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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 46 STAT. · June 30, 1931 · Chapter 184

Chapter 184. Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 184.— An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. April 18, 1930.[[H. R. 8960](/us/bill/71/hr/8960).][[Public, No. 142](/us/pl/71/142).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingAppropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year 1931. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, namely:
TITLE I— DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. office of the secretary of state Salaries: For Secretary of State, $15,000; Undersecretary ofSecretary, Undersecretary, and office personnel. State, $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $5,500 forTemporary and piecework employees. employees engaged on piecework at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of State, $1,823,765; in all, $1,848,765: *Provided*, That in expending*Provisos*.Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.Vol. 42, p. 1488;
Vol. 45, p. 776.*Post*, p. 1003.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p25).Exceptions. appropriations 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., title 5, secs. 661–673; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, sec. 673), with the exception of the four Assistant Secretaries of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary and the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, 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 gradeIf only one position in a grade. by such Act, as amended, 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 174Advances in unusually meritorious cases.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 year, and then Restrictions not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.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 No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.[U. S. C., p. 66; Supp. IV, p. 25](/us/usc/p66).Transfers to another position without reduction.Higher salary rates permitted.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. contingent expenses, department of state Contingent expenses of Department.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, newspaper clippings, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, exchange of same, repairs and material for repairs; books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, not exceeding $15,880; newspapers not exceeding $1,500, for which payment may be made in advance; maintenance, repair, and storage of motor-propelled vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including storage, repair, and exchange of same; street-car fare not exceeding Refund of passport fees erroneously collected.$150; refund of fees erroneously charged and paid for the issue of passports to persons who are exempted from the payment of such fee by section 1 of the Act making appropriations for the Vol. 41, p. 750; Vol. 44, p. 887.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 308](/us/usc/p308).Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 214a); the examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; and other miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, $119,818. printing and binding Printing and binding.For all printing and binding in the Department of State, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $301,665. Expenses of cable-grams, etc.Reimbursement therefor.Wherever the Secretary of State, in his discretion, procures information on behalf of corporations, firms, and individuals, the expense of cablegrams and telephone service involved may be charged against the respective appropriations for the service utilized and reimbursement therefor shall be required from those for whom the information was procured, and, when made, be credited to the appropriation under which the expenditure was charged. Passport agencies.passport agencies Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of maintenance, traveling expenses not to exceed $1,000, and rent outside the District of Columbia, for passport agencies at New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Boston, Massachusetts, $79,025. Official papers of Territories.collecting and editing official papers of territories of the united states Collecting, etc., for publication.*Post*, p. 1310.For the expenses of collecting, editing, copying, and arranging for publication the official papers of the Territories of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and else-175where, printing and binding, and contingent and traveling expenses,Vol. 45, p. 1412. as provided by the Act approved February 28, 1929, $15,000. foreign intercourse Foreign intercourse. ambassadors and ministers Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina,Ambassadors. Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $245,000;*Ante*, p. 57. For ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to BelgiumBelgium, and minister to Luxemburg. and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China andMinisters.China and Netherlands. the Netherlands, at $12,000 each, $24,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Albania,Other countries. Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Irish Free State, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each; to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; and to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, $10,000; in all, $340,000; Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000;Minister, etc., to Liberia. Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500;*Post*, pp. 1040, 1578.Agent, etc., Tangier. *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States*Proviso*.Salary restriction. Government; Total, ambassadors and ministers, $639,000. For salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls whileChargés d’affaires, etc. acting as chargés d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, $30,000. clerks at embassies and legations For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies andClerks at embassies and legations. legations, including salary during transit to and from homes in the United States upon beginning and after termination of services, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the UnitedCitizenship, etc., requirements. States, $456,850; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. contingent expenses, foreign missions To enable the President to provide at the public expense all suchContingent expenses, missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, includingTokyo, rent. annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March 15, 1931, repairs including minor alterations, repairs, supervision, preservation, and maintenance of Government-ownedGovernment buildings abroad.Vol. 44, p. 403.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 309](/us/usc/p309). diplomatic properties in foreign countries, and properties acquired under the Act approved May 7, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, secs. 291, 296), and including also custodial service, heat, light, water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects; postage, telegrams, advertising, ice, and drinking water for office purposes; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles, uni-176forms, furniture, household furniture and furnishings not to exceed $25,000, typewriters and exchange of same, messenger service, Launch, Constantinople.operation, maintenance, and rental of launch for embassy at Constantinople not exceeding $3,500, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, porters, interpreters, translators, and supervisors of construction, compensation of agents and employees of and rent and other Dispatch agencies.expenses for dispatch agencies at London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and New Orleans, traveling expenses of Diplomatic and Attendance at meetings, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143.[U. S. C., p. 643; Supp. IV, pp. 307, 310](/us/usc/p643).Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 16), miscellaneous Loss by exchange.expenses of embassies and legations, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic), rent, including quarters for Foreign Service officers assigned for the study of the languages of Asia and eastern Europe and cost, not exceeding $350 per annum each, of the tuition of such officers, telephone and other similar services under this appropriation *Proviso*.No payment for clerical services to persons not citizens.are hereby authorized, $1,336,325: *Provided*, That no part of this sum appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons (except interpreters, translators, and messengers) not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission. expenses of foreign service inspectors Foreign Service inspectors.For the traveling expenses of Foreign Service officers detailed for inspection while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $25,000. allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates Clerk hire at consulates.For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including salary during transit to and from homes in the United States upon beginning and after termination of services, $1,853,266. contingent expenses united states consulates Contingent expenses, consulates.For expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs, including minor alterations, supervision, Government buildings abroad.Vol. 44, p. 403.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, pp. 309, 310](/us/usc/pp309/310).preservation, and maintenance of Government-owned consular properties in foreign countries, and properties acquired under the Act approved May 7, 1926, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, secs. 291, 296), and including also custodial service, heat, light, water, materials, supplies, tools, seeds, plants, shrubs, and similar objects, postage, furniture, household furniture and furnishings not to exceed $10,000, typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, ice and drinking water for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, messenger service, traveling expenses of Consular and Attendance at trade conferences, etc.Vol. 43, p. 143.[U. S. C., p. 643; Supp. IV, p. 307](/us/usc/p643).Foreign Service officers, including attendance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16, U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec, 16); compensation 177of interpreters, Kavasses, guards, dragomans, translators, Chinese writers, and supervisors of construction, loss by exchange, and suchLoss by exchange. other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (Foreign and domestic), rent, telephone, and other similar services under this appropriation are hereby authorized, $1,737,140. The Secretary of State may lease or rent, for periods not exceedingTen-year leases for office authorized. ten years, such buildings and grounds for the use of the Foreign Service as may be necessary; and he may, in accordance with existing practice without cost to them, and within the limit of any appropriation made by Congress, furnish the officers and employees in the Foreign Service with living quarters, heat, light, and household equipment in Government-owned or rented buildings, at places where, in his judgment, it would be in the public interest to do so,[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).[U. S. C., p. 32; Supp. IV, p. 16](/us/usc/p32/p16). notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, sec. 70); and appropriations for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” andAppropriations available. “Contingent expenses, consulates,” are hereby made available for such purposes. immigration of aliensImmigration of aliens. To enable the Department of State to perform the duties devolvingDepartment expenses, under laws regulating. upon it under the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the same objects specified in the ActsVol. 43, p. 133. making appropriations for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1931, under the heads of salaries and contingent expenses of the Department of State, salaries of Foreign Service officers, allowance for clerk hire at United States consulates, transportation of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks, and contingent expenses, United States consulates, $600,000, of which not to exceed $37,640Services in the District. shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia. relief and protection of american seamen For relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreignRelief, etc., of American seamen. countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands,*Post*, p. 261. and shipwrecked American seamen in the territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Porto Rico, and in the Virgin Islands, $50,000. salaries of foreign service officersForeign Service officers. For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the ActSalaries.Vol. 43, p, 140.[U. S. C., p. 642](/us/usc/p642). entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 3), $3,298,500. salaries, diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers while receiving instructions and in transit To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls,Instruction and transit pay. and other officers of the United States for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making[R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).[U. S. C., p. 650](/us/usc/p650). transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 121), $23,000. transportation of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers To pay the traveling expenses of Diplomatic, Consular, and ForeignTransportation etc., expenses. Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, 178including officers of the United States Court for China, and the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses On leaves of absence.of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceed $110,000 incurred in connection with leaves of absence, and of the Bringing home remains of officers dying abroad.preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and said employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country or to a place not more distant for interment and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, *Proviso*.Officials of United States Court for China.$518,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available also for the authorized expenses of the judge and district attorney of the United States Court for China while attending sessions of the court at other cities than Shanghai, not to exceed $8 per day each, and for the authorized subsistence expenses of consular and Foreign Service officers while on temporary detail under commission. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service Emergencies.To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the Neutrality Act expenses.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).[U. S. C., p. 982](/us/usc/p982).necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 107), $400,000. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers who die abroad Allowances, officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).[U. S. C., p. 650](/us/usc/p650).For payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 130) to the widows or heirs at law of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $2,000. Post allowances.post allowances to diplomatic, consular, and foreign service officers Special allowances to meet living expenses of officers.To enable the President, in his discretion, and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $100,000. Foreign Service buildings fund.foreign service buildings fund Acquisition of buildings, etc., for Government use in foreign countries.Vol. 44, p. 403.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 310](/us/usc/p310).For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the “Foreign Service Building Act, 1926” (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 295), and for each and every object thereof, including the initial alterations, repair, and furnishing of buildings heretofore acquired under specific authorization of Congress for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments in foreign countries, $1,700,000, to remain available until expended. Tokyo, Japan.diplomatic and consular establishments, tokyo, japan Construction and furnishing buildings for Foreign Service officers in.Vol. 43, p. 961.For completing the construction and furnishing of buildings for the diplomatic and consular establishments in Tokyo, Japan, as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to enlarge the site and erect buildings thereon for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments in Tokyo, Japan,” approved February 21, 1925, $120,000. 