Chapter 270. Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes
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Chap. 270: Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes. Chapter 270 45 Stat. 1230 1929-02-20 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 2 public Chapter 270.— An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes.
February 20, 1929.[[H. R. 16301](/us/bill/70/hr/16301).][[Public, No. 778](/us/pl/70/778).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Independent Offices Act, 1929.Appropriations for fiscal year 1930. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, namely:
Executive Office.EXECUTIVE OFFICE Compensation.compensation of the president and vice president President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $15,000. Office of the President.office of the president Secretaries, and office personnel.Salaries: For Secretary to the President, $10,000; two additional secretaries to the President at $10,000 each; personal services in the office of the President, $93,520; in all, $123,520: *Proviso*.Details of employees to the office.*Provided,* That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be deemed necessary.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $35,000. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $2,700. Traveling, etc., expenses.Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.
Executive Mansion, etc.executive mansion and grounds Care, repairs, etc.For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and 1231fixtures of the Executive Mansion, the Executive Mansion greenhouses, including reconstruction, and the Executive Mansion grounds, and not to exceed $100 for traveling expenses, to be expended by contract or otherwise as the President may determine, $166,000, of which $50,000 shall be immediately available.
For purchase for the Executive Mansion of an oil portraitPortrait of President Coolidge. of trudge President Coolidge, including frame for the same, to be expended as the President may direct, $5,000, to be immediately available. white house policeWhite House police. Salaries: First sergeant, $2,700; threeSalaries. sergeants at $2,400 each; and thirty-five privates at $2,100 each; in all, $83,400. For uniforming and equipping the White House police, Uniforms, equipment, etc.including the purchase, issue, and repair of revolvers and the purchase and issue of ammunition and miscellaneous supplies, to be procured in such manner as the President in his discretion may determine, $2,500.
Total, Executive Office, $533,120. INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTSIndependent establishments. AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSIONAmerican Battle Monuments Commission. For every expenditure requisite for or incident to the work of the All expenses.Vol. 42, p. 1509.U. S. Code, p. 1182.American Battle Monuments Commission authorized by the Act entitled “An Act for the creation of an American Battle Monuments Commission to erect suitable memorials commemorating the services of the American soldier in Europe, and for other purposes,” approved March 4, 1923 (U.
S. C., p. 1182, secs. 121–133), including the acquisitionTitle to land in foreign countries.R. S., sec. 355, p. 60.U. S. Code, pp. 1122, 1302. of land or interest in land in foreign countries for carrying out the purposes of said Act without submission to the Attorney General of the United States under the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1122, sec. 520; p. 1302, sec. 255); employment of personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the transportation of, mileage of, reimbursement of actualTravel expenses. travel expenses or per diem in lieu thereof to the personnel engaged upon the work of the commission; the reimbursement of actual travel expenses (not exceeding an average of $8 per day for subsistence) or per diem in lieu thereof (not exceeding $7 per day) to, and the transportation of the members of the commission, while engaged upon the work of the commission; the establishment of offices and theOffice expenses abroad. rent of office space in foreign countries; the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for the official use of the commission and its personnel in foreign countries, at a total cost of not to exceed $1,500; the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles which may be furnished to the commission by other departments of the Government or acquired by purchase; printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, photographing,Printing, etc. and typewriting, including the publication of information concerning the American activities, battle fields, memorials, and cemeteries in Europe; the purchase of maps, textbooks, newspapers, and periodicals, $600,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provisos*.Contracts, etc., authorized.*Provided*, That the commission may incur obligations and enter into contracts for building materials and supplies and for construction work, which, inclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore made available, shall not exceed a total of $4,500,000: *Provided further*, That notwithstanding the requirementsTechnical work abroad. of existing laws or regulations and under such terms and conditions as the commission may in its discretion deem necessary and proper, the commission may contract for work in Europe, and engage, by 1232contract or otherwise, the services of architects, firms Minor purchases, etc., without advertising.R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U. S. Code, p. 1309.of architects, other technical and professional personnel: *Provided further,* That the commission may purchase materials and supplies without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $500: Traveling expenses, etc., of Army officers.*Provided further,* That when traveling on business of the commission officers of the Army serving as members or as secretary of the commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided for other members of the commission.
