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THE
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FROM
MAY, 1919, TO MARCH, 1921
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS
AND
RECENT TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE
PROCLAMATIONS
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
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VOL .
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IN TWO PARTS
PART 1-Public Acts and Resolutions
PART 2-Private Acts and Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions,
Treaties, Proclamations, and Amendment to the
Constitution
PART 1
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1921

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benefits hereof shall make the required payments and perform such
other acts as may be required within the time fixed in the regulations,
otherwise any right or advantage claimed under this Act shall be
forfeited .
Approved, May 29, 1920 .
May 29, 1920.
CHAP. 214 .-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and [H . R . 14100.1
judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for (Public, No. 231 .]
other purposes .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Legislative execuprop
and al apappropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are ions
priated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1921, namely :
LEGISLATIVE .
Legislative .
SENATE . Senate .
For compensation of Senators, Pay of Senators
$720,000 . .
For mileage of Senators, Mileage.
$51,000 .
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others :
Officers, clerks, etc.
office" Pres i d e n
OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT : Secretary to the Vice Presi- is
dent, $4,000 ; clerk, $1,600 ; telegraph operator, $1,500 ; page, $600 ;
in all, $7,700 .
CHAPLAIN : For Chaplain, $1,200 . Chaplain.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY : Secretary of the Senate, including COm- ass the
ate ttaanot,th
as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contin- etc .
gent fund of the Senate, $6,500 ; assistant secretary, Henry M . Rose,
$5,000 ; chief clerk, $3,250 ; assistant financial clerk, $3,250 ; minute
and Journal clerk, principal clerk, librarian, enrolling clerk, and printing
clerk, at $3,000 each ; reading clerk, $4,000 ; financial clerk, $4,000 ;
executive clerk, $2,750 ; file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant
Journal clerk, at $2,500 each ; first assistant librarian, and keeper
of stationery, at $2,400 each ; assistant librarian, $1,800 ; skilled
laborer, $1,200 ; clerks-three at $2,500 each, four at $2,220 each,
two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440 ;
assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000 ; assistant in stationery room,
$1,200 ; messenger in the library, $1,000 ; messenger, $1,440 ; assistant
messenger, $1,200 ; laborers-three at $840 each, two at $720 each,
one in stationery room $720 ; in all, $97,590.
Document room .
DOCUMENT ROOM : Superintendent, George H . Boyd, $3,500 ; first Superintendent, etc .
assistant, John W. Lambert, $2,500 ; assistants-one $2,250, one
$1,440 ; clerk, $1,440 ; skilled laborer, $1,200 ; in all, $12,330 . Clerks and messen-
CLERKS AND MESSENGERS TO THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEES : Agri- gers to committees .
culture and Forestry-clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant
clerk $1,500 ; Appropriations-clerk $5,000, two assistant clerks at
$2,500 each, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each, messenger $900 ;
to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate-clerk
$2,500, assistant clerk, $1,600, assistant clerk, $1,500 ; Banking and
Currency-clerk $3,000, assistant clerk, $1,800, two assistant clerks
at $1,500 each ; Claims-clerk $2,500, assistant clerk, $2,000, two
assistant clerks at $1,500 each ; Commerce-clerk $2,500, assistant
clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500 ; Conference
Minority of the Senate-clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, two
assistant clerks at $1,500 each ; District of Columbia-clerk $2,500,
assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500 ; Education and Laborclerk
$2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500 ; Finance-

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writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands,
water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and
unserviceable articles, $15,000.
For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems_ in the Treas- F'i •
ury and Winder Buildings, $1,980 .36 .
operating expenses
For operating expenses of the Arlington Building and annex, Arlington Enilding .
including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous
items, $60,000 .
Treasury Annex .
For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex (Pennsylvania
Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current,
ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $15,000.
Treasury Department Annex (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest) :
For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of
trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $44,000 .
Darby Building : For heating, electric current, electrical equipment,
ice, and miscellaneous items, $6,000 .
CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, OFFICE OF AUDITOR
Annex, Fourteenth
and B Streets NW,
Auditor for Post Of .
fice Department .
FOR THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT : For miscellaneous items, Contingent expenses .
including purchase, repair, and exchange of typ ewriters and adding
machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture
and repairs, not exceeding $475 may be used for rental of telephones,
and not exceeding $200 may be used for the purchase of law books,
books of reference, and city directories, $9,000, to be expended under
the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under
rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office
from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department,
unless otherwise provided by law .
For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing mna Mating equip.
accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange
and repairs, $219,000, to be expended under the direction of the
Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations
to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury : Provided, That Proviso . llowance.
not exceeding $39,400 may be expended for the rental of tabulating
and card-sorting machines .
INTERNAL REVENUE .
Collecting
revenue.
internal
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy
collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeeper gaugers, clerks,
Collectors, gaugers,
messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of offices
outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to
horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, expenses
of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in
collecting internal-revenue taxes, $4,288,000 : Provided, That no
part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any
officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court
to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary
examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses
shall be paid from the appropriation for "Fees of witnesses, United
witness fees .
Post, p . 924.
States courts ."
For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes,
taxes of collecting, Revenue
et, ., taxes
as provided by the "Revenue Act of 1918," including the employment A vbi9 1840, . pp. 1057,
of the necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, 1140 .
inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the
District of Columbia and the several collections districts, to be
appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, A ,&, p. 651 .
rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight,
express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase
of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, printing,

654 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS . SEss . I T . Cu . 214 . 1920 .
stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles
as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the sev-
Previso.
Punishing violators eral collection districts $21,000,000 : Provided, That not more than
of revenue laws . $500,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended
by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing
to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving
at the same, including payments for information and detection
of such violation .
Refunding collectiers.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered
Vol. 35, p . 325.
into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions
of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $250,000 .
Refunding illegally
collected taxes . For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of
p pR . .25 .3220, 3089, sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of
Vo1 .40,p.1145 . February 24, 1919, $12,000,000 ; and not to exceed $1,000,000 of
said amount may be used in payment of certified claims over three
years old without special appropriation by Congress in each individual
Proviso'
Report of disburse- case : Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress of the dism
Vo s'40,p.1145 . bursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919 .
Enforcing National For expenses to enforce the provisions of the "National Prohibition
Prohibition and Nar- > >
Act an the Act entitled An Act to provide for the registration of,
cotipActs.
Ante, p . 305. with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon,
Vol. 38, p. 785 ; Vol. all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in,
40, p. 1130.
dispense, sell, distribute, or Live away opium or cocoa leaves, their
salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes," approved
December 17, 1914, as amended by the "Revenue Act of 1918,"
including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors,
chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in
the field and in the bureau of internal revenue in the District of
Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law ; the securing of
evidence of violations of the Acts and for the purchase of such supplies,
equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, necessary
printing and binding and such other expenditures as may be necessary
m the District of Columbia and several field offices, and for rental of
Provisos
Rent, District i of co- necessary quarters, $4,500,000 : Provided, That not to exceed $49,500
lumbia .
of the foregoing sum shall be expended for rental of quarters in the
Amount for narcotic
enforcement . District of Columbia : Provided further, That not to exceed $750,000
.
of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the pro-
40,P .1130. p. 785' Vol
visions of the said Act of December 17, 1914 .
Annual statement of
expenses,etc.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit to Congress
on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement showing
the number, designation, and annual rate of compensation of the
persons employed and the amounts expended for rent and other
authorized purposes in the District of Columbia from the foregoing
appropriations for internal revenue .
Independent Tress-
INDEPENDENT TREASURY .
nry.
Offices of assistant
treasurers abolished Section 3595 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as
from
amended, providing for the appointment of an Assistant Treasurer
9u sec1 93595, p'
710, repealed . of the United States at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
New Orleans, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Chicago,
and all laws or parts of laws so far as they authorize the establishment
discontinued .
a es to be or maintenance of offices of such Assistant Treasurers or of Subtreasuries
of the United States are hereby repealed from and after
July 1, 1921 ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and
directed to discontinue from and after such date or at such earlier
date or dates as he may deem advisable, such subtreasuries and the
exercise of all duties and functions by such assistant treasurers or
their offices. The office of each assistant treasurer specified above
and the services of any officers or other employees assigned to duty
Termination of sereices
of employees .

SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS . SESS. II . Cs . 214 . 1920. 655
at his office shall terminate upon the discontinuance of the functions
of that office by the Secretary of the Treasury .
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion,
to transfer any or all of the duties and functions performed or
authorized to be performed by the assistant treasurers above enumerated,
or their offices, to the Treasurer of the United States or the
mints or assay offices of the United States, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe, or to utilize any of the Federal eralresetio banks ed -
reserve banks acting as depositaries or fiscal agents of the United thorized.
Vol . 38, p . 265 .
States, for the purpose of performing any or all of such duties and
functions, notwithstanding the limitations of section 15 of the Federal
reserve Act, as amended, or any other provisions of law : Provided, JT ~t30~nstoay of
That if any moneys or bullion, constitutm art of the trust funds trust funds.
or other special funds heretofore required by law to be kept in
Treasury offices, shall be deposited with any Federal reserve bank,
then such moneys or bullion shall by such bank be kept separate and
distinct from the assets, funds, and securities of the Federal reserve
bank and be held in the joint custody of the Federal reserve agent
and the Federal reserve bank : Provided further, That nothing in this banks as deem tma ber
section shall be construed to deny the right of the Secretary of the not affected .
Treasury to use member banks as depositaries as heretofore authorized
by law.
Use of subtreasur ,
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to assign an y buildings, equipment,
or all the rooms, vaults, equipmet, and safs or space in the buildings etc„
used by the subtreasuries to any Federal reserve bank acting as
fiscal agent of the United States .
All employees in the subtreasuries in the classified civil service
Transfer f eligible
civil service employ.
of the United States, who may so desire, shall be eligible for transfer ees .
to classified civil service positions under the control of the Treasury
Department, or if their services are not required in such department
they may be transferred to fill vacancies in any other executive
department with the consent of such department . To the extent Preferences .
that such employees possess required qualifications, they shall be
given preference over new appointments in the classified civil service
under the control of the Treasury Department in the cities in which
they are now employed .
Asssistant treasurers'
BALTIMORE, OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TREASURER : Assistant treasurer, offi
$4,500 ; cashier, $2,500 ; paying teller, $2,000 ; receiving teller, $1,900 ; Baltimore.
exchange teller, $1,800 ; vault clerk, $1,800 ; clerks-two at $1,600
each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each ;
messenger, $840 ; three watchmen, at $720 each ; in all, $31,500 .
Boston .
BOSTON, OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TREASURER : Assistant treasurer,
$5,000 ; cashier, $2,500 ; paying teller, $2,500 ; vault clerk, $2,000 ;
receiving teller, $2,000 ; redemption teller, $1,800 ; clerks-one $2,200,
five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three
at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each ; chief guard, $1,100 ; three watchmen,
at $850 each ; laborer and guard, $720 ; four money counters
and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each ; in all,
$46,570 .
Chicago.
CHICAGO OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TREASURER : Assistant treasurer,
$5,000 ; cashier, $3,000 ; assistant cashier, $2,000 ; vault clerk, $2,250 ;
paying teller, $2,500 ; assorting teller $2,000 ; redemption teller,
$2,000 ; change teller, $2,000 ; receiving teller, $2,000 ; two bookkeepers,
at $1,500 each ; clerks-one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at
$1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each ; attendant for money laundry
machines, $1,200 ; hall man, $1,100 ; messenger, $840 ; three watchmen,
at $720 each ; janitor, $720 ; eight money counters and handlers
for money laundry machines, at $900 each ; in all, $71,420.
CINCINNATI, OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TREASURER Cincinnati .
: Assistant treasurer,
$4,500 ; cashier, $2,250 ; paying teller, $2,000 ; receiving teller, $1,800 ;