Salaries, Executive Council: Temporary employees for engrossing, enrolling, trans- Contingent Expenses, Executive Council: Legislative printing In all $750.00 650.00 $1,400.00 Section 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 3. That this Act shall take effect upon its approval. [No. 39.] AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF CARRYING ON THE GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1916, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated in full compensation for the services of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, for the objects hereinafter expressly named: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PORTO RICO. Salaries, Executive Council: Five members, at $2,500 each, $12,500; secretary, $3,000; assistant secretary, interpreter and translator, $2,800; clerk and stenographer, $1,800; clerk and stenographer, $1,400; journal clerk, $900; sergeant-at-arms, $1,100; messenger, $480; janitor, $360; temporary employees for engrossing, enrolling, translating and other clerical work in connection with the session of the Legislative Assembly, $1,500; in all, $25,840. Legislative printing, $800; incidental expenses, $450; postage and freight, $200; traveling expenses. $400; telephone and telegraph, $10; stationery, $800; in all, $2,660. Printing and binding the laws of Porto Rico and the Journal of the Executive Council, $2,500; in all, $2,500. OFFICE OF THE FRANCHISE COMMITTEE. Salaries, Franchise Committee: Secretary, $2,700. Regulation of Public Utilities: Printing of forms for special re ports, printing and incidental expenses in connection with inspection of facilities and equipment of public service corporations, printing and incidental expenses in connection with rate revision of public utilities, $400; in all, $400. Total, Franchise Committee, $3,100. Total, Executive Council, $34,100. Provided, That the legislative printing for the Executive Council and the House of Delegates shall be done in the printing establishment offering to do the work at the lowest price after a public call for bids; Provided, That the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the President of the Executive Council may impose a fine not to exceed fifty dollars for each mistake or omission made by the printing contractor in complying with his contract. Salaries, House of Delegates: Thirty-five members, for sixty days, at five dollars per day each, $10,500; secretary, $2,800; assistant secretary, $2,400; assistant secretary and property clerk, $2,200; sergeant-at-arms, $1,100; interpreter and translator, $1,700; typewriter clerk for the office of the Speaker, $1,100; two typewriter clerks for the office of the secretary, at $900, $1,800; messenger, $480; janitor, $480; in all, $24,560. Temporary employees for engrossing, enrolling, translating and other clerical work in connection with the session of the Legislative Assembly, $1,200; two messengers for sixty days, at $60 each, $120; in all, $1,320. Legislative printing, $1,200; incidental expenses, $1,000; purchase of books, furniture and equipment for library, $200; mileage for members, $450; in all, $2,850. Total, House of Delegates, $28,730. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. Salaries, Office of the Governor: Governor, $8,000; secretary of the Governor, $2,000; inspector of police under the Governor, $2,200; stenographer and custodian of records, $1,700; doorkeeper, $500; messenger, $360; in all, $14,760. Stationery and printing, $500; telegraph and telephone, $250; furniture, $150; postage and freight, $200; incidental expenses, $650; in all, $1,750. Expenses, Executive Mansion: Care, maintenance and repair of government buildings used and occupied by the Governor of Porto Rico, care of grounds, wages of employees in connection therewith, telephone service, purchase, renewal and repair of furniture, water, light, miscellaneous and necessary incidental expenses, $10,000; in all, $10,000. Miscellaneous expenditures, subject to the approval of the Governor: Payment of miscellaneous claims, not otherwise appropriated for, and emergency expenditures for other purposes, upon recommendation of the Auditor and the approval of the Governor of Porto Rico, and for which transfer may be made to specific appropriations when the necessities of the public service may require it, $20,000; in all, $20,000. Total, Office of the Governor, $46,510. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Salaries, Office of the Secretary: Secretary, $4,000; assistant secretary, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,300; clerk, $1,700; clerk, $1,600; clerk, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; clerk, $1,300; clerk, $1,300; clerk, $1,200; clerk, $1,200; clerk and archivist in charge of the Spanish archives to be appointed by the Secretary of Porto Rico with the approval of the Executive Council, $1,200; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,000: clerk, $600; messenger, $480; messenger, $360; in all, $29,740. Stationery and printing, $750; furniture, $200; postage and freight, $500; telephone and telegraph, $50; incidental expenses. $500; in all, $2,000. Bureau of Weights and Measures-Salaries: Chief of Bureau, $2,300; assistant chief, $1,500; six inspectors, at $1,000, $6,000; typewriter-clerk, $540; stenographer, $900; warden, $360; in all, $11,600. Stationery and printing, $350; traveling expenses, $4,000; telegraph and telephone, $50; equipment of weights and measures, $500; postage and freight, including transportation of equipment (including transfer of some testing sets from one municipality to another), $600; incidental expenses, $600; in all, $6,100. Total, Bureau of Weights and Measures, $17,700. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Salaries, Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $4,000; Assistant Attorney General, $3,000; special fiscal at large, $3,500; law officer, $2,300; law officer, $2,300; chief of division of accounts, $2,300; secretary and translator, $1,600; file clerk, $1,500; stenographer, $1,400; stenographer, $1,200; stenographer, $1,100; two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $720; two messengers, at $360 each, $720; janitor, $360; in all, $29,500. Blank books, stationery, printing, office supplies, cablegrams, law books and other necessary incidental expenses, $2,500; litigation fund, $150; postage, $300; traveling expenses, $450; in all. $3,400. Total, Office of the Attorney General, $32,900. OFFICE OF THE TREASURER. Salaries, Office of the Treasurer-Treasurer's Office proper: Treasurer, $5,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,000; secretary, stenographer and translator, $1,500; mail clerk, $900; messenger, $360; janitor, $360 in all, $11,120. Bureau of Accounts and of the paymaster: Chief of Bureau, $2,300; assistant chief, $1,700; financial, receiving and stamp clerk, $1,700; clerk, $1,500; clerk, $1,500; clerk, $1,300; two clerks, at $1,100 each, $2,200; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $1,000; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $900; clerk, $600; in all, $16,900. Bureau of Municipal Finance: Chief of Bureau, $2,300; assistant chief, $1,700; clerk and stenographer, $1,200; in all, $5,200. Bureau of Property Taxes: Chief of Bureau, $2,300; assistant chief, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $1,700; assessor and investigator of corporations, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $1,800; clerk, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $1,500; clerk and stenographer, $1,300; five clerks, at $1,200 each, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $6,000; two clerks, at $1,100 each, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $2,200; clerk, $1,000; clerk, $900; two clerks, at $900 each, $1,800; clerk, $720; three clerks, at $600 each, $1,800; messenger, $360; three assessors, at $1,500 each, who shall have all powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $4,500; two assessors, at $1,400 each, who shall have all powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $2,800; assessor, who shall have all powers conferred upon internal revenue agents, $1,300; clerk for the assessment and collection of the income tax, as prescribed by the Tariff Act of the United States, enacted October 3, 1913, $1,400; two clerks for the assessment and collection of the income tax, as prescribed by the Tariff Act of the United States, enacted October 3, 1913, at $1,200, $2,400; in all, $35,780. Bureau of Internal Revenue: Chief of Bureau, $2,300; clerk, with powers of internal revenue agents, $1,600; clerk, with powers of internal revenue agents, $1,600; two clerks, at $1,100 each, $2,200; clerk and stenographer, $1,100; two clerks, at $900 each, $1,800; clerk, $720; clerk, $600; internal revenue agent at large, $1,800: seven