Chapter 111. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 111.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for prior fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. February 6, 1931.[[H. R. 15592](/us/bill/71/hr/15592).][[Public, No. 612](/us/pl/71/612).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, First Deficiency Act, 1931.

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for prior 1065fiscal years, to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes, namely: LEGISLATIVELegislative. senateSenate. To pay to Mary M. Overman, widow of Honorable Lee S. Overman,Lee S. Overman.Pay to widow. late a Senator from the State of North Carolina, $10,000.

To pay to Jessie R. Greene, widow of Honorable Frank L. Greene, Frank L. Greene.Pay to widow.late a Senator from the State of Vermont, $10,000. That Public Resolution Numbered 87, approved February 10,Senators.Vol. 42, p. 1225, amended.Payment of salaries, filling vacancies.By appointment. 1923 (12 Stat. 1225), is amended to read as follows: That salaries of Senators appointed to fill vacancies in the Senate shall commence on the day of their appointment and continue until their successors are elected and qualified; and salaries of Senators elected to fill suchBy election. vacancies shall commence on the day they qualify: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.If no appointment made. when no appointments have been made the salaries of Senators elected to fill such vacancies shall commence on the day following their election: *Provided further*, That when Senators have beenBy special election, etc., to succeed appointees. elected during a sine die adjournment of the Senate, at a time other than a general election, to succeed appointees, the salaries of Senators so elected shall commence on the day following their election, and the salaries of such appointees shall cease on that date.

For payment to Henry M. Barry, for clerical services renderedHenry M. Barry.Services. the Joint Commission on Airports and the Joint Commission on Insular Reorganization, fiscal year 1931, $1,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to stenographers of committees at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1931, $100,000.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 507.inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, contingent fund of the Senate, for the fiscal year 1930, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1931. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, fiscalFurniture. year 1931, $2,000. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate Senate kitchens and restaurants.kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under supervision of the Committee on Rules, fiscal year 1931, $12,000. house of representativesHouse of Representatives.

For payment to the sister and daughter of Charles F. Curry,Charles F. Curry.Pay to sister and daughter. late a Representative from the State of California, in the proportions of one-half to each, $10,000. For payment to the widow of William C. Hammer, late a RepresentativeWilliam C. Hammer.Pay to widow. from the State of North Carolina, $10,000. For payment to the widow of Edgar R. Kiess, late a Representative Edgar R. Kiess.Pay to widow.from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000.

For payment to the widow of Florian Lampert, late a RepresentativeFlorian Lampert.Pay to widow. from the State of Wisconsin, $10,000. For payment to the widow of David J. O’Connell, late a RepresentativeDavid J. O’Connell.Pay to widow. from the State of New York, $10,000. For payment to the daughter of Stephen G. Porter, late a RepresentativeStephen G. Porter.Pay to daughter. from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000. 1066 John F. Quayle.Pay to widow.For payment to the widow of John F.

Quayle, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000. Charles M. Stedman.Pay to daughter.For payment to the daughter of Charles M. Stedman, late a Representative from the State of North Carolina, $10,000. Otis Wingo.Pay to widow.For payment to the widow of Otis Wingo, late a Representative from the State of Arkansas, $10,000. The nine preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House. Contested -election expenses.Louis L. Ludlow.For payment to Louis L.

Ludlow for expenses incurred as contestée in the contested-election case of Updike against Ludlow, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $1,033.50. Ralph E. Updike.For payment for expenses incurred by Ralph E. Updike, contestant in the contested-election ease of Updike against Ludlow, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $1,309.75. Disbursements by Clerk of the House.The two foregoing appropriations to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.

Contingent expenses.Special and select committees.Contingent expenses: For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House on account of the fiscal years 1925 to 1931, inclusive, fiscal year 1931, $816.68. Committee on Revision of the Laws.Preparation, etc., of the laws.Vol. 45, p. 1008; [U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 1](/us/usc/p1).Laws and Treaties of the United States.Committee on Revision of the Laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by section 10 of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (U.

S. C., Supp. III, title 1, sec. 59), fiscal year 1931, $5,000. For the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $3,000. Committee on Invalid Pensions.Temporary clerk.Committee on Invalid Pensions: To continue the employment of the temporary assistant clerk at the rate of $2,150 per annum from March 5, 1931, to June 30, 1932, inclusive, $2,842.78.

Architect of the Capitol.office of architect of the capitol Library building and grounds.*Ante*, p. 515.Library building and grounds: For necessary expenditures for the Library building under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, $4,000. Botanic Garden.botanic garden Cranford Company, Incorporated.Construction claim.*Ante*, p. 516.The unexpended balance in the appropriation “Repairs and Improvements” contained in the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby made available for the payment of such amount as may be allowed by the Comptroller General of the United States in settlement of the claim of the Cranford Company, Incorporated, under its contract of August 12, 1930, for constructing a building and for road work in connection therewith and erecting a fence at the Poplar Point Nursery.

