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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · June 30, 1929 · Chapter 126

Chapter 126. Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes

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Chap. 126: Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. 1928-03-05 126 Chapter 45 Stat. 162 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 126.— An Act Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes.
March 5, 1928.[[H. R. 10635](/us/bill/70/hr/10635).][[Public, No. 93](/us/pl/70/93).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* TITLE I— TREASURY DEPARTMENT Treasury Department appropriations fiscal year 1929.That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, namely: Secretary’s Office.office of the secretary Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Salaries:
Secretary of the Treasury, $15,000; Undersecretary of the Treasury, $10,000; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance *Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488.with the Classification Act of 1923, $132,900; in all, $157,900: *Provided*, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates163specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which onlyIf only one position in a grade. one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances mayAdvances in unusually meritorious cases. be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That this restriction shall notRestriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction. apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment ofHigher salary rates permitted. a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, and is specifically authorized by other law. office of chief clerk and superintendentChief Clerk’s Office. Salaries: For the chief clerk, who shall be the chief executiveChief clerk, and office personnel. officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries of the department, and for other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the operating force of the Treasury,Operating force of Department buildings. Liberty Loan and Register’s Annex Buildings and the Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place, and of other buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $484,000. contingent expenses, treasury departmentDepartment contingent expenses. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories,Reference books, etc. and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph, and telephone service, $10,000.Freight, etc. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use ofRent, District of Columbia. the Treasury Department, $12,500. For purchase, exchange, maintenance (including gasoline and oil);Motor vehicles. and repair of motor trucks and bicycles, and maintenance and repair of one passenger automobile for the Secretary of the Treasury, all to be used for official purposes only, $9,400. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $8,000.File holders, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine and fuel oils, and grease, grateFuel, etc. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $19,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting, etc. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $18,500. For purchase of awnings and window shades, including equipmentMiscellaneous supplies. therefor, alcohol, ammonia, belting, benzine, boiler compound, borax, brooms, buckets, canvas, cleaning compound, cheesecloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, crash, cuspidors, drafting equipment, flags, gasoline for cleaning, garden and engine hose including attachments, hand trucks and repairs, kerosene, lace leather, ladders, lye, matches, money boxes, mops and handles and mop tanks, nails, oils, picks, pitchers, plants, polishes, powders, signs (movable), soap, sponges, stencil plates, street-car fares not exceeding $300, tacks, thermometers,164toilet paper and holders, tools and sharpening same, towels and racks, traps, tumblers, turpentine, varnish, wire, zinc, removal of rubbish, repairs of machinery, laundry service, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $11,500. Labor-saving machines, etc.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $30,000. Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $1,000. Furniture, etc.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $8,000. Operating expenses.Madison Place Annex.For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $12,000. Darby Building.Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, and miscellaneous items, $3,800. Supply Division.division of supply Chief of Division and office personnel.Salaries: For the Chief, Division of Supply, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $169,400. Printing and binding.Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, including materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Work excluded.Vol. 40, p. 1270.Treasury Department, but not including work done at the New York customhouse bindery authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1919, $715,000. Stationery.Stationery: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, and field services thereof, including tags, labels, and index cards, printed in the course of manufacture, packing boxes and other materials necessary for shipping stationery supplies, and cost of transportation of stationery supplies purchased free on board point of shipment and of such supplies shipped from Washington to field offices, $420,000. Postage.Postage: For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. General Supply Committee.Personal services and office expenses.General Supply Committee: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 not exceeding $113,000; necessary expenses, including office supplies and materials, maintenance of motor trucks, telegrams, telephone service, traveling expenses, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, and Transferring office supplies for departments.other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office materials, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse *Provisos*.Service continued to June 30, 1929.because of the cessation of war activities; in all, $118,000: *Provided*, That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1929, without modification, except that the price charged shall be the current market value at time of issue, less a discount for usage,165but in no instance shall the discount be more than 25 per centum, and that the proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That the heads of the executive departments andCooperation of heads of departments, etc., in transfers. independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order and for effecting the transfer or disposition of other surplus and waste material or supplies: *Provided further*, That typewriters and computing machinesUse of unfit typewriters, etc., for exchange. transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially. Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billingTypewriter repairs by Supply Committee. machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counterwarrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “Salaries and expenses, General Supply Committee.” No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shallTypewriting machines.Prices of standard machines for 1929. be used during the fiscal year 1929 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machines, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following for models with carriages which will accommodate paper of the following widths, to wit: Ten inches (correspondence models), $70; twelve inches, $75; fourteen inches, $77.50; sixteen inches, $82.50; eighteen inches, $87.50; twenty inches, $94; twenty-two inches, $95; twenty-four inches, $97.50; twenty-six inches, $103.50; twenty-eight inches, $104; thirty inches, $105; thirty-two inches, $107.50. All purchase of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1929All purchases to be from surplus stock of committee. by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. If the General Supply Committee isUnserviceable machines allowed for exchange. unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines, if available, at current exchange prices, and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewritingAcceptance in part payment. machines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies. office of commissioner of accounts and depositsAccounts and Deposits Office. For Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits and other personalCommissioner, and office personnel. services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $82,980. For books of reference, law books, books on finance, technical andBooks, etc. scientific books, newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, and periodicals, for expenses incurred in completing imperfect series, for library cards, supplies, and for all other necessary expenses, $1,000. 166 Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.division of bookkeeping and warrants Chief of division, and office personnel.For the chief of the division, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $144,635. Contingent expenses, public moneys.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).Contingent expenses, public moneys: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the Examination of depositories, etc.[R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several depositories, including national banks acting as depositaries under the requirements of section 3649 of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $246,540, of which $15,225 shall be available immediately. Recoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary [R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).of the Treasury, as required by section 3512 of the Revised Statutes, $3,000. Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coins and the amount the same will produce in new coins, $15,000. Public Debt Service.public debt service Office personnel and other expenses.For necessary expenses connected with the administration of any public debt issues and United States paper currency issues with which the Secretary of the Treasury is charged, including rent in the District of Columbia, the purchase of law books, directories, books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, and Commissioner.including the Commissioner of the Public Debt and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification *Provisos*.Services in the District.Act of 1923, $2,600,000: *Provided*, That the amount to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia shall not Indefinite appropriation discontinued.Vol. 40, p. 292.exceed $2,565,000: *Provided further*, That the indefinite appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended,” shall not be used during the fiscal year 1929 to supplement the appropriation herein made for the current work of the Public Debt Service. Radio advertising expenses.From indefinite appropriation.For the payment of expenses of radio advertising in connection with public debt issues and refunding operations in the public debt, $10,000, to be immediately available and to be payable from the Vol. 40, p. 292.appropriation “Expenses of loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended and extended.” Distinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, not exceeding 2,220,000 pounds, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, and salaries of employees, and allowance, in lieu of expenses, of officer or officers detailed from the Treasury Department, not exceeding $50 per month each when actually on duty; in all, $1,175,000. 