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission.ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION Continuing construction of Memorial bridge.Vol. 43, p. 974.For continuing the construction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, authorized in an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a memorial bridge across the Potomac River from a point near the Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington to an appropriate point in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 974), to be expended in accordance with the provisions and conditions of the said Act, $2,000,000, including all necessary incidental and contingent expenses, the maintenance and repair of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, printing and binding, and traveling expenses, to remain available until expended: *Proviso*.Minor purchases without advertising.R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U. S. Code, p. 1309.*Provided,* That the commission may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $50. Board of Mediation.BOARD OF MEDIATION Members of board.For five members of the board, at $12,000 each, $60,000. All other expenses.Vol. 44, p. 579.For other authorized expenditures of the Board of Mediation in performing the duties imposed by law, including not to exceed $96,940 for personal services in the District of Columbia;
Contracts for reporting without advertising.R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U. S. Code, p. 1309.personal services in the field; contract stenographic reporting services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5); supplies and equipment; law books and books of reference; not to exceed $200 for newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance; periodicals; traveling expenses; Rent.rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, if space is not provided by the Public Buildings Commission, and rent of quarters outside the Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1072.District of Columbia, $110,570, together with $46,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
Expenses of arbitration boards.Vol. 44, p. 582.Arbitration boards: To enable the Board of Mediation to pay necessary expenses of arbitration boards, including compensation of members and employees of such boards, together with their necessary traveling expenses and expenses actually incurred for subsistence while so employed, and printing of awards, together with proceedings and testimony relating thereto, as authorized by the Reporting.R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U. S. Code, p. 1309.Railway Labor Act, including also contract stenographic reporting service without reference to section 3709, Revised Statutes (U.
S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5), and rent of quarters when suitable quarters can not be supplied in any Federal building, $80,000, to be immediately available. Emergency boards expenses.Emergency boards: For expenses of emergency boards appointed President to investigate and report respecting disputes Vol. 44, p. 586.U. S. Code, p. 2110.between carriers and their employees, as authorized by section 10, Railway Labor Act, approved May 20, 1926 (U. S. C., p. 2110, sec. 160), $50,000. 1233 For all printing and binding for the Board of Mediation, $1,700.Printing and binding.
Total, Board of Mediation, $302,270. BOARD OF TAX APPEALSBoard of Tax Appeals. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofAll expenses.Vol. 43, p. 338.Vol. 44, p. 105. the Board of Tax Appeals as authorized under Title IX, section 900, of the Revenue Act of 1924, approved June 2, 1924, as amended by Title X of the Revenue Act of 1926, approved February 26, 1926, including personal services and contract stenographic reporting services to be obtained by renewal of existing contract, or otherwise, rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, traveling expenses, car fare, stationery, furniture, office equipment, purchase and exchange of typewriters, law books and books of reference, periodicals, and all other necessary supplies, $623,863, together with $62,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for thisBalance available.Vol. 44, p. 1072.Services in the District.*Proviso*.Rent restriction. purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $536,300 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
For all printing and binding for the Board of Tax Appeals, $40,000.Printing and binding. Total, Board of Tax Appeals, $663,863. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCYEfficiency Bureau. For chief of bureau and other personal services in the DistrictChief of Bureau, and office personnel. of Columbia; contract stenographic reporting services; contingent expenses, including traveling expenses; supplies, stationery; purchase and exchange of equipment; not to exceed $100 for law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; and not to exceed $150 for street-car fare; in all, $223,830, of which amount not to exceed $217,780 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
For all printing and binding for the Bureau of Efficiency, $500.Services in the District. Hereafter the chief of the Bureau of Efficiency shall certifyPrinting and binding.Annual certificate to Budget Bureau, of estimated savings effected by surveys, etc. annually to the Bureau of the Budget, along with his estimates of appropriations for the ensuing year, a statement of the amount of the savings which he estimates have been effected in the various bureaus and offices of the Government, including the District of Columbia, as a result of the surveys and recommendations made by the Bureau of Efficiency in cooperation with the bureau or office involved during the previous fiscal year; and the Bureau of the Budget shall, upon the request of any appropriation committeeStatement on request of committee of House or Senate. of the House or Senate, supply such committee with a statement of the reductions or adjustments of appropriations effected or proposed to be made in the appropriations for the respective bureaus or offices as a result of such surveys by the Bureau of Efficiency.
Total, Bureau of Efficiency, $224,330. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONCivil Service Commission. Salaries: For three commissioners and other personal servicesCommissioners, and office personnel. in the District of Columbia, $672,610. Field force: For salaries of the field force, $383,000.Field force. No details from any executive department or independentDetails from departments, etc., in the District, forbidden. establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the commission’s central office in Washington or to any of its district offices shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930; but this 1234shall not affect the making of details for service as members of boards of examiners outside Emergency transfers of office or field force.the immediate offices of the district secretaries.
The Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office or field force. Expert examiners.For employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. Examination of presidential postmasters.For examination of presidential postmasters, including travel, stationery, contingent expenses, additional examiners, and investigators, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $27,360, of which amount not to exceed $23,360 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Traveling expenses, etc.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1073.meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $30,000, together with $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
Contingent expenses.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Civil Service Commission, including furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; advertising; telegraph, telephone, and laundry service; freight and express charges; street-car fares not to exceed $300; stationery ; purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, payment in advance for subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, not to exceed $1,000; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; purchase and exchange of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (not to exceed $750), maintenance and repair of same, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries;
Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1073.special-delivery stamps; and other like miscellaneous necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for; in all, $38,000, together with $1,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928. Rent.For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $24,592, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $49,300, Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1073.together with $4,700 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
Total, Civil Service Commission, $1,226,862. Commission of Fine Arts.COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371.U. S. Code, p. 1295.For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” approved May 17, 1910 (U. S. C., p. 1295, sec. 104), including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, and payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the commission in attending meetings of the commission either within or outside of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission, $7,380, of which amount not to exceed $4,280 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Commission of Fine Arts, $1,700. Total, Commission of Fine Arts, $9,080. 1235 EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSIONEmployees’ Compensation Commission. For three commissioners and other personal services in the Commissioners, and office personnel.District of Columbia, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for personal services in the field; for furniture and other equipment and repairsContingent expenses. thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals; stationery and supplies; traveling expenses; fees and mileage of witnesses; contract stenographic reporting services; rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; and miscellaneous items, $459,326, together with $4,000Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1074. of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
For all printing and binding for the Employees’ CompensationPrinting and binding. Commission, $14,000. Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensationEmployees’ compensation fund.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.U. S. Code, p. 80. provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes?” approved September 7, 1916 (U. S. C., p. 80, sec. 785), including medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under sections 21 and 22; all services, appliances, and supplies provided by section 9 as amended, including payments to Army and Navy Hospitals; the transportation and burial expenses provided by sectionsBurial expenses.Recoveries.Vol. 39, p. 747. 9 and 11; and advancement of costs for the enforcement of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, accruing during the fiscal year 1930 or in prior fiscal years, $3,600,000: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Payment in designated cases from the fund.*Post*, pp. 1829, 2027, repealed.That the permanent appropriations made in private Acts numbered 120 and 290, Seventieth Congress, are repealed after June 30, 1929, and the payments authorized by such Acts shall thereafter be made from the “Employees’ compensation fund.
” Total, Employees’ Compensation Commission, $4,073,326. FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONVocational Education Board. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amountSalaries and expenses.Additional amount.Vol. 39, p. 933; Vol. 40, p. 345.U. S. Code, p. 610. for salaries and expenses of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, including the same objects specified in section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth.” approved February 23, 1917, as amended (U.
S. C., p. 610, sec. 15), $13,400. For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefitsHawaii.Vocational education extended to.Vol. 39, p. 929.U. S. Code, p. 609. of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” approved February 23, 1917 (U.
S. C., pp. 609. 610, secs. 12–17), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Vol. 43, p. 18.U. S. Code, p. 612.Territory of Hawaii,” approved March 10, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 612, sec. 29), $30,000. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An ActVocational rehabilitation.Expenses of providing.Vol. 41, p. 735; Vol. 43, p. 431.U. S. Code, pp. 949, 948.*Proviso*.Basis of apportionment to States. to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment,” approved June 2, 1920 (U.
S. C., p. 949, secs. 33–42), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 948, sec. 31), $700,000: *Provided,* That the apportionment to the States shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,034,000, as authorized by the Act approved June 2, 1920, as amended by the Act approved June 5, 1924. 1236 Administrative expenses investigating placements, etc.Vol. 41, p. 735; Vol. 43, p. 432.U. S. Code, pp. 649, 948.Office personnel, etc.For the purpose of making studies, investigations, and reports regarding the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons and their placements in suitable or gainful occupations, and for the administrative expenses of said board incident to performing the duties imposed by the Act of June 2, 1920 (U.
S. C., p. 649, secs. 33–42), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 948, sec 31), including salaries of such assistants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as the board may deem necessary, actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred by the members of the board and by its employees, under its orders; including attendance at meetings of educational associations Rent, etc.and other organizations, rent and equipment of offices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, payment in advance for subscriptions to newspapers not to exceed $50 per annum, stationery, typewriters and Printing and binding.exchange thereof, miscellaneous supplies, postage on foreign mail, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and all other necessary expenses, $79,120, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $58,080 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Attendance at meetings allowed from expenses of the board.Appropriations available to the Federal Board for Vocational Education for salaries and expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings of educational associations and other organizations which in the discretion of the board are necessary for the efficient discharge of its responsibilities. Total, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $822,520. Federal Power Commission.FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION All expenses.Vol. 41, p. 1063.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Federal Power Commission as authorized by law, including traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services, and not exceeding $600 for press-clipping service, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $165,750, of which amount not to exceed Personal services.$131,800 shall be available for personal services, and of this amount not to exceed $127,200 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission, $4,500. Total, Federal Power Commission, $170,250. Federal Radio CommissionFEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION Commissioners.*Post*, p. 1559.For five commissioners, at $30 each per diem, $45,000. All other expenses.Vol. 44, p. 1162.Reporting without advertising.R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733U. S. Code, p. 1309.For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Radio Commission in performing the duties imposed by the Radio Act of 1927, as amended, including personal services, contract stenographic reporting services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.
