Limited to priation, $250,000: Provided, That no part of this sum Proviso. shall be expended for any preliminary examination, sur- authorization. vey, project, or estimate not authorized by law. Approved, March 1, 1921. CHAP. 113.-An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. March 2, 1921. [H. R. 15872.] [Public, No. 357.] Vol. 41, p. 1205. Diplomatic and 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 consular appromoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in priations. full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: * WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN: Canadian Boundary Wa Vol. 36, p. 2448. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees ap- ters Commission. pointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, expense of printing, cost of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, 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 11, 1909, $38,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsist- when absent from ence of the commission or secretary, except for actual and necessary expenses, not in excess of $8 per day each, when absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business: Provided further, That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia, in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space. 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 all boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States in all Provisos. Washington. Rent allowance. Preparation of cases. matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000. March 3, 1921. [H. R. 15543.] [Public, No. 364.] Vol. 41, p. 1252. Legislative, executive, and judi tions. CHAP. 124. An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cial appropria- 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, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, namely: * * The serv OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS: 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 for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $150,000; 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 this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1922 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machine, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following, to wit: For correspondence models with carriages which will accommodate paper ten inches in width, $70; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twelve inches in width, $75; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper fourteen inches in width, $77.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper sixteen inches in width, $82.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper eighteen inches in width, $87.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty inches in width, $94; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-two inches in width, $95; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-four inches in width, $97.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-six inches in width, $103.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-eight inches in width, $104; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty inches in width, $105; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty-two inches in width, $107.50. Purchases to be made from sur eral Supply Committee. Immediate inventory of War stock. All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1922 by executive departments and independent es- plus stock of Gentablishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. The War Department shall furnish the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the ap- Department proval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of typewriters in its possession, the conditions of such machines, and the point of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for sale to the various services of the Government. If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices and such machines. shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. machines allowed for exchanges. Unserviceable of Acceptance unserviceable maas part chines payment. Details for service outside the District, restrict ed. SEC. 5. That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons in the classified service in the District of Columbia shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to Justice investiga the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice. Approved, March 3, 1921. Proviso. Department of tions excepted. March 3, 1921. [H. R. 15812.] [Public, No. 367.] Vol. 41, p. 1315. Agricultural propriations. CHAP. 127.-An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Department ap. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Conservation of navigable waters. Vol. 36, p. 961. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture more effectively. to carry out the provisions of the Act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 961), entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of Expenses in conserving the navigability of navigable rivers," $25,770 of the moneys appropriated therein, or for carrying out its purposes, shall be available for the employment of agents, title attorneys, clerks, assistants, and other labor, and for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purpose of said Act in the city of Washington. Washington, D. C. Conservation of navigable waters, etc. Cooperation fire protection of COOPERATIVE FIRE PROTECTION OF FORESTED WATERSHEDS OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS: For cooperation with any with States for State or group of States in the protection from fire of the forested watersheds of navigable streams under the provisions of section 2 of the Act of March 1, 1911, entitled "An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the tection 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," $400,000. Additional for est lands. Acquisition un der conservation Act. Vol. 36, p. 961. pro ACQUISITION OF ADDITIONAL FOREST LANDS: There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the provisions of the Act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 961), as amended, for the acquisition of additional lands at headwaters of navigable streams, $1,000,000. * Approved, March 3, 1921. CHAP. 129.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to create a Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," approved June 10, 1920. March 3, 1921. Federal Water No permits for monuments with gress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Power Act. That hereafter no permit, license, lease, or authorization works under, in for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission national parks or lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or out specific aufor the development, transmission, or utilization of thority of Conpower, within the limits as now constituted of any national park or national monument shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress, and so much of the Act of Congress approved June 10, 1920, entitled "An Act to create a Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," approved June 10, 1920, as authorizes licensing such uses of existing national parks and national repealed. monuments by the Federal Power Commission is hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1921. CHAP. 132.-An Act Directing the Mississippi River Commission to make an examination and survey of the Atchafalaya, Red, and Black Rivers, and to report plan for protection of their basins from flood waters of the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an examination and survey, with a report to Congress, shall be made by the Mississippi River Commission, of the Atchafalaya, Black, and Red Rivers in Louisiana, specifying a general plan with recommendations for the execution thereof that will give the greatest measure of protection to the basins of said rivers from the flood waters of the Mississippi River consistent with all other interests of the lower Mississippi Valley. Approved, March 3, 1921. CHAP. 161. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. Authority for licensing, therein Public Laws, 2d sess., p. 1063. 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 expenses approthe fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, namely: Sundry civil priations. * |