179 foreign service retirement and disability fundForeign Service retirement, etc., fund. For financing the liability of the United States, created by theFederal contribution placed to credit of. Act entitled “An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 21), as amended byVol. 43, p. 144; Vol. 44., p. 902.[U. S. C., p. 643; Supp. IV, p. 307](/us/usc/p643). the Act of July 3, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 21), $216,000, which amount shall be placed to the credit of the “Foreign Service retirement and disability fund.” representation allowances For representation allowances, as authorized by section 12 ofRepresentation allowances.Vol. 43, p. 142.[U. S. C., p. 643](/us/usc/p643). the Act of May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 12), $92,000. INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS, COMMISSIONS, BUREAUS, AND SO FORTHInternational obligations, etc. cape spartel light, coast of morocco For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel andCape Spartel Light, etc. Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $868.50. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgmentLife-saving testimonials. of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $2,000. international bureau of weights and measures For contribution to the maintenance of the International BureauInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 1714. of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the conventions of May 20, 1875, and October 6, 1921, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $4,342.50. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense forInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518. the year ending March 31, 1931, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $1,400. water boundary, united states and mexico For expenses of meeting the obligations of the United StatesMexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol, 34, p. 2953.*Post*, p. 886. under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, including rent, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled vehicles, installation, maintenance, and operation of gauging stations where necessary and their equipment, and so much of the amount herein appropriated as may be necessary for these purposes may be transferred by the Secretary of State toTransfer to Geological Survey. the United States Geological Survey for direct expenditure, $65,000. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary, Alaska and Canada. the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of theVol. 32, p. 1961. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employ-180ment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, Land and water boundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003.draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, expense of necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line not to exceed $500 and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $5 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary *Proviso*.Traveling expenses of commissioner.Vol. 44, p. 638.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 37](/us/usc/p37).of State, $17,460: *Provided*, That the commissioner shall be allowed his traveling expenses in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 5, ch. 16). boundary treaty of 1925 between the united states and great britain: international boundary commission, united states and canada and alaska and canada— Boundary between United States and Canada.Relocating monuments, etc.Vol. 44, p. 2102.To enable the President to perform the obligations of the United States under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain in respect of Canada, signed February 24, 1925; for salaries and expenses, including the salary of the commissioner and salaries of the necessary engineers, clerks, and other employees for duty at the seat of government and in the field; cost of office equipment and supplies; necessary traveling expenses; commutation of subsistence to employees while on field duty not to exceed $4 per day each; for payment for timber necessarily cut in keeping the boundary line Maintenance of established lines.clear, not to exceed $500; and for all other necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by the United States in maintaining an effective demarcation of the international boundary line between the United States and Canada and Alaska and Canada under the terms of the treaty aforesaid, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, *Proviso*.Subsistence of commissioner and engineer, absent on official business.$33,125: *Provided*, That when the commissioner, or the engineer to the commissioner, shall be absent from Washington or their regular place of residence on official business they shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence not to exceed $8 per day each. international prison commission International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $5,500. Pan American Union.pan american union Quota for support and printing.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the Pan American Union, $147.219.60, and for printing and binding of the union, $20,000; in all, $167,219.60. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 36, p. 2222.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year 1929 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 43 of the convention concluded at The Hague, October 18, 1907, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. 181 bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenanceInterparliamentary Union for Promoting International Arbitration. of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of international arbitration, $6,000. international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth To the International Commission on Annual Tables of ConstantsInternational Commission on Tables of Constants, etc. and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500. international institute of agriculture at rome, italyInternational Institute of Agriculture. For the payment of the quota of the United States, including theQuota, including dependencies. Territory of Hawaii, and the dependencies of the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1931, $9,600; For the cost of translating into and printing in the English languageTranslating publications, etc. the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $2,000; For clerical assistance and traveling and office expenses, $3,660;Clerks, etc. Total, $15,260. international railway congress To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Railway Congress. the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1931, $800. pan american sanitary bureau For the annual share of the United States for the maintenancePan American Sanitary Bureau. of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for the year 1931, $28,774.74. international office of public health For the payment of the quota of the United States for the yearInternational Office of Public Health.Vol. 35, pp. 2061, 1834; Vol. 42, p. 1823. 1931 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. international radiotelegraphic convention For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1931 asInternational Radiotelegraphic Convention. a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $7,527. united states section of the inter-american high commissionInter-American High Commission. To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of theUnited States section.Vol. 39, p. 8. United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, $14,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. 182 waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain Canadian Boundary Waters Joint Commission.For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State: for necessary traveling expenses, and for expenses incident to holding hearings and conferences at such places in Canada and in the United States as shall be determined by the commission or by the American commissioners to be necessary, including travel expense and compensation of necessary witnesses, making necessary transcript of testimony and proceedings; for cost of law books, books of reference and periodicals, office equipment and Vol. 36, p. 2448.supplies; and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January 11, 1909, $60,355, to *Provisos*.Travel expenses.be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That traveling expenses of the commissioners, secretary, and Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 1888; Supp. IV, p. 37](/us/usc/p1888).necessary employees shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 (U. S. C., title 5, chap. 16): Rent allowance.*Provided further*, That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space. Additional amount to be expended by other Departments, etc.For an additional amount for necessary special or technical investigations in connection with the authorized work of the International Joint Commission, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, traveling expenses, procurement of technical and scientific equipment, and the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $131,230, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, who is authorized to transfer to any department or independent establishment of the Government, with the consent of the head thereof, any part of this amount for direct expenditure by such department or establishment for the purposes of this appropriation. Panama.payment to the government of panama Annual payment to.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the nineteenth annual payment, due on February 26, 1931, Vol. 33, p. 2238.from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. international research council International Research Council.Specified quotas.To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adhering member of the International Research Council and of the associated unions organized at Brussels, July 18–28, 1919, as follows: International Research Council, $77.20; International Astronomical Union, $579; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $677; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $1,389.60; International Union of Mathematics, $38.60; International Union of Scientific Radiotelegraphy, $154.40; International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, $128; International Geographical Union, $193; in all, $3,236.80, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. 183 international hydrographic bureau For the annual contribution of the United States toward theInternational Hydrographic Bureau. maintenance of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $5,790. foreign hospital at cape town For annual contribution toward the support of the SomersetSomerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united statesInternational trademark registration. For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of theHabana Bureau expenses.Vol. 39, p. 1680; Vol. 41, p. 533.*Post*, p. 1318. maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $4,961. international bureau of the union for the protection of industrial property For the share of the United States in the expense of conductingIndustrial Property Bureau. the International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, at Berne, Switzerland, $1,700. mixed claims commission, united states and germany and tripartite claims commission, united states, austria, and hungaryWorld War claims. For the expenses of determining the amounts of claims againstGerman Mixed Claims Commission. Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under theVol. 42, p. 2200. agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, and subsequent agreement between those Governments,Vol. 45, pp. 256, 2698.*Post*, pp. 886, 1581. for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, for the expenses of determining the amounts of claims against Austria and Hungary by the TripartiteTripartite Claims.Commission with Austria and Hungary.Vol. 41, p. 2813. Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Austria and Hungary on November 26, 1924, for the determination of the amount to be paid by AustriaVol. 42, pp. 1946, 1956.*Post*, p. 886. and Hungary in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Austria and Hungary under the treaties concluded between the Governments of the United States and Austria on August 24, 1921, and between the Governments of the United States and Hungary on August 29, 1921, and/or the treaties of Saint Germain-en-Laye and Trianon, respectively, including the expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, and the agreement of November 26, 1924, are chargeable in part to the United States; and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation or claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed and tripartite commissions, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, employment of special 184Advertising for contracts waived.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/rs/p1309).counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, and for contract stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), law books and books of reference, contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $125,075. general and special claims commissions, united states and mexico Mexican Mixed Claims Commission.Vol. 43, pp. 1722, 1730.For the expenses of the settlement and adjustment of claims by the citizens of each country against the other under a convention concluded September 8, 1923, and of citizens of the United States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, between the United States and Mexico, including the expenses which, under the terms of the two conventions, are chargeable in part to the United States, the expenses of the two commissions, and the Agency expenses.expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of the claims and the presenting thereof before the said commissions, as well as defending the United States in cases presented under the general convention by Mexico, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and Rent.other assistants and employees and rent in the District of Columbia Advertising for contracts waived.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/rs/p1309).and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), the employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $350,000. gorgas memorial laboratory Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.Annual contribution.The Gorgas Memorial Laboratory: To enable the Secretary of State to pay the annual contribution of the United States to the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, as Vol. 45, p. 491.provided by the Act approved May 7, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 491), $50,000. international fisheries commission International Halibut Fisheries Commission.Share of expenses.Vol. 43, p. 1841.For the share of the United States of the expenses of the International Fisheries Commission, established under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded March 2, 1923, including salaries of two members and other employees of the commission, traveling expenses, purchase of books, periodicals, furniture, and scientific instruments, contingent expenses, rent in the District of Columbia, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $36,500. american international institute for the protection of childhood American International Institute for Protection of Childhood.For the annual contribution of the United States of $2,000 per annum to the American International Institute for the Protection of Vol. 45, p. 487.Childhood at Montevideo, Uruguay, as authorized by the public resolution approved May 3, 1928. (45 Stat., p. 487.) 