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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27. 1917. 177 chase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motorpropelled and horse-drawn }I;qssenger—carrying vehicles; claims for ‘€}I§‘f“§_§';’,'§&m°¤°$ damages to vessels assing t ou h the locks of the Panama Canal, ° ` ° as authorized by the Panama ganal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damacres caused to owners of private lands or private prolperty of any  bg reason of the grants contained in the treaty etween the United tates and the Republic of Panama, V°*·33· v·2234· proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the o erations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason oi, the construction, maintenance, oiperation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the work o sanitation and protection therein provided for, whether such claims are compromised by agreements between the claimants and the Governor of the Panama Canal or allowed by a joint land commission; acquisition $§*,{‘§,‘$“,§_’g’g}?“d· of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal _ i Act; expenses incmred in assembling, asserting, stori1¥, repairing, ,,,£{§§°§,?,{,,‘}§,,,,‘f“§°,,,{" and sellinglmaterial, machineqy, and equipment hereto ore or hereafter pure ased or acquired or the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by Hood, iire pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise P mm provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when v$i.as,pl°ssu. prescribed b the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work, or travelin on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civ§l appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary to best promote the construction, maintenance an operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: C I I, up For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama m¤¤:,¤w.,¤rd¤& Canal including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Dock at WSIIM, Panama Canal; for the completion of one dock at Cristobal (numbered com wget ` six) at a total cost not exceeding $1,500,000; and toward construction by contract or in navy yards complete in every detail of two seagoing coal barges at a total cost not exceeding $800 000 each under a ,, , contract or contracts hereb authorized therefor: Isrmrided, That the Auamiiy my two authority contained in the Act approved Jul first, nineteen hundred °°§I,‘{’3‘Q,°P,ff’é“,j,’,j and sixteen, for the construction of two colhers is repealed and the B¤¤¤¤¤i>f¤r¤¤m¤¤· sum of $1,100,000 appropriated therein toward the construction of the said colliers, or so much thereof as is unexpended, is made available for use in the construction of the coal barges authorized herein, $2 755,000. . lior maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the eriiiiiiii and W governor, $100,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handli, and g3§f’,§{°§4,,_ Storing of material, su plies and equipment for issue to allngepart- P“’°h“°**·"*°· ments of the Panama Climal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of P t t wm the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment in crpiiiiim ° lump sums of not exceedin the amounts authorized by the in'ury °’·3“·*’· 7*2 compensation Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of iiguries sustained while employed in the construe- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,0,,, ,,,. tion of the Panama anal, $9,000,000, together with all mone aris- mintsing from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Pifnama Canal Act; 112460°—vot 40—r·r 1--12