SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 27. 1917. 115 annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the generalmaintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test prt borings, or mill and shop inspections, $580,660. _ Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury m‘?,{§§‘“’°*"”l °°‘“"°' to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered Sioljjgmmt °' °°*¤¤i¤· into prior to the repeal of the Act_entitled "An Act authorizing the Vai. 21. p. ecs. Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision o the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction o the same, " aplproved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- three, inc uding additional commissions accruing under certain of said contracts ue to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, exceyrt as otherwise specificalggprovided byl law, and including payment or the services from J ug t, nineteen undred and twelve, Hm Hmm of the architect of the Hilo; awaii, building, specially selected V¤1.’3s, p. isis; vol. under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen 37’p‘m‘ hundred and eleven, the unexpend balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending Jrme thirtieth, nineteen hrmdred and seventeen, or so much thereof as ma be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ornnarmo EXPENSES. O force. Ograting force: For such personal services as the Secretary of ‘P•i)¢•$n<i¤t:i•1lg¤¤vi¤¤¤· .the easury may deem necessary in connection with the care, main- _ tenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter· provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal plassers electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists and wiremen; mec anical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters plumbers, steam litters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services P,,,,,,,,,_ are emplo *ed, $3,250,000: Provided, That the for. ing a. pro ria- v1:h¤i1<¥¤z= for which tion shall be available for use in connection with al?) ubliclmildings ° °° °‘ under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washin ton, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exc usive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay ofHc8S· Furniture etc. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and ' repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and re air·s of same for completed and occupied pub `c buildings rmder the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain rmder the custody and contr·ol of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hos(p1tals,_quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, 811 bmldmgs constructed for other executive departments or estab-