Executive, etc.EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS Executive Office.executive office President Warren G. Harding.Portrait of.Vol. 44, p. 731.Portrait of late President Warren G. Harding: For the purchase of an oil portrait of the late President Warren G. Harding, including frame for the same, as authorized by the Act approved June 11, 1926 (44 Stat., p. 731), fiscal year 1931, $2,500. 1067 public buildings and public parks of the national capitalPublic Buildings and Parks, National Capital General expenses, maintenance, and care of buildings:

For an additionalCare, etc., of buildings. amount for general expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the “Independent Offices Act, 1931,” $75,000. united states yorktown sesquicentennial commissionYorktown Sesquicentennial Commission. For carrying out the provisions of the public resolution entitledExpenses, etc.*Ante*, p. 776. “Joint Resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, and authorizing an appropriation to be used in connection with such celebration, and for other purposes,” approved June 17, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 776), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service*Ante*, p. 1003.[U.

S. C, Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p25). regulations, traveling expenses, furniture and equipment, supplies, printing and binding, rent of buildings in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and all other expenditures authorized by such public resolution, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $192,000. veterans’ administrationVeterans’ Administration. Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount forMilitary and naval compensation.*Ante*, p. 246. the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1931 or in prior fiscal years, to be available for similar purposes under the appropriation “Military and naval compensation.

Veterans’ Bureau, 1931 and prior years, $36,250,000. Army and Navy pensions: Army and Navy pensions, as follows:Pensions. For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, fiscal year 1931, $19,500,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Navy, from naval fund. That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, ThatSeparate accounting. the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. bureau of agricultural economicsAgricultural Economics Bureau. Administration of the United States Warehouse Act: For anWarehouse Act. additional amount for administration of the United States Warehouse Act, including the same objects specified under this head in*Ante*, p. 419. the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1931, $38,980. plant quarantine and control administrationPlant Quarantine and Control Administration.

Compensation for losses, nonproduction of cotton: To enable theLosses in cotton production. Secretary of Agriculture to compensate farmers in the State of Arizona for actual and necessary losses sustained because of the enforced nonproduction of cotton for the crop season of 1930, in accordance with the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 42,*Ante*, p. 67. approved February 8, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 67), fiscal year 1931, $675,000: *Provided*, That the compensation for such losses sustained*Proviso*.Indian lands. by Indians farming land on Indian reservations located within an 1068established noncotton zone shall be paid in full from the amount herein appropriated, without any repayment by or on behalf of the State of Arizona.

Public Roads.public roads Federal-aid highway system.Cooperative construction of post roads.Federal-aid highway system: For an additional amount tor carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural Vol. 39, p. 355.[U. S. C., p. 422](/us/usc/p422).post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat., pp. 355–359), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to be expended in accordance with the provisions Balances reappropriated.Services in the District.Vol. 45, p. 683.of said Act, as amended, including not to exceed $68,235 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $34,000,000, to remain available until expended, which sum is composed of $1,400,000, the remainder of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to *Ante*, p. 427.Vol. 45, p. 750.be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, and $32,600,000, part of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, by paragraph 1 of the Act approved May 26, 1928.

Emergency construction.emergency construction Repairs, improvements, etc.For an additional amount for repairs, alteration, improvement, and construction of farm, laboratory, and other buildings, structures and equipment, boats, irrigation, drainage, water supply, roadway, and other facilities required in the work of the Department of Agriculture; for clearing, surveying, and fencing land; for structural and other improvements and insect control on the national forests; for control of injurious rodents and predatory animals; and for other necessary expenses, fiscal year 1931, as follows:

Animal Industry Bureau.Beltsville, Md., husbandry farm.Bureau of Animal Industry: For clearing and fencing land at the Animal Husbandry Experimental Farm, at Beltsville, Maryland, $12,500. Dairy Industry Bureau.Beltsville, Md., experimental farm.Ardmore, S. Dak., and Woodward, Okla., dairy stations.Bureau of Dairy Industry: For remodeling and construction of farm and laboratory buildings and for improving water and electric systems and clearing and fencing land at the Dairy Experimental Farm at Beltsville, Maryland, $50,000; for construction of farm buildings at the Ardmore, South Dakota, Dairy Station, $5,000, and at the Woodward, Oklahoma, Dairy Station, $2,000; in all, $57,000.

Plant Industry Bureau.Buildings, etc.Bureau of Plant Industry: For construction, repair, alteration, and improvement of farm and laboratory buildings, wind breaks, retaining walls, hot beds, cold frames, pit houses, plant shelters, Roads and fields.and fences; for grading, constructing, and resurfacing roads, grading and leveling fields; for installing and extending gas, water, and Field activities at certain stations.irrigation systems in connection with field activities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, or elsewhere, $75,000.