167 division of appointmentsAppointments Division. Salaries: For the chief of the division and other personal serviceChief of division, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $59,000. office of disbursing clerk Salaries: For the disbursing clerk and other personal services inDisbursing clerk, and office personnel. the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $53,500. customs serviceCustoms Service. For collecting the revenue from customs, for the detection andCollecting customs revenue, etc. prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, and not to exceed $10,000 for the securing of evidence of violations of the customs laws, including not to exceed $5,000 for the hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $18,940,000, of which such amount as may be necessary shall be available for salaries of general appraisers and justices of the United States Customs Court retired under the provisionsCustoms court justices.Vol. 42, p. 973.Services in the District.Vol. 42, p. 975.*Proviso*.Advances to disbursing officers. of section 518 of the Tariff Act of 1922, and $169,800 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia exclusive of eight persons from the field force authorized to be detailed under section 525 of the Tariff Act of 1922: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by disbursing officers when authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation ofAutomatic scales. special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, including not to exceed $4,400 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $90,000. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs laws, $150,000. bureau of the budgetBudget Bureau. Director, $10,000; Assistant Director, $7,500; for all other necessaryDirector, Assistant, personnel, and other expenses. expenses of the. bureau, including compensation of attorneys and other employees in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923”; contract stenographic reporting services, telegrams, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, traveling expenses, street-car fares, $138,500; in all, $156,000. For printing and binding, $27,000.Printing and binding. federal farm loan bureauFederal Farm Loan Bureau. salaries and expenses For six members of the board, at $10,000 each; personal servicesMembers of the Board, office and field personnel.Contengent expenses. in the District of Columbia and in the field; traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services, and expert services for the preparation of amortization tables; examination of national farm-loan associations; and for the168Payable from assessments on banks.expenses of registrars’ offices, including rent and miscellaneous items; in all, $833,201, payable from assessments upon Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks; of which Services in the District.not more than $325,000 may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. Allowance for motor vehicle travel.Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, the Farm Loan Board shall find that the expenses of travel can be reduced thereby, it may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as it may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile, used for necessary travel on official business. Treasurer’s Office.office of treasurer of the united states Treasurer, and office personnel.Salaries: For Treasurer of the United States, $8,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $1,082,000; in all, $1,090,000. Redeeming Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $305,000, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Office of Comptroller of the Currency.office of the comptroller of the currency Comptroller, and office personnel.Salaries: Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; for personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $230,000; in all, $235,000. Federal reserve and national currency.Personal services.For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” in connection with Federal reserve and national currency, $48,960, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks. Special examinations, etc.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $1,500. Internal Revenue Service.internal revenue service Commissioner, general counsel and all office and field force.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, including the employment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, a general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue at $10,000 per annum, an assistant to the commissioner at $8,000 per annum, four assistant general counsel at $8,000 per annum each, a special deputy commissioner at $7,500 per annum, three deputy commissioners, one stamp agent (to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers), and the necessary officers, collectors, deputy collectors, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone Rent outside and in the District.service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia and not to exceed $219,250 for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, necessary expenses incurred in making investigations in connection with the enrollment or disbarment of practitioners before the Treasury Department in internal-revenue matters, expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses including stenographic reporting services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be169necessary for use in the District of Columbia, the several collection districts, and the several divisions of internal-revenue agents,Services in the District. $32,667,750, of which amount not to exceed $8,463,100 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Witness fees. That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expense of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United*Ante*, p. 81.Detecting, prosecuting, etc., violations of internal revenue laws. States courts”: *Provided further*, That not more than $100,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. The amount which may be expended from the appropriation “CollectingRent in the District.Expenditure for, increased. the internal revenue, 1928,” for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia, is hereby increased from $51,500 to $126,150: *Provided*, That the guarding and maintenance of space leased in the*Proviso*.Guarding, etc., leased space to be under Director of Public Buildings, etc. National Press Building for use of the Bureau of Internal Revenue is hereby placed under the supervision of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, and the expense of such guarding and maintenance may be defrayed from appropriations made to his office. Whenever during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, the SecretaryAllowance for motor vehicle travel. of the Treasury shall find that the expenses of travel of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service while on official business can be reduced thereby, he may, in lieu of actual operating expenses, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary travel on official business. Refunding taxes illegally collected: For refunding taxes illegallyRefunding taxes.Vol. 40, p. 1145; Vol. 42, p. 314; Vol. 43, pp. 301, 342. collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the revenue Acts of 1918, 1921, 1924, and 1926, including the payment of claims for the fiscal year 1929 and prior years, $130,000,000: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to*Provisos*.Detailed report to Congress of disbursements.Refunding excise tax on automobile accessories. Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by such Acts, including the names of all persons and corporations to whom payments are made together with the amount paid to each: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available to refund any amount paid by or collected from any manufacturer, producer, or importer in respect of the tax imposed by subdivisionVol. 42, p. 291.Vol. 40, p. 1122.
(3)of section 600 of the Revenue Act of 1924, or subdivision
(3)of section 900 of the Revenue Act of 1921, or of the Revenue Act of 1918, unless the Commissioner of Internal Revenue certifies to theBond required from producer, etc., to repay amount not distributed to purchasers. proper disbursing officer that such manufacturer, producer, or importer has filed with the commissioner, under regulations prescribed by the commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, a bond in such sum and with such sureties as the commissioner deems necessary, conditioned upon the immediate repayment to the United States of such portion of the amount refunded as is not distributed by such manufacturer, producer, or importer, within six months after the date of the payment of the refund, to the persons who purchased for purposes of consumption (whether from such manufacturer, producer, importer, or from any other person) the articles in respect of which the refund is made, as evidenced by the affidavits (in such form and containing such statements as the commissioner may prescribe) of such purchasers, and170that such bond, in the case of a claim allowed after the passage of this Act, was filed before the allowance of the claim by the commissioner. Prohibition Bureau.bureau of prohibition Expenses enforcing Prohibition and Narcotic Acts.Vol. 38, p. 785.For expenses to enforce the provisions of the National Prohibition Act, as amended, and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or *Post*, p. 2390.Vol. 41, p. 305.cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the Revenue Act of 1918, and the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled Vol. 40, p. 1130.‘An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than Vol. 42, p.298.medicinal purposes,’ approved February 9, 1909,” as amended by *Post*, p. 2390.Vol. 44, p. 1381.the Act of May 26, 1922, known as “The Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act,” and for carrying out the applicable provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1927 (Statutes at Large, volume 44, Executive officers, personnel, etc.page 1381), including the employment of executive officers, attorneys, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, gaugers, storekeepers, storekeepers-gaugers, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Prohibition in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of Supplies, equipment, etc.evidence of violations of the Acts; the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of Columbia and the several field offices; hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when Services in the District.necessary; and for rental of necessary quarters; in all, $12,729,140, of which amount not to exceed $658,320 may be expended for *Provisos*.Narcotic Act enforcement.personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,350,440 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Acts of December 17, 1914, Use of seized vehicles.Vol. 43, p. 1116.and May 26, 1922, and the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the use, by narcotic agents, of motor vehicles confiscated under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925, and pay the maintenance, repair, and operation thereof from this allotment: *Provided further*, Restriction on paying for storage of seized goods in private warehouses.That no money herein appropriated for the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, the customs laws, or internal revenue laws, shall be used to pay for storage in any private warehouse of intoxicating liquor, or other property in connection therewith seized pursuant to said Acts and necessary to be stored, where there is available for that purpose space in a Government warehouse or other suitable Government property in the judicial district wherein such property was seized, or in an adjacent judicial district, and when such seized property is stored in an adjacent district the jurisdiction over such property in the district wherein it was seized shall not be Distilled spirits may be removed to a warehouse for bottling in bond.