185 international statistical institute at the hague For the annual contribution of the United States to the InternationalInternational Statistical Institute. Statistical Bureau at The Hague for the year 1931, as authorized by public resolution approved April 28, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 112),Vol. 43, p. 112. $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international road congress To pay the quota of the United States in the Permanent AssociationInternational Road Congresses.Vol. 44, p. 754.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 308](/us/usc/p308). of International Road Congresses, as authorized by the public resolution approved June 18, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec. 269), $3,000. international map of the world For the share of the United States of the expenses of the centralInternational Map of the World.Vol. 44, p. 384.*Post*, pp. 825, 889. bureau of the International Map of the World for the calendar year 1930, $30. international society for the exploration of the arctic regions by means of the airshipInternational Society for Exploration of Arctic Regions by Airship. To enable the Secretary of State to pay the annual contributionAnnual contribution. of the United States in the plans of the organization of the InternationalVol. 45, p. 1222. Society for the Exploration of the Arctic Regions by Means of the Airship or the establishment of geophysical observations in the inner Arctic regions, as authorized by Public Resolution Numbered 87, approved February 16, 1929, $300. JUDICIAL united states court for chinaUnited States Court for China. For salaries of the judge, district attorney, and other officers andSalaries and expenses. employees of the court; court expenses, including reference law books, ice, and drinking water for office purposes, $41,650. prisons for american convicts For expenses of maintaining in China, the former OttomanConsular prisons, etc. Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Persia institutions for incarcerating American convicts and persons declared insane by the United States Court for China or any consular court; wages of prison keepers; rent of quarters for prisons; ice and drinking waterKeepers, quarters, etc. for prison purposes; and for the expenses of keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners and persons declared insane by theCountries specified. United States Court for China or any consular court in China, the former Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Persia, so much as may be necessary; in all, $9,600. bringing home criminals For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreignBringing home criminals. countries persons charged with crime, $6,000. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5)Minor purchases, etc., without advertising.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered payable from the foregoing appropriations when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $100 or when the purchase or service relates to the packing of personal and household effects of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers and clerks for foreign shipment. 186 Rent restriction in United States.No portion of the sums appropriated in Title I of this Act, shall, unless expressly authorized, be expended for rent in the District or Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. TITLE II.— Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE office of the attorney general Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistant to Attorney General, etc.Salaries: For Attorney General, $15,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; Assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the Solicitors Solicitors, and office personnel.of the State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, and the office forces of the Solicitors of the Treasury, Commerce, and Labor Departments, $1,182,060; in all, $1,216,060. Law books, etc.For the purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, including the exchange thereof, for the Department of Justice, $7,000: *Proviso*.Price limit for United States Code, Annotated.*Provided*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. contingent expenses, department of justice Department contingent and miscellaneous expenses.For stationery, furniture and repairs, floor coverings not exceeding $500, file holders and cases; miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing and telephones, postage, labor, typewriters and adding machines and the exchange thereof and repairs thereto, street-car fares not exceeding $300, newspapers, press clippings, and other necessaries ordered by the Attorney General; official transportation, including the repair, maintenance, and operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $68,000. Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $118,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, $260,000. Travel, emergency, etc., expenses.For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, $24,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, department of justice Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, special attorneys, etc.Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General; supplies, Supreme Court Reports and Digests, and Federal Reporter and Digests, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $119,210. Defending suite in claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses, procuring evidence, employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, and such Indian depredation claims.other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including Indian depredation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $70,000. 187 Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; for the, protection of the person of the President of the United States; the acquisition,Protection of the President. collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification and other records and their exchange with the officials of States, cities, and other institutions; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice and*Post*, p. 1572. the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire, maintenance, upkeep, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; firearms and ammunition, such stationery and supplies for use at the seat of government or elsewhere as the Attorney General may direct, including not to exceed $10,000 for taxicab hire to be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this paragraph and to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; traveling expenses; and payment of rewards when specifically authorized by the Attorney General for information leading to the apprehension of fugitives from justice, including not to exceed $341,546 for personal services in the District ofServices in the District. Columbia, $2,781,419. Examination of judicial offices: For the investigation of the officialExamination of judicial offices. acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, and clerks of the United States courts and Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by theInvestigating official acts, records, etc., of court officers, etc. agents of the Attorney General at any time; and also, when requested by the presiding judge, the official acts, records, and accounts of referees and trustees of such courts; for copying, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, reports of examiners at folio rates; traveling expenses; and including not to exceed $49,500 for personal servicesServices in the District. in the District of Columbia; in all $170,000; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrustEnforcing antitrust laws. laws, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $203,600. Pueblo Lands Board: For expenses of the Pueblo Lands Board,Pueblo Lands Board.Expenses of.Vol. 43, p. 636. including compensation for member appointed by the President of the United States, and for clerical assistants, interpreters, surveyors, translators, appraisers, and stenographers, rental of quarters, travel expenses, fees of witnesses, telephone and telegraph service, including the maintenance and operation of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle, $25,000. Protecting interests of the United States under settlement of WarWar Claims Act of 1928.Protecting United States interests under.Vol. 45, p. 254. Claims Act of 1928: For protecting the interests of the United States in claims arising under the settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, including legal and clerical services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, and the employment of experts at such rates of compensation as may be determined by the Attorney General, $60,750: *Provided*, That no part of this sum*Proviso*.Salary restriction. shall be used to pay any salary at a yearly rate in excess of $9,000. salaries and expenses, office of the superintendent of prisonsSuperintendent of Prisons. For salaries and expenses in connection with the supervision ofSalaries and expenses.*Post*, p. 325. the maintenance and care of United States prisoners, including not to exceed $117,338 for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said office when authorized by the Attorney General, $152,338. 188 Judicial.JUDICIAL United States Supreme Court.united states supreme court Salaries of Justices.Salaries: Chief Justice, All other officers, etc.$20,500; eight Associate Justices, at $20,000 each; and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice Additional assistant to reporter.to any office or work of the court, including an additional assistant to the reporter of the court, if the court deems one necessary, to enable the reporter to expedite the publication of its reports, $113,276; in all, $293,776. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $25.000, to be expended as required, without allotment by quarters. The printing and binding for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. miscellaneous expenses, supreme court Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court of the United States, including rent of office for the reporter in Washington, to be expended as the Chief Justice may direct, $16,644. Reporter.For the salary of the reporter, $8,000. Judges.salaries of judges Circuit and district.For salaries of thirty-nine circuit judges, at $12,500 each; one hundred and forty-four district judges (including two in the Retired.Territory of Hawaii and one in the Territory of Porto Rico), at Vol. 40, p. 1157.[U. S. C., p. 908](/us/usc/p908).$10,000 each; and judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 25, 1919 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. *Proviso*.Available for all.375); in all, $2,099,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States justices and circuit and district judges lawfully entitled thereto, whether active or retired. National park commissioners.national park commissioners Salaries.For the salaries of the commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, General Grant, Mesa Verde, Lassen Volcanic, and Rocky Mountain National Parks, $18,000, which shall be in lieu of all fees and compensation heretofore authorized. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.court of customs and patent appeals Salaries.Salaries: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $12,500 each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $42,320; in all, $104,820. Rent, miscellaneous expenses, etc.For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; books and periodicals, including their exchange; stationery, supplies, traveling expenses; heat, light, and power service; drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $6,500. Court of Claims.court of claims Salaries.Salaries: Chief justice, $12,500; four judges, at $12,500 each; and all other officers and employees of the court, $67,329; in all, $129,829. Printing and binding.For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $38,000. Miscellaneous expenses.*Post*, pp. 799, 1071.For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $7,950, of which amount $450 shall be immediately available. 189 salaries and expenses of commissioners, court of claimsCommissioners, Court of Claims. Salaries and expenses of commissioners, Court of Claims: ForSalaries, etc. salaries of seven commissioners at $7,500 each, and for travelVol. 43, p. 964. expenses, compensation of stenographers authorized by the court, and for stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony and in the performance of the duties prescribed in the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize the appointment of commissionersVol. 45, pp. 51, 882. by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation,” approved February 24, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28,[U. S. C., p. 899; Supp. IV, p. 435](/us/usc/p899). secs. 269–271; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 28, secs. 270, 271a), $41,790. For necessary repairs to the Court of Claims buildings, to beRepairs to buildings. expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $1,763. territorial courtsTerritorial courts. Alaska: Four judges, at $10,000 each; four attorneys, at $5,200Alaska. each; four marshals, at $4,200 each; four clerks, at $4,000 each; in all, $93,600. Hawaii: Chief justice, $10,500; two associate justices, at $10,000Hawaii. each; in all, $30,500. For judges of circuits courts, at $7,500 each for the first circuit, and $7,000 each for the second, third, fourth and fifth circuits, $58,000. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals.Salaries, etc.Alaska.deputies, including services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, traveling expenses, purchase, when authorized by the Attorney General, ofTraveling expenses, etc. four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vans at not to exceed $2,500 each, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the United States marshals, $3,880,000: *Provided*, That there shall be paid hereunder any necessary*Proviso*.Care of attached vessels, etc. cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admiralty in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses,District attorneys.Salaries, etc. including traveling expenses, of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $1,678,550. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who areRegular assistants. appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $1,479,700. For compensation and traveling expenses of assistants to theAssistants in special cases. Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment ofForeign counsel. foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office as provided[R. S., sec. 366, p. 52](/us/rs/s366/p52).[U. S. C., p. 346](/us/usc/p346). by section 366, Revised Statutes) (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 315), $450,000: *Provided*, That the amount paid as compensation out of*Proviso*.Pay restriction. the funds herein appropriated to any person employed hereunder shall not exceed $10,000. 190 Clerks of courts, etc.Salaries, etc.For salaries of clerks of United States circuit courts of appeals and United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, Travel expenses.travel expenses pursuant to the subsistence expense Act of 1926 Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 37](/us/usc/p37).(U. S. C., title 5, secs. 821–833), and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, $2,105,056. Commissioners, etc.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).[U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506).For fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 591), $600,000. Jurors and witnesses.Mileage and per diem.Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts: For mileage and per diems of jurors; for mileage and per diems of witnesses [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).and for per diems in lieu of subsistence; and for payment of the [U. S. C., p. 927](/us/usc/p927).actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 604), including the expenses, mileage, and per diems of witnesses on behalf of the Government before the United States Customs Court, such payments to be made on the certification of the attorney for the United States and to be conclusive [R.S., sec. 846, p. 154](/us/rs/s846/p154).[U. S. C., p. 924](/us/usc/p924).