Forest Service.General expenses.Forest Service: For construction of improvements for the protection and administration of the national forests, including telephone lines, firebreaks, dwellings, offices, miscellaneous small structures, and for fences and water-development projects for range control and Yellowstone National Park.Insect infestations.Northern Idaho; timber stands.other purposes and for combating epidemic insect infestations on the national forest adjacent to Yellowstone National Park and threatening the park timber and invaluable timber stands in northern Idaho, $354,800.

Biological Survey Bureau.Bureau of Biological Survey: For construction, repair, alteration, and improvement of buildings and other structures, dams, fences, 1069telephone lines, roads, installation of electricity and water system,Bird and game conservation. cold-storage plants, septic tanks, and for surveying wild-life refuges, and so forth, in connection with bird and game reservation and other field activities in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, or elsewhere, and for the control of injurious predatory animals and rodents, $300,000.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENTInterior Department. bureau of indian affairsIndian Affairs Bureau. Indian school buildings: For girls’ dormitory, including equipment,Designated Indian schools.Pine Ridge, S. Dak.Flandreau, S. Dak. Pine Ridge, South Dakota, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $125,000. Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota: For improvement of water supply, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $10,000. Support of Indians and administration of Indian property: ForGeneral support. an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, fiscal year 1931, $175,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available*Proviso*.Indian labor. for the employment of Indian labor on any necessary project or activity. bureau of reclamationReclamation Bureau.

The annual payments required to be made from the reclamationAnnual payments for advances, etc., suspended for two years. fund to the general funds in the Treasury, as reimbursement for advances made in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize advances to the ‘reclamation fund,’ and forVol. 36. p. 835.[U. S. C., p. 1359](/us/usc/p1359). the issue and disposal of certificates of indebtedness in reimbursement therefor, and for other purposes,” approved June 25, 1910, as amended, are hereby suspended for a period of two years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931. national park serviceNational Park Service.

Colonial National Monument, Virginia: For the acquisition ofColonial National Monument, Va.*Ante*, p. 855.*Post*, p. 1490. lands in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the creation of the Colonial National Monument in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes,” approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 855), the evidence of title to such lands to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $500,000. For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, Administrative expenses.including not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodian and employees in connection with general monument work, $58,900; for construction of physical improvements,Physical improvements. $76,100, of which not exceeding $15,000 shall be available for five comfort stations; in all, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $135,000.

Roads and trails: The appropriation for the construction, of roadsRoads and trails.Construction, etc., in, and national monuments.*Ante*, p. 1031. and trails in the national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior contained in the Act approved December 20, 1930, is hereby made available in so far asAvailable for highway construction.Vol. 43, p. 958.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 159](/us/usc/p159).Vol, 45, p. 603.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 159](/us/usc/p159). may be necessary for the construction of highways within the areas authorized to be established as national parks under the Acts approved February 21, 1925 (43 Stat. 958–959);

May 22, 1926 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 403); and May 26, 1926 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 404), and for continuing construction of an approach road from theNational Old Trails Highway.Construction, to Grand Canyon National Park.Vol. 43, p. 423. National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, as authorized by the Act approved June 5, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 423). 1070 Government in the Territories.government in the territories Hawaii.Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses, Territory of Hawaii:

For compensation and mileage of members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii as *Ante*, p. 824.*Proviso*.Compensation and mileage.*Ante*, p. 323.provided by the Act of June 27, 1930 (46 Stat., pp. 823–824), fiscal year 1931, $17,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation of $30,000 under this caption in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby made available for such compensation and mileage. Emergency construction.Emergency Construction Indian Affairs Bureau.bureau of indian affairs Southern Navajo Reservation, Ariz.Telephone lines.Telephone line, Southern Navajo Reservation:

For the purchase of supplies and equipment and the employment of labor for the construction and repair of telephone lines within the Southern Navajo subdivision of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, $13,000. Indian forests.Administration.Administration of Indian Forests: For an additional amount for the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allotments, other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, and the general administration of forestry work, including fire prevention, fiscal year 1931, *Proviso*.Available only if proceeds from sales insufficient.$50,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the expenses of administration of Indian forest lands from which timber is sold to the extent only that proceeds from the sales of timber from such lands are insufficient for that purpose.

Wind River Reservation, Wyo.Road construction.Road, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming: For one-half of the cost for reconstruction and improvement of the road running from *Ante*, p. 430.Milford across the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation, through Fort Washakie to the diversion dam in Wyoming, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of May 27, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 430), fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $150,000. Nonfederal-aid highways.Roads, Indian Reservations: For an additional amount for the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads on Indian reservations not eligible to Government aid under the Federal Highway Act, including engineering and supervision and the purchase of material, equipment, supplies, and the employment of Indian labor, fiscal year 1931, *Proviso*.Local arrangements.$100,000: *Provided*, That where practicable the Secretary of the Interior shall arrange with the local authorities to defray the maintenance expenses of roads constructed hereunder and to cooperate in such construction.