*Post*, p. 2390.affected thereby: *Provided further*, That for purpose of concentration, upon the initiation of the Commissioner of Prohibition and under regulations prescribed by him, distilled spirits may be removed from any internal-revenue bonded warehouse to any other such warehouse, and may be bottled in bond in any such warehouse before or after payment of the tax, and the commissioner shall prescribe the form and penal sums of bond covering distilled spirits in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, and in transit between such warehouses. Coast Guard.coast guard Office personnel.Office of the commandant: For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $262,000. 171 The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard vessels and boats, to be*Post*, p. 172. paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard vessels”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year*Proviso*.Limitation, etc. 1929 shall not exceed $10,660. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the Budget. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorizedService expenditures. work of the Coast Guard, including the expense of maintenance, repair, and operation of vessels forfeited to the United States and delivered to the Treasury Department under the terms of the ActVol. 43, p. 1116. approved March 3, 1925, as follows, including not to exceed $800 for purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers,Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks, and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920, rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $18,983,400; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel and water. $2,772,800; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $1,898,000; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $500,000; For mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers; and travelingTraveling expenses, etc. expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, including transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen, $350,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $24,000;Draft animals. For coastal communication lines and facilities and their maintenance,Coastal communication. $60,000; For compensation of civilian employees in the field, includingCivilian field employees. clerks to district superintendents, $75,000; For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistenceContingent expenses. of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard; for the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted men of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding $25,000; instruments and apparatus, supplies, technical books and periodicals, services necessary to the carrying on of scientific investigation, and experimental and research work in relation to telephony and radiotelegraphy, not exceeding $4,000; care, transportation, and burial of deceased officers and enlisted men, including those who die in Government hospitals; wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, labor, newpapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $270,000; For the completion of two of the Coast Guard cutters authorizedCompleting two cutters.Vol. 44, p. 725. in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926, $1,134,000; 172 Commencing three cutters.For commencing the construction of three of the Coast Guard cutters authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the Vol. 44, p. 725.construction of ten vessels for the Coast Guard,” approved June 10, 1926, $500,000, to be available until June 30, 1930, of which not exceeding $1,500 shall be available for the purchase of such equipment and drafting supplies as may be required at Coast Guard headquarters *Proviso*.Limit of cost.in connection with the construction of such cutters: Provided, That the total cost of these three vessels and equipment shall Contracts authorized.not exceed $2,700,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for their construction and equipment in sums not to exceed this aggregate amount; Repairs to vessels.For repairs to Coast Guard vessels and boats, $2,038,600; Establishing new stations.For establishing new Coast Guard stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, as authorized by law, $34,770, to be available until June 30, 1930, and to be used in conjunction with not to exceed $19,405 from other available funds; Total Coast Guard, exclusive of commandant’s office, $28,640,570. Engraving and Printing Bureau.bureau of engraving and printing Director, Assistants, and office personnel.Office of Director: For the Director, two Assistant Directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $511,495. Work authorized for fiscal year.For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, during the fiscal year 1929, of not exceeding 205,000,000 delivered sheets of United States currency and national-bank currency, 92,404,974 delivered sheets of internal revenue stamps, 2,494,167 Vol. 38, p. 786; Vol. 40, p. 1130.Vol. 42, p. 295; Vol. 44, p. 99.delivered sheets of withdrawal permits, 674,000 delivered sheets of opium orders and special-tax stamps required under the Act of December 17, 1914, and 7,555,043 delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows: Salaries of employees, plate printers, etc.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $3,111,700. Wages.For wages of rotary press plate printers, at per diem rates, and all other plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,634,600, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, including distinctive and nondistinctive paper, except distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency; equipment of, repairs to, and maintenance of buildings and grounds and for minor alterations to buildings; directories, technical books, and periodicals, and books of reference, not exceeding Emergency room, etc.$300; rent of warehouse in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000; equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for articles approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as Vehicles.being necessary for the protection of the person of employees; and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $950,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 173 During the fiscal year 1929 all proceeds derived from work performedProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August 4, 1886 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 227),Vol. 24, p. 227. shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year 1929. secret serviceSecret Service. Secret Service Division, salaries: For the chief of the division andChief of Division, and office personnels. other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $28,740. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting, forging, and altering United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes1, Federal reserve notes, Federal reserve bank notes, and other obligations and securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other crimes against the laws of the United States relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control; hire and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; purchase of arms and ammunition; traveling expenses; and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President andProtecting person of the President. the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $523,000: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Witness fees. of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation*Ante*, p. 81. for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” public health servicePublic Health Service. Salaries, Office of Surgeon General: For personal services in theOffice personnel. District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $300,000. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc., Surgeon General, etc. medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeon generals at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $1,214,474. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $300,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth),$980,000.Other employees. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, travel, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, and the packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of the personal effects of commissioned officers, scientific personnel, pharmacists, and nurses of the Public Health Service, upon permanent change of station, $29,000. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $43,000.Hygienic Laboratory. For preparation for shipment and transportation to their formerTransporting remains of officers. homes of remains of officers who die in the line of duty, $2,000. For journals and scientific books, Office of Surgeon-General, $500.Books, etc. 174 Medical examinations, hospital services to beneficiaries, etc.Vol. 39, p. 885.For medical examinations, including the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section 16 of the Act of February 5, 1917, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies, including prosthetic and orthopedic supplies to be furnished under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for beneficiaries (other than patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau) of the Public Health Service and persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned Services in the District.officers of the Public Health Service, personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck coats, trousers, smocks, aprons, and caps to employees General expenses.whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, maintenance, minor repairs, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance, exchange and operation of motor trucks and passenger motor vehicles, and including not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged, except for Lepers and insane persons.ambulances), transportation, care, maintenance, and treatment of lepers, including transportation to their homes in the continental United States of recovered indigent leper patients, court costs, and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $5,150,000: *Provisos*.Use of Ellis Island hospitals.*Provided*, That the Immigration Service shall permit the Public Health Service to use the hospitals at Ellis Island Immigration Station for the care of Public Health Service patients free of expense for physical upkeep, but with a charge of actual cost of fuel, light, water, telephone, and similar supplies and services, to be covered into Receipts to be covered into the Treasury.the proper Immigration Service appropriations; and money collected by the Immigration Service on account of hospital expenses of persons detained in hospitals of the Public Health Service under the immigration laws and regulations shall be covered into the Treasury Uses forbidden.as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the quarantine service, the prevention of epidemics, or scientific work of the character provided for under the appropriations which follow. Disposal of receipts.All sums received by the Public Health Service during the fiscal year 1929, except allotments and reimbursements on account of patients of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of United States quarantine stations, including the exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $2,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $1,000 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged except for ambulances), $460,000. Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, typhoid fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000, including the purchase of newspapers and clippings from newspapers containing information relating to the prevalence of disease and the public health. 175 Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, and including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (at a cost not to exceed $800 each, including the value of any vehicle exchanged), $300,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $70,000. Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration workRural sanitation. in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $230,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Subject to local contributions. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expenses of such demonstration work. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses,Biologic products.Regulating sale of viruses, etc. serums, toxins, and analogous products, including arsphenamine, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal services of reserve commissioned officers and other personnel, $45,000. For the maintenance and expenses of the Division of VenerealVenereal Diseases Division.Maintenance.Vol. 40, p. 886. Diseases, established by sections 3 and 4, Chapter XV, of the Act approved July 9, 1918, including personal and other services in the field and in the District of Columbia, $70,000, of which amount not to exceed $28,000 may be expended for personal services in the DistrictServices in the District. of Columbia. For completion of the survey of the salt-marsh areas of the SouthSalt-marsh areas in Southern States.Completing survey of, for controlling mosquito breeding. Atlantic and Gulf States, to determine the exact character of the breeding places of the salt-marsh mosquitoes, in order that a definite idea may be formed as to the best methods of controlling the breeding of such mosquitoes, $15,000, to be expended by the Public Health Service in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture. Mints and Assay OfficesMints and Assay Offices. office of director of the mintOffice of Director of the Mint. Salaries: For the Director of the Mint and other personal servicesDirector, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $34,500. For transportation of bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Transporting bullion and coin. between mints and assay offices, $44,603, of which $15,880 shall be available immediately. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $900. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the UnitedPrecious metals statistics. States, $5,100. For expenses of the mints at Denver, Colorado; Philadelphia,Expenses, designated mints and assay offices. Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, California; and the assay office at New York, New York, as follows: 176 For compensation of officers and employees, $1,251,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, net wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, not to exceed $500 for expenses of the annual assay commission, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint at Philadelphia, $273,000. Other mints assay offices.For expenses of the mints at Carson City, Nevada, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and the assay offices at Boise, Idaho; Helena, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Seattle, Washington, as follows: For compensation of officers and employees, $51,660. For incidental and contingent expenses, $10,300. Public buildings.office of supervising architect Construction, rent, etc.miscellaneous public buildings, construction and rent Boston, Mass., marine hospital.Boston, Massachusetts, Marine Hospital: For extension and remodeling of nurses’ quarters, improvement of cemetery, exterior painting, and resurfacing driveways, $10,000. Cape Fear, N. C., quarantine station.Cape Fear, North Carolina, quarantine station: For extension of gangway and new dolphin, $2,500. New York, N. Y., Appraisers Stores, etc.Vol. 44, p. 1416.*Post*, p. 1655.New York, New York, Appraisers’ Stores: For the carrying out of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into a contract to purchase, upon completion, a suitable building for customs and other governmental purposes in the city of New York,” approved March 4, 1927, $8,000,000. Treasury Building, D. C., elevators.Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building: For removal and replacement of one freight and three passenger elevators, with necessary modifications in elevator entrances, doors, and so forth, and for installation of steam-operated pumping plant to operate five old hydraulic plunger freight elevators, $45,000. Supervision of Supervising Architect.The foregoing work under marine hospitals and quarantine stations shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Remodeling, etc., occupied buildings.Remodeling, and so forth, public buildings: For remodeling, enlarging, and extending completed and occupied public buildings, including any necessary and incidental additions to or changes in mechanical equipment thereof, so as to provide or make available additional space in emergent cases, not to exceed an aggregate of $25,000 at any one building, $300,000. Temporary quarters, rent, etc.Rent of temporary quarters: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $275,000. Lock-box equipment.Lock-box equipment for public buildings: For furnishing and installing lock-box equipment for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including necessary and incidental changes in screen work, and so forth, $100,000. Projects under Public Buildings Act.public building projects under section 3, public buildings act approved may 2 5, 1926, as amended Durango, Colo.Construction.Durango, Colorado, post office, courthouse, and so forth: Toward the construction of the building, $50,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to construct said building, except for Limit reduced.the courts, at a limit of cost of $150,000 in lieu of $200,000 heretofore177authorized: Provided, That the work be so done that accommodations*Proviso*.Court accommodations.Fremont, Ohio.Cost increases.Vol. 44, p. 872. for the courts may be added later. Fremont, Ohio, post office and other Government offices: TowardJuneau, Alaska.Cost increased.Vol. 36, p. 684. acquisition of a new site and construction of building, $50,000, at an estimated total cost for site and building of $240,000 in lieu of $175,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Juneau, Alaska, Federal and Territorial building: Toward theLong Island City, N. Y.Cost increased. construction of the building, $200,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such building for not to exceed $775,000 in lieu of $177,500 authorized in the Act of June 25, 1910. Long Island City, New York, post office and other GovernmentVol. 44, p. 872. offices: Toward the construction of the building, $250,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such building for not to exceed $475,000 in lieu of $300,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Newark, New Jersey, post office, courthouse, and so forth: TowardNewark, N. J.Acquisition of site, etc. the acquisition of a site and the construction of a suitable building for the accommodation of the post office, United States courts, and so forth, $900,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized toContracts at increased cost.Vol. 44, p. 871. enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such building and site for not to exceed $5,000,000 in lieu of $3,875,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926; and the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion,Former restrictions waived.Vol. 37, p. 883; Vol. 38, p. 109.*Proviso*.Price for present building restricted. disregard the restriction of the Acts of March 4, 1913, and August 11, 1913, relating to Newark, New Jersey: *Provided*, That the present post office and customhouse site and building shall not be sold for an amount less than $4,500,000. San Pedro, California, post office, customhouse, and so forth: ForSan Pedro, Calif.Acquisition of site, etc. the acquisition of a site and toward the construction of building, including any tunnel that may be necessary, in addition to appropriation previously made, $100,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost ofContracts at increased cost.Vol. 37, p. 873. such building, site, and tunnel for not to exceed $575,000 in lieu of $60,000 fixed in the Act of March 4, 1913. Total appropriations for projects under section 3, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, $1,550,000. projects outside the district of columbia under section 5, public buildings act approved may 25, 1926Projects under Public Buildings Act, 1926, outside District of Columbia. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contractsContracts for sites, construction, etc under annual limitation.Vol. 44, p. 633. for sites or additional land for public buildings, purchases of sites and buildings thereon, commencement, completion, extension, remodeling, and rehabilitation of public buildings in amounts not exceeding the respective estimated total costs herein set forth, as follows: Albany, New York, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and soAlbany, N. Y. forth: For acquisition of site or of additional land, demolition of building, and commencement of construction, $750,000, under an estimated total cost of $2,000,000. Alexandria, Virginia, customhouse, post office, and so forth: ForAlexandria, Va. acquisition of additional land, demolition of building, and commencement of construction, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $380,000. Amsterdam, New York, post office, and so forth: For acquisitionAmsterdam, N. Y. of additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling, $60,000, under an estimated total cost of $175,000; and the SecretaryProvisions for right of way. of the Treasury is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, all rights in a “right of way” along the easterly boundary of the post-office site included in the additional178land sought to be acquired, also authority to acquire, if necessary, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a strip of land along the southerly boundary of the post-office site, on which a right of way may be established by the granting of an easement, in exchange for the existing “right of way.” Asheville, N. C.Asheville, North Carolina, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $200,000, under an estimated total cost of $650,000. Baltimore, Md,*Post*, p. 919.Baltimore, Maryland, post office, and so forth: For demolition of building and commencement of construction, $500,000, under an estimated total cost of $2,575,000. Bartlesville, Okla.Bartlesville, Oklahoma, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $60,000, under an estimated total cost of $175,000. Bellows Falls, Vt.Bellows Falls, Vermont, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $35,000, under an estimated total cost of $90,000. Binghamton, N. Y.Binghamton, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For purchase of additional land and building thereon, $50,000. Camden, N. J.Camden, New Jersey, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $410,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,100,000. Canton, Ga.Canton, Georgia, post office, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $35,000, under an estimated total cost of $55,000. Conway, Ark.Conway, Arkansas, post office, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $35,000, under an estimated total cost of $90,000. Corinth, Miss.Corinth, Mississippi, post office, and so forth: For completion, $40,000. Corsicana, Tex.Corsicana, Texas, post office, and so forth: For extension and remodeling, $90,000. Dallas, Tex.Dallas, Texas, post office, courthouse, and other Government offices: For commencement of construction, $300,000, under an estimated *Provisos*.Price for present building restricted.total cost of $1,250,000: *Provided*, That the present Federal Building and site at Main and Ervay Streets shall not be sold for an amount less than $1,250,000. Denver, Colo.Denver, Colorado, customhouse, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $250,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,060,000. Duluth, Minn.Duluth, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $500,000, under an estimated *Proviso*.Exchange of lots with city.