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 SIXTY·FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 79. 1917. 383 For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $153.98. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 10 cents. For inspection of prisons and prisoners, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $144.70. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,399.80. For fees of commissioners, United States co1u·ts, $91.60. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $32.20. For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $99.80. For United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $76.46. . cLAms ALLOWED nr mn Aunrron FOR rum rosr ormcn nmranmnm. For indemnities, intemational re tered mail, $117.57. Auditer£or811g£)cl» For freight on stamped paper anglmmail bags, $148.94. D°’°"“‘°"‘· For shipment of supplies, $43.01. For star-route SBTVICG, $19.91. For compensation to postmasters, $135.41. For railroad transportation, $528.73. For inland-mail transportation, $197.29. For Rural Delivery Service, $1.31. For rent, light, and fuel, $184.66. For twine and tying devices, $21.11. For power-boat service, $15. For special-delivery service, fees, $1.04. _ For reimbursement for amount paid for loss of two boxes of supplies, and covered into the Treasury, $18. _‘ L md Nl Sec. 4. That the a pigopriations contained herein under the MI1l• },.%T.K;..,,, ..3..3; tary and Naval Estab hments shall be available for the paiyment 8‘;i¤ig‘°“”¤ °'”· of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurre prior to the pgage of this Act and which are proper y chargeable to such appropriations. gmc. 5. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy coiitrrrggts. md Naw - are authorized, durinlg the period of the existing emergency, from d$${g °”' appropriations ava.ila le therefor to advance payments to contractors for supplies for their respective departments in amounts not excee;lvibr(}g thirty per centum of the contract price of such supplies: P [ Pr ed, That such advances shall be made upon such terms as the cannabis. Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, shall prescribe and they shall require adequate security for the protection of the Government for the payments so made. Emmm do m_ Sec. 6. That section five o the Act of June twenty-second, nine- mentemployeeap teen hundred and six, prohibiting the transfer of employees from ,,'f,§‘{‘f'§',§",°",f,*,§;},§f,‘,}E one executive department to another, shall apply with equal force ·¤{,¤{¤§>!*¤¤¥;;¤¤· and effect to the transfer of employees from executive departments ° ’°° ` to independent establishments and vice versa and to the transfer of Prom employees from one independent establishment to another: Pro- smergeiggyrieezceemkled, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet °°"““°“ “‘°"· Corporatiop shlgll be considered a Government establishment for the piuposes o t section. _ Sec. 7. That no civil employee in any of the executive departments iuiunfral {Shrew or other Government estabhshments, or who has been employed §{{,';’,,,§,?'§’§{,*,?,‘g,,'§d°‘§ therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed ¤¤¤ rwemployment in any other executive department or other Government estabhshment, shall be em loyed hereafter and paid from a lump-sum appropriation in any other executive department or other Government establishment at an increased rate of compensation.