New vessel construction.New vessel: For construction of a new vessel with a carrying capacity of not less than one thousand three hundred tons to take the place of the Boxer, $400,000. Saint Elizabeths Hospital.saint elizabeths hospital Tuberculosis building.*Ante*, p. 324.Repairs, etc.Tuberculosis Building: For the construction and equipment of the second floor of the tuberculosis building, $120,000. Repairs to old buildings: For remodeling the plumbing and renovating the water sections of the old buildings in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, including plastering, flooring, and other work incident thereto, $75,000.

Howard University.howard university General improvements.For excavation, grading, walks, retaining wall, and so forth, for *Post*, p. 1455.south quadrangle at Howard University, bounded by College, Sixth, Fourth Streets, and Howard Place extended; drainage and necessary alteration to existing manholes, pipe lines, and so forth, superintendence of the work, also extension of Howard Place from Sixth 1071Street and McMillan Park, and entrance gates to Sixth Street and McMillan Park; retaining wall, wrought-iron fence throughout the north side of square number 3063 Howard University; lawn-sprinkler system, superintendence of the work, and so forth; rough and finish grading, fencing of Howard University area north of Gresham Place and south of Hobart Street and east of McMillan Park Reservoir Road, and superintendence of the work; grading, drainage, fencing, landscaping, and superintendence of the work in the Howard University Medical School area bounded by Fifth Street, Georgia Avenue, and W Street; in all, $200,000.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. contingent expenses Contingent expenses, Department of Justice: For an additionalContingent expenses. amount for contingent expenses, Department of Justice, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $25,000. bureau of prohibitionProhibition Bureau. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries andSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 342. expenses, Bureau of Prohibition, including the same objects specified under the Bureau of Prohibition in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1931, $543,370,Amount for office supplies. of which amount not exceeding $25,000 may be expended for stationery and office supplies: *Provided*, That expenditures for personal services*Proviso*.Services in the District. in the District of Columbia for the Bureau of Prohibition during the fiscal year 1931 shall not exceed $319,061. judicialJudicial.

Salaries and expenses of commissioners, Court of Claims: For an additional amount forCourt of Claims.Commissioners.*Ante*, pp. 188, 799. salaries and expenses, commissioners, Court of Claims, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, and as authorized by the Act approved June 23, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 799), $37,390. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expensesContingent expenses. of the Department of Labor, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1931, $12,500.

NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. secretary’s office Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claimsCollision damage claims. for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amendVol. 42, p, 1066.[U. S. C., p. 1127](/us/usc/p1127). the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels,” approved December 28, 1922 (U.

S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 242 and House Document Numbered 692, Seventy-first Congress, $7,661.04. 1072 Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks Emergency construction.emergency construction Maintenance.*Ante*, p. 569.Maintenance: For the purposes specified under this heading in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, $500,000. Public works.Public works: For emergency appropriations for the purpose of increasing public employment and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to construct or provide, by contract or otherwise, the following-named public works and public utilities projects at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively, $4,420,000.

Yards and stations.Portsmouth, N. II.Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Extension of building numbered 98, $35.000; extension of building numbered 115, $50,000. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Renew roof of building numbered 105, $80,000; paving, to continue, $60,000; improvement of water front, $50,000; improvement of electric system, $150,000; crane facilities, marine railway, $50,000. New York, N. Y.Navy yard, New York, New York: Extension of dispensary, $35,000; improvement of dry dock numbered 2, $749,000; improvement of water front, $200,000; improvement of building numbered 28, $60,000; improvement of power plant, $80,000; improvement of roofs, $70,000.

Philadelphia, Pa.Navy yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Improvement of power plant, $90,000; improvement of dry dock crane, $25,000; improvement of electric system, $35,000; improvement of power plant, $35,000; improvement of buildings, $100,000; improvement of water front, $50,000. Washington, D. C.Navy yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Improvement of heating system, $20,000; improvement of power plant, $25,000. Norfolk, Va.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia; Improvement of boiler shop facilities, $150,000; extension of woodworking shop, $150,000; improvement of distributing systems, $200,000; paving, to continue, $70,000; improvement of railroad system, $60,000.

Mare Island, Calif.Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Improvement of fire protection, $75,000; floating derrick, $100,000. Puget Sound, Wash.Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Extension of fuel oil system, $75,000; fireproof vaults, $25,000; improvement of power plant, $75,000; paving, to continue, $50,000; improvement of dry dock numbered 1, $400,000; improvement of tracks, $50,000. Hampton Roads, Va.Naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Replacement of pier numbered 7, $800,000; improvement of oil storage, $50,000.