*Post*, p. 601.total cost of $1,200,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, grant an easement to the city of Duluth for the use of lots 81 and 83 in block 20, in exchange for the conveyance to the United States in fee simple of lots 86 and 88 in such block 20 as an addition to such new site. Dunkirk, N. Y.Dunkirk, New York, post office, and so forth: For commencement of construction $75,000, under an estimated total cost of $100,000. East Chicago, Ind.East Chicago, Indiana, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $40,000, under an estimated total cost of $185,000. Elizabeth, N. J.Elizabeth, New Jersey, post office, and so forth: For extension and remodeling, $175,000. Elmira, N. Y.Elmira, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For extension and remodeling, $265,000. Erie, Pa.Erie, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, including any tunnel that may be found necessary, $200,000, under an estimated total cost of $555,000. 179 Fargo, North Dakota, post office, courthouse, and so forth: TheFargo, N. Dak.Discretionary authority as to site, construction, etc. Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to construct a building on the site owned by the Government and located on the northwest corner of block 5, Roberts Addition, or, at his discretion, to exchange for the property on the southwest corner of block 5 a portion of such site, paying the owners of such property not exceeding $50,000, and convey to the city by quitclaim deed a twenty-foot strip of such site for use as an alley, on the condition that the alley between the present post-office site and the property on the southwest corner of block 5 be closed, demolish the buildings on the enlarged site, and construct a new building thereon, or to acquire a new site and construct a new building thereon, $250,000, at an estimated total cost in any case of $600,000. Flint, Michigan, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of siteFlint, Mich. and commencement of construction, $200,000, under an estimated total cost of $560,000. Fort Wayne, Indiana, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForFort Wayne, Ind. acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $400,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,000,000. Fort Worth, Texas, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofFort Worth, Tex.*Post*, p. 1657. site and commencement of construction, $425,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,200,000. Freeport, Illinois, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofFreeport, Ill. additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling, $60,000, under an estimated total cost of $275,000. Greenville, Texas, post office, and so forth: For additional landGreenville, Tex. and extension and remodeling, $80,000. Hammond, Indiana, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForHammond, Ind. commencement of extension and remodeling, $75,000, under an estimated total cost of $155,000. Hanover, New Hampshire, post office, and so forth: For acquisitionHanover, N. H. of site and commencement of construction, $50,000, under an estimated total cost of $100,000. Hartsville, South Carolina, post office, and so forth: For acquisitionHartsville, S. C. of site and commencement of construction, $50,000, under an estimated total cost of $75,000. Kansas City, Missouri, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofKansas City, Mo. site and commencement of construction, $600,000, under an estimated total cost of $4,500,000. La Crosse, Wisconsin, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForLa Crosse, Wis. additional land and extension and remodeling, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $140,000. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth: For commencementLancaster, Pa. of construction, $140,000, under an estimated total cost of $500,000. Lawrence, Kansas, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofLawrence, Kans. additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling, $55,000, under an estimated total cost of $120,000. Lima, Ohio, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site andLima, Ohio. commencement of construction, $150,000, under an estimated total cost of $475,000. Louisville, Kentucky, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and soLouisville, Ky. forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $700,000, under an estimated total cost of $2,800,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Price for present building restricted. the present post office and courthouse site and building at Fourth and Chestnut Streets shall not be sold for an amount less than $2,500,000. Lowell, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofLowell, Mass.*Post*, p. 1659. site and commencement of construction, $225,000, under an estimated total cost of $500,000. 180 Miami, Fla.Miami, Florida, post office, courthouse, customhouse, and so forth: For acquisition of additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling, under an estimated total cost of $1,125,000, or, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the acquisition of a new site and commencement of construction, under an estimated total cost of $2,080,000, $750,000. Mitchell, S. Dak.Mitchell, South Dakota, post office, and so forth: For commencement of extension and remodeling, $35,000, under an estimated total cost of $70,000. Newark, Del.Newark, Delaware, post office, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $35,000, under an estimated total cost of $60,000. New Britain, Conn.New Britain, Connecticut, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of additional land and commncement of extension and remodeling, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $250,000. Newburgh, N. Y.Newburgh, New York, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $125,000, under an estimated total cost of $340,000. New Orleans, La.Marine hospital.New Orleans, Louisiana, marine hospital: For commencement of construction, including any necessary demolition of present buildings, $330,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,800,000. Newton, Iowa.Newton, Iowa, post office, and so forth: For commencement of construction, $85,000, under an estimated total cost of $125,000. Niagara Falls.Niagara Falls, New York, customhouse: For rehabilitation of building, $75,000. Oakland, Calif.Oakland, California, post office, customhouse, and so forth: For demolition of the present building and for construction on a site heretofore acquired of a building for the post office, customhouse, *Provisos*.Sale, etc., of strip of land to city.and so forth, $550,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to sell to the city of Oakland a strip of land 30 by 300 feet extending along Seventeenth Street between Broadway and Franklin Streets, or a portion thereof, or to- exchange said strip or a portion thereof for approximately an equal portion of land fronting on Franklin Street and adjacent to the Government property, Acquiring new site and sale of present, authorized.the land so disposed of to the city to be used for street purposes and for no other purpose: *Provided further*, That in lieu of building on the present site the Secretary of the Treasury may at his discretion acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a new site and construct a building thereon at an estimated total cost for site Price restriction.and building of $1,510,000, in which event the present building and site at Broad, Seventeenth, and Franklin Streets shall not be sold Amount available for purchase of new site.for an amount less than $1,750,000, and the above-mentioned amount, $550,000, shall become available toward the purchase of the new site, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts Contracts authorized.for the entire estimated cost of such new site and building. Oshkosh, Wis.Oshkosh, Wisconsin, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of new site and commencement of construction, $125,000, under an estimated total cost of $420,000. Paris, Tenn.Paris, Tennessee, post office, and so forth: For completion of extension and remodeling, $35,000. Pawtucket, R. I.Pawtucket, Rhode Island, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $200,000, under an estimated total cost of $400,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Marine hospital.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marine hospital: For purchase of site and building, and remodeling and repair of such building, $75,000. Pittsfield, Mass.Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $195,000. Plattsburg, N. Y.Plattsburg, New York, customhouse and post office: For demolition of present building and commencement of construction, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $120,000. 181 Pontiac, Michigan, post office, and so forth: For completion ofPontiac, Mich. extension and remodeling, $200,000. Portland, Oregon, courthouse, and so forth: For acquisition of sitePortland, Oreg. and commencement of construction, $500,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,500,000: *Provided*, That the present Federal building*Proviso*.Price for present building and site restriction. and site at Morrison, Fifth, Yamhill, and Sixth Streets shall not be sold for an amount less than $1,750,000. Price, Utah, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site andPrice, Utah. commencement of construction, $50,000, under an estimated total cost of $90,000. Pullman, Washington, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofPullman, Wash. site and commencement of construction, $20,000, under an estimated total cost of $100,000. Roanoke, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and so forth: The SecretaryRoanoke, Va. of the Treasury is authorized to acquire a new site and construct a new building under an estimated total cost of $775,000, or at his discretion and on such terms as he shall deem proper, to exchange the present site and building for a new site and construct thereon a new building at an estimated total cost of $525,000, $350,000. Rushville, Indiana, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of siteRushville, Ind. and commencement of construction, $40,000, under an estimated total cost of $100,000. San Francisco, California, marine hospital: For commencement onSan Francisco, Calif.Marine hospital. a site now owned by the Government, of a general hospital building, together with such additional buildings, alterations in, additions to, or demolition of, existing buildings, mechanical equipment and outside service lines, and approach work as may be necessary to provide auxiliary facilities, $150,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,640,000. Santa Fe, New Mexico, courthouse, and so forth: For extensionSanta Fe, N. Mex. and remodeling, $270,000. Scottsbluff, Nebraska, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofScottsbluff, Nebr.*Post*, p. 1662. site and commencement of construction, $40,000, under an estimated total cost of $100,000. Scranton, Pennsylvania, post office, courthouse, and so forth: ForScranton, Pa. acquisition of additional land, demolition of building and commencement of construction or, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the acquisition of a new site, and commencement of construction, $500,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,475,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may*Proviso*.Acceptance of title reserving minerals, authorized. accept a title to such site or additional land which reserves or excepts all coal or other minerals on the lands with the right of mining same. Sedalia, Missouri, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofSedalia, Mo. additional land, demolition of building, or acquisition of new site and commencement of construction, $85,000, under an estimated total cost of $170,000. Springfield, Illinois, post office, courthouse, Weather Bureau, andSpringfield, Ill. so forth: For demolition of buildings and commencement of construction, $200,000, under an estimated total cost of $850,000; andSite retransferred. the portion of the Federal building site that was transferred to theVol. 