Chapter 250. To provide additional compensation for certain civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923
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CHAP. 250.— An Act To provide additional compensation for certain civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923. June 29, 1922.[[H. R. 12073](/us/bill/67/hr/12073).][[Public, No. 257](/us/pl/67/257).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Civilian employees. 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 of713 $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this ActAdditional pay to, receiving less than $2,500 a year.*Provisos*.Rates between 12,500 and $2,740. shall receive during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, 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 $2,500 and less than $2,740 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 $2,740 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*,Not computed as salary.
That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, shall not be computedRestriction if pay increased since June 30, 1921. as salary in construing this Act: *Provided further*, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1921, has received during the fiscal year 1922, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1923, 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 theEntering service since June 30, 1921. service since June 30, 1921, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees 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. 2. That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to theSpecified employees not entitled. following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues, except employees of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia, who shall be included; employees whose pay is adjustable from time to time through wage boards or similar authority to accord with the commercial rates paid locally for the same class of service; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions,From lump sum appropriations.Exceptions. commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January 1, 1916, except employees of the United States Tariff Commission, the United States Veterans’ Bureau, the Bureau of the Budget, the General Accounting Office, and the Bureau of Accounts of the Post Office Department, who shall be included, but the additional compensation granted herein shall not be paidLimitation on Veterans’ Bureau employees. to any person employed in the United States Veterans’ Bureau who did not receive the additional compensation during the fiscal year 1922; employees whose duties require only a portion of their time,Other employees, etc. except charwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals: persons employed by or through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their service in foreign countries.
Sec. 3. That section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and JudicialDouble pay restriction not applicable hereto.Vol. 39, p. 582. Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended by the Naval Appropriation Act approved August 29, 1916, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided m this Act who otherwise is entitled to receive the same. 714 Sec. 4. Piecework employees.Computation to determine pay. That such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation, shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this Act when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen days in*Proviso*.Regular per diem employees excepted. the said fiscal year would amount to §2,500 or less: *Provided*, That this method of computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.
Sec. 5. Secretary of Civil Service Commission deemed an employee.Appropriations for Federal employees. That the secretary of the Civil Service Commission shall be deemed an employee for the purposes of this Act. Sec. 6. That to pay the additional compensation provided in this Act to employees of the Government of the United States, there are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, respectively: Legislative.legislative. Designation of employment.United States Senate, including seventeen employees who are authorized to be paid from the contingent fund, $188,520;
House of Representatives, $315,000; Library of Congress, $105,600; Library Building and Grounds, $30,036; Architect of the Capitol, $85,940; Botanic Garden, $12,000. Executive and Judicial.executive and judicial. Designation of Independent offices, etc.Independent offices.—Bureau of Efficiency, $7,200: Civil Service Commission, $87,936; Commission of Fine Arts, $480; Executive Office, $10,560; Federal Trade Commission, $50,600; General Accounting Office, $506,400; Government Printing Office, $957,260;
Interstate Commerce Commission, $315,812; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $15,600; National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $894,000; Panama Canal, $16,800; Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission, $720; Smithsonian Institution, $109,044; State, War, and Navy Departments Buildings, $372,000; Tariff Commission, $20,000; United States Employees’ Compensation Commission, $15,800; United States Veterans’ Bureau, $4,013,480. Executive Departments, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1035.Executive departments.—Department of Agriculture, $3,232,863;
Department of Commerce, $1,835,159; Department of the Interior, $2,803,092; Department of Justice and the Judiciary, $779,484; Department of Labor, $566,832; Navy Department, $458,640; Naval Establishment, $78,480; Post Office Department, employees engaged in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of Treasury savings certificates, as provided in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved November 4, 1918, $12,000; Department of State, $144,000; Treasury Department, $10,724,326;
War Department, including the Military Establishment and all other field activities, $8,122,548. Post Office Department from revenues thereof.Post Office Department, payable from the revenues of the Post Office Department, $352,800. *Proviso*.Application of allotments.In all, $37,241,012: *Provided*, 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. Sec. 7.
District of Columbia employees. That to pay the additional compensation provided in this Act to employees of the Government of the District of Columbia, theDivision between District and Treasury revenues. following sums are hereby appropriated: $1,399,681, of which 40 per centum is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and 60 per centum out of the revenues of theWater department employees. District of Columbia; $24,960 from the revenues of the water department on account of employees of that department; $52,000 from the revenues of the water department on account of employees of the715 Washington Aqueduct; §17,520 wholly out of the revenues of theEmployees wholly from District re venues.
District of Columbia on account of employees of the Minimum Wage Board, the playgrounds department, and the community center department of the public schools. In all, $1,494,161. Sixty per centum of any amounts expended under the provisionsReimbursement from District revenues of advances from the Treasury. of this Act on account of employees of the United States whose basic compensation is payable 60 per centum from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 8. That so much as may be necessary to pay the increasedTrust fund employees from the funds. compensation provided in this Act to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds. Approved, June 29, 1922.