Naval station, San Diego, California: Quay wall and dredging, $210,000; improvement of crane tracks, $60,000; floating derrick, $100,000. Newport, R. I.Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Extension of assembly shop, $125,000. Ammunition depots. Hingham, Mass. Naval ammunition depot, Hingham, Massachusetts: Improvement of water front, $55,000. Fort Mifflin, Pa.Naval ammunition depot, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Improvement of railroad, $70,000. Keyport, Wash.Naval torpedo station, Keyport, Washington:

Improvement of fire protection, $15,000. Training stations, etc.Newport, R. I.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Improvement of power plant and steam system, $50,000; improvement of Government landing, Newport, $60,000. Great Lakes, III.Naval training station, Great Lakes, Illinois, Buildings: Improvement of detention unit, $105,000; extension of seaplane hangar, naval reserve, $20,000. 1073 Naval training station, San Diego, California: Extension of mess San Diego, Calif.hall, $115,000.

Depot of Supplies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Extension of shop Philadelphia, Pa.building, $225,000. Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Roads, walks, service systems,Marine barracks.Quantico, Va. and power-plant equipment, $160,000; improvement of heating system, $60,000. Marine barracks, Parris Island, South Carolina: Improvement of Parris Island, S. C.roads, $100,000. Marine barracks, San Diego, California: Extension of storehouse, San Diego, Calif.$150,000. Submarine base, New London, Connecticut:

Replace buildingNew London, Conn.Submarine base. numbered 42 damaged by fire, $50,000. Naval air station, Lakehurst, New Jersey: Extension of tracks, Air stations, etc.Lakehurst, N. J.service systems, roads, and walks, $75,000. Naval aircraft factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Seaplane runway,Philadelphia, Pa. $75,000; extension of sea wall, $100,000. Naval air station, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Resurfacing seaplaneHampton Roads, Ya. runways, $50,000; extension of hangar and shop building, $150,000.

Naval air station, Pensacola, Florida: Improvement of landplanePensacola, Fla. field, $100,000; filling and grading, $400,000. Naval air station, San Diego, California: Extension of barracks San Diego, Calif.buildings, $95,000; improvement of gasoline storage, $50,000; resurfacing seaplane runway, $25,000. Naval hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts: Extension of main building,Naval hospitals.Chelsea, Mass. $175,000. Naval hospital, Newport, Rhode Island: Extension of mainNewport, R.

I. building, $150,000. Naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: Replacement of landing, Norfolk, Va.$45,000. Naval hospital, Puget Sound, Washington: Extension of main Puget Sound, Wash.Hospital.building, $150,000; extension of administration building, $50,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. International technical consulting committee on radio communications,International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications, Copenhagen.Participation expenses.*Ante*, p. 39.*Post*, p. 1582.

Copenhagen, Denmark: For the expenses of participation by the United States in the International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications, to be held at Copenhagen, Denmark, in May, 1931, including travel expenses, subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act), compensation of employees, stenographic and otherAdvertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733), waived.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.

S. C., title 41, sec. 5), printing and binding, purchase of necessary books and documents, official cards, rent, entertainment, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $30,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. office of the supervising architectSupervising Architect’s Office. Lynchburg, Virginia, post office and courthouse:

There is herebyPublic buildings.Lynchburg, Va.Post office, etc. authorized and directed to be acquired for this project for the sum of $183,000, by purchase agreement with the owner notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, subdivisions of lot 8, city block, 1074numbered 214 and 216, abutting on Ninth Street and immediately adjoining the property of the United States Government, including Reappropriations.Vol. 45, p. 921.the building thereon. The appropriations made for this project under the provisions of the Second Deficiency *Ante*, p. 119.Act, fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 921), and of the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, approved March 26, 1930 (46 Stat. 119), shall be available for payment of said sum of $183,000, to be paid in full settlement and release of all claims and demands of whatsoever nature or character arising out of or in any manner connected with Removal of plant.the acquisition hereunder authorized.

The owner and occupant of the property authorized to be acquired hereunder shall be afforded a reasonable time, not exceeding twelve months from the date of approval hereof, within which to remove his plant therefrom and to another site. Emergency construction.emergency construction Coast Guard.Coast Guard: For rebuilding and repairing stations, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1931, $70,000.

Public Health Service.public health service Rural sanitation.For special studies of, and demonstration work in, rural sanitation, including the purchase and distribution of medical supplies, in the *Proviso*.Subject to local contributions.drought-stricken areas, and including personal services, fiscal years 1931 and 1932, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation unless the State, county, or municipality affected agrees to pay such proportion of the expenses of such demonstration work, as shall be required in regulations to be prescribed by the Public Health Service, in which due consideration shall be given to State and local economic conditions and human needs, the extent and circumstances of such cooperation in each case to be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.