33, p. 863. Department of Agriculture by Act approved March 3, 1905, is hereby transferred to the Treasury Department. Watertown, New York, post office, and so forth: For commencementWatertown, N. Y. of extension and remodeling, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $275,000. Waukegan, Illinois, post office, and so forth: For acquisition ofWaukegan, Ill.*Post*, p. 1662. site and commencement of construction, $100,000, under an estimated total cost of $335,000, 182 Whits Plains, N. Y.White Plains, New York, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $150,000, under an estimated total cost of $350,000. Wichita, Kans.Wichita, Kansas, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For acquisition of site and commencement of construction, $250,000, under an estimated total cost of $1,200,000. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of additional land and commencement of extension and remodeling *Proviso*.Acceptance of title reserving minerals.$100,000, under an estimated total cost of $395,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, may accept a title to such land which reserves or excepts all coal or other minerals on the lands with the right of mining same. Wooster, Ohio.Wooster, Ohio, post office, and so forth: For completion of extension and remodeling, $80,000. Worcester, Mass.Worcester, Massachusetts, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For demolition and commencement of construction, $250,000, under an estimated total cost of $800,000. Zanesville, Ohio.Zanesville, Ohio, post office, and so forth: For acquisition of additional land, $20,000. Total appropriations for projects outside the District of Columbia under section 5, Public Buildings Act, approved May 25, 1926, $13,905,000. Projects in District of Columbia.public building projects in the district of columbia under section 5, public buildings act approved may 25, 1926, as amended Department of Commerce.Contracts for increased cost construction.Vol. 44, p. 874.Department of Commerce Building: Toward the construction of the building, $1,400,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such building for not to exceed $17,500,000 in lieu of $10,000,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Government Printing Office.Government Printing Office: For continuation of construction, $600,000. Internal Revenue Building.Contracts for increased cost construction.Vol. 44, p. 874.Internal Revenue Building: Toward the construction of the building, $1,500,000; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the entire estimated cost of such project for not to exceed $10,000,000, in lieu of $7,950,000 fixed in the Act of July 3, 1926. Total appropriations for projects in the District of Columbia under section 5, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, $3,500,000. Total appropriations for projects under the Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, $18,955,000. Appropriations for sites and construction, may exceed site limit if total amount sufficient for building.Any appropriation herein made toward the combined purpose of acquiring land and starting construction shall not be construed to prevent the Secretary of the Treasury from contracting for the necessary land in an amount in excess of such appropriation if, in his judgment, a balance will remain in the limit of cost sufficient to cover complete construction of the building. Triangle properties in District of Columbia.acquisition of triangle properties under the act approved january 13, 1928 Acquisition of square 256.*Ante*, p. 52.*Post*, p. 1045.For the acquisition of square numbered 256 in the District of Columbia as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire certain lands within the District of Columbia to be used as sites for public buildings,” approved January 13, 1928, $2,680,000, to be available immediately. 183 public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expensesRepairs, equipments, etc. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of allRepairs, preservation, etc., of completed and occupied buildings. completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor; Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 15 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding*Provisos*.Marine hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. $160,000 may be used for the repair and preservation of marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook) and completed and occupied outbuildings (including wire partitions and fly screens for same), and not exceeding $24,500 for the Treasury, Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler,Treasury Department buildings. and Auditors’ Buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment ofPersonal services restriction. personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,190,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanicalMechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc. equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed 10 per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of*Provisos*.Marine Hospitals, quarantine stations, etc. the sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $125,000 may be used for the installation and repair of mechanical equipment in marine hospitals, the national leprosarium, and quarantine stations (including Marcus Hook), and not exceeding $38,000 for the Treasury,Treasury Department buildings. Treasury Annex, Liberty Loan, Butler, and Auditors’ Buildings, in the District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors’ Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tubePneumatic tube service, New York City.*Post*, p. 533. system between the appraisers’ warehouse and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessary incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be availablePersonal services restriction. for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $585,000. Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairsVaults, safes, and locks. thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occu-184pied or in. course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $165,000. General expenses.Additional pay, Supervising Architect.Vol. 35, p. 537.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 30, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 537): For salaries of Technical services.architectual and engineering personnel and inspectors in the District Expenses of superintendence, etc.of Columbia and elsewhere, not exceeding $1,149,530; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Transporting household goods of superintendents, etc.Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of district engineers, construction engineers, inspection engineers, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a Office rent, field supplies, etc.total expenditure of $4,500; office rent and expenses of field force, including temporary, stenographic, and other assistance, in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telegraph and telephone service; freight, expressage, and postage incident to shipments of drawings, furniture and supplies for the field forces, testing instruments, and so forth, including articles and supplies not usually *Proviso*.Transporting operating supplies excluded.payable from other appropriations: *Provided*, That no expenditures shall be made hereunder for transportation of operating supplies for public buildings; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law Salamanca, N. Y.books, technical periodicals and journals; ground rent at Salamanca, Other contingencies.New York, for which payment may be made in advance; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order Objects excluded.or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test-pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $1,345,000, of which amount Services in the District.not to exceed $739,020 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Outside professional architectural services.Vol. 44, p. 631.Outside professional services: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain architectural services, as provided in the Public Buildings Act approved May 25, 1926, namely, “to procure by contract the floor plans and designs of buildings developed sufficiently Preparing working drawings etc.to serve as guides for the preparation of working drawings and specifications, or to employ advisory assistance involving design or engineering features, and to employ, to the extent deemed necessary by Architects for Departments of Commerce and Labor buildings.him in connection with the construction of buildings for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, the architects who were successful in competition heretofore held for a building for the then Department of Commerce and Labor, and to pay reasonable compensation for such services,” and to employ appraisers, when necessary, by contract or otherwise, $400,000. 185 public buildings, operating expensesOperating expenses. Operating force: For such, personal services as the Secretary of theOperating force.Personal services, assistant custodians, etc. Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shallPay restriction. the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $7,050,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Proviso*.Buildings for which available. appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse in the District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, andBuildings excluded. for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extension of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $990,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Personal services restriction. That the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*. That all furniture nowUse of present furniture. owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heatingOperating supplies.Fuel, light, power, water, etc. purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, telephone service for custodial forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodial forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating, apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings, and for the transportation of articles or supplies, authorized herein (including the custom-186Buildings excluded.house in the District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one Gas governors.building), $3,090,000. The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors when ordered by the *Provisos*Rentals therefor.Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than 35 per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct: Advance fuel contracts authorized.*Provided further*, That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. Custody of lands, etc.[R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3709/3750/p739).Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections 3749 and 3750 of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $550. Supervising Architect’s Office.office of supervising architect Supervising Architect, and office personnel.Salaries: For the Supervising Architect, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $337,120. miscellaneous items, treasury department Printing house for the Blind.american printing house for the blind Expenses.Vol. 41, p. 272; Vol. 44, p. 1060.To enable the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved August 4, 1919, $65,000. TITLE II— POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Post Office Department appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80.The following sums are appropriated in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, namely: Department expenses.post office department, washington, district of columbia Office of Postmaster General.office of the postmaster general Postmaster General, and office personnel.Postmaster General, $15,000; for personal services in the office of the Postmaster General in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $193,810; in all, $208,810. Department buildings.post office department buildings Personal services, operating force.For personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” for the care, maintenance, and protection of the main Post Office Department Building, the Washington City Post Office Building, and the Mail Equipment Shops Building, $240,842. 