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Sec. 56. Bureau of labor statistics.-For the support of bureau of labor statistics, including salaries of special agents and clerks, and the contingent and traveling expense of the board, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00); for stationery two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); in all the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000.00): Provided, that a free employment bureau shall be maintained at St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph: Provided, that the clerks in these bureaus shall be paid not less than seventy-five dollars ($75.00) each per month.

Sec. 57. Department of land reclamation.-There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund of the state treasury for the department of land reclamation, as follows: Salary of commissioner, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00); salary of stenographer, two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); pay of janitor, traveling expenses of commissioner, engineer, rent, postage, expressage, telegraphing, telephoning, furniture, instruments and contingent expenses of the office and all other necessary expenses of said department, the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00), in all a total of sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000.00).

Sec. 58. Lieutenant-governor's office. For the contingent expenses of the lieutenant-governor's office, including stenographer, postage, expressage, telephoning, telegraphing, and other incidental office expenses, and the traveling expenses of the lieutenantgovernor, in connection with the business of the state, one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800.00).

Sec. 59. Pay of legatees from escheat fund. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the escheat fund, for the pay of legatees and distributees, the shares of estates belonging to them, which has been or may be paid into the state treasury, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00).

Sec. 59a. Board of mediation and arbitration. There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund for pay of per diem and expenses of the board of mediation and arbitration, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00).

Sec. 60. Missouri library commission.-There is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise appropriated, chargeable to the state revenue fund, for the salaries and expenses of the Missouri library commission, the sum of fifteen thousand four hundred thirty dollars ($15,430.00), as follows: Salaries of officers and employes..

Books, binding newspapers, periodicals and cases...
Actual and necessary traveling expenses of the com-

mission members, secretary and assistants, for contingent expenses, including printing (exclusive of annual report), postage, expressage, telephoning, telegraphing, drayage, freight, janitor service, refurnishing and equipping office and other incidental and miscellaneous expenses. . . . Purchase of books for agriculture and farm library..

$7,080.00 4,000.00

3,600.00 750.00

Sec. 61. Mine inspectors. For the contingent and traveling expenses of five mine inspectors twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00); and for the contingent expenses of the bureau, including clerk hire, janitor, printing annual reports, blanks and maps, distributing of reports, postage, expressage, and telegraphing, five thousand six hundred dollars ($5,600.00); in all, a total of seventeen thousand six hundred dollars, ($17,600.00).

Sec. 61a. Mark Twain monument.-There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars and seventy-two cents ($10,462.72), for full and complete payment of all outstanding obligations and interest thereon, for the erection of the Mark Twain monument, at Hannibal, and marker at Florida. The same being made necessary by failure of the 47th general assembly to reappropriate money appropriated by the 46th general assembly, but which was not used by the monument commission until the expiration of the biennial period.

Sec. 62. Support national guard. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, for the support and maintenance of the national guard of Missouri, for the years 1915 and 1916, the sum of one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars ($132,000.00), as follows:

For support and maintenance, including rental of

armories and quarters, purchase of overcoats,
fuel, light, janitor and clerical services, postage,
express and freight, telephone, telegraph, lockers
and equipment, and the care and repair of same,
brigade and military council expenses, and
camps of instruction, traveling expenses and per
diem....

For salaries, as follows:

Commissioner of war claims and records.
Property clerk..

Storekeeper..

Stenographer.

Record clerk.

Stenographer..

Janitor and packer.

Messenger..

$116,360.00

3,600.00

2,400.00

2,400.00

2,400.00

1,800.00

1,440.00

1,200.00

400.00

Total.

$132,000.00

Provided, that all disbursements paid under this section shall be paid only upon itemized accounts, signed by the adjutant-general and approved by the governor and the military council of the national guard.

Sec. 63. State board of nurses.-There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury, belonging to the "state board of nurses" fund the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00), to pay the per diem of members of said board, the

salary of the secretary, which shall not exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year over and above the per diem, the expenses of the members and all other necessary expenses, and shall be paid by a warrant of the state auditor issued upon itemized requisitions signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board, under seal of said board.

Sec. 64. Missouri naval reserve.-There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to be drawn from time to time as may be required upon proper vouchers signed by the commanding officer, the adjutant-general and the governor for rent, repair, alteration and maintenance of armories, travel and subsistence of crew and officers when on duty or on training cruises; maintenance, custocians, clerical service, postage, express, freight, telegraph and telephone and other expense which may be necessary for the protection, safekeeping and handling of property (belonging to the United States naval department which may be loaned or issued to the state of Missouri for use of the Missouri naval reserve or naval militia) or property belonging to the state of Missouri, or for expenses incurred while naval militia is acting under orders of the governor upon patrol or flood protection.

Sec. 65. Contingent expense of state oil inspector.-For contingent expense of office of oil inspector, including office rent, furnishings, postage, expressage, telegraphing, telephoning, stationery, traveling expenses of inspector and deputies, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00); said traveling expenses shall be paid only when itemized and verified by the person incurring same, as required by law and approved by the state inspector.