War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT emergency construction Emergency construction.Public works under.*Ante*, p. 432.For emergency construction of public works and repairs thereto, including the same objects specified in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, approved May 28, 1930, for the purpose of increasing public employment, including the procurement of supplies, materials, equipment, and labor in order to accelerate construction work by the various arms, services, and bureaus of the War Department on projects already authorized by law, to remain available until expended, as follows:

Military activities.Military Activities Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps Hospitals, construction, etc.Construction and repair of hospitals: For repair of buildings and roads, $42,500. Post construction.Military posts: For construction, Army housing program, $730,030. Fortifications.seacoast defenses Public works.Seacoast defenses, United States, Engineers: For the construction of a magazine, extension of wharf, and miscellaneous repairs, $92,700. 1075 air corps Air Corps, Army:

For construction and repair of technical buildings,Technical, etc., buildings. $504,800; and torque stands and repair of buildings and equipment, $366,300; in all, $871,100. ordnance departmentOrdnance Department. Repairs of arsenals: For general and specific repairs to arsenalsArsenals, repairs. and depots, $471,005. chemical warfare serviceChemical Warfare Service. Chemical Warfare Service, Army: For repair of reserve chemicalReserve chemical plants. plants, $50,000. militia bureauMilitia Bureau.

Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard: For constructionNational Guard. of buildings and utilities at camps, $1,000,000. United States Military Academy: For repairs and alterations to Military Academy.buildings, roads, and electric, gas, water, and sewer systems, $750,000. Nonmilitary ActivitiesNonmilitary activities. quartermaster corps Cemeterial expenses: For general repairs at National Cemeteries, National cemeteries.$131,712. Gettysburg National Military Park:

For construction of road,Military parksGettysburg. $10,000. Shiloh National Military Park: For rebuilding and resurfacing with concrete the road situated in Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee from the original boundaries of the park to the Corinth National Cemetery at Corinth, Mississippi, at a limit of cost of $306,000, there is hereby reappropriated the sum of $50,000 appropriatedReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 911. for said road in the Act making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes, approved May 28, 1930, and also there is hereby appropriated the additionalAdditional appropriation. sum of $256,000, all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War under the terms of this Act instead of under the terms of said Act of May 28, 1930.

Antietam battlefield: For reconstruction of roads, $150,000.Antietam. National monuments: For improvement of roads and grounds,National monuments. Fort McHenry, Maryland, and Chalmette, Louisiana, $90,000. Lincoln birthplace memorial: For general improvements, $20,000.Lincoln birthplace memorial. damage claims For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privatelyDamage claims.Payment of. owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An ActVol. 42, p. 1066.[U.

S. C., p. 989](/us/usc/p989). to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922 (U. S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 243 and House Document Numbered 688 of the Seventy-first Congress, as follows: Department of Commerce, $860.39; Department of Agriculture, $1,180.83; Department of the Interior, $503.50; Department of Labor, $70.28;1076 Navy Department, $1,458.18;

Post Office Department (out of the postal revenues), $18,286.67; Treasury Department, $3,595.91; War Department, $1,483.47; In all, $27,439.23. Judgments, United States Courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Vol, 24, p. 505.[U. S. C., pp. 867, 938](/us/usc/pp867/938).Vol. 36, p. 1137.Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U.

S. C., title 28, sec. 41, par. 20; sec. 258; secs. 761–765), certified to the Seventy-first Classification.Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 241 and House Document Numbered 690, under the following departments namely: Navy Department, $8,439.76; Post Office Department, $6,254.11; War Department, $14,498.47; in all, $29,192.34, together with such Interest rate.additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.

Payment of, for suits in admiralty.For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government of the United States by United States Vol. 43, p. 1112.[U. S. C., p. 1529](/us/usc/p1529).district courts under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damage caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1925 (U.

S. C., title 46, secs. 781–789), certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 690, under the following departments, namely: Navy Department, $4,607.95; Treasury Department, $394.73; War Department, $13,762; in all, $18,764.68, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. Peter Hand Brewing Company.For payment of the judgment rendered against the Government by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in favor of the Peter Hand Brewing Company and certified to the Seventy-first Congress, in House Document Numbered 691, under the Department of Justice, $7,056.20.