187 salaries in bureaus and officesDepartment bureaus and offices. For personal services in the District of Columbia, in accordanceAllotments for personal services.Vol. 42, p. 1488. with the Classification Act of 1923, in bureaus and offices of the Post Office Department in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $430,420. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $294,250. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $710,010. Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $407,530. Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $61,560. Office of the Chief of Inspector, $166,090. Office of the Purchasing Agent, $35,210. Bureau of Accounts, $40,170. Contingent Expenses, Post Office DepartmentDepartment contingent expenses. For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders,Stationery, etc. and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes. $22,000. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant,Heating, lighting, etc. including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $53,000. For telegraphing, $6,500.Telegraphing. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, maintenance,Miscellaneous. and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other laborsaving devices; not to exceed $7,500 for purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of motor trucks and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles; street-car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing;Vehicles. repairs to department buildings; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad, which is not exempt under article 43Vol. 44, p. 2243. of the Stockholm convention of the Universal Postal Union; $58,500, of which $4,500 shall be available immediately; and of such sum of $58,500, not exceeding $14,500 may be expended for telephone service, not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the department, and not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings or conventions concerned with postalAttendance at meetings, etc. affairs, when incurred on the written authority of the Postmaster General, and not exceeding $800 may be expended for expenses of the purchasing agent and of the solicitor and attorneys connected with his office while traveling on business of the department. For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,000.Furniture. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, includingPrinting and binding. all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $1,150,000. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office or CapitolReimbursement for heating, etc., Washington, City Post Office Building. Power Plant for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $47,000. Appropriations hereinafter made for the field service of theField service appropriations not to be used for the Department. Post Office Department, except as otherwise provided, shall not be expended for any of the purposes hereinbefore provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the actual and necessary expenses of officials and*Proviso*.Payment of traveling expenses of officials from service appropriations. employees of the Post Office Department and Postal Service, when traveling on official business, may continue to be paid from the appropriations for the service in connection with which the travel is per-188formed, and appropriations for 1929 of the character heretofore used for such purposes shall be available therefor. Field service.Field Service, Post Office Department Postmaster General.office of postmaster general Equipment shops building.For gas, electric power, and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $8,000. Cash rewards to employees for inventions for improving the service.The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to pay a cash reward for any invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions for an improvement or economy in device, design, or process applicable to the Postal Service submitted by one or more employees of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service which shall be adopted for use and will clearly effect a material economy or increase efficiency, and *Proviso*.Additional to regular pay.Amount limited.for that purpose the sum of $1,500 is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the sums so paid to employees in accordance with this Act shall be in addition to their usual compensation: *Provided further*, That the total amount paid under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed $1,000 in any month or for any one invention or suggestion: Agreement for Government use required.*Provided further*, That no employee shall be paid a reward, under this Act until he has properly executed an agreement to the effect that the use by the United States of the invention, suggestion, or series of suggestions made by him shall not form the basis of a further claim of any nature upon the United States by him, his heirs, Appropriation restricted.or assigns: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall be available for no other purpose. Shipment of equipment, supplies, etc.For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $400,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Postmaster General, $1,000. Damages claims.Vol. 42, p. 63.To enable the Postmaster General to pay claims for damages to persons or property in accordance with the provisions of the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 16, 1921, $10,000. Inspectors.Office of chief inspector: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions, at $4,500 each; and five hundred and twenty-five inspectors, $1,974,300; in all, $2,041,800. Traveling expenses, investigations, etc.For traveling expenses of inspectors, inspectors in charge, the chief post-office inspector, and the assistant chief post-office inspector, and for the traveling expenses of four clerks performing stenographic and clerical assistance to post-office inspectors in the investigation of important fraud cases, and for tests, exhibits, documents, photographs, office and other necessary expenses incurred by post-office inspectors in connection with their official investigations, $479,000. Miscellaneous.For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, $14,000. Clerks at division headquarters.For compensation of one hundred and thirty clerks at division headquarters, $315,000. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, $45,000: *Provisos*.Death of offender.Provided, That rewards may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, when an offender of the class mentioned was killed in the act of committing the crime or in resisting lawful arrest: Rates limited.Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay any rewards at rates in excess of those specified in Post Office Department Order 7708, dated July 1, 1922, except that not more than $2,000189 may be paid, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for theRobbing postal employees. arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of robbing a postmaster or any employee of a post office of money or property of the United States: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriatedSecuring information. not to exceed $20,000 may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General. For compensation to postmasters, $52,000,000.Postmasters. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second classAssistant postmasters. post offices, $7,250,000. For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second classClerks, etc., first and second class officers. post offices, including auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter post offices, and printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, $171,500,000. For compensation to watchmen, messengers, laborers, and substitutes,Watchmen, messengers, etc. $8,750,000. For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations,Contract station clerks. $1,800,000. For separating mails at third and fourth class post offices, $515,000.Separating mails. For unusual conditions at post offices, $125,000.Unusual conditions. For allowances to third-class post offices to cover the cost of clericalClerks, third class officers. services, $9,000,000. For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post offices,Rent, light, and fuel. $18,250,000. For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to the operationMiscellaneous, first and second class offices. and protection of post offices of the first and second classes and the business conducted in connection therewith, not provided for in other appropriations, $1,970,000. For village delivery service in towns and villages having postVillage delivery. offices of the second or third class, and in communities adjacent to cities having city delivery, $1,600,000. For Detroit River postal service, $18,000.Detroit River. For car fare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carCar fare and bicycles. fare, $1,375,000. For pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, $126,000,000.City delivery carriers. For fees to special-delivery messengers, $8,250,000.Special delivery fees. For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similarPneumatic tubes.New York and Brooklyn. devices in the city of New York, including the Borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, including power, labor, and all other operating expenses, $530,000. For the rental of not exceeding two miles of pneumatic tubes, notBoston, Mass.Rental. including labor and power in operating the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: Provided,*Proviso*.Contracts.Vol. 32, p. 114; Vol. 35, p. 412. That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902, and May 27, 1908, relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowance for delivery, collection, etc. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection service, $19,000,000: *Provided*, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of*Provisos*.Allotment for garages. this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned automobiles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: *Provided further*, ThatGarage at Washington, D. C. this appropriation is available for the maintenance of the Government-owned post-office garage at Washington, District of Columbia,190including such changes and additions to the mechanical equipment as, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, may be necessary: *Provided Purchase of tractors and trailer trucks, etc.further*, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal years 1928 and 1929, may purchase and maintain from the appropriation “Vehicle service” such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the screen wagon and city delivery and collection service. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, Office of the First Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of the second assistant postmaster general Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $155,000. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, $1,450,000. Railroad routes and messenger service.