearings and exarmning estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, and all other mcidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, (l1SbU.1'S9· ments and examination of accounts, $725,000; OM, admmtmkm Seventh. For pay of officers and employees of the department of aegmmmr. civil administration, including foremen, subforemen, skilled and m_‘“°°""* °"‘P‘°’°°°· unskilled labor, watchman, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those neces-