An Act to Amend Act Numbered Five Hundred and Eighty-Four, Entitled "An Act Creating the Bureau of Engineering," by Increasing the Number of Employees therein

September 17, 1903

ACT NO. 888

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING," BY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THEREIN

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An Act creating the Bureau of Engineering," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words "one railroad engineer, at a salary of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum; one chief surveyor, class two; one geographer, class two; and one assistant engineer, class three."

SECTION 2. Section three of said Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four is hereby amended by striking out the sentence in line four beginning with the words "one chief draftsman," and ending with the words, "one messenger, Class K," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "one assistant engineer, class four; two assistant engineers class five; one chief draftsman, class five; three assistant engineers, class six; one chief clerk, class six; five transitmen, class seven; one property clerk, class seven; one stenographer, class seven; five transitmen, class eight; one voucher clerk, class eight; one record clerk, class eight; three clerks, class nine; eight transitmen, class nine; three junior draftsmen, Class D; four junior draftsmen, Class G; ten surveymen, Class H; two messengers, Class K."

SECTION 3. The appropriations made in Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, under the head of "Salaries and wages, Bureau of Engineering, nineteen hundred and four," are hereby made available for the positions herein authorized.

SECTION 4. Section six of Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "The Secretary of Commerce and Police, whenever in his discretion it is deemed advantageous to the interests of the Government, shall direct the advertisement for contracts in at least two papers having general circulation in the United States."

SECTION 5. Act Numbered Six hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An Act to amend Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An Act creating the Bureau of Engineering, by increasing the number of employees therein," is hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, September 17, 1903.