*Proviso*.Pay on approval of Attorney General.as provided by section 846, Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 577), $3,650,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of this amount shall be available for such compensation and expenses of witnesses or informants as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, which approval shall be conclusive. Rent of court rooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $118,000. Bailiffs, criers, etc.For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and Travel, etc., judges.the northern district of Illinois; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by Vol. 35, p. 1161.[U. S. C., pp. 864, 926](/us/usc/pp864/926).section 259 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March 3, 1911 (U. S. C., Jury expenses.title 28, secs. 9 and 596); meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 639.ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, Title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Jury commissioners.Stat., p. 639); and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $485,000: *Proviso*Service restriction.*Provided*, That no per diem shall be paid to any bailiff or crier unless the court is actually in session and the judge present and presiding or present in chambers. Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including experts at such rates of compensation as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General, including also so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney Alaska, etc.Travel expenses.Vol. 44, p. 688.[U. S. C., p. 1888](/us/usc/p1888).General for such expenses in the District of Alaska and in courts other than Federal courts, and including traveling expenses pursuant to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 (U. S. C., title 5, chap. 16), $950,000. Supplies, etc.For supplies, including the exchange of typwriting and adding machines, for the United States courts and judicial officers, including firearms and ammunition therefor, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $86,000. Law books for judicial officers.For the purchase of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the libraries of the ten United States circuit courts Federal Reporter.of appeals, for the purchase of the Federal Reporter and continuations thereto as issued, to be expended under the direction of the *Provisos*.Transmittal to successors.Attorney General, $72,000: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased 191thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United Price limit for United States Code, Annotated.States”: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2 per volume shall be paid for the current and future volumes of the United States Code, Annotated. penal and correctional institutionsPenal, etc., institutions. For all services, supplies, materials, and equipment in connectionServices, supplies etc., for. with or incident to the subsistence and care of inmates and maintenance and upkeep of Federal penal and correctional institutions, including farm and other operations not otherwise specifically provided for, in the discretion of the Attorney General; gratuities for inmates at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to inmates sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to the place of conviction or bona fide residence at the time of conviction or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of interment or transporting remains of deceased inmates to their homes in the United States; maintenance and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; traveling expenses of institution officials and employees when traveling on official duty, including expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped inmates; traveling expenses of members of advisory boards authorized by law incurred in the discharge of their official duties; rewards for the capture of escaped inmates; newspapers, for which payment may be made in advance, books, and periodicals; firearms and ammunition; tobacco for inmates; and the purchase and exchange of farm products and livestock, when authorized by the Attorney General: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Interchangeable appropriations. That upon the written order of the Attorney General not to exceed 10 per centum of the amounts herein appropriated under this heading, except the appropriations for construction and repair and working capital funds of penal and correctional institutions and for support of United States prisoners, shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the objects named, but the total of any appropriation shall not be increased by more than 10 per centum and under the following heads: working capitalWorking capital. The appropriation of $250,000 for the fiscal year 1930 for a working-capitalReappropriation of amounts for Leavenworth and Atlanta.Vol. 45, p. 1113. fund for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year 1930 for a working-capital fund for the United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, are reappropriated as one fund and made available for the fiscal year 1931 for the industrial enterprises as authorized at the foregoing penitentiaries, including payment of obligations for such purposes for prior years, and the said working-capitalTo be a revolving fund. fund and all receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1931. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the UnitedPenitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Salaries and expenses. States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, including not to exceed $636,212, for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, and not to exceed $3,000, including the exchange allowance of any vehicle given in part payment therefor, for the purchase of two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $1,623,357. For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchaseBuildings, construction, etc. and installation of machinery and equipment, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $22,300. 192 Atlanta, Ga.Salaries and expenses.United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including not to exceed $372,380 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $1,037,437. Construction and repair of buildings.For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $79,000. McNeil Island, Wash.Salaries and expenses.United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, including not to exceed $173,308 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $431,268. Construction and repair of buildings.For construction and repair of buildings, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, and all expenses incident thereto, to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to inmates of the institution, $139,000. Federal Industrial Institution for Women.Salaries and expenses.Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, West Virginia: For the Federal Industrial Institution for Women at Alderson, West Virginia, including not to exceed $149,000 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $377,125. Industrial Reformatory.Salaries and expenses.United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe, Ohio: For the United States Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, including not to exceed $196,390 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $568,690. Buildings, construction, etc.Construction: For the remodeling and construction of the necessary buildings and appurtenances, purchase of mechanical equipment, and other expenses incident to the construction of buildings in Vol. 43, p. 724.[U. S. C., p. 520](/us/usc/p520).accordance with the provisions of “An Act for the establishment of a United States Industrial Reformatory,” approved January 7, 1925 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 832), to be expended under the direction and upon the written order of the Attorney General, or his authorized representative, by contract or purchase of material and hire of labor and services and utilization of labor of United States prisoners, as the Attorney General may direct, $450,000, to remain available *Provisos*.Cost limited.Outside architects, etc., authorized.until expended: *Provided*, That the total sum to be expended for such purposes shall not exceed $3,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury, if in his discretion it would be impracticable to cause the plans, drawings, designs, specifications, and estimates for the remodeling and construction of the necessary buildings to be prepared in the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and the work of remodeling and constructing the said buildings to be supervised by the field force of said office, may contract for all or any portion of such work to be performed by such suitable person or firm as he may select. National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries and expenses.National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia: For the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, including not to exceed $103,220 for salaries and wages of all officers and employees, $215,080. Probation system.Pay, etc., of officers.Probation system, United States courts: For salaries and actual expenses of probation officers, including necessary office expenses, as Vol. 43, p. 1198.[U. S. C., p. 516](/us/usc/p516).provided by section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a probation system in the United States courts, except in the District of Columbia,” approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 726), $25,000. Support of prisoners.Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or such other place Rent, etc., of buildings.within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; and including rent, repair, alteration, and maintenance of 193buildings occupied under authority of sections 5537 and 5538 of the[R. S., secs. 5537, 5538, p. 1073](/us/rs/s5537/5538/p1073).[U. S. C., p. 513](/us/usc/p513). Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 691, 692); support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States, and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $3,000,000. TITLE III.— DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. office of the secretary Salaries: Secretary of Commerce, $15,000; Assistant Secretary andSecretary, Assistant, and office personnel. other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the chief clerk and superintendent, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of the department, $333,095, of which amount $15,095 shall be immediately available; in all, $348,095. contingent expenses, department of commerce For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices andContingent and miscellaneous expenses of Department. bureaus of the department, including those for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500) for which payment may be made in advance; purchase of atlases or maps; stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile, not to exceed $2,500; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; street-car fares, not exceeding $500; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $300,000, which sum shall constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department and shall also be available for the purchase of necessary suppliesAvailable for field service. and equipment for field services of bureaus and offices of the department for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made in order to facilitate the purchase through thePurchases. central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), as provided by law: *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained in this*Proviso*.Restriction on maintenance, etc., of passenger vehicles. Act for the maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants on any one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of Commerce shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500. To enable the Secretary of Commerce, under such regulations asLiving quarters, etc., to officers stationed abroad.*Ante*, p. 163. he may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved April 12, 1930, amending an Act entitled “An Act to 194establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Vol. 44, p. 1395.Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1927, to furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of this appropriation, allowances for living quarters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 70), $200,000. Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $75,000. For rent of additional space in the District of Columbia outside of the Commerce Building, $2,500. Printing and binding.For all printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including all of its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, except the Patent Office and *Proviso*.Copy editors.the Bureau of the Census, $645,000: *Provided*, That an amount not to exceed $2,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of persons detailed from the Government Printing Office for service as copy editors. Patent Office printing.For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, prints, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly and annual indices, $1,040,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding, $60,000; in all, $1,100,000. Radio division.radio division Wireless communication on steam vessels.Enforcement of laws requiring.Wireless communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, pp. 199, 1565; Vol. 44, p. 1164.“to regulate radio communication” and carry out the provisions of the international radiotelegraphic convention, examine and settle international radio accounts, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, tabulating, duplicating, and other office machinery and devices, rent and all other miscellaneous items, including rubber gloves, aprons, rubber boots, and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $500,000, of which amount not to Services in the District.exceed $70,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Aircraft in commerce.aircraft in commerce Services and all expenses.Aircraft in commerce: To carry out the provisions of the Act Vol. 44, p. 568.[U. S. C., p. 2119](/us/usc/p2119).approved May 20, 1926, entitled “An Act to encourage and regulate the use of aircraft in commerce, and for other purposes” (U. S. C., Vol. 45, p. 1404.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 650](/us/usc/p650).title 49, secs. 171–184), as amended by the Act approved February 28, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 49, sec. 173d), including salary of Assistant Secretary of Commerce (provided for in the Act cited above), and other personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $332,880) and elsewhere; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of witnesses; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies, including medical supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; purchase, including exchange, not to exceed $6,500, to be immediately available, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled Purchase of airplanes, accessories, etc.passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and replacement, including exchange, of airplanes (not to exceed $95,000, to be immediately 195available); purchase of airplane motors, airplane and motor accessories; and spare parts; maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes and airplane motors; purchase of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; purchase of books of reference and periodicals; newspapers, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other publications; and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $1,200,830. Air-navigation facilities: For the establishment and maintenanceAir-navigation facilities. of aids to air navigation, including the equipment of additional airmail routes for day and night flying; the construction of necessaryEstablishing and maintaining aids, mail routes, etc. lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; repairs, alterations, and all expenses of maintenance and operation; investigation, research, and experimentation to develop and improve aids to air navigation; for personal services inServices in the District, etc. the District of Columbia (not to exceed $95,000) and elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicles, including their exchange; replacement, including exchange, of not to exceed three airplanes, maintenance, operation, and repair of airplanes, including accessories and spare parts and special clothing, wearing apparel, and suitable equipment for aviation purposes; and for the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant, $7,944,000, of which amount $500,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Proviso*.Use restricted.Vol. 44, p. 568. shall be used for any purpose not authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926. bureau of foreign and domestic commerceForeign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the DistrictDirector, and office personnel. of Columbia, $270,220. