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Rh IMMIGRATION SERVICE.

For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States," and Acts amendatory thereo; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; and including not exceeding $2,000 for operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: Provided, That the purchase, use, maintenance, and operation of horses and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the execution of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: Provided further, That not more than $10,000 of the sum hereby appropriate may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles: Provided further, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred an seven, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States."

For refund to the North German Lloyd Steamship Line of amount overpaid for hospital treatment of Zofia Gwizdala at the Ellis Island immigration hospital prior to May first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $502.

For refund to the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) of amount erroneously paid for maintenance of John and Carl Antila between October nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the Ellis Island immigration station, $63.75.

For refund of overpayment for refrigeration services furnished during the period from August first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $75.

The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of George Johannes, special disbursing agent, Department of Labor, the sum of $12.90, representing the amount reimbursed by him to Ettore Girolami, engineer in the Immigration Service, for expenses for lodging and meals at San Diego, California, which were disallowed by the Auditor for the State and Other Departments.