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SIXTY—FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28. 1918. 473 hundred and ninety-eight of the present session, $640.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not four per centum on said judgment, as provided by law, from the date it became due until the date of payment. ‘ One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the mm appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise provided, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT. W”D°P°*'““°”*- ADDITIONAL nmrmornns. For the tempora employment of such additional force of clerks p,·'*md,y‘“,‘}k';“*};_“m‘ and other employe; as in the judgment of the Secreta? of War ce 'C may be proper and necessary to the prompt, eilicient, an accurate dis atch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the encies of the existing situation may demand: Provided, pmuwgtgtmmte, 'l`hat th<;x§eretary of War shall submit to Con%·ess on the first day °°"¤'°“°· of its next regular session a statement showing y bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and _ the annual rate of compensation paid to each: Provided furdrer, °§,,_°“""°‘°‘ That no more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at · a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each, $3,000,000. onion or cmnr or onrmnucn. °'°”°”°°°“°°· The.Chief of Ordnance is authorized to agpoint one of the Army p8];'€i$`5E°aiZ€.§,lli.€;'.¤lY officers his office as djsbursing officer to pay the civilian Am W er:[ployees in e Ordnance Office authorized in this Act, the urgent p` " d ciency appropriation Act a proved October sixth, nineteen ,.0,,3,, p_ 1,,,,,, hundred and seventeen, and thellegislative, executive, and judicial ' appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. coN·rrNenN·r EXPENSES. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, °°“““‘°°‘°"’°"°’· including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and add' machines; urniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilclglg, Elo cases, towels, ice, brooms, soa , sponges, fuel, gas, and heating ap aratus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and) Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the psurchase, maintenance, repair, and exchangle; of wagons, motor true and horse-drawn passenger-carrying} ve `cles, and harness, to be used only for official pmposes; freig t and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300 ; and other absolutely necessary P me _ expsnses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of °’ ms°bm°°°°' su istence, $600,000. P _ For postage stamgs for the department and its bureaus, as required °°°°°°' under the ostal nion, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. Rm in Di I I I 0, For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of mmm the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $289,89995. Te hm mmb Authority is ujgiven the Secretary of War to erect a telephone switchboard b ding on lots numbered five and six, block one hundred and srxty-nine, situated between Seventeenth and }%1gClgi¤G¤;i)li} and F and G Streets northwest, Washington, District o um ra.