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 3,Foreign Commerce Service.Expenses of. 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 15, secs. 197–197f), to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the DepartmentVol. 44, p. 1394.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 128](/us/usc/p128). of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,Personal services. the compensation of a clerk or clerics for each commercial attaché at the rate of not to exceed $3,000 per annum for each person so employed, rent outside the District of Columbia, telephone service,Outside rent, etc. purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, law books, books of reference and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers (foreign and domestic) not exceeding $4,000, and all other publications, traveling expenses of officers and employees, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads:Classification. Promoting commerce in Europe and other areas: InvestigationsPromoting commerce in Europe, etc. in Europe and other areas for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $900,000; Promoting commerce in Latin America: InvestigationsPromoting commerce in Latin America. in Latin America for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $520,000; Promoting commerce in the Far East: Investigations in the FarPromoting commerce in the Far East. East for the promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $419,000; Promoting commerce in Africa: Investigations in Africa for thePromoting commerce in Africa. promotion and development of the foreign commerce of the United States, $106,000; 196 District and Cooperative Office Service.Maintaining offices, outside rent, etc.District and cooperative office service: For all expenses necessary to operate and maintain district and cooperative offices, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of maps, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, not exceeding $1,200 for newspapers, both foreign and domestic, for which payment may be made in advance, and all other publications necessary for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, and all other incidental expenses not *Proviso*.Condition on opening now offices.included in the foregoing, $710,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce may require as a condition for the opening of a new office or the continuation of an existing office that commercial organizations in the district affected provide suitable quarters without cost to the Government or at rentals at lower than prevailing rates. Discretionary authority of the Secretary.The Secretary may, at his discretion, refuse to open a hew office or continue an existing office where such assistance from local commercial organizations is not provided; China Trade Act.Enforcement expenses.Vol. 42, p. 849; Vol. 43, p. 995.[U. S. C., p. 367](/us/usc/p367).Enforcement of China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922” (U. S. C., title 15, secs. 141–162), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, maps, manuscripts, and all other Outside rent.publications; rent outside the District of Columbia; ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all necessary expenses not included *Proviso*.Advance payments authorized.in the foregoing, $30,800: *Provided*, That payment in advance for telephone and other similar services under this appropriation is hereby authorized; Export industries.Investigating problems relating to.Export industries: To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to investigate and report on domestic as well as foreign problems relating to the production, distribution, and marketing, in so far as they relate to the important export industries of the Services in the District.United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, Outside rent.specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, ice and drinking water for office purposes, and all other incidental expenses connected therewith, $973,000; Domestic raw materials and manufactures.Compiling data as to disposition of, etc.Domestic commerce and raw-materials investigations: For all expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, medical supplies and first-aid outfits, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, maps, and all other publications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures within the United 197States; and to investigate the conditions of production and marketingForeign raw materials. of foreign raw materials essential for American industries, $380,000; Customs statistics: For all expenses necessary for the operationCustoms statistics.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1109.[U. S. C., p. 373](/us/usc/p373). of the section of customs statistics transferred to the Department of Commerce from the Treasury Department by the Act approved January 5, 1923 (U. S. C., title 15, sec. 194), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of or purchase of tabulating, punching, sorting, and other mechanical labor-saving machinery or devices, including adding, typewriting, billing, computing, mimeographing, multigraphing, photostat, and other duplicating machines and devices, including their exchange and repair; telegraph and telephone service; subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official business; freight, express, drayage; tabulating cards, stationery, and miscellaneous office supplies; books of reference and periodicals; furniture and equipment; ice, water, heat, light, and power; streetcar fare; and all other necessary and incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $385,000; Lists of foreign buyers: For all necessary expenses, includingDirectory of foreign buyers.Expenses of compiling. personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, lists of foreign buyers, books of reference, periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, rent outside of the District of Columbia, travelingOutside rent. and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile lists of foreign buyers, $78,700: *Provided*, That the Secretary of*Proviso*.Charges authorized. Commerce may make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected there from shall be deposited in the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts”; Investigation of foreign trade restrictions: For all necessaryForeign trade restrictions.Expenses of collecting, compiling, etc., information as to. expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications, rent outsideOutside rent. of the District of Columbia, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collect and compile information regarding the restrictions and regulations of trade imposed by foreign countries, $62,440; Transportation of families and effects of officers and employees:Transportation of families and effects.Paying officers, etc., for expenses of going to or returning from posts. To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, of families and effects of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the order of the Secretary of Commerce, and also for defraying the expenses of preparing and transporting theBringing home remains of officers dying abroad. remains of officers and employees of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce who may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, or to a place not more distant for interment, and for the ordinary expenses of such interment, $51,500. 198 Allowance to employees using their automobiles.Employees of the bureau may be paid in lieu of all transportation expenses not to exceed 7 cents per mile for the use of their own automobiles when used for necessary travel on official business. Expenses of attending meetings, etc.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the promotion of foreign and domestic commerce, or either, and also expenses of illustrating the work of the bureau by showing of maps, charts, and graphs at such meetings, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; Minor purchases in foreign countries in open market.The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in foreign countries, may be made in open market without compliance [R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C. p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), in the manner common among businessmen, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; Total, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, $4,886,660, of Services in the District.which amount not to exceed $1,916,015 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Census Bureau.bureau of the census Fifteenth Census.Salaries and expenses for taking, etc.For salaries and necessary expenses for preparing for taking, compiling, and publishing the Fifteenth Census of the United States and *Ante*, p. 21.for carrying on during the decennial census period all other work authorized and directed by law (Act June 18, 1929, 46 Stat., p. 21), at a total cost of not to exceed $39,593,000, including rent of office Services in the District.quarters in and outside the District of Columbia; salaries of *Provisos*.Leaves of absence to temporary employees.employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That such temporary employees in the District of Columbia may be allowed leave of absence with pay at the rate of two and one-half days per month; the employment by contract of personal services for the preparation of monographs on census subjects; per diem Special agents, etc.compensation of special agents and expenses of the same and of detailed employees, whether employed in the District of Columbia or Attendance at meetings.elsewhere; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the collection of statistics, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce; the purchase of supplies and equipment, including books of reference, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, punch Motor vehicle allowance.cards and materials, and other contingent expenses; the maintenance, operation, and repair of a passenger-carrying automobile to be used Contingent expenses.on official business; the purchase, rental, repair, and exchange of typewriters, calculating machines, punching, tabulating, and sorting Typewriters, tabulating machines, etc.machines, and other office appliances; the construction of punching, tabulating, and sorting machines, including technical, mechanical, and other services in connection therewith, whether in the District of Printing and binding.Columbia or elsewhere; and printing and binding at the Government Printing Office, $8,497,000, to continue available until December 31, Purchase of supplies, etc.1932: *Provided further*, That existing law shall not operate to prevent the use of such portion of this appropriation as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies, printing and binding, and other Discretionary suspension of other work during decennial period.contingent expenses: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the decennial census period such work of the Bureau of the Census, other than the Fifteenth Census, as he may deem advisable.199 steamboat inspection serviceSteamboat Inspection Service. Salaries: For the Supervising Inspector General and otherSupervising Inspector General and office personnel. personal services in the District of Columbia, $37,800. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors; inspectorsInspectors. of hulls and inspectors of boilers; assistant inspectors,Assistants at designated ports. as authorized by law, for the following ports: New York, forty-three; Pittsburgh, two; New Orleans, ten; Baltimore, ten; Providence, four; Boston, ten; Philadelphia, twelve; San Francisco, eighteen; Buffalo, eight; Cleveland, eight; Milwaukee, four; Chicago, six; Grand Haven, two; Detroit, four; Norfolk, eight; Seattle, fourteen; Portland (Oregon), six; Albany, two; Portland (Maine), four; Los Angeles, six; Galveston, four; Mobile, four; Savannah, two; Toledo, two; and six traveling inspectors; in all, $972,600. Clerk hire, Steamboat Inspection Service: For compensation ofClerk hire. clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $185,480. Contingent expenses: For the payment of fees to witnesses; forContingent expenses. traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; for instruments, furniture, stationery, streetcar fares not to exceed $25, janitor service, and every other thing[U. S. C., pp. 1488–1496](/us/usc/pp1488–1496). necessary to carry into effect the provisions of title 46, chapter 14, United States Code, $177,475. bureau of navigationNavigation Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia, $73,840. Admeasurement of vessels: To enable the Commissioner of NavigationAdmeasurement of vessels. to secure uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $7,000. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceMotor boats to enforce navigation laws. to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, including insignia, braid, and chin straps, and coats, caps, and aprons, for stewards’ departments on vessels, $92,320. Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels: To enable thePreventing overcrowding of vessels. Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily, such persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all expenses in connection therewith, $18,840. Shipping commissioners: For salaries of shipping commissioners,Shipping commissioners. $44,800. Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary ofClerk hire. Commerce, to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners, $112,340. Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for Contingent expenses, office of commissioners.transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York; in all, $12,950. 200 Load lines on American vessels.load lines on american vessels Enforcing law regulating, etc.Load lines on American vessels: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to Vol. 45, p. 1492.[U. S. C. Supp. IV, p. 609](/us/usc/p609).establish load lines for American vessels, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 46, secs. 85–85g), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, rentals, purchase of instruments and other equipment, furniture, stationery and office supplies, repairs to equipment, books of reference and other necessary publications, Reporting.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).documents. plans and specifications, contract stenographic reporting services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Satutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), and all other incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, $32,210, of which not to exceed $17,640 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Standards Bureau.bureau of standards Director, and office personnel.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $710,000; Equipment.Equipment: For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $163,000, including $93,000 for repairs and Building repairs, etc.necessary alterations to buildings, of which amount $75,000 may be used for remodeling the north building, including contract architectural services; General expenses.General expenses: For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, cleaning and toilet supplies, books and periodicals, which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use; traveling expenses; street-car fares not exceeding $100; expenses International Committee of Weights and Measures.of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; purchase of gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $64,000; Care, etc., of grounds.Improvement and care of grounds: For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, including foreman and laborers in the District of Columbia, $19,400; Structural materials investigations.Services in the District.