Time of payments.None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. Interest.Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-first Congress, in Senate Document Pocono Pines Assembly Hotels Company.*Post*, p. 1622.Departments, etc., designated.Numbered 244 except the judgment numbered J-543 in favor of the Pocono Pines Assembly Hotels Company, amounting to $227,239.53, and Senate Document Numbered 245 and House Document Numbered 693, under the following departments and establishments, namely:

United States Shipping Board, $254,622.59; United States Veterans’ Bureau, $61,030.62; Department of Agriculture, $14,988; Department of the Interior (Indians), $2,169,168.58; Navy Department, $84,272.44; Treasury Department, $1,431.92; War Department, $170,688.61; in all, $2,756,202.76, together with such additional Interest.sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in such judgments. 1077 None of the judgments contained under this caption which haveTime of payments. not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the expiration of the time within which application may be made for a writ of certiorari under subdivision

(b)section 3, of the ActVol. 43, p. 939.[U. S. C., p. 901](/us/usc/p901). entitled “An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 288). AUDITED CLAIMSAudited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedPayment of, certified by General Accounting Office. to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1928 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5,Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., p. 43](/us/usc/p43). sec. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 694, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows: independent officesIndependent offices. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $5.50. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,114.72. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,448.47. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,016.45. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $73.47. For Army pensions, $262.72. For investigation of pension cases, Pension Office, $3.75. district of columbiaDistrict of Columbia. For fees of witnesses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, $28. department of agricultureDepartment of Agriculture. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1.76. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $1.01. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $86.90. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $100. For salaries and expenses, Office of Experiment Stations, $2. For general expenses, Forest Service, $500. department of commerceDepartment of Commerce. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $34.45. For air-navigation facilities, $7,017.14. For compiling foreign-trade statistics, $60. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $198.68. For transportation of families and effects of officers and employees, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $12.08. For economics of mineral industries, Bureau of Mines, $3.25. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $4,870.03. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $4.57. 1078 Interior Department.department of the interior For Geological Survey, $2.98. For medical relief in Alaska, $55. For expenses, sale of timber (reimbursable), $160.80. For Indian-school transportation, $184.91. For Indian boarding schools, $23.16. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $731.79. Department of Justice.department of justice For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $5,699.78. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $8. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $44.02. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $1,170. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $1,138.23. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $16. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $6. For books for judicial officers, $15. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $1.25. Department of Labor.department of labor For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 53 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $1.19. For expenses of regulating immigration, $127.37. Navy Department.navy department For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $37.50. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $740.77. For organizing the naval reserve force, $121.08. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $36. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $1,124.31. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $30,973.40. For pay of the Navy, $35,638.37. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,363.43. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $54. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $77.81. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $77.67. For aviation, Navy, $6,619.68. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,467.54. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $525.91. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $110.29. Post Office Departmentpost office department—postal service (Out of the postal revenues) For city delivery carriers, $80.16. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $807.47. For compensation to postmasters, $564.58. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth. $207.48. For indemnities, international mail, $554.82. For indemnities, domestic mail, $1,554.14. For labor-saving devices, $1.60. 1079 For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $4.Post Office Department—Continued. For railroad transportation, $74.31. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $25.60. For rent, light, and fuel, $4,428.07. For Rural Delivery Service, $84.72. For special-delivery fees, $1.50. For star-route service, $8.98. For vehicle service, $52.71. department of stateDepartment of State. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $57.43. For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $446.50. treasury departmentTreasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $6,147.81. For compensation in lieu of moieties, $24. For collecting the internal revenue, $327.41. For refunding internal revenue collections, $500. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $8.42. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, internal revenue, $1.50. For enforcement of narcotic and national prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $2,193.72. For Coast Guard, $160.71. For mileage, Coast Guard, $49.75. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $413.33. For rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, Coast Guard, $2. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $125. For medical and hospital services, Public Health Service, $2,565. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $65.53. For quarantine service, $135.42. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $53.97. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $66.75. For operating supplies for public buildings, $210.88. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $295.57. war departmentWar Department For contingencies, Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, $82.99. For contingencies of the Army, $3. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (Longevity Act of January 29, 1927), $10,368.55. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $31,251.86. For pay of the Army, $7,932.45. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $432.04. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $103.79. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $49.77. For mileage of the Army, $74. For apprehension of deserters, and so forth, $50. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $25,647.76. For Army transportation, $3,254.21. For barracks and quarters, $5. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $20.49 For clothing and equipage, $143.36. For replacing clothing and equipage, $60. 1080 War Department—Continued.For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $2,033.82. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $16.20. For incidental expenses of the Army, $19. For regular supplies of the Army, $2. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $216.86. For subsistence of the Army, $11.85. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $252.83. For terminal storage and shipping buildings, $2,840.18. For library, Surgeon General’s office, $564.36. For medical and hospital department, $104.96. For armament of fortifications, $161.98. For armament of fortifications, insular possessions, $2,207.66. For field artillery armament, $116.02. For manufacture of arms, $2,565. For ordnance service, $22.64. For ordnance stores and supplies, $9.72. For small-arms target practice, $1,708.49. For replacing engineer equipment of troops, $3.18. For Air Service, Army, $438.50. For Air Corps, Army, $505.46. For replacing Signal Corps supplies and equipment, $35.22. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard (Act May 22, 1928), $7. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $723.49. For Organized Reserves, $1,524.86. For pay of the National Guard for armory drills, $114.76. For civilian military training camps, $8.67. For citizens’ military training camps, 58 cents. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $10.17. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $135.36. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $3,330.54. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $3.63. Additional, to meet increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 2, $227,673.82, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Audited claims.AUDITED CLAIMS Sec. 3. Payment of additional. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. C., p. 1022](/us/usc/p1022).the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1928 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., p. 43](/us/usc/p43).Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 247, Seventy-first Congress, there is appropriated as follows: Independent Offices.independent offices For Interstate Commerce Commission, $1.16. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1,386.16. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $127.40. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $5.34. For Army pensions, $66.84. 1081 department of agricultureDepartment of Agriculture. For salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, $11.58. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $32.50. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $13.25. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $23.20. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, 57 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $13.19. department of commerceDepartment of Commerce. For increase of compensation, Department of Commerce, $806.96. For air navigation facilities, $33.50. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $453.54. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $78.92. department of the interiorInterior Department. For surveying the public lands, $17.70. For Yosemite National Park, $150. For medical relief in Alaska, $211.50. For Indian boarding schools, $3.20. For support of Indians in Nevada, $9.50. For support and civilization of Indians, $13.50. department of justiceDepartment of Justice. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $15.10. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $578.25. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $19.50. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $19.60. For support of United States prisoners, $174. department of laborDepartment of Labor. For expenses of regulating immigration, $13.27. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 75 cents. navy departmentNavy Department For pay, miscellaneous, $226.40. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $188.69. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $3,061.43. For pay of the Navy, $3,366.71. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,041.95. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $105.39. For aviation, Navy, $9,422. For pay, Marine Corps, $401.15. post office department postal servicePost Office Department. (Out of the postal revenues) For clerks, first and second class post offices, $51.65. For compensation to postmasters, $69.42. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $72.93. 1082 Post Office Department—Continued.For indemnities, domestic mail, $209.62. For railroad transportation and ma service, $25. For rent, light, and fuel, $2,550. For rural delivery service, $78.91. Treasury Department.treasury department For collecting the revenue from customs, $112.95. For Coast Guard, $78. For outfits, Coast Guard, $7,015.46. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $33. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $72.97. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $768.05. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $8.01. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $3.15. War Department.war department For registration and selection for military service, $173. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $6,622.38. For pay of the Army, $1,333.57. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $2.40. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $1,808.29. For Army transportation, $519.90. For clothing and equipage, $24.13. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $340.54. For incidental expenses. Quartermaster’s Department, $64. For medical and hospital department, $837.90. For fire control at fortifications, $12.03. For Air Service, Army, $38.55. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $80.88. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $19.80. Additional, to meet increases in rates of exchange.Total, audited claims, section 3, $46,120.19, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Sec. 4. Sundry allowed claims. For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of sundry Acts, as follows: Borongan, Samar, P. I.Army rentals.Relief of certain natives of Borongan, Samar, Philippine Islands: For the payment of claim allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 476, approved Vol. 44, p. 1828.March 3, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 1828), and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under the War Department, $27.60. Designated individual claims.Relief of claimants under section 2, Private Act Numbered 524, March 2, 1929: For the payment of claim allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered Vol. 45, p. 2365.524, approved March 2, 1929 (45 Stat., p. 2365), and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under the War Department, $1,552.77. Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C.Cornelia Winiker.Return of funds of deceased patients, Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For the payment of the claim of Cornelia Winiker, widow of Vol. 34, p. 730.Frederick Winiker, deceased, allowed by the General Accounting Office [U. S. C., p. 681](/us/usc/p681).under the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1906 (U. S. C., title 24, sec. 177), and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under the Department of the Interior, $24.50. 1083 Payment to Thelma Phelps Lester: For the payment of the claim Thelma Phelps Lester.*Post*, p. 1852.allowed by the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 46, approved June 2, 1930, and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under Navy Department, $200. Payment of judgments against collectors of customs: For the Collectors of customs.payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office covering judgments rendered by United States district courts againstJudgments against. collectors of customs, where certificates of probable cause have been issued as provided for under section 989, Revised Statutes (U. S. C.,[R. S., sec. 980, p. 185](/us/rs/s980/p185).[U. S. C., p. 943](/us/usc/p943). title 28, sec. 842), and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in House Document Numbered 689, under the Treasury Department, $2,959.75. For payment of interest on amounts withheld from claimants byPayments of interest due. the Comptroller General of the United States, Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., p. 481), as allowed by the General Accounting Office,Vol. 18, p. 481. and certified to the Seventy-first Congress in Senate Document Numbered 246 and House Document Numbered 689, under the followingDesignated departments. departments, namely: Department of the Interior, $29,365.40; Treasury Department, $492.13; in all, $29,857.53. Total under section 4, $34,622.15. Sec. 5. This Act may be cited as the “First Deficiency Act, fiscalShort title. year 1931.” Approved, February 6, 1931.

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