S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5), printing and binding, supplies and equipment, travel and other necessary expenses, $119,440, of which Services in the District.amount not to exceed $81,440 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Total, Federal Radio Commission, $164,440. Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Commissioners.For five commissioners at $10,000 each per annum, $50,000. All other expenses.Vol. 38, p. 717.For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including secretary to the commission and other personal serv-1237ices, contract stenographic reporting services to be obtained on and after the approval of this Act by the commission, in its discretion, through the civil service or by contract, or renewal of existing contract, or otherwise, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, garage rental, traveling expenses, not to exceed $225 for newspapers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileageVol. 38, p. 22.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1075.Services in the District.Amount immediately available. in accordance with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $1,197,760, together with $12,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $909,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, including witness fees;Printing and binding. and of the amount herein appropriated $250,000 shall be immediately available.
For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission, $30,000, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available. Total, Federal Trade Commission, $1,277,760. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICEGeneral Accounting Office. Salaries: Comptroller General, $10,000; for Assistant ComptrollerComptroller General, Assistant, and office personnel.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1075. General and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $3,876,000, together with $14,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928; in all, $3,886,000.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses including stenographic reporting service outside of the District of Columbia not exceeding $2,500, by contract or otherwise; materials, supplies, equipment, and services; rent of buildings and equipment; purchase and exchange of books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, which may be paid for in advance, tabulating cards, typewriters, calculating machines, and other office appliances, including their development, repairs and maintenance, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and miscellaneous items, Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1076.$176,000, together with $24,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
For all printing and binding for the General Accounting Office,Printing and binding. including monthly and annual editions of selected decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, $30,000. Total, General Accounting Office, $4,092,000. HOUSING CORPORATIONHousing Corporation. Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employees in the DistrictSalaries in the District for specified services. of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the reedpts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilitiesBalance available.Vol. 44, p. 1076.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. and others, $27,850, together with $3,400 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate.
Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneousContingent expenses. expenses of the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect moneys and loans due the corporation, $2,600, together with $1,400 of the unexpended Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1076.balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928. 1238 Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the United States Housing Corporation, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $600.
Collections of sales, etc.Collections: For the collection of money due from the sale of real and other property under the provision of the Act approved July 19, 1919, the collection of rentals from unsold properties, including necessary office and travel expenses outside of the Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1076.District of Columbia, $6,400, together with $5,600 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928. Government Hotel, D. C.Maintenance, etc.Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel for Government workers:
For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurants therein, including purchase and replacement of equipment and personal services and including not to exceed $300 for the repair and maintenance of an automobile for official use, Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1076.Services in the District.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.$204,000, together with $144,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $199,323 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia in addition to any meals and lodging allowed employees: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, in addition to any meals and lodging, and only one person may be employed at that rate.
Maintenance of sold property.Reappropriation.Vol. 44, p. 1077.Maintenance, unsold property: To maintain and repair houses, buildings, and improvements which are unsold, $100 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated. Miscellaneous expenses ofsold property.Miscellaneous expenses account of property sold: To pay taxes, special assessments, and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting sales under deeds of trust, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses, $2,000.
Use of former appropriations restricted.No part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. Total, Housing Corporation, $243,450. Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Commissioners, retary.For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $9,000; in all, $141,000. Personnel and expenses.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including one chief counsel, one director of finance, and one director of traffic at $10,000 each per annum, Stenographic reporting.traveling expenses, and stenographic reporting services to be obtained on and after the approval of this Act by the commission, in its discretion, through the civil service or by contract or renewal of existing contract, or Services in the District.Special counsel, etc.otherwise, $2,887,000, of which amount not to exceed $2,250,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, exclusive of special counsel, for which the expenditure shall not exceed $50,000; not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals; not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in Rent, D.
C.*Provisos*.Rent restriction.the general supply schedule; and not exceeding $139,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District 1239of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided further*, ThatAmount immediately available. $20,000 of this appropriation shall be immediately available. Regulating commerce: To enable the Interstate CommerceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593;
Vol. 36, p. 556; Vol. 41, p. 493.U. S. Code, pp. 1668-1670. Commission to enforce compliance with section 20 and other sections of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906 (U. S. C., pp. 1668–1670, sec. 20), and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U. S. C., pp. 1668–1670, sec. 20), including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, and traveling expenses, $1,407,825, of which amount not to exceed $200,000 Services in the District.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Safety of employees: To enable the Interstate CommerceSafety of employees.Safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350.Safety signals.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p. 212.U. S. Code, p. 1441. Commission to keep informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (U.
S. C., p. 1441, sec. 35), and the provision of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908 (U. S. C., p. 1441, secs. 36, 37), to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, inspectors,Inspectors.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1077.Services in the District. and for traveling expenses, $504,000, together with $21,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $85,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Signal safety systems: For all authorized expendituresSignal safety systems.Automatic train control devices, etc.Vol. 41, p. 498.U. S. Code, p. 1673. under section 26 of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920 (U. S. C., p. 1673, sec. 26), with respect to the provision thereof under which carriers by railroad subject to the Act may be required to install automatic train-stop or train-control devices which comply with specifications and requirements prescribed by the commission, including investigations and tests pertainingVol. 34, p. 838.U.
