1913-Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. L., 736, 737)—An Act To create a Department of Labor.

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SEC. 3. That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as the Commissioner General of Immigration, the Commissioners of Immigration, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the Division of Information, the Division of Naturalization, and the Immigration Service at Large, . . . . be, and the same hereby are transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department. The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization is hereby divided into two bureaus, to be known hereafter as the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization, and the titles Chief Division of Naturalization and Assistant Chief shall be Commissioner of Naturalization and Deputy Commissioner of Naturalization.

1921-Act of June 16, 1921 (42 Stat. L., 29, 48)—An Act Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.

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The sum of $125,207.97 of the appropriation " Advanced Transportation, United States Employment Service, 1918 and 1919," is reappropriated and made available to enable the Secretary of Labor to complete the payment of obligations covering transportation incurred during the fiscal year 1919 by the War Emergency Employment Service.

1923-Act of January 5, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1110, 1129)—An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924 and for other purposes.

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CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Printing and Binding: For printing and binding for Department of Labor including all its bureaus, offices, institutions and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $215,000.

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment;

maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; coöperating with and coördinating the public employment offices throughout the country, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official station, together with their per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $210,000.

1923-Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1557)-An Act Making appropriations to provide additional compensation for certain civilian employees of the Government of the United States and the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924.

[SEC. 1.] That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this Act, shall receive during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum: Provided, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than $2500 and less than $2740 shall receive additional compensation at such rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this Act at a rate which is more than 60 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: Provided further, That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not be computed as salary in construing this Act: Provided further, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1922, has received during the fiscal year 1923, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1924, an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee, whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1922, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employee shall be granted the increased compensation provided herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation.

SEC. 9. That the additional compensation granted in this Act shall be applied by administrative officers in such a manner that the appropriations made herein will not be exceeded.

APPENDIX 5

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Statements showing appropriations, receipts, expenditures and other financial data for a series of years constitute the most effective single means of exhibiting the growth and development of a service. Due to the fact that Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriation for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in others financial data are almost wholly lacking. Careful study has in all cases been made of such data as are available, and the effort has been made to present the results in such a form as will exhibit the financial operations of the services in the most effective way that circumstances permit.

The figures in the first table have been taken from the "Combined Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements, Balances, etc., of the United States "; those in the second table from "Estimates of Appropriations" Treasury Department, except for 1921 and 1922 which are from the Budget.

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1 Except expenditures for 1922 which are from Employment service

accounts.

$250,000.00 244,783.80

$400,400.00 $400,397.91

d$500,000.00 $189,043.99 $6,022,000.00 $6,015,856.64 $400,400.00 $400,397.91

a Figures from Estimates of Appropriations (approximate).

b Figures from The Budget (estimated).

Includes expenditures from fund for "National Security and Defense " but not for "Advanced Transportation."