*Proviso*.Disseminating information as to housing, etc.Testing structural materials: For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $320,000: *Provided*, That as much of this sum as necessary shall be used to collect and disseminate such scientific, practical, and statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show approved methods in building, planning and construction, standardization, and adaptability of structural units, including building materials and codes, economy in the manufacture and utilization of building materials and supplies, and such other matters as may tend to encourage, improve, and cheapen construction and housing; 201 Testing machines: For maintenance and operation of testing machines, Testing machines for physical constants.including personal service in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $41,000; Investigation of fire-resistingFire-resisting building materials. properties: For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000; Investigation of public-utility standards: For investigation ofMeasurement, etc., of public utility standards. the standards of practice and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $107,290; Testing miscellaneous materials: For testing miscellaneous materials,Testing miscellaneous materials. such as varnish materials, soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $46,400; Radio research: For investigation and standardization of methodsRadio standardization. and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $85,700; Color standardization: To develop color standards and methodsIndustrial color standardization. of manufacture and of color measurements, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants, such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,800; Investigation of clay products: To study methods of measurementClay products processes. and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terracotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $49,000; Standardizing mechanical appliances: To develop methods ofMechanical appliances.Testing mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic devices, etc. testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $51,321; Investigation of optical and other types of glass: For the investigationOptical glass production problems. of the problems involved in the production of optical and other types of glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $27,300; Investigation of textiles: To investigate textiles, paper, leather,Textiles, paper, etc., standardization. and rubber in order to develop standards of more durable quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $60,900; Sugar standardization: For the standardization and design ofSugar standardization. sugar testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications 202for the various grades of sugars, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other Rare and unusual types.substances; for the standardization and production of rare and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $95,000; Gauges and screw threads.Cooperative standardization of, etc.Gauge standardization: To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, and the Navy Department for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000; Testing large scales, etc.Testing rail road-track, mine, and other scales: For investigation and testing of railroad-track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post-office, navy-yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws aMine scales and cars.nd in the methods of inspection; for investigating the conditions and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $102,300; High temperature measurements.High temperature investigations: For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,200; Metallurgical research.Metallurgical research: For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications; investigation of new metallurgical processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture Railway equipment.and products; investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $61,000; Sound investigation.Sound investigation: For the investigation of the principles of sound and their application to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $11,260; Industrial research cooperative investigations.Industrial research: For technical investigations in cooperation with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of new American industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $225,000; Cooperative standardization of industrial devices, etc.Standardization of equipment: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and 203mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specifications for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $235,000; Standard materials: For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distribution Standards for checking chemical analyses.of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,600; Investigation of radioactive substances and X rays: For anRadioactive substances and X-ray investigations. investigation of radioactive substances and the methods of their measurements and testing; for investigations relative to the development of standard specifications for X-ray equipment and operation; for the investigation of the hazards of X-ray practice; for the testing and standardization of X-ray protective materials; for the standardization and design of X-ray testing equipment; for the determination of fundamental physical constants essential to X-ray diagnosis and therapy to X-ray analysis of materials and to other technical and scientific applications, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $31,500; Utilization of waste products from the land: For the survey of the Utilizing waste products from the land.possibilities of the industrial utilization of waste products from the land, including cooperation with colleges, other institutions, and manufacturers, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $52,700; Investigation of automotive engines: For the promotion of economyAutomotive engines, investigations, etc. and efficiency in automotive transportation by land and by air through investigations of the basic principles underlying the design, performance, operation, and testing of automotive engines, their fuels, lubricants, accessories, and the power transmitting system used in connection with them, also such elements as brakes and brake linings; to promote economy in the use of liquid fuels and safety in vehicular traffic, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000; Investigation of dental materials: To investigate the physical andDental materials investigations. chemical properties of dental materials, including the method of their application and the causes of deterioration of such materials in service, for the purpose of developing standards of quality and standard methods of test, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000; During the fiscal year 1931 the head of any department or independent Cooperative work with departments, etc., in identified investigations, etc.establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of StandardsTransfer of funds to credit of Bureau. on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau, and which the Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Standards for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field; Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Standards shallAttendance at technical, etc., meetings. be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research, or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, and for the compensation 204and expenses of medical officers of the Public Health Service detailed to the Bureau of Standards for the purpose of maintaining a first-aid station and making clinical observations; Services in the District.Total, Bureau of Standards, $2,735,671, of which amount not to exceed $2,156,550 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Lighthouses Bureau.bureau of lighthouses Commissioner, and office personnel.Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $110,000. General expenses.Objects specified.General expenses: For supplies, including replacement of and necessary additions to existing equipment, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and Oil, etc., houses.day marks, and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of *Provisos*.Limit for buildings.oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $1,000 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $1,000 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds Restoring light stations.Limitation.and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided further*, That such restoration shall be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of persons attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics Rations, etc.at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; not exceeding $2,000 for packing, crating, and transporting Transfer of household effects on changes of stations.personal household effects of employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty; purchase of rubber boots, oilskins, rubber gloves, and coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and Relief of shipwrecked persons.masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel, light, and rent of quarters where necessary for Purchase of land sites, etc.keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can Traveling expenses.Retirement examinations.Vol. p. 1261.[U. S. C., p. 1095](/us/usc/p1095).not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses, including travel for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service,” approved March 4, 1925 (U. S. C., title 33, sec. 765); mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, including the 205purchase of provisions for sale to lighthouse keepers at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed, and not exceeding $8,500 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of LighthousesContingent expenses. in the District of Columbia, $4,500,000. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousandKeepers. eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and persons attending lights, exclusive of post lights, $2,070,000. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crewsOfficers and crews of vessels. of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $2,368,360. Superintendents, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of eighteen Superintendents, clerks in the field, etc.superintendents of lighthouses, and of assistant superintendents, clerks, draftsmen, and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, District of Columbia, $641,340. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged inRetired pay. the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $324,000. Public works: For constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthousePublic works.Vessels. tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce not to exceed $550,000; and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $804,000; in all, $1,354,000. coast and geodetic surveyCoast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofAll expenses.Objects specified. the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, purchase of motor cycles with side cars, including their exchange, not to exceed $1,000, surveying instruments, rubber boots, canvas and rubber gloves, goggles, and caps, coats, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels, extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service and the Weather Bureau while observing tides or currents, services of one tide observer in the District of Columbia at not to exceed $1 per day, and compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey subscribed by theDistribution. Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: Field expenses, Atlantic coast: For surveys and necessary resurveysField expenses.Atlantic coast. of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, $174,500: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of this amount*Proviso*.Outlying islands. shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal; Pacific coast: For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts onPacific coast. the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, including not to exceed $3,000 for construction of temporary shelter for the care of equipment and housing of personnel, $300,000; Tides, currents, and so forth: For continuing researches in physical Physical hydrography.hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $27,000; 206 Coast Pilot.Coast Pilot: For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts, and stenographic help in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $6,500; Magnetic and seismological investigations, etc.Magnetic work: For continuing magnetic and seismological observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; making magnetic and seismological observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic and seismological instruments; lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic and seismological buildings; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic and seismological observers and stenographic services as may be necessary, $58,780. Federal, State, etc., surveys.Determining lines of exact levels.Federal, boundary, and State surveys: For continuing the lines of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determining geographic positions by triangulation and traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, county, city, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States; determining field astronomic positions and the variation of latitude, including Ukiah and Gaithersburg Observatories.the maintenance and operation of the latitude observatories at Ukiah, California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, not exceeding $2,500 each; establishing lines of exact levels, determining geographic positions Alaska observations.by triangulation and traverse, and making astronomic observations in Alaska; and continuing gravity observations in the United States and for making such observations in regions under the jurisdiction of the United States and also on islands and coasts adjacent thereto, $316,624, of which amount not to exceed $30,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Earthquake regions.For executing precise triangulation and leveling in regions subject to earthquakes, $10,000; Special surveys.For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $3,000; Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other Relieving shipwrecked persons, etc.supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the director, and not exceeding $1,000 for the expenses of the attendance of representatives of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who may be designated as delegates from the United States at the meetings of the International Research Council or of its branches and of the International Hydrographic Bureau, $4,200; In all, field expenses, $900,604. Vessels.Repairs, etc.Vessels: For repairs of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $91,000. Surveying vessel.Construction and equipment.For completing the construction and equipment of one surveying vessel, including purchase or preparation of plans and specifications and traveling expenses of inspectors, to be immediately available, $106,500. Equipment employees.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $717,000. 207 Pay, commissioned officers: For pay and allowances prescribed byPay, etc., commissioned officers. law for commissioned officers on sea duty and other duty, holding relative rank with officers of the Navy, including one director, with relative rank of captain, six hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of captain, ten hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of commander, seventeen hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant commander, forty-seven hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant, fifty-four junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers with relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade), twenty-nine aides with relative rank of ensign, and including officers retired in accordance with existing law, $627,820: *Provided*, That the Secretary of*Proviso*.Assistant director. Commerce may designate one of the hydrographic and geodetic engineers to act as assistant director. Office force: For personal services, $510,000.Office personnel. Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying Office expenses.instruments), including their exchange, materials, equipment, and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division; books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, rubber gloves, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, not exceeding $90 for street-car fares, $67,180. Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic SurveySubsistence expenses restricted. shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the director), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheriesFisheries Bureau. Commissioner’s office: For the commissioner and other personal Commissioner, and office personnel.services in the District of Columbia, $184,720. For pay of employees in the field, as follows: Alaska service,Pay of field employees. $54,520; employees at large, $54,500; distribution