S. Code, p. 1441. to block-signal and train-control systems, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906 (U. S. C., p. 1441, sec. 35), and including the employment of the necessary engineers, and for traveling expenses, not to exceed $48,000 of the unexpendedBalances reappropriated.Vol. 44, p. 1078.*Ante*, p. 581. balances of the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal years 1928 and 1929 is reappropriated, of which amount not to exceed $35,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Locomotive inspection: For all authorized expenditures underLocomotive inspection.Expenses of.Vol. 36, p. 913;Vol. 38, p. 1192;Vol. 40, p. 616.U. S. Code, p. 1439.Vol. 43, p. 659. the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenancesU. S. Code, p. 1440. thereto” (U. S. C., p. 1439, sec. 22), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1915, extending “the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender” (U.
S. C., p. 1440, sec. 30), and amendment of June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., p. 1440, sec. 27), providing for the appointment from time to time by the Interstate CommerceAdditional inspectors.Vol. 36, p. 914; Vol. 43, p. 659.U. S. Code, p. 1439. Commission of not more than fifteen inspectors in addition to the number authorized in the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act of 1911 (U. S. C., p. 1439, sec. 26), including such legal, technical, stenographic, and clerical help as the business of the offices of the chief inspector and his two assistants may require, and for traveling expenses,Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1078.Services in the District. $459,000, together with $31,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of 1240which amount not to exceed $72,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271; Vol. 42, p. 624.Issue of stocks, etc.Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers U. S. Code, p. 1667.Officials.subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913 (U.
S. C., pp. 1667–1668, sec. 19a), including one director of valuation at $10,000 per annum, one supervisor of land appraisals, one supervising engineer, one supervisor of accounts, and one principal valuation examiner at Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1078.*Proviso*.Rent restriction, D. C.$9,000 each per annum, and traveling expenses, $2,043,000, together with $497,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission.
Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission, including reports in all cases proposing general changes in transportation rates and not to exceed $10,000 to print and furnish to the States at cost report form blanks, and the receipts from such Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1078.*Proviso*.Schedule of Sailings excepted.Vol. 41, p. 498.reports and blanks shall be credited to this appropriation, $107,000, together with $68,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be expended for printing the Schedule of Sailings required by section 25 of the Interstate Commerce Act.
Attendance at meetings.Not to exceed $5,000 of the appropriations herein made for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be available for expenses, except membership fees, for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the commission. Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $7,548,825. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS All expenses, scientific research, etc.For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and in the preparation of special reports; traveling expenses of members and employees; including not to exceed Attendance at meetings.$500 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals Langley Laboratory.and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory: not to exceed $30,000 for the construction of a combined heating plant, Wind tunnel contract.storehouse, and garage; not to exceed $525,000 toward the construction of a wind tunnel suitable for the conduct of research on full-sized airplanes, for which construction the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is authorized to enter into contract or contracts to an amount of not exceeding $900,000; purchase, maintenance, operation, and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles;
Services in the field and District.Balance available.Vol. 44, p. 1079.personal services in the field and in the District of Columbia; in all, $1,277,200, together with $7,800 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $97,160 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including all of its offices, laboratories, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $15,000.
Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $1,292,200. 1241 PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITALPublic Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital. For personal services in the District of Columbia,Personal services. $2,025,611, including not to exceed $25,000 for intermittent and seasonal employees at per diem rates of compensation to be fixed by th$ director. For general expenses in connection with the maintenance, care,Maintenance, care, etc., of designated buildings, grounds, etc. improvement, protection, operation, repair, cleaning, heating, and lighting of the Washington Monument and grounds; the Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool; the house where Abraham Lincoln died; grounds surrounding executive departments; and public buildings in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, including per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the director, not exceeding current rates for similar employment in the District of Columbia; rent of buildings in the District of Columbia,Rent, etc. and salaries for maintenance and operation of the buildings when such maintenance and operation is not furnished by the owner under terms of the lease: *Provided,* That any funds for the fiscal year 1930*Proviso*.Fund for rent, etc., of buildings for departments, etc., may be transferred to the Director. appropriated for rents and maintenance of buildings in the District of Columbia for any of the executive departments and independent establishments may be transferred, with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission, to the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital; city directories; contingentContingent expenses. expenses; traveling expenses and car fare not exceeding $300; communication service; professional, scientific, technical, and law books; periodicals and reference books; blank books and forms; photographs; maps, leather and rubber articles and gas masks for the protection of public property and employees; not exceeding $7,000Uniforms for employees. for uniforms fox- employees; the maintenance, repair, exchange, storage, and operation of not to exceed one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; the purchase, maintenance,Immediately available amount. and repair of equipment and fixtures, $859,000 not to exceed $40,000 of which is to be available immediately.