Sec. 66. Osteopathic registration board.-There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the "state" board of osteopathic registration and examination fund" of the money arising from the registration and examination of osteopaths, in pursuance of the requirements of an act entitled "An act to regulate the system, method, or science of healing known as osteopathy, at Kirksville, Missouri, and creating a board of examination and registration for the regulation of the same, and providing penalties for the violation of this act," approved March 27, 1903, for the compensation and expense of members and officers of said board for the years 1915 and 1916, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00).

Sec. 67. Panama-Pacific exposition.-There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the general revenue fund, and payable to the Panama-Pacific exposition commission, the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000.00) to carry out the provisions of an act passed by the 47th general assembly, found on pages 86 and 87, session acts, 1913. The Panama-Pacific exposition commissioners representing the state of Missouri at the Panama-Pacific international exposition to be held at San Francisco,

California, in 1915, shall file with the secretary of the state immediately after the passage of this act, a complete inventory of the furniture of every kind and description, including rugs, window shades and draperies, linen and bedding, typewriters and office equipment, electric light fixtures, etc., which have been purchased by the state and form the equipment of the Missouri building at the said exposition. At the close of the said exposition all furniture and equipment heretofore enumerated shall be crated and shipped free of all expense to the Missouri state sanatorium, Mt. Vernon, Mo., for the use and benefit of the patients of said institution.

Sec. 67a. Ex-confederate soldiers pensions.-There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00), as follows: $91,000.00 of said sum, or so much, of $91,000.00 as may be necessary, shall be used for the purposd, of paying back claims due ex-confederate soldiers on the basis of 50 per cent allowed by an act of the 47th general assembly, and found on pages 88 and 89 of session acts of 1913, requisitions for which are now on file in the auditor's office; the balance of the $91,000.00 remaining unused after back claims have been paid, together with $109,000.00 additional is hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying the pensions of ex-confederate soldiers for the biennial period of 1915 and 1916 in compliance with the act of the 47th general assembly and found on pages 88 and 89 of session acts of 1913: Provided, that no claim for which the money is appropriated in this section, for back claims and for the biennial period of 1915'nd 1916, shall be paid by the state auditor until satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the state auditor in each and every case by the county courts in which applicant is a resident, showing that the claim of each confederate soldier is a just and equitable one against the state and coming within the provisions of the act of 47th general ́assembly, herein referred to. When satisfactory evidence showing the indigent condition of the applicant and the just claim of said applicant in accordance with the provisions of the ex-confederate pension law passed by the 47th general assembly, and herein before referred to, shall have been certified to the state auditor by the county court, said auditor shall issue warrant to each applicant as provided by law or herein specified. And it is further provided that said auditor of state shall have the examiners under his charge, when making the examination of any county in this state to go thoroughly into the matter of pensions, and ascertain and report to the state auditor whether or not such pensions are just and equitable, and in accordance with the provisions of the exconfederate pension act, and if it is found by the auditor or his examiners that any such pensioner is on the roll and not entitled to a pension as provided for in the ex-confederate pension act, the auditor is instructed to strike such name from the pension roll as furnished to the state auditor's office by the adjutant-general.

Sec. 67b. Missouri state penitentiary. For the "Missouri state penitentiary" at Jefferson City, the sum of one million one

hundred forty-two thousand nine hundred fifty-four dollars and thirteen cents ($1,142,954.13), as follows:

Salaries of officers, chaplain, employes (to be drawn on only in case of emergency when the support fund is exhausted)..

Paving brick....

Support (to be drawn on only in case of emergency when the support fund of the penitentiary is exhausted)...

General repairs (to be drawn on only in case of em

ergency when the earnings of the penitentiary
are exhausted).

Library..

Magazines.

To complete east half of new cell building (unex

pended amount of last appropriation).

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For completion of new cell building now under construction..

$195,000.00 2,300.00

600,000.00

50,000.00 700.00

300.00

94,154.13

250.00

250.00

175,000.00

All the money appropriated in the preceding section shall be used for the purposes enumerated; and any liability or debt incurred in excess of the amount herein appropriated shall be chargeable to the person or persons authorizing or incurring the same."

Sec. 67c. Twine plant revolving fund. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the twine plant revolving fund, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand ($125,000.00) dollars for the purpose of purchasing raw material required in the manufacture, handling and marketing of binding twine at the state penitentiary for the years 1915 and 1916, and, in addition thereto, there is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand ($175,000.00) dollars, to be used in pursuance of the requirements of an act passed by the 48th general assembly, providing for the purchase of extra machinery and equipment and maintenance of same, and for the purchase of raw material required in the manufacture, handling and marketing, and all other expense required in such manufacturing, handling and marketing of binding twine at the state penitentiary for the years 1915 and 1916.

Sec. 67d. Earnings Missouri penitentiary fund.-There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the earnings of the Missouri penitentiary fund, of the moneys arising from the payment into the state treasury by the warden or other financial officer of said institution, under the requirements of section 2 of an act entitled "An act establishing special funds for the penal and eleemosynary institutions of the state, providing for the payment of certain moneys therein, and for other purposes," approved March 9, 1893, for the support and maintenance of said institution for the years 1915 and 1916, the sum of eight hundred

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