(car)employees, $36,500; employees at fish-cultural stations, $311,700; employees at fish-rescue station, Mississippi River Valley, $21,000; employees at biological stations, $49,000; for pay of officers and employees for theVessel employees. vessels of the Atlantic coast, $48,500; for officers and crew of vessels for Alaska Fisheries Service, $97,120; in all, $672,840. Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,Administration. including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals and newspapers for library, furniture and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, street-car fares not exceeding $150, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $4,400. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, Propagation expenses.improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots and oilskins) and apparatus, contingent 208expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary Fort Humphreys Va., and Crawford, Nebr., stations.expenses connected therewith, $549,000, of which amount not exceeding $20,000 shall be immediately available for construction and improvements of buildings at the Fort Humphreys (Virginia) and Crawford (Nebraska) fisheries stations. Neosho, Mo., auxiliary.Balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1129.The appropriation of $35,000 for the fiscal year 1928 for a fish-cultural station in the State of Oklahoma as an auxiliary to the fish-cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, shall continue available for such purpose during the fiscal year 1931, and not to exceed $10,000 thereof shall be available for the purchase of land. Vessels.Maintenance.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith including not to exceed $1,000 for the purchase of plans and specifications for vessels or for contract personal services for the preparation thereof, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having Immediate shipment to Pribilof Islands.charge of the mess of such vessels, $169,500, and $10,000 shall be immediately available for the procurement of supplies and equipment required for shipment to the Pribilof Islands for the service of the fiscal year 1931. Commutation of rations.Commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries during the fiscal year 1931 under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Food fishes inquiry.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, and screening of irrigation ditches and fishways, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operations of biological stations, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $130,000. Statistical inquiry.Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, including compensation of temporary employees, travel and preparation of reports, including temporary employees in the District of Columbia not to exceed $1,800, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, including the purchase not to exceed $1,250, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of the field work of the Bureau of Fisheries, $63,000. Sponge fisheries.Protecting.Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and Vol. 38, p. 692.[U. S. C., p. 440](/us/usc/p440).other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1914 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 781–785), to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,100. Alaska.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, of Alaska; not exceeding $57,000 for construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, purchase of sea otters, and for all expenses necessary to carry out 209the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheriesVol. 36, p. 326. of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved April 21, 1910 (U. S.[U. S. C., p. 431](/us/usc/p431). C., title 16, secs. 631–658), and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including contract stenographic reporting service, travel, subsistence (or per diem in lieu of subsistence) of employees while on duty in Alaska, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $376,500, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available. mississippi wild life and fish refugeMississippi wild life and fish refuge. For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase ofExpenses of construction, equipment, etc. equipment, including boats, for maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere as may be necessary, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16, secs. 721–731),Vol. 43, p. 650.[U. S. C., p. 437](/us/usc/p437). $25,000. improvements to fairport, iowa, biological stationFairport, Iowa. For construction, repairs, alterations, and improvements to buildings,Construction, etc., of buildings, etc., at. wharves, grounds, water supply, and for equipment at the Fairport, Iowa, biological and pond cultural station, $24,000. by-products plant for pribilof islands, alaskaPribilof Islands, Alaska. For the construction of a by-products plant for the utilizationBy-products plant for fur-seal carcasses. of fur-seal carcasses at the Pribilof Islands, including machinery and other equipment, to be available until expended, $65,000. Not to exceed $1,000 of the appropriations herein made for theAttendance at meetings. Bureau of Fisheries shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. patent officePatent Office. For the Commissioner of Patents and other personal services inCommissioner, and office personnel.*Ante*, p. 155. the District of Columbia, $3,474,930, of which amount $24,100 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That of the amount herein *Proviso*.Temporary typists, etc.appropriated not to exceed $25,000 may be used for special and temporary services of typists certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $4 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records. For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and Reference books, etc.publications and scientific books, including their exchange, and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, and directories, $8,000. For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents andCopies of weekly Issue of patents, reproductions, etc. designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers, such other papers when reproduced for sale to be sold at not less than cost plus 10 per centum; reproduction of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat and photographic supplies and dry mounts, $230,000. The headings of the drawings for patented cases may be multigraphedMultigraphed headings allowed. in the Patent Office for the purpose of photolithography. For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating prior use of inventions. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents and the prior art as may be deemed necessary by the Com-210missioner of Patents; for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $800, and for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Patent Office when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cases, $60,000. Mines Bureau.BUREAU OF MINES salaries and general expenses Salaries and general expensesDirector, and office and field personnel.Salaries and general expenses: For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $91,500, of which amount not to exceed $79,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigating mine explosions, accidents, etc.Investigating mine accidents: For investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, causes of falls of roof and coal, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other Mining industry.inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase not exceeding $2,400, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $438,640, of which amount not to exceed $50,000 Services in the District.may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; and not to exceed $8,000 shall be available for replacement of building and equipment destroyed by fire at the experimental mine; Additional experimental, etc., stations.Mining investigations in Alaska: For investigations and the dissemination of information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, and metallurgical industries as provided in Vol. 38, p. 959.[U. S. C., p. 953](/us/usc/p953).the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (U S. C., title 30, sec. 8), and to provide for the Alaska mines.inspection of mines and the protection of the lives of miners in the Territory of Alaska, including personal services, equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $11,160; Mine rescue cars and stations.Improving, etc.Operating mine rescue cars and stations: For the investigation and improvement of mine rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods, including the exchange in part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of mine rescue trucks, the construction of temporary structures and the repair, maintenance, and operation of mine rescue cars and Government-owned mine rescue stations and appurtenances thereto, personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, Attendance at meetings.equipment, and supplies; travel and subsistence, and other incidental expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences held for the purpose of promoting safety and health in the mining and allied industries; the purchase and exchange in part payment therefor of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, and such other articles orServices in the District. equipment as may be necessary in the operation of mine rescue cars and stations, including not to exceed $18,940 for personal services in the *Proviso*.Mine rescue trophies, etc.District of Columbia, $330,530: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed $500 may be expended for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid contests; 211 Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic Investigating mineral fuels, etc.investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau or the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $179,210, of which amount not to exceedServices in the District. $32,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific andMineral mining.Studies, investigations, etc., for improving conditions in. technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, not to exceed $2,500, including exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair ofServices in the District. motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including not to. exceed $16,900 for personal services in the District of Columbia,*Proviso*.Private work forbidden. $165,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party; Oil, gas, and oil-shale investigations: For inquiries and investigations Oil, gas, and oil shale investigations.and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum, natural gas, and oil shale, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; for the purchase of newspapers relating toPurchase of newspapers, etc.*Proviso*.[R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30).[U. S. C., p. 34](/us/usc/p34).All other expenses. the oil, gas, and allied industries: *Provided*, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 102) shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, not to exceed $7,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, $232,000, of which amount not to exceedServices in the District. $32,850 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personalMining experiment stations.Personal services, etc. services, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots and aprons, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (U. S. C., title 30, sec. 8), $230,450, ofVol. 38, p. 959.[U. S. C., p. 31](/us/usc/p31).Services in the District. which amount not to exceed $15,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care andPittsburgh, Pa., station.Expenses of. maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $82,200; Persons employed during the fiscal year 1931 in field work outsideTemporary details from the field for service in the District. of the District of Columbia under the Bureau of Mines may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia for 212purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only *Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses.traveling expenses in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines of their necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu of subsistence, while on temporary detail in the District of Columbia for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the Report to Congress.United States. All details made hereinunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof: Details from Public Health Service.The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines: Government fuel yards.Purchase of fuel, maintenance, etc.Government fuel yards: For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing and handling of fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, purchase of equipment, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including Balance reappropriated.Vol. 45, p. 1137.personal services in the District of Columbia, the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for these purposes is reappropriated and made available for such purposes for the fiscal year 1931, and for payment of obligations for such purposes of prior years, and of such sum not exceeding $500 shall be available to settle claims for damages caused to private property by motor vehicles *Provisos*.Sales credited to appropriation.used in delivering fuel: *Provided*, That all moneys received from the sales of fuel shall be credited to this appropriation and be available “Fuel” to include fuel oil.for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided further*, That the term “fuel” wherever used in this appropriation shall be understood to Inspection requirement laws not applicable.[R. S., secs. 3711, 3713, pp. 733, 734](/us/rs/s3711/3713/p733/734).[U. S. C., p. 1296](/us/usc/p1296).include fuel oil: *Provided further*, That the requirements of sections 3711 and 3713 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 109) relative to the weighing of coal and wood and the separate certificate as to the weight, measurement, or quantity of coal and wood purchased shall not apply to purchases by the Government fuel yards at free-on-board destinations outside of the District of Columbia. Helium production.Advances for, from Army and Navy appropriations.Vol. 44, p. 1387.*Post*, pp. 444, 572.Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for the fiscal year 1931 in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be advanced from time to time upon requisition by the Secretary of Commerce in such amounts as may be determined by the President not in excess of the sums needed for the economical and efficient operation and maintenance of the plants for the production of helium for military and/or naval purposes, including purchase, not to exceed $2,500, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled Services in the District.passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not to exceed $13,460 for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigations, etc., of resources of helium-bearing gas.For investigations of resources of helium-bearing gas and the conservation thereof, and of processes and methods of producing, storing, purifying, and utilizing helium and helium-bearing gas including supplies and equipment, stationery, furniture, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, not exceeding $1,200, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, Services in the District.rubber boots and aprons, and all other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $25,080 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $75,000; 213 Helium plants: For helium production and conservation, includingHelium plants.Production, etc.Purchase of plants, etc.