WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: GREAT BRITAIN Canadian Boundary Vol. 36, p. 2448. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees Waters Commisappointed by the commissioners on the part of the sion. United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $75,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for when absent subsistence of the commission or secretary, except $8 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business. For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States involved in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000. * Approved, March 3, 1917. * * * CHAP. 163. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. Proviso. Subsistence from Washington. Preparation of cases. March 3, 1917. [H. R. 18542.] [Public, No. 381.] Vol. 39, p. 1070. Legislative, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any executive, and money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in judicial expenses full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending appropriations. June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely: ices of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations Office of Chief of Engineers. Skilled draftsmen, etc. Proviso. Typewriting machines. prices to be paid for. Exceptions. for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. * SEC. 4. That no part of any money appropriated by Restriction on this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools: Provided, That in construing this section of the Commissioner of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section. Proviso. Determination character of machines. March 4, 1917. [H. R. 19359.] [Public, No. 390.] Vol. 39, p. 1134. Agricultural Department appropriations. Conservation of navigable waters, etc. CHAP. 179.-An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: COOPERATIVE FIRE PROTECTION OF FORESTED WATERSHEDS OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS: For cooperation with any Cooperation with States for State or group of States in the protection from fire of the fire protection, forested watersheds of navigable streams under the provisions of section two of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An Act to enable any etc. Vol. 36, p. 961. State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers," $100,000. CHAP. 3.-An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. April 17, 1917. [H. R. 12.] [Public, No. 2.] Vol. 40, p. 2. Deficiencies ap Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That propriations. the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely: For refund of rentals to certain lessees of land and water power on the Muskingum River, Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $653.72. To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two thousand and forty of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $363.70. * * * CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPART- Chief of Engi For expenses, California Débris Commission, 13 cents. June 12, 1917. [H. R. 11.] [Public, No. 21.] Vol. 40, p. 105. Sundry civil expenses appropriations. CHAP. 27.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely: Was Depart ment. Engineer De partment. Flood control For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance. of the Mississippi, with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000,000. etc. Vol. 39, p. 948. Rivers and harbors. * * * * * Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the conContract work. struction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: Vol. 39, pp. 392, 393, 394, 401, 405. Delaware River. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows: Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For Philadelphia to continuing improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000. the sea. Duluth-Supe rior Harbor. East River, N. Y. Hudson River, N. Y. Kahului, Ha waii. Survey of northern and lakes. Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Harbor: For completing improvement, $180,000. East River, New York: For continuing improvement, $200,000. Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, $375,000. Kahului, Hawaii, Harbor: For continuing improvement, $100,000. * * * * Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For northwestern survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000. California Débris Commission: For defraying the exVol. 27, p. 507. penses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. New York Harbor. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent Preventing inwater of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; jurious deposits. "Lamont," re For purchase and installation of a new dynamo, elec- atting, etc. trical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $11,500; In all, $96,760. * Approved, June 12, 1917. * * CHAP. 34.-Joint Resolution Extending the time within which the "Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River" shall remain in effect. June 30, 1917. [S. J. Res. 13.] [Pub. Res., No. 8.] di version of water Falls, continued for one year. from, above the Vol. 39, p. 867. Proviso. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That public resolution numbered forty-five of the Sixty-fourth Congress, approved January nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River," is continued in full force and effect, and under the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations, until July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to make water diversion, a comprehensive and thorough investigation, including all necessary surveys and maps, of the entire subject of water diversion from the Great Lakes and the Niagara River, including navigation, sanitary and power purposes, and the preservation of the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls and the rapids of Niagara River, and to report to Congress thereon at the earliest practicable date. To carry out the provisions of this proviso, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000. Approved, June 30, 1917. etc. Appropriation. RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATION BILL August 4, 1917. [H. Con. Res. No. 19.] Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 4285) entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public bor appropriation works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," River and har bill. |