*Provisos*.Freight train conveyance.For inland transportation by railroad routes and for mail messenger service, $110,250,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $1,500,000 of this appropriation may be expended for pay of freight and incidental charges for the transportation of mails conveyed under special Messenger service accounting.arrangement in freight trains or otherwise: *Provided further*, That separate accounts be kept of the amount expended for mail messenger Services in the District.service: *Provided further*, That there may be expended from this appropriation for clerical and other assistance in the District of Columbia not exceeding the sum of $82,000 to carry out the provisions Vol. 39, p. 425; Vol. 43, p. 1069.of section 5 of the Act of July 28, 1916 (the space basis Act), and not exceeding the sum of $33,000 to carry out the provisions of section 214 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (cost ascertainment). Railway Mail Service.Division superintendents, etc.Railway Mail Service: For fifteen division superintendents, fifteen assistant division superintendents, two assistant superintendents at large, one assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, one hundred and twenty-one chief clerks, one hundred and twenty-one assistant chief clerks, clerks in charge of sections in the offices of division superintendents, railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, joint employees, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, $56,750,000. Travel allowance, clerks.For travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, $4,150,000. Traveling expenses, etc., away from headquarters.For actual and necessary expenses, general superintendent and assistant general superintendent, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents, chief clerks, and assistant chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, $70,000. Miscellaneous.For rent, light, heat, fuel, telegraph, miscellaneous and office expenses, telephone service, badges for railway postal clerks, for the Arms for mail protection.Rent, etc., terminal offices.purchase or rental of arms and miscellaneous items necessary for the protection of the mails, and rental of space for terminal railway post offices for the distribution of mails when the furnishing of space for such distribution can not, under the Postal Laws and Regulations, properly be required of railroad companies without additional compensation, and for equipment and miscellaneous items necessary to terminal railway post offices, $1,325,000. Electric and cable cars.For electric and cable car service, $710,000. Foreign mails.*Provisos*.Aircraft allowance.*Post*, p. 248.Sea post service.For transportation of foreign mails by steamship, aircraft, or otherwise, $9,800,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $300,000 of this sum may be expended for carrying foreign mail by aircraft: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $200,000, to cover the cost to the United States for maintaining sea post service on ocean steamships conveying the mails to and from the United States; and191not to exceed $3,600 for the salary of the Assistant Superintendent,Assistant superintendent, New York. Division of Foreign Mails, with headquarters at New York City: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $10,000 of this sum may beDelegates to Universal Postal Congress at London. available for the expenses of delegates to the Universal Postal Congress at London (such delegates to be designated from the Post Office Department by the Postmaster General) to be expended in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for on his certificate, which certificate shall be conclusive on the accounting offices of the United States. For balances due foreign countries, $2,200,000.Balances due foreign countries. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, $1,200. For the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, under contract,Aircraft contract services. and for the incidental expenses thereof including not to exceed $30,000 for assistant superintendents and clerks at air mail transferVol. 43, p. 805; Vol. 44, pp. 692, 1049. points, in accordance with the Act approved February 2, 1925, and amended June 3, 1926, $6,430,000: *Provided*, That $19,100 of this*Proviso*.Services in the District, etc. appropriation shall be available for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia, incidental and travel expenses. office of the third assistant postmaster generalThird Assistant Postmaster General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-deliveryStamps, stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc. stamps, books of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and for coiling of stamps, $7,950,000. For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stampedDistribution agency. envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, $23,650. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of piecesIndemnities for lost mail.Domestic registered matter, etc. of domestic registered matter, insured and collect-on-delivery mail, and for failure to remit collect-on-delivery charges, $2,600,000. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of internationalInternational. mail in accordance with convention, treaty, or agreement stipulations, $50,000. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, officeTravel, etc. of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. office of the fourth assistant postmaster generalFourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including the money-orderStationery. and registry systems; and also for the purchase of supplies for the Postal Savings System, including rubber stamps, canceling devices,Postal Savings System supplies. certificates, envelopes and stamps for use in evidencing deposits, and free penalty envelopes; and for the reimbursement of the Secretary of the Treasury for expenses incident to the preparation, issue, andBond expenses. registration of the bonds authorized by the Act of June 25, 1910,Vol. 36, p. 817. $775,000. For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including the purchaseMiscellaneous equipment and supplies. and repair of furniture, package boxes, posts, trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, letter-box paint, baling machines, perforating machines, duplicating machines, printing presses, directories, cleaning supplies, and the manufacture, repair, and exchange of equipment, the erectionLetter boxes, etc. and painting of letter-box equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies for use in the manufacture of letter boxes; for postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype platesPostmarking stamps, etc. and repairs to same; metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink pads for canceling and stamping purposes, and for the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines, envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, copying presses, numbering machines, time recorders, letter balances, scales, test weights, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished192Post route, etc., maps.directly to the Postal Service; for miscellaneous expenses in the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction; for other expenditures necessary and incidental to post offices of the first, second, and third classes, and offices of the fourth Sale of maps.class having or to have rural-delivery service, and for letter boxes, $1,525,000; and the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and 10 per centum thereof added; of this amount $1,500 may be expended in the purchase of atlases and geographical *Proviso*.Amount for equipment and furniture.and technical works: *Provided*, That $200,000 of this appropriation may be used for the purchase of equipment and furniture for post-office quarters and for no other purposes. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $500,000. Shipping supplies.For expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, and not exceeding $49,750 for the pay of employees in connection therewith in the District of Columbia, $70,000. Canceling and labor-saving machines, etc.For rental, purchase, exchange, and repair of canceling machines and motors, mechanical mail-handling apparatus, and other laborsaving devices, including cost of power in rented buildings and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation of same, including Traveling mechanicians.salaries of seven traveling mechanicians and for traveling expenses, $700,000. Mail bags, locks, etc.Equipment shops, materials, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags and other mail containers and attachments, mail locks, keys, chains, tools, machinery, and material necessary for same, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also material, machinery, and tools necessary for the manufacture and repair in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Columbia, of such other equipment for the Labor.Postal Service as may be deemed expedient; for compensation to labor employed in the equipment shops at Washington, District of Services in the District.*Proviso*.Distinctive equipment for departments, Alaska, and island possessions.Columbia, $2,400,000, of which not to exceed $600,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster General is authorized to use as much of the sum, not exceeding $15,000, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material and the manufacture in the equipment shops of such small quantities of distinctive equipments as may be required by other executive departments; and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions. Star routes, except Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, and not to exceed $200,000 for Government-operated star-route service, $13,850,000. Rural delivery Service.For pay of rural carriers, auxiliary carriers, substitutes for rural carriers on annual and sick leave, clerks in charge of rural stations, and tolls and ferriage, Rural Delivery Service and for the incidental expenses thereof, $106,000,000. Travel, etc.For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the Postal Service, office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $1,000. Appropriations from the Treasury for field service to supply deficiency in postal service.If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under Title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. 193 Sec. 2. Those civilian positions in the field services under theCivilian field employees in executive departments, etc., to be paid adjusted compensation.Vol. 43, p. 704. several executive departments and independent establishments, the compensation of which was fixed or limited by law but adjusted for the fiscal year 1925 under the authority and appropriations contained in the Act entitled “An Act making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, to enable the heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments to adjust the rates of compensation of civilian employees in certain of the field services,” approved December 6, 1924, may be paid under the applicable appropriations for the fiscal year 1929 and thereafter at rates not in excess of those permitted for them under the provisions of such Act of December 6, 1924. Sec. 3. The head of an executive department or independentQuarters, subsistence, etc., to be furnished civilians of departments, etc., in field service. establishment, where, in his judgment, conditions of employment require it, may continue to furnish civilians employed in the field service with quarters, heat, light, household equipment, subsistence, and laundry service; and appropriations for the fiscal year 1929Appropriations available. and thereafter of the character heretofore used for such purposes are hereby made available therefor: *Provided*, That the reasonable*Proviso*.Value considered part of compensation. value of such allowances shall be determined and considered as part of the compensation in fixing the salary rate of such civilians. Sec. 4. Expenditures from appropriations made herein for theLimitation on motor vehicles expense. maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel and lubricants, on any one passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Treasury Department shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class and in any case more than $500. Approved, March 5, 1928.
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