For all printing and binding for the Office of PublicPrinting and binding. Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, $3,450. Total, Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, $2,888,061. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSmithsonian Institution. For expenses of the general administrative office, SmithsonianAdministrative office expenses. Institution, including an additional assistant secretary at $9,000 per annum during the present incumbency, compensation of necessary employees, traveling expenses, purchase of books and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and any other necessary expenses, $36,004.
International exchanges: For the system of international exchangesInternational exchanges. between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $51,297. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researchesAmerican ethnology. among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, the purchase of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $68,800.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For theInternational Catalogue of Scientific Literature. cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue 1242of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of books and periodicals, traveling expenses, and other necessary incidental expenses, $6,495, Balance available.Vol. 46, p. 1080.together with $1,390 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1928.
Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of books, periodicals, and apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, traveling expenses, and miscellaneous expenses, $36,720. National Museum.national museum Furniture, etc.For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $33,240.
Heating, lighting, etc.For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, and traveling expenses, $90,160. Preserving collections, employees, etc.For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, travel, uniforms for guards and elevator conductors, and all other necessary expenses and not exceeding $5,500 for preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications, $570,084.
Repairs, etc.For repairs and alterations of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $21,080. Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000. Postage.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $450. National Gallery of Art.national gallery of art Administration expenses.For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by the Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary employees, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling expenses, and necessary incidental expenses, $34,853. printing and binding Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in American Historical Association.Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $95,000, of which not to exceed $7,000 shall be available for printing the report of the *Proviso*.No pro rata restriction.American Historical Association: *Provided*, That the expenditure of this sum shall not be restricted to a pro rata amount in any period of the fiscal year.
Services in the District.Total, Smithsonian Institution, $1,046,183, of which amount not to exceed $836,083 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Tariff Commission.TARIFF COMMISSION Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase or professional and scientific books, law books, books of Reporting without advertising.R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U.
S. Code, p. 1309.Vol. 39, p. 790.reference, gloves and other protective equipment for photostat and other machine operators, payment in advance for subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, and contract stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5), as authorized under Title VII of the 1243Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916U. S. Code, pp. 529–531.Vol. 42, pp. 941–947.
(U. S. C., pp. 529–531, secs. 91–106), and under sections 315, 316, 317, and 318 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.” approved September 21, 1922U. S. Code, pp. 575–580. (U. S. C., pp. 575–576, secs. 154–158; pp. 578–580, secs. 174–180, 182–190), $764,000, together with $36,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation forBalance available.Vol. 44, p. 1081.Services in the District. this purpose for the fiscal year 1928, of which amount not to exceed $690,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $2,000 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance at meetings concerned with subjects under investigation by the commission: *Provided,* That the commission*Provisos*.Minor purchases.R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733.U. S. Code, p. 1309. may procure supplies and services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., p. 1309, sec. 5) when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $20: *Provided further,* That noSalary restriction. part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the United States Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings under said sections 315, 316, 317, and 318 of said Act, approved September 21, 1922, wherein he or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative.
For all printing and binding for the Tariff Commission,Printing and binding. $25,000. Total, Tariff Commission, $789,000. UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARDGeographic Board. For salaries and expenses of the United StatesSalaries and expenses. Geographic Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and for Stationery and office supplies, $8,900. For printing and binding, $300.Printing and binding. Total, United States Geographic Board, $9,200. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARDShipping Board.
For seven commissioners at $12,000 each per annum, $84,000.Commissioners. For all other expenditures authorized by law, includingAll other expenses. the compensation of a secretary to the board, attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, and clerks, including one admiraltyPersonnel included. counsel at $10,000 per annum, one technical expert in connection with construction loan fund, at $10,000 per annum, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia,Outside rent. law books, books of reference, periodicals, and traveling expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees, while upon official business away from their designated posts of duty, and for the employment by contract or otherwise of expert stenographic reporters for its official reporting work andInvestigating discriminations against American vessels, etc. including the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels and shippers of the United States and for the investigation of transportation of immigrants in vessels of the United States Shipping Board, $265,750, of which amount not to exceed $240,000Services in the District.*Proviso*.Estimates to assignments from Fleet Corporation. may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: *Provided,* That the annual estimates of the Shipping Board for the fiscal year 1931 shall be accompanied by a statement showing the number and compensation of employees of the Fleet Corporation assigned to the Shipping Board.
