SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Crr. 130. 1918. 795 one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; givate secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; aftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thir·ty-one of class three, thirt —eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (incliiding one stenographer), thirty- two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $320,790. _ Pnnsron OFFICE! Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner,_ P"“‘°” Om"' $3 600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; nine medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-seven principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and apnginted b the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000; eleven assistant c `efs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2 750; three supervising c erks in the disbursing division, at $2 000 each; clerksnine1}y·three of class four, eighty-three of class three, two hundred and orty-seven of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), three hundred and twenty of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; thirty-six copyists (one transferred to building for Interior Department offices); twenty-three messengers (one transferred to Secretary’s office, three to building for Interior Department offices, and one to Solicitor’s of·Hce); six assistant messengers (two transferred to Solicitor’s office); skilled laborer, $660; six messenger be , at $420 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office and two to builchiig for Interior Department offices); in all, $1,322,620. , _ Mmmm m mm ppointment shall not be made to anfy of the positions herein ap- vacancies. propriated for in the classified service o the Bureau of Pensions not actualtly filled June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor shall more an fifty per centum of other vacancies actually occurring in the $1,200 grade, nor more than twenty-five per centum of such vacancies actually occurring in all other grades or positions, excnpg those with salaries of $2,250 or above, or $1,000 or below, du.rir§ Hscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, be Glled by oriigiip appointment or promotion. The salaries or compensation of places which ma not be filled as hereinabove provided for shall not be available Zn- expenditure, but shall lapse and shall be covered into f.l19 TI‘68SUI’y. _ _ _ _ Per diem, etc. ln- For per diem at not exceeding $4 ui lieu or subsistence for persons vmmama. ' employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertamm%_to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, mclu mg telegrams, $90,000. Labm,_s“,ug d8_ For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, address- »-renew. ing machines, typewriters, check-sigmng machmes, and other laborsaving devices, urniture, Hling cabmets, and postage on foreign mail, $6 000. i)ATENT Orman: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commis·- Pamtoam sioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who_shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law exaimmers, at $2,750 each; examiner of classihcation, $3,600; five examiners m chief, at $3,500 each; two examiners of interferences, at $2,700_each; examiners of trade-marks and designs-one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; examiners-forty-five principals at $2,700 each, ninety first assistants_at $2,400 each, mnety second assistants at $2,100 each, ninety thud assistants at $1,800 each, ninety fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secret%of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be q_u ed to act as an as-
