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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . Suss . I. CH. 126. 1928 . 171 The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services Technical services . as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be post, p . 172. paid from the appropriation " Repairs to Coast Guard vessels ": Provi ded, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year iml ion, etc . 1929 shall not exceed $10,660 . A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget . For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized Service expenditures . work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the Act Vol.43, p. 1116. approved March 3, 1925, as follows, including not to exceed $800 for purc hase , ex chan ge, main tena nce, rep air, and ope rati on o f mo tor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes :

Pay, etc ., officers and For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned offi- enlisted men . cers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $18,983,400 ; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, Fuel and water . $2,772,800 ; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers' stores for the same, outfits, stores, etc . $1,8 98,0 00 ; . For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge tern- stations, houses of f

refuge, etc . porary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $500,000 ; For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers ; and traveling etc .raveling expenses, expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and app lica nts for enli stme nt, with sub sist ence and tra nsfe rs e n ro ute, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rend ezvo us, and expe nses of main tain ing the same ; a dver - tising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen, $350,000 ; For draft animals and their maintenance, $24,000 ;

Draft animals . For coastal communication lines and facilities and their main te- coastal communica- tionr nance, $60,000 ; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including plOyee Civ ilia n fi eld em- clerks to district superintendents, $75,000 ; Contingent expenses . For cont inge nt e xpen ses, inc ludi ng c ommu nica tion ser vice , su b- sist ence of ship wrec ked pers ons succ ored by the Coas t Gu ard ; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $25,000 ; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experi- mental and research work in relation to telephony and radioteleg- raphy, not exceeding $4,000 ; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Govern-

• me nt h os pi ta ls ; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newpapers and period- icals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $270,000 ;

com plet in g two cut- For the completion of two of the Coast Guard cutters authorized ters . in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of ten Vol.44,p.721. vessels for the Coast Guard," approved June 10, 1926, $1,134,000 ; 54835•-29- PT 1-15