*Post*, p. 1350. acquisition of helium-bearing gas land or wells by purchase, exchange, lease, or condemnation, or interest in such land or wells, the purchase, lease, construction, or modification of plants, pipe lines and accessories, compressor stations, camp buildings, and other facilities for the production, transportation, storage, and purification of helium and helium-bearing gas, including acquisition of sites and rights of way therefor, by purchase, lease, or condemnation, and including supplies and equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, includingServices in the District. not to exceed $6,560 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and including the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried under this heading in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1930, $306,190: *Provided*, That in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the*Provisos*.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 45, p. 1134. appropriation made under this heading for the fiscal year 1930 is reappropriated and made available for the above purposes for the fiscal year 1931: *Provided further*, That no part of the appropriationSubject to approval of the President. herein made may be expended except with the approval of the President: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of Commerce may,Additional obligations authorized. with the approval of the President, enter into contracts incurring additional obligations not in excess of $500,000, and his action in soAction a Government contract.doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government: *Provided further*, That the acquirement of leases, sites,Terms for leases, etc. and rights of way under terms customary in the oil and gas industry, including obligations to pay rental in advance and to pay damages to lands, crops, or structures arising out of the Government’s operations is authorized: *Provided further*, That shouldDisposal of products In wells other than helium-bearing gas. valuable products other than helium-bearing gas be discovered in wells acquired or drilled for helium-bearing gas under this appropriation the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to provide for the disposal of said wells or the products therefrom, by the contracts under which the property is acquired, or otherwise, in accordance with the interests of the Government therein and in the manner which, in his opinion, is most advantageous to the Government; For determining the location, extent, and mode of occurrence ofPotash deposits.Expenses of determining location, etc., of.Vol. 44, pp. 768, 1388; Vol. 45, p. 1248.[U. S. C., Supp. IV, p. 451](/us/usc/p451). potash deposits in the United States, and conducting the necessary laboratory test incident thereto, as authorized under the Act approved June 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 30, sec. 4a); and for every expense incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia not exceeding $6,000, and elsewhere, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $100,000: *Provided*, That such part of the amount herein appropriated as*Proviso*.Transfer for expenditure by Interior Department. may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce shall be transferred on the books of the Treasury for direct expenditure by the Department of the Interior for the purposes herein set forth. Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations,Economics of mineral industries.Investigations for disseminating information as to problems of, etc. and the dissemination of information concerning the economic problems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineralReport of mineral resources, etc. commodities and primary products thereof; preparation of the 214reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; statistical studies and reports relating Services in the District.to mine accidents; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies; typewriting, adding, and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, not exceeding $1,200, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $307,600, of which amount not to exceed $245,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Scientific investigations for Departments, etc., by the Bureau.During the fiscal year 1931 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and refining cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as Transfer of funds to credit of Bureau.may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau or Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from *Proviso*.Expenditure of funds transferred.which the transfer is made: *Provided*, That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; Open market purchases of minor supplies. etc.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Mines, at the seat of government, as well as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance; Purchase of books, etc.For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Bureau of Mines, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau not to exceed $3,500; Attendance upon meetings.For necessary traveling expenses of the director and employees of the bureau, acting under his direction, for attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, and scientific societies, when required in connection with the authorized work of the Bureau of Mines and incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce, there is hereby made available from any appropriations made to the Bureau of Mines not to exceed in all $3,000; Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,549,480. TITLE IV.— Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR office of the secretary Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.Salaries: Secretary of Labor, $15,000; Assistant Secretary, Second Assistant Secretary,” and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $194,760; in all, $209,760. Commissioners of Conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.[U. S. C., p. 61](/us/usc/p61).Commissioners or conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 611) and to 215appoint commissioners of conciliation, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $16,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and telegraph and telephone service, $205,000. contingent expenses, department of labor For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices andContingent expenses. bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street-car fares not exceeding $200; lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor cycles and motor trucks; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; newspaper clippings not to exceed $1,800, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; purchase of law books, books of reference, newspapers, andAdditional from immigration expenses, for supplies.Vol. 36, p. 531.[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). periodicals, for which payment may be made in advance; not exceeding $3,650; in all, $55,500; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 7), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation*Post*, p. 216. “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year 1931 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall beExpenditures through Division of Publications and Supplies. and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor: *Provided*, That expenditures from appropriations contained*Provisos*.Expenses of motor vehicles limited. in this Act for the maintenance, upkeep and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operator, fuel, and lubricants, on any one motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicle used by the Department of labor shall not exceed one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case not more than $500: *Provided*, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the UnitedPurchase of minor supplies.[R. S., sec., 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $50. Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the DistrictRent. of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $68,000. Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the DepartmentPrinting and binding. of Labor, including all its bureaus, offices, institutions, and services located in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $240,500, of which $500 shall be available at once. bureau of labor statisticsLabor Statistics Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia, $272,980. Traveling expenses of special agents and employees; experts andSpecial agents, experts, etc.Traveling expenses. temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; personal services in the District of Columbia not to exceed $30,500, including also temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewritersTemporary statistical employees in the District. in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months; traveling expenses of officers and employees, 216purchase of periodicals, documents, envelopes, price quotations, and reports and material for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $88,000. Attendance at meetings.Appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. Immigration Bureau.bureau of immigration Commissioner General, and office personnel.Enforcing immigration laws.Vol. 41, p. 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5; Vol. 43, p. 153.Salaries: For the commissioner general and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $113,960. Regulating immigration: For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees Services in the District.appointed to enforce said laws, including not to exceed $213,300 for personal services and temporary employees in the District of Columbia, together with persons authorized by law to be detailed for duty Traveling expenses.at Washington, District of Columbia; traveling expenses; care, detention, maintenance, and transportation of aliens incident to deportation as authorized by law, to, through, or in foreign Other Acts.Vol. 39, p. 874; Vol. 40; p. 542; Vol. 41, p. 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5; Vol. 43, p. 155.[U. S. C., p. 133; Supp. IV, p. 62](/us/usc/p133).countries; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof and in addition thereto (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 101–339; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 8, secs. 102–298); necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of aliens into the United States by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of Chinese exclusion.returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or Refunding head tax, etc.seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; *Provisos*.Coast and border patrol.Vehicles, etc., outside of the District.all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $8,850,000: *Provided*, That $1,868,440 of this amount shall be available only for coast and land-border patrol: *Provided further*, That the purchase, exchange, use, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles and allowances for horses, including motor vehicles and horses owned by immigration officers when used on official business required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Limit for purchase, etc., of vehicles.Labor may prescribe: *Provided further*, That For coast and land-border patrol.not more than $165,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles, and of such sum of $165,000 not more than $125,000 shall be available for the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles for coast and land-border patrol. Immigration stations.immigration stations Remodeling buildings, etc.For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat, Ellis Island), renovating buildings and purchase of equipment, $49,000. 217 bureau of naturalizationNaturalization Bureau. Salaries: For the commissioner and other personal services in theCommissioner, and office personnel. District of Columbia, $113,000. General expenses: For compensation, to be fixed by the SecretaryPay of officers, clerks, etc. of Labor, of officers, clerks, and employees appointed for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, as provided in the Acts authorizing a uniform rule for the naturalization ofVol. 34, p. 596; Vol. 37, p. 376; Vol. 40, p. 542.[U. S. C., p. 157; Supp. IV, p. 66](/us/usc/p157). aliens throughout the United States, and establishing the Bureau of Naturalization, approved June 29, 1906, and March 4, 1913, and subsequent Acts (U. S. C., title 8, secs. 351–416; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 8, secs. 355–384), including not to exceed $156,920 for personalServices in the District.Traveling, etc., expenses. services in the District of Columbia; traveling expenses, including not to exceed $400 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the naturalization of aliens when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor; street-car fare, telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outsideOutside rent. of the District of Columbia; necessary supplies and equipment for the Naturalization Service; not to exceed $25,000 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $1,043,970: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso*.Clerks of Federal courts excluded. the compensation or assistants to clerks of United States courts. children’s bureauChildren’s Bureau. Salaries: For the chief, and other personal services in the DistrictChief of, and office personnel. of Columbia, $118,000. To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfareChild welfare, infant mortality, etc., investigations. of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including not to exceed $169,200 forServices in the District. personal services in the District of Columbia, $185,000. For traveling expenses of officers, special agents, and otherTraveling expenses of employees. employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed;Material for publications. purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $65,000: *Provided*, That appropriations herein made for the Children’s*Proviso*.Attendance at meetings. Bureau shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary. women’s bureauWomen’s Bureau. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toSalaries and expenses.Vol. 41, p. 987.[U. S. C., p. 947; Supp. IV, p. 447](/us/usc/p947). establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau,” approved June 5, 1920 (U. S. C., title 29, secs. 11–16; U. S. C. Supp. III, title 29, secs. 12–14), including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $132,948; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, $158,500, which sum shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureauAttendance at meetings. when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. 218 Employment Service.employment service Promoting welfare of wage earners.Objects designated.To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country, including Traveling expenses.personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone Services in the District.service, and miscellaneous expenses; $385,000, of which amount not to exceed $38,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. Transfers allowed between appropriations for any bureau, etc., to meet reallocation increases. When specifically approved by the head of any of the executive departments provided for herein, transfers may be made between the appropriations in this Act under the respective jurisdiction of any bureau, office, institution, or service, including any appropriations for the Foreign Service under the Department of State, in order to meet increases in compensation resulting from the reallocation by the Personnel Classification Board of positions under any such organization unit. Any such transfers shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Approved, April 18, 1930.
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