internal revenue agents, at $1,400 each, $9,800; five internal revenue agents, at $1,300 each, $6,500; five internal revenue agents, at $1,200 each, $6,000; six internal revenue agents, at $1,100 each, $6,600; in all, $42,620. Salaries, collectors of internal revenue, who shall have all the powers conferred upon internal revenue agents and upon assessors: Collector, San Juan, $1,800; clerk, $900; clerk, $840; messenger, $300; collector, Ponce, $1,800; clerk, $900; clerk, $600; clerk, $480; messenger, $300; collector, Mayagüez-Hormigueros, $1,800; clerk, $900; clerk, $480; messenger, $240; collector, Arecibo, $1,800; clerk, $720; clerk, $480; messenger, $240; collector, Caguas, $1,200; clerk, $600; collector, Humacao, $1,200; clerk, $600; collector, Guayama, $1,200; clerk, $600; collector, Aguadilla-Moca, $1,200; clerk, $360; collector, Utuado, $1,100; clerk, $360; collector, Bayamón, $1,200; clerk, $360; collector, Yauco, $1,100; clerk, $360; collector, San Germán-Lajas, $1,100; clerk, $360; collector, Río Piedras, $1,100; clerk, $360; collector, Juana Díaz, $1,100; collector, Fajardo, $1,100; collector, Vieques, $900; messenger, $180; collector, Manatí, $900; collector, San Sebastián, $900; collector, Carolina, $900; collector, Lares, $900; collector, Yabucoa, $860; collector, Coamo, $860; collector, Cayey, $860; collector, Río Grande, $860; collector, Cabo Kojo, $860; collector, Aguada-Rincón, $860; collector, Vega Baja, $860; collector, Juncos, $760; collector, Salinas, $760; collector, Naguabo, $760; collector, Patillas, $760; collector, San Lorenzo, $760; collector, Guayanilla, $760; collector, Loíza, $760; collector, Ciales, $760; collector, Las Marías, $760; collector, Arroyo, $760; collector, Vega Alta, $760; collector, Aibonito, $760; collector, Camuy, $720; collector, Quebradillas, $720; collector, Maunabo, $720; collector, Barros, $720; collector, Isabela, $720; collector, Morovis, $720; collector, Sabana Grande, $720; collector, Dorado, $720; collector, Toa Alta, $720; collector, Comerío, $720; collector, Cidra, $720; collector, Jayuya, $720; in all, $59,600. Stationery and printing, which shall be made in Spanish and in English, $6,000; lighting and water, $100; telephone and telegraph service, $1,200; incidental and traveling expenses, $3,000; postage and express, $3,000; traveling expenses, internal revenue agents, $8,316; care of horses for internal revenue agents, including care, stabling, shoeing, veterinary assistance and medicines, $7,200; traveling expenses, assessors, $4,200; care of horses for assessors, including care, stabling, shoeing, veterinary assistance and medicines, $2,500; in all, $35,516. Total, Office of the Treasurer, $206,736. OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR. Salaries, Office of the Auditor-Auditor's Office proper: Auditor, $4,000; Assistant Auditor, $3,000; secretary and stenographer, $1,600; mail and file clerk, $1,000; messenger, $360; janitor, $360; in all, $10,320. Division of General Accounts: Chief of Division, $2,300; assistant chief, $1,700; one clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,400; clerk, $1,300; two clerks, at $1,200 each, $2,400; two clerks, at $1,100 each, $2,200; two clerks, at $720 each, $1,440; clerk, $480; in all, $14,720. Division of Property Accounts: Chief of Division, $2,300; clerk, $1,100; clerk, $900; clerk, $720; in all, $5,020. Provided, That such officials and employees of the Insular Government or branches thereof, as may be designated by the Auditor, with the approval of the head of the department, if any, shall hereafter keep records of all property other than real estate and render reports when requested in such form and manner as the Auditor shall prescribe; Provided, further, That, for the purpose of creating and maintaining more adequate control of all the property aforementioned, the detailed accounts of the said property in the possession or under the control of any official or employee of the Insular Government or its branches, shall be carried by the Auditor to such extent as he may deem practicable; Provided, That all the aforesaid officials and employees shall be required to give bond as provided in Section 119 of the Political Code. Division of Disbursements and Claims: assistant chief, $1,600; one clerk, $1,400; $1,100; two clerks, at $1,100 each, $2,200; in all, $11,640. Chief of Division, $2,300; one clerk, $1,300; clerk, clerk, $900; clerk, $840; |