For all printing and binding for the United States ShippingPrinting and binding. Board, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $10,000. 1244 Shipping fund.united states shipping board shipping fund Merchant Fleet Corporation expenses payable from.For expenses of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, for administrative purposes, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the maintenance and operation of ships, for the repair of ships, for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor vehicles for official purposes only; for the payment of premiums for liability, fire, theft, property damage and collision insurance and for other forms of insurance, including schedule and fidelity bonds, commonly carried by commercial corporations engaged in the same or a similar business, and for carrying out the Sources of.On hand July 1, 1929.provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, and amendments thereto,
(a)the amount on hand July 1, 1929, not to exceed $50,000,000, including such sums as the Shipping Board may have reserved or committed from the fiscal year For employees.1927 for the reconditioning of vessels;
(b)$11,134,250, including the salaries of employees of the Fleet Corporation assigned to the Operating ships for carrying coal to foreign ports.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 586.Shipping Board, of which $1,500,000 may be used for reconditioning and operating ships for carrying coal to foreign ports, together with the unexpended balance of the $1,000,000 authorized for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929, and $500,000 shall be available only for research and experimental development in ship and machinery From sales other than ships.From sales of ships, etc.Liquidation expenses.design, construction, and operation;
(c)all amounts received during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, other than the proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property;
(d)so much of the total proceeds of sales of ships and surplus property received during the fiscal year 1930, but not exceeding $2,100,000, as is necessary to meet the expenses of liquidation, including the cost of maintaining the laid-up fleet and the salaries and expenses of the personnel engaged in *Proviso*.Claims not payable therefrom.Earned interest.liquidation : *Provided,* That no part of these sums; (a), (b), (c), and (d), shall be used for the payment of claims arising out of the construction and requisitioning of vessels;
(e)all interest earned on the funds, excepting the construction loan fund, of the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation is to accrue to these funds and is made available for the purposes hereinbefore set forth subject to the limitations herein established. Unexpended balance for special claims continued.Vol. 42, p. 647.That portion of the special claims appropriation, contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, committed prior to July 1, 1923, and remaining unexpended on June 30, 1929, shall continue available until June 30, 1930, for the same purposes and under the same conditions. Operation of ships taken back from purchasers.To enable the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation to operate ships or lines of ships which have been or may be taken back from purchasers by reason of competition or other methods employed by foreign ship owners or operators, there is Roappropriation of balance.Vol. 44, p. 318.*Proviso.*President’s approval required.hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000,000 made for similar purposes in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1927: *Provided,* That no expenditure shall be made for the purposes of this paragraph from this sum without the prior approval of the President of the United States. Attorneys subject to approval of Attorney General.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has seen approved by the Attorney General of the United States. Pay restriction.No officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be paid a salary or compensation at a rate per annum in excess of 1245$10,000 except the following: One at not to exceed $18,000, three at not to exceed $15,000 each, and one at not to exceed $12,000. No part of the funds of the United States Shipping BoardRent restriction in the District. Merchant Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1930 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Public Buildings Commission. Total, United States Shipping Board, $11,494,000: *Proviso*.Compensation of attorneys.*Provided,* That of the sums herein made available under the United States Shipping Board, not to exceed an aggregate of $300,000 shall be expended for compensation of regular attorneys employed on a yearly salary basis and for fees and expenses of attorneys employed in special cases. UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAUVeterans’ Bureau. For carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act toSalaries and expenses.Vol. 42, p. 147.Vol. 43, pp. 607, 1302;Vol. 44, p. 826.*Ante*, p. 964.U. S. Code, pp. 1214, 2073.Adjusted Compensation Act.Vol. 43, p. 121; Vol. 44, p. 826.*Ante*, p. 947.U. S. Code, pp. 1229, 2082.Emergency officers’ retired list.*Ante*, p. 735. establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and services of such bureau and to further amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act approved August 9, 1921,” and to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “World War Veterans’ Act, 1924,” approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., pp. 1214–1229, secs. 421–576; pp. 2073–2081, secs. 422–557 ; 45 Stat., pp. 964–971), as amended, and for administrative expenses in carrying out the provisions of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924 (U. S. C., pp. 1229–1234, secs. 591–667; pp. 2082–2084, secs. 612–669; 45 Stat., pp. 947–950), as amended, tor administrative expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act making eligible for retirement, under certain conditions, officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the service of the United States during the World War,” of May 24, 1928 Salaries, supplies, etc.(vol. 45, pp. 735–736), including salaries of personnel in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and expenses of the central office at Washington, District of Columbia, and regional offices and sub-offices, and including salaries, stationery, and minor office supplies, furniture, equipment and supplies, rentals and alterations, neat, light, and water, miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, law books, books of reference, periodicals, ambulance service, towel service, laundry service, repairs to equipment, storage, ice, taxi service, car fare, stamps and box rent, traveling and subsistence, including not to exceed $4,000 for the expenses,Attendance at meetings, etc. except membership fees, of employees detailed by the director to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of medical science and annual national conventions of such organizations as may be recognized by the director in the presentation or adjudication of claims under authority of section 500 of the World War Veterans’Vol. 43, p. 1311.U. S. Code, p. 1228. Act as amended (U. S. C., p. 1228, sec. 551), and traveling expenses of employees transferred from one official station to another when incurred on the written order of the director, salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigation and supervision, passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, repairs, and operation of same, salaries and operatingArlington Building. expenses of the Arlington Building and annex, including repairs and mechanical equipment, fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items; and including the salaries and allowances, where applicable, wages, travel and subsistence of civil employees of the United States veterans’ hospitals, supply depots, dispensaries, and clinics, including the furnishing and laundering of white duck 1246*Proviso*.Allowance for transferring household effects of medical employees on changes of station.suits, and white canvas shoes to employees whose duties make necessary the wearing of same, $43,500,000: *Provided,* That physicians, dentists, and nurses of the medical service of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, in addition to their compensation, when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty, may be allowed, within the discretion and under written order of the director, the expenses incurred for packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of their household effects and other personal property not exceeding in all five thousand pounds. Allotment to Public Health Service details.Such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time by the United States Veterans’ Bureau to the Public Health Service and shall be available for expenditure by the Public Health Service for necessary personnel, the pay, allowances, and travel of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the United States Veterans’ Bureau for duty. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $125,000. Military and naval compensation.Vol. 41, p. 371; Vol. 43, pp. 615, 1304; Vol. 44, p. 793.*Ante*, p. 965.U. S. Code, pp. 1214, 2073.Emergency officers’ retirement list.*Ante*, p. 735.Compensation: For the payment ot military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1930 or in prior fiscal years for death or disability provided by the Act approved October 6, 1917, as amended, and the World War Veterans’ Act 1924, approved June 7, 1924, as amended (U. S. C., pp. 1214–1229, secs. 421–576; pp. 2073–2081, secs. 422–557; vol. 45, pp. 964–971) and the Act entitled “An Act making eligible for retirement, under certain conditions, officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability in line of duty while in the service of the United States during the World War,” of May 24, 1928 (vol. 45, pp. 735–736), $191,450,000. Medical, hospital, etc., service to beneficiares.Medical and hospital services: For medical, surgical, dental, dispensary, and hospital services and facilities, convalescent care, necessary and reasonable after care, welfare of, nursing, prosthetic appliances (including special clothing made necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances prescribed by the bureau), medical examinations, funeral, burial, and other incidental expenses (including preparation for shipment and transportation of remains) accruing during the fiscal year 1930, or in prior fiscal years, traveling expenses, Books, magazines, etc.and supplies, and not exceeding $100,000 for library books, magazines, and papers for beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, Court expenses for guardians, etc.court or other expenses incident to any investigation or court proceeding for the appointment or removal of any guardian, curator, conservator, or other person legally vested with the care of the claimant, or his estate, or in connection with the administration of such estate by such fiduciaries, including 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. $31,650,000. Disbursement of allotted appropriations.This appropriation shall be disbursed by the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, and the War, Navy, and Interior Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraph. Use for new hospital sites, hospitals, etc., forbidden.Improving facilities.No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site for a new hospital, for or toward the construction of any new hospital, or for the purchase of any hospital; and not more than $3,250,000 of this appropriation may be used to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals under the jurisdiction of 1247the United States Veterans’ Bureau so as to furnish adequate accommodations for its beneficiaries either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees and the purchase of materials. The allotments made to the Public Health Service, War, Navy,Expenditures authorized from allotments to other agencies. and Interior Departments shall be available for expenditure for care and treatment of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and for necessary minor repairs and improvements of existing facilities, under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. Adjusted service certificate fund: For an amount necessaryAdjusted service certificate fund.Payments of.Vol. 43, p. 128. Vol. 44, p. 826.U. S. Code, p. 1232. under section 505 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of May 19, 1924 (U. S. C., pp. 1232–1233, secs. 645–647), to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, $112,000,000, to remain available until expended. For military and naval insurance accruing duringMilitary and naval Insurance. the fiscal year 1930 or in prior fiscal years, $115,250,000. Hospital facilities and services: For carrying out the provisionsAdditional hospital, dispensary, facilities, and service.Executing provisions of Act for.*Ante*, p. 715.Immediately available.*Proviso*.Contracts incurring additional obligations authorized. of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation to provide additional hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient dispensary facilities for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, and for other purposes,” approved May 23, 1928 (45 Stat., pp. 715–717), $6,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That for the purpose of carrying out said Act, the Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, with the approval of the President, may enter into contracts incurring additional obligations not in excess of $2,000,000. Total, United States Veterans’ Bureau, $499,975,000. Sec. 2. In expending appropriationsPersonal services in the District of Columbia.Restriction on exceeding average salaries.Vol. 42, p. 148S.*Ante*, p. 776.U. S. Code, p. 65. or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U. S. C., pp. 65–71, secs. 661–673, 45 Stat., pp. 776–785), 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 rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended,If only one position in a grade.Allowance in unusually meritorious cases. and in grades in which only 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 may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal*Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salary.Vol. 42, p. 1490.U. S. Code, p. 66.Transfers to another position without reduction.Higher salary rates allowed. year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided,* That this restriction shall not 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 of 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, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law. Sec. 3. This Act hereafter may Title of Act.be referred to as the “Independent Offices Act, 1930.” Total appropriated by this Act, $541,445,740. Approved, February 20, 1929.
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Chapter 270
Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and for other purposes
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